| 13/1/2024 | The Greek women’s water polo team defeat Italy, 7-6 and win the bronze medal at the European Championship in Eindhoven |
| 13/1/2024 | Anna Korakaki wins the gold medal at the 10m Air Pistol competition at the ISSF 10m Grand Prix in Ruse, Slovenia |
| 13/1/2017 | NBC News publishes a set of interviews regarding Barrack Obama’s basketball career at Hawaii’s Punahou High School in 1979. Obama earned the nickname “Barry O’Bomber” because of his love of taking difficult jump shots. Out on the court he was No. 23, long before Michael Jordan made that number famous. |
| 13/1/2016 | 37-year old Christos Charalambides, former fencing junior champion in 1995 in individual and team flereut, dies in a car accident in Florina where he was for the Christmas holidays |
| 13/1/2014 | Real Madrid forward Christiano Ronaldo beats Barcelona's Lionel Messi and Franck Ribery of Bayern Munich to win the 2013 Fifa Ballon d'Or and becomes the first Portuguese player to win the award twice (2008 with Manchester United). |
| 13/1/1995 | America 3 becomes the first female crew to win the America's Cup Race |
| 13/1/1991 | The AEK - Olympiacos derby is interrupted five minutes before the end (1-2) when violent riots break out. Outside the Philadelphia stadium a young fan is killed from a fire cracker. The match is repeated in Rhodes one month later and AEK win by 1-0 (Batista) |
| 13/1/1989 | FIFA referee professor Nikos Savaris dies. He was the first to introduce judgment on the referee decisions using video replay in all football matches during the show of Stratos Seftelis on ET2. |
| 13/1/1985 | 99-year-old Otto Bucher becomes the oldest golfer to score a hole-in one |
| 13/1/1984 | Wayne Gretzky sets scoring record in 45 consecutive hockey games |
| 13/1/1972 | ?? rules that a woman may become a professional baseball umpire |
| 13/1/1962 | Wilt Chamberlain sets NBA record with 73 points as the Philadelphia Warriors beat the Chicago Bulls 135-117 |
| 13/1/1898 | “L’ Aurore” newspaper publishes, under the headline “J’ Accuse…”, an open letter by French writer Emile Zola to the President of the Republic, Felix Faure, about the Dreyfus Affair, a political scandal that divided France in the 1890s and early 1900s. Alfred Dreyfus, the French officer who was imprisoned on Devil’s Island in French Guiana, divided the French society to those who supported him (the Dreyfusards) and those who condemned him (the anti- Dreyfusards). Among the first, Pierre Giffard, the editor of sports daily “Le Velo” will be “punished” for his support to Dreyfus by anti- Dreyfusards manufacturers, who will stop funding advertisements, and see his newspaper close within five years (1904). |
| 13/1/1896 | The first car rental office opens in Paris charging either 3 francs per hour or 30 francs per day |
| 13/1/1895 | First session of the Olympic Games Organizing Committee, presided by Prince Konstantine (Ioannis Fokianos, vice president). One of the main issues is fund raising. George Averof offers the biggest donation, 920.000 golden drachmas, for the restauration of Panathinaikon Stadium |
| 13/1/1832 | Thomas Lord, the English professional cricketer dies at the age of 77. He played first-class cricket from 1787 until 1802. He was the founder (in 1814) of the Lord’s Cricket Ground in St. John’s Wood, London, and is home to the world’s oldest sporting museum. |
| 13/1/532 | The ''Nika'' revolt breaks out in Constantinople's ippodrome. The two dominant chariot-racing factions, the ''Greens'' and the ''Blues'', stir up the mob to riot against emperor Justinian I. The rioting and destruction continues throughout the week. Finally, Justinian decides to strike ruthlessly and the revolt ends with a bloodbath in the ippodrome (30.000 dead approximately) |
