| 7/6/2015 | 40-year-old Russian fencing champion Sergei Sarikov, winner of two gold medals (1996, 2000), one silver (1996) and one bronze medal (2004) in fencing at Olympic Games is killed during a car accident in Moscow. He also won 3 gold medals in world championships (2001, 2002, 2003) and another 5 in European Championships (2000, 2001, 2002, 2004). |
| 7/6/1993 | Yugoslavian basketball star Drazen Petrovic dies in a car accident outside Munich |
| 7/6/1991 | Panayotis Fassoulas scores 34 points, a personal record, against the national team of CIS and Greece wins with 93-85 during the FIBA Basketball Jubilee which is celebrated at the Piraeus Peace and Friendship Stadium |
| 7/6/1989 | Zola Budd, the 23 year-old ''barefoot'' olympic winner of the 3000m and 5000m races retires |
| 7/6/1989 | Dutch international striker Dennis Bergkamp develops a fear of flying after witnessing a plane crash in Surinam. From now on every contract he signs will exclude air travels |
| 7/6/1981 | Bjorn Borg becomes the first tennis player to win 6 Roland Garros after defeating Ivan Ledl |
| 7/6/1970 | Gordon Banks makes the greatest save ever preventing Pele from scoring during the match between England and Brazil (0-1) for the Word Cup in Mexico. Banks is considered third best all-time goalkeeper after Lev Yashin and Ricardo Zamora |
| 7/6/1965 | Sony Corporation presents the “Videocorder” series, the world's first all-transistor consumer use VTR. It utilizes a 1/2-inch-wide tape and is capable of over one hour of continuous recording and playback. |
| 7/6/1954 | Alan Turing, the mathematician and cryptographer, who is often referred as the father of computer science, commits suicide at the age of 42 after eating an apple laced with cyanide. During World War II he was working at the secret headquarters of Bletchley Park trying to decrypt messages sent by “Enigma”, the mobile cipher machine used to encrypt and decrypt secret information. During this period, i.e. some years before the first computers were deliverd at the Los Alamos laboratories, he foresaw, that the computer will not only be playing chess, but also beat the world champion, a fact which would be proved correct on 11/5/1997 with the victory of IBM’s Deep Blue |
| 7/6/1934 | Germany face Austria and Ernst Lehner scores one of the fastest goals in World Cup history, 24 seconds after kick-off. The Germans win by 3-2 |
| 7/6/1892 | J.F. Palmer patents the metal chain bicycle |
