| 12/5/2021 | Artistic swimming champion Evangelia Platanioti, wins her second European medal, the bronze medal, in the final of the free solo competition with a performance of 90.8000 behind Russian Subotina (96.4333) and Ukrainian Fientina (93.7) during the European championship held in Budapest. |
| 12/5/2020 | Vassilis Spanoulis is the final member of the 2010-20 EuroLeague All-Decade team as voted by fans, media, players and coaches becoming the second player of Olympiacosto be included in this team after Giorgos Printezis, and the third greek player after Dimitris Diamantidis |
| 12/5/2018 | After the bronze medal at 25 meters air-pistol on 11/5, 22-year old Greek shooting athlete Anna Korakaki wins the gold medal in the Women's 10m Air Pistol event at the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) World Cup in Fort Benning, USA. The 2016 Olympic medalist got 243.7 points, finishing 3.6 points ahead of Serbia’s Zorana Arunovic, who got the silver medal, while Thailand’s Pim-On Klaisuban completed the podium in 3rd place. During the qualifying rounds earlier today, Korakaki had also set a world record with a score of 587 in 600 shots. |
| 12/5/2018 | Kostas Perperidis, the director of ERT, who linked his name to all the major sports events in the 1980s, dies at age 78. He has been one of the first directors of sports broadcasting on state television, with presence in the Olympic Games, Athletics World and European Championships, and finals in all major competitions. He was behind the cameras on the sport show “Athletic Sunday” and his name was highly linked to the Eurobasket of 1987. |
| 12/5/2017 | Veteran footballer of Panathinaikos Zacharias Pytihoulis dies at the age of 77. He was a member of the purely Greek starting roster of Panathinaikos' international triumphs, which reached Wembley. He won 5 League titles and 2 Cups. |
| 12/5/2013 | Olympiacos Piraeus defeats Real Madrid 100-88 at The O2 in London after trailing by 17 at the end of the opening quarter and in doing so becomes just the fourth team to win back-to-back Euroleague titles in the Final Four era, after Olimpia Milano (1987, 1988), KK Split (1989, 1990, 1991) and Maccabi Tel Aviv (2004, 2005). Giorgos Bartzokas becomes the first Greek coach to win the Euroleague title, Acie Law gets the MVP Award of the final game and Vassilis Spanoulis the MVP Award of the Final Four. |
| 12/5/2001 | First English Cup final held at Cardiff's Millenium Stadium. Liverpool defeat Arsenal 2-1 with Michael Owen scoring both Liverpool goals |
| 12/5/2001 | Brazilian football legend Valdir Pereira Didi, World Cup winner in 1958 and 1962, dies aged 72 |
| 12/5/2001 | PAOK win their first title in 16 years after defeating Olympiacos 4-2 in the Greek Cup final at Philadelphia stadium |
| 12/5/1999 | For the first time in Greek basketball history a team (Aris) loses a game because two of its players (Angelidis, Muursep) fail to pass the anti-doping control |
| 12/5/1999 | A new football ground for blind people opens in Salonica |
| 12/5/1999 | Prince Albert of Monaco organizes a friendly match so as to raise money for AMADE. A team of F1 pilots (Schumacher, Coulthard, Barrichello, Alesi) faces Prince Albert's team (Rajkaard, Altobelli, Sainz, etc) at Louis II Stadium. The match takes place on the eve of Monaco Grand Prix |
| 12/5/1999 | ''FIBA Basket'' official magazine closes down after 8 years |
| 12/5/1999 | Parma beat Marseille 3-0 in the UEFA Cup final. Italian clubs have won so far 25 european trophies, as many as the english. Spanish clubs follow with 23 |
| 12/5/1998 | Indiana Pacers coach Larry Bird is voted NBA's ''best coach of the year'' |
| 12/5/1997 | Australian Susie Maroney becomes the first woman to swim all the way from Cuba to Florida covering the 118 mile distance in 24 and a half hours |
| 12/5/1996 | Manchester United become the first team to make the double for the second time after defeating Liverpool 1-0 (Cantona) at the English FA Cup final |
| 12/5/1995 | Stefan Kovac dies aged 75. He played football in Belgium and Romania. As coach he worked on several teams: Steaua (1967-71), Ajax (1971-73), Romania (1973-81), Panathinaikos (1981-83) and Monaco (1986-89) |
| 12/5/1987 | Following the initiative of the Secretary General of the Hellenic Olympic Committee Georgios Vichos, the Court of Athens with the No. 15264/87 judgment recognizes the Statute of the “Hellenic Olympians Association" (HOC). The Association has 68 articles and is signed by 68 participants in Olympic Games such as Georgios Andreadis, Domna Lanitou - Kavounidou, Kostas Linoxylakis, Faedon Matheou, Nikos Milas, Giorgos Liveris, Alkis Papageorgopoulos, Dimitris Pappos, Giorgos Tsakanikas, Evangelos Depastas, Lambis Manthos, Stefanos Petrakis, Dimitris Skourtis, etc. The International Olympic Committee in 1995 will accept the idea and form the World Olympians Association (21/11/1995) at the Olympic Museum in Lausanne. |
| 12/5/1957 | 28-year-old racing driver Alfonso, Marquis of Portago, is killed at about 70km from Brescia along with his co-driver Eduard Nelson and ten spectators, when a tire blows on their Ferrari. The accident will cause the ban of the 30-year old race Mille Miglia (not to be confused with Rally 1000 Miglia). |
| 12/5/1950 | The American Bowling Congress abolishes its white males-only membership restriction after 34 years |
| 12/5/1870 | First water polo rules dictated by the English Swimming Federation in London |
