| 10/10/2020 | NO Vouliagmeni defeats Olympiacos 8-7 in Papastrasteio, in the premiere of the Men's A1, recording the first defeat of Olympiacos in regular season after 177 games! The last defeat of the “reds” was in April 2012 for the 21st matchday of the league. NOB was the perpetrator again, winning the double that season. |
| 10/10/2014 | Dimitris Galanis, the legendary "Mitsaras", the emblematic figure of the greek sports courts who appeared in front of the cameras next to interviewees and made comments presented in placards, dies of diabetes |
| 10/10/2012 | Lance Armstrong receives a lifetime ban and all his results since August 1998 are disqualified, including erasing all seven of his Tour de France victories. The U.S. Anti-Doping Agency’s report states that Armstrong used banned substances throughout his cycling career and that he forced teammates to dope under the threat of dismissal from his squad. |
| 10/10/2004 | Theodoros Synodinos is elected president of the Greek Wrestling Federation and becomes the only Greek to preside in both Boxing and Wrestling federations |
| 10/10/2001 | Manchester Utd striker Andy Cole scores in the away victory against Olympiacos (0-2) and becomes the leading all-time English scorer in Europe surpassing Bobby Charlton |
| 10/10/1993 | Xanthi Football Club sign a three year agreement with car industry SKODA according to which the team will be renamed as SKODA Xanthi. It is the first Greek team to adopt such a venture and the deal will be extended |
| 10/10/1991 | First Premier League football match held |
| 10/10/1987 | British Tom McLean finishes rowing across the Atlantic Ocean setting a record at 54 days and 18 hours |
| 10/10/1976 | 98-year-old Dimitris Iordanidis becomes the oldest man to run the marathon race (in 7 hours and 33 minutes) |
| 10/10/1966 | With their captain Andreas Garyfallos performing superbly scoring also one goal (the other scored by Patlakas), Ethnikos beat Bercelona with 2-0 at the Olympic Swimming Pool in front of 2.500 fans and qualify to the European Cup Final Four of Waterpolo, which will take place in Germany next month |
| 10/10/1964 | The 18th Olympic Games open in Tokyo. It is the first time an Asian country hosts the games. 4.507 men and 683 women from 94 countries take part in 19 events. 19 year-old Yoshinori Sakai, born on the day the atomic bomb fell on Hiroshima (August 6, 1945), lights the olympic flame. South Africa is barred, Indonesia and South Korea choose to abstain. Judo and women's volleyball are first introduced. Computers are first used to issue the results. 30 year-old Larissa Latynina from the Soviet Union closes her career by winning 2 gold, 2 silver and 2 bronze medals. American swimmer Don Schollander wins 4 gold medals |
| 10/10/1960 | 16 players of the California Polytechnic State University football team die when the aircraft carrying them crashes on takeoff at the Toledo airport in Ohio. Quarterback Ted Tollner, who is among the survivors, will become the head coach of the football team of the University of Southern California from 1983 to 1986. |
| 10/10/1865 | John W. Hyatt patents the billiard ball |
| 10/10/1857 | American Chess Association founded in New York |
