| 30/12/2020 | Lewis Hamilton has been given a knighthood in the 2021 New Year Honours List after becoming the most successful F1 driver in history and the sixth knight after Sir Stirling Moss, Sir Jackie Stewart, Australia’s Sir Jack Brabham, and the co-founders of Williams Sir Frank Williams and Sir Patrick Head. The award comes at the end of an exceptional year for Hamilton in which he won a record-equalling seventh world title, while helping Mercedes to a seventh straight constructors’ crown. The 35-year-old Briton also matched and then surpassed Michael Schumacher’s all-time record of 91 wins, taking the tally up to 95. |
| 30/12/2020 | Milwaukee Bucks break an NBA record for the most made 3-point shots during their 144-97 blowout against Miami Heat. The Bucks' tally of 29 eclipsed the previous record of 27 set by the Houston Rockets in 2019. |
| 30/12/2008 | Former Olympiacos goalkeeper (1928-1944) and referee, Achilleas Gramatikopoulos, dies aged 100. With Olympiacos he won 7 Piraeus Championships and 7 National Championships and in 1927 he founded the Olympiacos Football Academy. He was present at all veterans matches Vradiporiakos-Taleporiakos and in 2008 at the age of 99 years he blew the whistle for kick-off, recording a world record for the oldest footballer entering the court. |
| 30/12/2007 | Themis Holevas, who along with Manias, Papadimas, Stefanidis and Roubanis, won the 1953 Basketball Championship with Panellinios, undefeated, dies aged 79 |
| 30/12/1997 | The second Eurostars is held in Tel Aviv. East (Karnisovas, Economou, Radja, Scott - coached by Dusan Ivcovic) beats West 129-107. Arturas Karnisovas is voted MVP |
| 30/12/1996 | First Eurostars (the European All-Star Game) held in Istanbul. Panagiotis Fassoulas, Giorgos Sigalas, David Rivers, Nikos Economou and Yurij Zdovc play for the East (led by Dusan Ivcovic) |
| 30/12/1979 | Iraklis beat Panathinaikos with 6-0 (Hatzipanagis, Hatzieleftheriou, Gesio, Kalabakas, Papaioannou, Voulgaris) at Kaftanzoglio Stadium in Salonica. It is largest defeat of Panathinaikos in the history of the A’ Division. |
| 30/12/1973 | Aris is defeated at Harilaou Stadium by Olympiacos with 2-4 and the team’s president, Nikos Kambanis, orders the immediate substitution of the goalkeeper, Nikos Christidis by Stelios Papafloratos, considering him “suspiciously” responsible for the loss, since this is the second home defeat in the season |
| 30/12/1970 | 38-year-old world heavyweight champion (1962-1964) Sonny Liston is found dead in the pool of his Las Vegas apartment due to an overdose of drugs. Liston won the world title on 25/9/1962 by knocking out Patterson in the first round |
| 30/12/1968 | Baron Julius de Reuters, the man who set up the Reuters news agency, dies of pneumonia |
| 30/12/1954 | British long-distance runner Chris Chataway receives the inaugural BBC award ''Best Sportsman of the Year'' |
| 30/12/1894 | In a letter addressed to Dimitrios Vikelas, a student expresses his enthusiasm over the upcoming Athens 1896 Olympics and dedicates himself to the cause by offering 10 drachmas every month from the 1st January of 1895 |
