| 30/3/2026 | The "emperor" of Greek basketball, Vasilis Goumas, dies at the age of 79. He played from 1961 to 1988 as a power forward and center in Greece (Panellinios, AEK, Ilysiakos), as well as South Africa (Olympiacos Addis Ababa, Johannesburg Athletic Club, Lourenço Marques Athletic Club) and was one of the top Greek basketball players of his time. He played for Panellinios in the 1962-63, 1963-64 seasons, from 1966 to 1969 and then from 1970 to 1979, before moving to AEK. With AEK (1979-1985), he was crowned Greek Cup Winner in 1981. He ended his career at Ilysiakos (1985-1988). He was named top scorer in the Greek championship four times (1970, 1974, 1975, 1977), being the second top scorer in the history of the First National League with a total of 11,030 points. He played for the National Team from 1966 to 1975, while in 1974 he played with the Mixed European Team. |
| 30/3/2024 | 16-year-old Jamaican sprinter Nickekoy Branwell wins the gold medal with 47.26 at the 51st Carifta Games breaking Usain Bolt's Under-17 22-year-old 400m record (47.33). |
| 30/3/2022 | The General Assembly of the 4284 Members of Panathinaikos concludes and with a majority of 2051 (68.5%) out of a total of 2994 votes approves the full relocation of the team’s facilities, from the historic home ground at Alexandra Avenue (since 1924) to Votanikos, and the complete “double regeneration” of the two grounds, based on the detailed plan prepared by the Mayor of Athens K. Bakogiannis. |
| 30/3/2022 | Ethnikos Piraeus women's water polo team win, after 12 years (2010), their second LEN Trophy by defeating Dunaujvaros 14-9 in the second final (they also won the first game 8-12). |
| 30/3/2022 | Barcelona defeats Real Madrid 5-2 at Camp Nu and qualifies to the women’s Champions League semi finals. The 91,553 attendance breaks the women's football attendance record (60,739 at Atletico Madrid's Metropolitano stadium). |
| 30/3/2013 | Lionel Messi scores in the 19th consecutive La Liga game, (Celta Vigo – Barcelona 2-2), becoming the first footballer in history to net in consecutive matches against every team in the league. |
| 30/3/1999 | Yugoslavia is barred from taking part in Volleyball World League. Portugal takes its place |
| 30/3/1991 | Everton goalkeeper Neville Southall completes 500 appearances in a match against Aston Villa |
| 30/3/1970 | ''Secretariat'' is born in Kentucky. Three years later he will win the 1973 Triple Crown |
| 30/3/1969 | Panathinaikos defeats AEK, the European Basketball Champion, with 80-85 at the play-off game at Kallimarmaro stadium winning the Greek Championship. Rookie Giorgos Moshous, who enters the field in overtime, scores a 2p goal and wins the game with his performance. Politis, Kolokithas, Panagiotarakos, Iordanidis, Haikalis, Kyritsis and Peppas play for PAO, coached by Kostas Mourouzis and Amerikanos, Trontzos, Zoupas, Larentzakis and Christeas play for AEK. |
| 30/3/1966 | AEK are defeated by Slavia Prague 103-73 at the European Champions Cup semi-final at Milan's Palalido. It is the last game for the great play-maker Giorgos Moschos who will die of cancer on December, 29. In his honor AEK's new basketball court will bear his name |
| 30/3/1955 | Fedon Mattheou leaves the basketball team of Panathinaikos. He will move to Panionios, then to Sporting and then back to Panionios and he will end up at the italian Inis Vareze |
| 30/3/1932 | Aviator Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to make a solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean. On 18/6/1928 she became the first woman to fly in an aircraft across the Atlantic (she was a passenger; Wilmer Stutz was the pilot and Lou Gordon the mechanic). |
| 30/3/1924 | Dimitros Karabatis, world record holder with 38.94 in discus throw in Smyrni in 1922, stands forward in the first strike in SEGAS. Athletes do not turn up at the qualifying games at “Panathinaiko Stadium”, protesting against the limits for the Olympic Games of 1924 |
| 30/3/1896 | Antonios Pepanos wins the gold medal in 500m swimming in the 1st Modern Olympic Games of Athens |
| 30/3/1895 | Oxford - Cambridge rowing race is the first british athletic event to be filmed, by cameraman Bert Acres |
| 30/3/1889 | Harilaos Trikoupis presents to the Greek Parliament his dream of the union of Rio with Antirio. 115 years later, on 12/8/2004, on the eve of the Athens Olympic Games opening ceremony, the bridge will be given to circulation. However, the first ones to cross it will be the torch bearers who on 8/8/2004 will carry the olympic flame to Athens |
