| 8/4/2021 | Vassilis Sevastis, the long-time leader of SEGAS and representative of the federation to the Greek Olympic Committee, dies at the age of 72 after a long hospitalization in the ICU of "Sotiria" hospital for corona virus. He spent his life in tartan and athletics. He was one of the top athletes of the '60s and' 70s. He won the gold medal in the decathlon in 1971 at the Mediterranean Games in Smyrna and a year later he won the bronze medal in the decathlon at the Balkan Games.
At the end of his athletic career, he served athletics as the president of SEGAS from 1997 to 2011, while from 2011 onwards he was the General Secretary of the federation. |
| 8/4/2011 | Lazaros Mourkakos, editor of the sports newspaper “Filathlos” and son of Nikos Mourkakos, member of Ethnikos AC Managemenet, dies of heart attack at the age of 46 |
| 8/4/2010 | Athinaikos wins the Eurocup by completing a narrow two-legged triumph over Russian Nadezhda, becoming the first Greek women’s basketball team to win a European Championship |
| 8/4/1997 | The women's Euroleague Final Four opens in Larissa. Bourges win the trophy by overcoming Wuppertal 71-52 |
| 8/4/1996 | Agron Sulaj, the youngest coach (33 years old) ever to take over the albanian national football team (1985-1990), dies aged 44 |
| 8/4/1992 | Tennis player Arthur Ashe announces that he has AIDS |
| 8/4/1991 | Jockey Willie Shoemaker is left paralysed after a car accident |
| 8/4/1989 | FIBA World Conference lifts the distinction between amateurs and professionals |
| 8/4/1974 | Hank Aaron makes his 715th home run and breaks Babe Ruth’s record which lasted for 35 years. The young assistant professor Carl Pomerance notices that these 2 consecutive integers are the products of prime factors, i.e. 714=2x3x7x17 and 715=5x11x13 and they also have another property (equal sum of their prime factors) since 2+3+7+17=5+11+13. Pomerance will name all consecutive integers that have this property as “pair Ruth-Aaron”. |
| 8/4/1950 | First NBA championship begins |
| 8/4/1928 | The first women's boxing match in Greece between Koula Giuseppe (Panathinaikos) and Erasmia Velianitou (Olympiacos) is being held at the "Kotopouli" theater. 20-year-old Giuseppe is the first winner. Women's boxing will enter the Olympic program in 2012. |
| 8/4/1928 | The “8th German-Greek Games” conclude at the Panathinaiko Stadium. The games started one day before with the participation of 10 athletes from Berliner Sport Klub, Ethnikos, Panionios and Amaroussion AC |
| 8/4/1926 | The first 70 members of the “Filippos Union” are appointed by the government of Theodoros Pagalos. The union’s statutory will be published on 12/5 |
| 8/4/1911 | First squash tournament held at Harvard Club, New York |
