| 3/1/2023 | A few months before turning 100, Nikos Skylakakis, the last iconic player of the 1949 National Team, who won the bronze medal at the Eurobasket in Egypt, dies |
| 3/1/2022 | Three-time Olympic triple jump champion and former world record-holder Viktor Saneyev dies at the age of 76. Saneyev went on to claim his Olympic titles at three consecutive Games, winning his first in Mexico City in 1968 before further success for the Soviet Union in Munich in 1972 and in Montreal in 1976. Four years later in Moscow, he added an Olympic silver medal to his collection, while he won his two European titles in 1969 and 1974. In 1980 in Moscow at the age of 34, he came close to a fourth Olympic gold when finishing second with 17.24m, just 11 centimetres off Jaak Uudmae’s winning mark. |
| 3/1/2021 | Gerry and the Pacemakers singer Gerry Marsden, whose version of You'll Never Walk Alone became a football terrace anthem for his hometown club of Liverpool, dies at the age of 78. |
| 3/1/1987 | Manchester United player Liam O'Brien is sent off 85 seconds after kick-off marking the fastest sending off in British football. That time is beaten by Sheffield Wednesday goalkeeper Kevin Pressman in 2000 (just 13 seconds). In continental football, the fastest sending will be held by Bologna's Giuseppe Lorenzo, who is sent off after just 10 seconds for striking an opponent in an Italian league match against Parma on December 9th, 1990. |
| 3/1/1977 | Pat Cruz of Torkee United scores the fastest own goal (8'') in a match against Cambridge United |
| 3/1/1973 | Columbia Broadcasting Systems (CBS) sells the New York Yankees for $12 million to a 12-person syndicate led by George Steinbrenner, often known as “the boss” |
| 3/1/1962 | The New Philadelphia football sod ground is inaugurated with an AEK Athens-Barcelona friendly match (0-6) in front of 38.000 spectators (among them, the Greek prime minister Konstantinos Karamanlis and the king of Spain Juan Carlos). 41 years later, on 5/5/2003, the demolition of the stadium will begin and will be completed on 2/6/2003 |
| 3/1/1958 | Edmund Hillary, who reached the tops of Evereston 29/5/1953, reaches South Pole overland during the first mechanized expedition |
| 3/1/1957 | The first electric watch is introduced in Lancaster of Pensylvannia |
| 3/1/1930 | 39-year-old David Sarnoff becomes president of Radio Corporation of America (RCA). In 1912, at the age of 21, while he was working at the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company, he operated wireless equipment in an effort to gather survivors’ names during the disaster of the Titanic. Later, he will try to persuade the president of the USA on the advantages of radio, including in his arguments the speed of baseball results’ transmission. |
| 3/1/1920 | Boston Red Sox's owner Harry Frazee sells Babe Ruth to the NY Yankees for $125.000 in order to pay off his debts |
