| 8/2/2025 | "Bronze" Olympic champion of Paris in pole vault, Emmanuel Karalis, clears 5.92 meters at the Lodz meeting in Poland, breaking his own national record (5.90m at the Perch'Xtrem meeting in France on 31/1/2025) in indoor track and field. |
| 8/2/2023 | Benjamin Abosi, makes his debut at the age of 17 years and 24 days in the match Alba Berlin - Olympiacos and becomes the youngest player in the history of Olympiacos to play in a EuroLeague match, surpassing Alexey Pokusevsky (17 years and 83 days) |
| 8/2/2023 | LeBron James scores 38 points against the Oklahoma City Thunder passing Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s 38.387 points to become the NBA's all-time leading scorer with 38.390. Abdul-Jabbar had been atop the career points list since 5/4/1984, when he broke the mark previously held by Wilt Chamberlain. |
| 8/2/2021 | Tampa Bay Buccaneers beat Kansas City Chiefs 31-9 at the Super Bowl LV and quarterback Tom Brady's wins seventh championship at the age of 43. He spent the first 20 seasons of his career with the New England Patriots, where he was a central contributor to the franchise's dynasty from 2001 to 2019. Brady is widely considered to be the greatest quarterback of all time. |
| 8/2/2014 | Messiniakos’ athlete Louis Tsatoumas, sets a Greek indoor record of 8.23 m, breaking his own record of 8.21 m., to win the national indoor title in long jump during the first day of the National Indoor Athletics Championships held in Peace and Friendship stadium in Athens. It is the second best mark this year after the 8.30m of Russian Alexander Menkov. Tsatoumas holds the national record in the outdoor competition with 8.66m., since 2/7/2007. |
| 8/2/2011 | OPAP TV begins transmission with a 12-hour duration (9am – 9pm) program on a daily basis and is transmitted via satellite through decoders at OPAP agencies |
| 8/2/2009 | Ryan Giggs scores the winning goal in Manchester United’s 1-0 win at West Ham United, becoming the only player to have scored in every Premier League season since its inception in the 1992-1993 season. |
| 8/2/2005 | 28-year-old British sailor Ellen MacArthur breaks a solo round-the-world sailing record with a time of 71 days, 14 hours, 18 minutes and 33 seconds completing a 42,000 kilometre circum navigation with her 22.9-metre trimaran B&Q and breaking the record set by Francis Joyon of France (72 days, 22 hours, 54 minutes and 22 seconds) in February 2004 |
| 8/2/2002 | 49 year-old Akratitos coach Giannis Pathiakakis dies of heart attack during training. Former international footballer, Pathiakakis coached Apollon Athens and AEK before moving to Akratitos. The Akratitos football ground is named in his honor |
| 8/2/2000 | Former Apollon Athens footballer Giorgos Kamaras is found dead in a stall in Kifissia |
| 8/2/1998 | The first match in women’s hockey in the history of Winter Olympic Games is played at Nagano, Japan (Finland-Sweden 6-0) |
| 8/2/1998 | Russian Olga Danilova wins the gold medal in 15km classical cross-country skiing at the Nagano Winter Olympics |
| 8/2/1997 | Canadian Sonia Denoncourt becomes the first female referee in brazilian football history (Palmeiras vs Sao Jose 1-1 in Sao Paolo) |
| 8/2/1992 | President of France Francois Mitterand declares open the 16th Winter Olympics in Albertville, France. 1.318 men and 490 women from 64 countries take part in 57 events |
| 8/2/1983 | The winning horse of England Derby ''Shergar'' is kidnapped from Aga Khan's stables. Kidnappers demand a sum of 5 million pounds as ransom. A few days later they kill ''Shergar'' because they cannot control him and Aga Khan refuses to pay the ransom. It is alleged that the kidnappers were members of IRA |
| 8/2/1981 | 21 people lose their lives when spectators head massively towards a closed exit of Gate 7 after the Olympiacos - AEK derby at Karaiskakis stadium |
| 8/2/1960 | Bill Russel of the Boston Celtics becomes the first NBA player with 50 rebounds (51) |
| 8/2/1936 | First ski jumping tournament in Red Wing, Minnesotta |
| 8/2/1936 | Jay Berwanger is the first player to be selected for the first NFL draft |
