| 27/10/2022 | The Greek team win the gold medal in the U19 mixed relay of the Biathle - Triathle World Championships, organized in Madeira, Portugal, an island in the middle of the Atlantic by the World Federation of Modern Pentathlon (UIPM). 17-year-old Nikolas Papadimitriou and 16-year-old Artemis Gitersou finish first in Biathle (2X2X800m running and 2X100m swimming), among 17 teams from 8 countries, with a time of 15.08, with the British team finishing second (15.14) and Kazakhstan third (15.24). |
| 27/10/2018 | Leicester City’s owner, Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha, dies in the helicopter crash outside the club’s stadium. He was one of five people killed – all onboard the helicopter – when the accident occurred around an hour after the club’s draw at home to West Ham United. The Thai owner’s helicopter crashed near a car park by the south-east corner of the stadium shortly after taking off from the pitch. |
| 27/10/2016 | Olympiacos defeats Basconia 90-95 for the round 4 of Euroleague 2016-2017 regular season and Vassilis Spanoulis finishes the game with 15 assists climbing to second place in the EuroLeague's all-time assists list with 984. Theo Papaloukas is now third at 977, with Milos Teodosic right behind at 967. Spanoulis also breaks his own personal record as his previous career-high effort in assists was 10 - against Limoges CSP on 11/5/2015. |
| 27/10/2015 | Dimitra Korokida wins the gold medal in shot put F53 with 4.36 m. (new Greek national record) at the 7th IPC Athletics World Championships in Doha, Qatar |
| 27/10/2000 | Eurosport awards for Sydney Olympics gold medallists in Monte Carlo's Sporting Club. Among them 4 Greek athletes: Pyrros Dimas, Kakhi Kakhiasvili, Costas Kenteris and Michalis Mouroutsos |
| 27/10/1991 | Zissis Babanassis wins the bronze medal (first medal in greek fencing history) at the European Championships in Vienna |
| 27/10/1990 | The largest crowd in an international rugby game outside Australia (54.569). Britain beat Australia 19-12 at Wembley |
| 27/10/1974 | Rudolf "Rudi" Dassler dies at the age of 76. He was a German cobbler, inventor, member of the Nazi Party, businessman and founder of the sportswear company Puma. His older brother, Adolf "Adi" Dassler, was the founder of Adidas. The brothers were partners in a shoe company Adolf started, "Gebrüder Dassler Schuhfabrik". |
| 27/10/1968 | Panathinaikos defeats Apollon 1-0 with Antonis Antoniadis making his debut with PAO scoring his first official goal. Giorgos Gonios, who has also been transferred to PAO during the same season, will score 18 goals, compared to the 3 of Antoniadis. During the next period, and for the next decade, Antoniadis will be Panathinaikos first scorer. |
| 27/10/1965 | Greece ties with Denmark 1-1 (Giorgos Sideris) in Copenhagen for the World Cup qualifiers |
| 27/10/1962 | Australian swimmer Dawn Fraser becomes the first woman to swim the 100m race in less than 1 minute (59.9) |
| 27/10/1960 | Prime minister Konstantinos Karamanlis inaugurates the Kaftanzogleio Stadium in Salonica, completed 4 years after its foundation on October 26, 1956. Alexandreio Melathro and the NO Salonica installations are inaugurated in the same period |
| 27/10/1952 | Filippos Kourantis dies from cancer at the age of 48. The international defender of Olympiacos was capped 12 times and made his debut against Bulgaria in Sofia on 30/6/1929, i.e. in the second game in the history of the national team of Greece |
| 27/10/1946 | Marcel Cerdan, the French-Algerian world boxing champion (113 wins, 4 losses) dies when his airplane goes down near Azores, killing everyone on board, including famous violinist Ginette Neveu. Cerdan, who has an affair with singer Edith Piaf, was on his way to USA in order to fight Jake LaMotta, a boxer whose life will be depicted in the movie “Raging Bull” in 1980 |
| 27/10/1940 | On the eve of the hellenic-italian war, the last pre-war General Assembly of the Hellenic Tennis Federation (EFOA) takes place. Many of its leading officials will participate in the war and the resistance and the federation will be reactivated on 13/05/1946 |
| 27/10/1925 | Fred Walter patents the water skis |
