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4/3/2025Giannis Sfairopoulos is named “coach of the year” across all Red Star divisions on the club's 80th anniversary
4/3/2025LeBron James scores 34 points and becomes the first player to score 50,000 combined points in the regular season and playoffs, and the Los Angeles Lakers extended their longest winning streak in four years to seven games with a 136-115 victory over the New Orleans Pelicans
4/3/2023Christos Zanderoglou, a great figure of Greek football, dies at the age of 83. He played for Olympiacos for five years (164 games) winning two championships and one Greek Cup. In total, he played in 366 games in the first division and scored 14 goals with Niki Volos, Olympiacos Piraeus, Egaleo and Atromitos Athens. He also capped in 13 matches with the National Team, with one of them being the great victory over Eusebio's Portugal in "G. Karaiskakis" stadium in 1968. He then coached several teams, and also worked in the technical team of Olympiacos.
4/3/2018Fiorentina’s 31-year-old captain, Davide Astori, is found dead in his hotel room. The team had checked into the hotel in preparation for a Serie A game against Udinese. All Serie A games scheduled for Sunday will be canceled, and a moment of silence will be held before a number of games across Europe. Cagliari and Fiorentina both will retire the number 13 jersey worn by Astori in his honour.
4/3/201727-year-old Olympian Katerina Stefanidi clears 4.85 meters on her first attempt and wins the gold medal in the women's pole vault event during the 34th European Athletics Indoor Championships held in Belgrade. Following in second place is Germany's Lisa Ryzih with a personal best of 4.75 meters, 10 centimetres less than Stefanidi, while Swedan's Angelica Bengtsson and Maryna Kylypko from the Ukraine both take out bronze with a tie of 4.55 meters. Voula Papachristou wins the bronze medal, and her first medal in a European championship, in the triple jump competition with 14.24 meters.
4/3/2002Yugoslavian legend Velibor Vasovic dies aged 62. He captained Ajax in the win against Panathinaikos in the 1970/71 European Champions Cup final at Wembley
4/3/200018 year-old Christos Fandridis dies in a car accident. He had taken first place in Moscow 1998 World Juniors Gymnastics
4/3/2000Marla Runyan, a middle distance runner who has been legally blind since age nine (20/300), wins the 3000m race (9:10.29) at the USA Indoors championships in Georgia Dome
4/3/1995Manchester United's largest win in England (Manchester Utd - Ippswich 9-0)
4/3/1995Michael Johnson smashes the 400m indoors world record with 44.63 in Atlanta
4/3/1989Javier Sotomayor smashes the high jump indoors world record with 2.43m in Budapest
4/3/1967Queen's Park Rangers, a club of the 3rd division, beat a club of the First Division, West Bromwich Albion 3-2 in the first League Cup game at Wembley
4/3/1945Red Star Beograd, one of the most important yugoslavian clubs is founded. Slobodan Kocic and Zoran Zuyovic came up with the club's name. Red Star won the European Champions Cup after defeating Marseille (5-3 on penalty kicks) on March 29, 1991
4/3/1930Emma Fahring becomes the first woman to bowl a perfect game in a competition held by the Women's International Bowling Congress in Buffalo, New York
4/3/1928The longest marathon in history is held. 199 runners start from Los Angeles and finish in New York after covering a distance of 3.422 miles
4/3/1902American Automobile Association founded

 

             
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