| 19/6/2025 | 16-year-old swimmer Constantis Hourdakis finishes first with 1.28.29.24 in the 7.5 km juniors at the premiere of the European Marathon Swimming Championships in Setubal, Portugal |
| 19/6/2023 | France striker Kylian Mbappe scores to set another milestone as his side maintained their perfect record in Euro 2024 qualifying Group B with a 1-0 home victory against Greece. With his second-half penalty, he becomes the all-time leading French scorer over a season with 54 goals for club and country, beating the mark set by Just Fontaine in 1957-58. |
| 19/6/2023 | The Greek men's bowling team (Anastasis Exarchou, Nikos Kagialoglou, Vangelis Krizinis, Yiannis Xydas, Giorgos Stefanidis and Nikos Serelis) win the bronze medal in the team event of the European Championship held in Wittelsheim, France |
| 19/6/2022 | Greece’s Apostolos Christou sets a new Championship Record during the semifinal of the Men’s 100 backstroke at the 2022 World Championships in Budapest. Christou swam to a time of 52.09 breaking the previous championship record of 52.17 set by China’s Jiayu Xu back in July 2019. |
| 19/6/2021 | Dries Mertens celebrates his hundredth appearance in Belgian selection playing in the first half of the game against Denmark for Euro 2020. He made his debut on 9/2/2011 in a friendly game against Finland. |
| 19/6/2010 | Manute Bol, the Sudanese basketball player, dies at the age of 47. Until the debut of Gheorghe Muresan (2.31) he was the tallest player (2.31) ever to appear in the NBA and because of that he had an average of 3.34 blocks per game, the second best in the NBA |
| 19/6/2004 | Nadia Comaneci flies over Times Square in New York holding the torch with the Olympic Flame |
| 19/6/1999 | The IOC votes for Turin to host the 2006 Winter Olympics |
| 19/6/1992 | Evander Holyfield beats Larry Holmes in 12 rounds for the world heavyweight title |
| 19/6/1983 | Greek 22-year-old Vaso Morali becomes world’s first female soccer commentator when she broadcasts live for ERT the football match Ethnikos Piraeus-Panachaiki. |
| 19/6/1956 | Thomas J. Watson, founder and president of IBM, dies at the age of 82 in New York. He joined NCR in the mid 1890s around the age of 20 selling cash registers and at the age of 40, being already a successful businessman, he joined “Computer Tabulating Corporation (CTR) on May 1, 1914 which ten years after, in 1924, he renamed to “International Business Machines”. He became one of the richest businessmen of his time and a month before his death he handed over the reins of the company to his eldest son Thomas J. Watson, Jr. |
| 19/6/1951 | Angelos Sikelianos dies aged 67. One of the leading greek poets of the 20th century, Sikelianos worked to revive the Delphic Games. With the support of his american wife Eva Palmer he organized the'' Delphic Festival'' in 1927 and 1930, which included theatre performances, torch races, etc. The ancient Delphic games ''Pythia'' were held in Delphi every 4 years in honor of god Apollo who, according to mythology, saved the people of Delphi by killing the evil snake ''Python'' |
| 19/6/1938 | Italy win the 3rd World Cup after defeating Hungary with 4-2 in Paris. Leonidas da Silva of Brazil is announced top scorer of the tournament with 8 goals |
| 19/6/1936 | Undefeated American boxer Joe Louis loses to German Max Schmeling. Two years later, Louis will knock down Schmeling in one round |
| 19/6/1931 | Mickey Walker relinquishes the world middleweight boxing title |
| 19/6/1867 | First annual Belmont Stakes held, at Jerome Park, New York |
| 19/6/1846 | First recorded baseball match under Cartwright rules in Hoboken, New Jersey. NY Nines face Knickerbockers (23-1) |
