| 6/4/2010 | 22-year-old Lionel Messi scores all four Barcelona goals in the 4–1 home win over Arsenal in the Champions League quarter-final second leg and becomes the first player to score 4 goals in a Champions League knock-out match. |
| 6/4/2006 | Manchester United sign with the insurance group AIG (American International Group), the biggest shirt sponsorship deal in English football. The agreement is worth 56,5 million pounds (100 million US dollars) over four years, surpassing Chelsea’s 50 million pounds five-year sponsorship with Samsung. This sponsorship will be set in danger, but will be temporarily saved, two years after, in the middle of the global financial crisis, when on 16/9/2008, AIG’s bankruptcy will be averted with a US $85 billion federal bailout. |
| 6/4/1996 | 42 year-old Robert Parrish sets new NBA record as he plays his 1.561st basketball game |
| 6/4/1996 | Greece celebrates the centenary of the 1896 Olympics at Panathinaikon Stadium |
| 6/4/1977 | Kingdome in Sheattle opens |
| 6/4/1969 | During the games for the celebration of the Olympic Day, the later Mayor and Member of Parliament from Chania, 21-year-old Kyriakos Virvidakis of A.O. Kydonas Chania makes a personal record of 21.7 (with favorable wind and hand timing) in the 200 m. event. This year’s average time of the first 10 runners is 21.84 with an electronic timer. What is special about this performance is that it took place in Kallimarmaro Stadium, where the 200m corridor was a straight line. |
| 6/4/1965 | Ioannis Ketseas, athlete of Ethnikos G.C. and co-founder, along with german Karl Diem, of the International Olympic Academy, dies at the age of 78. He was member of the Hellenic Olympic Committee since 1927, SEGAS president (1930-1932) and president of the Athens Tennis Club since 1938 |
| 6/4/1958 | Arnold Palmer, one of the best all-time golfers, wins his first USA Masters |
| 6/4/1957 | 51-year-old Aristotle Onassis, one of the richest shipping magnates of the 20th century, founds Olympic Airways, later Olympic Airlines, the official Greek national carrier, when buying in the beginning of the same year TAE (Technical and Aeronautical Exploitations) for 7 million US dollars. Onassis wanted to copy the five coloured rings of the Olympic emblem, but the International Olympic Committee claimed the rights to the emblem, so a new, six ring logo was introduced. The first five rings stand for the five continents, while the sixth stands for Greece. |
| 6/4/1957 | In his first bout in three years, Sugar Ray Leonard wins the middleweight world title by beating Marvin Hagler after 12 rounds, totaling 34 wins and only 1 loss in 11 years |
| 6/4/1896 | The first modern Olympic Games begin in Athens. 311 athletes from 13 countries take part (230 Greeks). The official date, 25 March 1896, is according to the Julian Calendar. American James Conolly becomes the first winner with 13,71m in triple jump. In discus throw, Panayiotis Paraskevopoulos wins the silver medal with 28.95. First is 21year old Bob Garret, who creates a new world record with 29.15, while third is Sotiris Versis with 27.76. The discus is wooden with medal cover on the circumference and athletes should throw when standing in accordance with the Ancient Greek way |
| 6/4/1893 | The longest in duration boxing match, Jack Burke vs Andy Bowen in St Louis is declared a draw after 110 rounds (7 hours and 19 minutes) |
