| 10/12/2021 | With his team's last basket, Panathinaikos OPAP Athens guard Neoklis Avdalas makes history as the youngest player (15 years, 10 months and 6 days old) ever to score in a Turkish Airlines EuroLeague game this century (PAO-Alba Berlin 82-67). Advalas breaks a record that had stood almost two decades, since Manuchar Markoishvili scored a basket for Benetton Treviso on 24/10/2002, when he was 15 years, 11 months and 7 days old. |
| 10/12/2020 | Olympiacos captain Vassilis Spanoulis scores 14 points during the away EuroLeague win of his team over Crvena Zvezda with 79-81 becoming the all-time leading scorer in the history (1958 and onward) of all editions of the European Champions’ Cup, surpassing Juan Carlos Navarro (4321) |
| 10/12/2003 | During the Juventus - Olympiacos (7-0) match, Juventus player David Trezeguet scores the 3,000th goal in the Champions League main tournament |
| 10/12/2000 | Spain wins the Davis Cup for the first time in tennis history after defeating Australia 3-1 in Barcelona |
| 10/12/1999 | First snail race held in a London pub. It took so long for the snails to reach the finish line that most of the spectators were too drunk to stay awake |
| 10/12/1999 | Australian captain Steve Waugh becomes the first cricket athlete to complete a century (100 points) against all countries after an excellent performance against India |
| 10/12/1999 | 34 year-old Australian Michael Doohan, 5 times world 500cc champion, announces his retirement as a result of a serious injury in the spanish Grand Prix (May 7, 1999)) |
| 10/12/1998 | Panathinaikos beat Manresa 63-58 at OAKA to smash Barcelona's record (8/8) with 9 wins in 9 games. Panathinaikos will create new record with 14 consecutive wins |
| 10/12/1997 | Tassos Mitropoulos plays his farewell match (Olympiacos vs Rosenborg for the Champions League). He played 459 games (51 goals) in the Greek league with Olympiacos, Panathinaikos, AEK, Iraklis, Appolon Athens and Veria. He was capped 77 times (8 goals) |
| 10/12/1996 | Italian strippers announce that they will form a football team in order to raise money for charity |
| 10/12/1996 | 30 year-old Portuguese football player Paulo Futre announces his early retirement due to a knee injury |
| 10/12/1987 | Stelios Kyriakidis dies at the age of 77 years in Filothei, Athens. The Cypriot long distance runner started competing with Olympia Limassol, he was a Balkan games champion 6 times, while he participated at the Olympic Games of 1936 and 1948 with the Greek national team. At the age of 36, he finished first at the 50th Boston Marathon with 2.29.27. During the German occupation, he was captured by the Germans, but he was let go when they found out that he competed at the Munich Olympic Games of 1936. |
| 10/12/1979 | Argentinian player Juan Ramon Rocha is traded to Panathinaikos as Giannis Boublis in defiance of domestic regulations. Greek authorities will take drastic measures to eliminate the phenomenon of fake Greek players. Alfredos Glasmanis, Noni Lima, Juan Lisa, Neto Guerino, Juan Montez, Eduardo Kontogeorgakis and Roberto Hill will lose greek citizenship on September 29, 1982 |
| 10/12/1977 | Steve Cauthen becomes the first jockey to win $6 million in a single season when he wins the 6th Adequate race riding ''Little Hapiness''. He is proclaimed ''Sportsman of the Year'' by Sports Illustrated, Associated Press and Sporting News. He also receives 3 Eclipse Awards |
| 10/12/1973 | For the first time in tennis history since 1885 two men, Smith and Connors, share No1 |
| 10/12/1967 | 19-year-old Christos Iakovou of Panathinaikos makes a world junior record at develope, in the 75kg category during the national weightlifting championships |
| 10/12/1926 | Jules Rimet passes a vote to create the World Cup. The whole project is submitted in Zurich on February 25, 1927 |
| 10/12/1845 | 23-year-old Scottish inventor Robert Thomson patents the pneumatic tyre, 43 years before its re-invention by John Boyd Dunlop. For many years, people will believe that Dunlop is the inventor who will be granted a patent on 7/12/1888, but it will be declared invalid on the basis of Thomson’s prior art. |
| 10/12/1810 | British Tom Cribb beats Afroamerican Tom Molinaux in round 40 for the first interracial boxing tournament |
