| 13/5/2021 | The Greek artistic swimming team wins the silver medal in the Combo competition with 89,1000 points during the European Championship that takes place in Budapest. Ukraine takes the first place with 94.1000 points while Belarus take the third place with 86.0667. |
| 13/5/2012 | Olympiacos win the 2011-12 Turkish Airlines Euroleague title by rallying from 19 down in the final 12 minutes to beat CSKA Moscow 61-62 on a last-second shot by Georgios Printezis becoming European champions for the second time in the competition’s history. |
| 13/5/2011 | Christos Athanassopoulos, Panathinaikos FC Director of Communications under the presidency of Giannis Vardinogiannis, dies of cancer at the age of 42 |
| 13/5/2007 | At the last matchday of the Superleague Greece 2007 Championship, Olympiacos wins Ionikos with 3-5 and is crowned football champion with 71 points. Giannis Katemis steals the show when he scores the first goal of Atromitos Athinon against Aris (1-2) at Salonica with a 60m shot. The Top Scorer title is awarded to Nikos Lymberopoulos of AEK with 18 goals |
| 13/5/1999 | Romanian Mikaela Melinde sets 2 world records in hammer (73.29m, 75.97m) in a meeting at Clermont Ferrand, France to smash her own record (73.14m) |
| 13/5/1999 | American golfer Gene Sarazen dies in Florida at the age of 97. He is one of only five golfers, along with Ben Hogan, Jack Nicklaus, Gary Player and Tiger Woods, to win all major championships; Grand Slam, US Open, PGA Championship, British Open and The Masters |
| 13/5/1999 | Konstantinos Niarchos, member of the well-known shipping family, conquers Everest by secretly taking part in an international mission, managing to put the Greek flag on the "inhospitable" peak of 8.848m. for the first time. 18 days later, he will pass away at the age of 37. |
| 13/5/1990 | The Dinamo Zagreb–Red Star Belgrade match was supposed to be played at the Maksimir Stadium in Zagreb, Croatia. However, it resulted in a riot between the Bad Blue Boys (fans of Dinamo Zagreb) and the Delije (fans of Red Star Belgrade). The incident took place just weeks after Croatia's first multi-party elections in almost 50 years in which the parties favouring Croatian independence had won the majority of votes. The riot resulted in over 60 people wounded, including some stabbed, shot or poisoned by tear gas. |
| 13/5/1987 | European Cup Winners Cup final at Athens' OAKA Stadium. Marco van Basten leads Ajax to a 1-0 win over Lokomotiv Leipzig |
| 13/5/1968 | A friendly match is played between Panathinaikos and Tottenham in Alexandra stadium (2-2). Before the game we have a unique in Greek football history prototype. A friendly match between Panathinaikos Youngster Team and the football team of the first three classes of the Gymnasium of the German School of Athens is played. The event eas organized as junta’s member Nikolaos Makarezos’s son participated in the school team. For the record, Panathinaikos Youngsters won 3-1. |
| 13/5/1967 | The octagon boxing ring is tested to avoid corner injuries |
| 13/5/1964 | Ethnikos midfielder Andreas Antonatos plays for the first and last time with the national team at the friendly match Greece-Ethiopia 3-1 in “Leoforos” |
| 13/5/1956 | Giorgos Trontzos, player of HANTH and AEK, scores a personal record of 29 points against Bulgaria. With the national basketball team he will score 1535 points in 135 caps |
| 13/5/1950 | The Italian Emilio Giuseppe “Nino” Farina, driving an Alfa Romeo 158 at 90.96m/h, is the winner of the first Grand Prix in the history of Formula 1. The event is held at Silverstone, London and is the first out of seven racing events (Grand Prix of Monaco, Indy 500, Swiss, Belgian, French ?a? Italian) |
| 13/5/1946 | The Hellenic Tennis Federation (EFOA) is re-activated and Constantinos Nikolopoulos becomes the first president. The federation had stopped its activities from 1940 to 1945 because of the 2nd World War. In August of the same year, its founder Ioannis Ketseas will return to the president’s position until his death |
| 13/5/1931 | The International Olympic Committee (presided by count Henri Baillet-Latour, who succeeded Pierre de Coubertin) designates Berlin as host of the 1936 Olympic Games |
| 13/5/1909 | The first ”Giro d’Italia” starts at Milan with eight stages totalling 2,448 kilometres (1,521 miles). Louigi Gana will be the first champion. The “Giro” is inspired by the Tour de France and, just as the French race was intended to boost circulation of L'Auto, so Emilio Camillo Costamagna, the editor of “La Gazzetta dello Sport” newspaper, aimed to increase his circulation |
| 13/5/1868 | A team comprising of aboriginals of Australia arrive at Gravesend of England to play a series of cricket games against local teams, on the 81st anniversary since Arthur Fillip’s “First Fleet” left Gravesend with 1300 convicts with their children. It is the first Australian team to visit England and the tour will last 6 months. In 47 matches the Australians will score 14 victories, 19 draws and they will lose 14 times. After each game a boomerang show would follow. Despite the negative attitude towards the aboriginals upon their arrival, Britons will start accepting them during the course of the tour |
| 13/5/1854 | First billiard match held in Malcolm Hall, New York |
| 13/5/1843 | “The Great Olympic Equestrian Show “ is organized at the Saint Theodor Square in the center of Athens. It is considered to be the first horse racing event in Athens and the “Company of Equestrian and Gymnastics” with their director Angelos Romaninis are the organizers. Horse racing events, however, take place in Greece, in the island of Zakynthos, over the last decade |
