| 12/2/2022 | Theodoros Karypidis, cousin of the owner of PAE Aris and team’s president, dies at the age of 49 after a long stay - due to coronavirus - in a hospital in Thessaloniki |
| 12/2/2022 | Chelsea are crowned world champions after defeating Palmeiras 2-1 in extra time of the Club World Cup final in Abu Dabi. |
| 12/2/2022 | During the third quarter against the Golden State Warriors, Los Angeles Lakers star LeBron James scores a 3-pointer and passes Kareem Abdul-Jabbar for the most points in the regular season and playoffs combined reaching 44152 total points. Abdul-Jabbar is now second all-time with 44,149 combined points, but he does still have the official scoring record with 38,387 regular season points. |
| 12/2/2014 | Tina Maze of Slovenia and Dominique Gissin of Switzerland tie for the gold medal in the women’s downhill, with the exact same time (1:41.57) in Sochi. For the first time in the history of Winter Olympic Games two gold medals are awarded in the same competition. |
| 12/2/2013 | Dutch wheelchair tennis player Esther Mary Vergeer, announces her retirement. Vergeer developed paraplegia when she was 8 years old due to an otherwise successful, very risky surgery concerning hemorrhaging blood vessels around her spinal cord. During rehabilitation she learned to play volleyball, basketball (she played with the Dutch wheelchair team that won the European championship in 1997), and tennis in a wheelchair. Her first big win in tennis was at the US Open championships in 1998, moving her from 15th to 2nd in the world ranking. Combining singles and doubles, she has won 42 Grand Slams, 22 year-end championships and 7 Paralympics titles. Vergeer has been the world number one wheelchair tennis player since 1999. In singles, she has not been beaten since January 2003 and is on a winning streak of 470 matches. |
| 12/2/2011 | Dinos Kosmopoulos, former major of Thessaloniki (1989-1998), athlete and manager of Iraklis, who in 14/2/1992 had organized a 1.000.000 people demonstration regarding the name of Skopje, dies of heart attack at the age of 83 years, at Kaftanzoglio Stadium, during a gathering for the naming of the track and jump training field to “Nikos Zahariadis” |
| 12/2/1998 | Bjorn Daelie of Norway becomes the first athlete to win 6 gold medals in Winter Olympics after winning the 10km classical cross-country race |
| 12/2/1994 | The 17th Winter Olympics open In Lillehamer, Norway. 1.313 men and 488 women from 67 countries take part in 61 events |
| 12/2/1980 | The 13th Winter Olympics open in Lake Placid, USA. 837 men and 234 women from 37 countries take part in 38 events |
| 12/2/1979 | Aris Salonica, coached by 34-year-old Giannis Ioannidis, beats Olympiacos 85-82 and wins their first basketball championship, after 1930. Vangelis Alexandris is the man of the match, scoring 30 points with 20/20 free throws! |
| 12/2/1977 | The first official handball tournament held in Greece starts at Aminteo of Florina |
| 12/2/1954 | French tennis champion Pierre Etchebaster retires at the age of 60 |
| 12/2/1908 | Six cars from different countries start for the longest car race, from New York to Paris. They have to drive up to San Francisco, take the boat to Japan, and then drive through Russia to Paris. After 88 days, American driver George Schuster will finish first. |
| 12/2/1880 | The National Croquet League is founded in Philadelphia, Pensylvania |
| 12/2/1879 | New York's Madison Square Garden opens |
| 12/2/1861 | First football match in England, Sheffield vs Hallam |
