| 12/7/2023 | The 420 & 470 Junior European Sailing Championship comes to an end with 4 golds (420 Iakovina Kerkezou - Danae Giannoulis, 420 girls Iakovina Kerkezou - Danae Giannoulis, 420 U17 Georgios Iraklis Michalopoulos - Ion Stamatios Stromatias and 420 U17 girls Danae Miranda Angelopoulou-Georgia Favio), 1 silver (420 mixed Dimitris Bitros – Klio Soulioti) and 2 bronze medals (420 mixed Maria Ioanna Sarikavazi – Evangelos Bouzanas and 470 U21 mixed Lampis Evlabios Giannoulis – Eleni Giannoulis) |
| 12/7/2021 | Novak Djokovic beats Matteo Berrettini 3-1 in the Wimbledon final and ties Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal by winning his 20th Grand Slam title. The No. 1-ranked Djokovic earns a third consecutive championship at the All England Club and sixth overall. The 34-year-old from Serbia is now the only man since Rod Laver in 1969 to win the first three major tournaments in a season. |
| 12/7/2014 | Netherlands defeat Brazil 3-0 and Julio Cesar becomes Brazil’s goalkeeper who has conceded most goals (17 in his 12th World Cup game over two tournaments in 2010 and 2014) breaking the unwanted record held by Tafarel (15 goals in 18 games across 3 World Cups: 1990, 1994, and 1998). The overall 17 conceded goals of Brazil are their worst performance in a World Cup (11 goals in 1938). |
| 12/7/2009 | 42-year-old former table tennis champion and coach Panagiotis Politis dies of heart attack. He started his career with Milonas and was a national champion at the juniors’ doubles in 1981-1982 while he won the singles’ bronze medal in 1981-82 and 1983-84 seasons. He competed with various other clubs of the national division and started coaching in 1990. |
| 12/7/1998 | France win the World Cup after defeating Brazil 3-0 (Zidane 2, Petit) at Stade de France in front of 80.000 spectators. Croatian striker Davor Suker takes the top scorer award (6 goals) |
| 12/7/1992 | First European U-21 Basketball Championship held, in Athens, at Peace and Friendship Stadium. Italy defeat Greece 65-63 in the final on July 19 |
| 12/7/1991 | Greece win the gold medal in football at the Mediterranean Games as they overcome Turkey 3-1 in OAKA stadium |
| 12/7/1976 | First Greek Cup final held in Glyfada. Olympiacos defeat AEK 81-79 |
| 12/7/1958 | Giorgos Roubanis sets new pole vault european record with 4.60m in Munich. In Greece, Christos Papanikolaou will smash the record 6 years later |
| 12/7/1952 | Lakis Petropoulos of Asteras Athens signs with Panathinaikos. He will hold the position of the midfielder for 8 years (1952-1959) and he will participate in 58 Athens Championship games, 61 National Championship games, 18 Cup games and 4 National Team games |
| 12/7/1910 | 33-year-old British car designer Charles Stewart Roll dies in a plane accident. Apart from launching (in collaboration with Henry Royce) Rolls-Royce car industry, Rolls took part in car races. Two months before the accident he made the first non stop flight over the English Channel. Royce, 10 years older than Rolls, founded in 1884 (when Rolls was just 7 years old) a company producing electric devices. In 1904 he built the first automobile. ''Sir'' Henry Royce died on 29/4/1933, at the age of 70 |
| 12/7/1892 | Alexander Cartwright dies at the age of 72. He was the founder of Knickerbocker Base Ball Club and formed the official rules of the game. For many years, people believed that the “inventor” of baseball was, since 1838, Abner Doubleday, the major general who had fired the first shot of the civil war |
