| 10/1/2023 | Gold olympic sailing champion in the Dragon class at the Games of the XVII Olympiad Rome 1960, HM King Constantine dies aged 82. He served the Olympic Movement as an IOC Member in Greece from 1963 to 1974, after which he was elected as an IOC Honorary Member. |
| 10/1/2012 | Thomas Voulinos, former PAOK president, dies of cancer at the age of 72. His tenure as PAOK president lasted 7 years (1989 - 1996). He came into direct conflict with the fans of the team. He was succeeded by Giorgos Batatoudis. |
| 10/1/1998 | One of the biggest doping scandals breaks out when Heidi Krieger from East Germany, former european champion in shot put, claims she was forced to undergo a sex change because of the steroids she was given from the age of 12. Many athletes from East Germany faced similar problems |
| 10/1/1991 | Manchester United becomes the second football club after Tottenham to enter the stock market |
| 10/1/1990 | NCAA approves random drug testing for college football players |
| 10/1/1990 | 56 fans get injured and many are arrested during violent incidents in the PAOK - Olympiacos derby (1-0) at Toumba Stadium for the Greek cup |
| 10/1/1988 | Olga Nazarova sets new indoors 500m record (67.67) in Moscow |
| 10/1/1965 | 24-year-old Nikos Gioutsos, who was transferred from Hungarian team Czepel to Olympiacos almost at the same time with coach Marton Bukovi, makes his debut in the game against Panathinaikos. Born in Kastoria, Macedonia in 1941 he was a child of political refugees, who moved to Hyngary during Civil War. He played in Hungary under the name Gioutsov and a special arrangement from the side of Foreign Ministry allowed him to come to Greece and become one of the most significant Greek players |
| 10/1/1963 | The Chicago Cubs become the first baseball team to hire a sports manager, Robert Whitlaw |
