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3/6/2019Former football player for Iraklis, AEK, Anorthosis and Ionikos, Giorgos Xenidis, dies of a heart attack at the age of 45.
3/6/2004The 51st Acropolis Rallye starts. For the first time the starting kick is not given from Acropolis but from Lamia, a difference which is stated in the rallye’s title “ACROPOLIS, Rallye of Greece”
3/6/1998Michael Jordan scores 41 points against the Timberwolves and becomes the third NBA player to complete 29.000 points
3/6/1993Steffi Graf becomes world's No1 taking advantage of Monica Seles' injury
3/6/1989“Flash” radio station makes their first transmission with a 3-hour presentation of the program and journalists by Giorgos Karalis and Dimitra Alexaki from the Agia Ekaterini studios in Plaka. A few months later, the station will be forced to move out since it was incompatible with the area’s traditional character.
3/6/1982French driver Michele Mouton (driving an Audi Quattro with her co-driver Fabrizia Pons) becomes the first woman to clinch the Acropolis Rally. After winning the Brazilian and the Portuguese Rally, Mouton will narrowly lose the world title to Walter Roehrl from Germany
3/6/1975Pele signs a 3 year contract ($11 million) with the New York Cosmos. Kinalya, Cruyff and Beckenbauer will follow his example, while George Best will play for Los Angeles Aztecs
3/6/1931BBC's first broadcast of an Epson Derby (Freddie Fox wins, riding ''Cameronian'')
3/6/1899W.G. Grace becomes the first English player over 50 (50 years and 320 days old) to play test cricket, in a match between England and Australia
3/6/1851NY Knickerbockers become the first baseball team to wear uniforms (straw hat, white shirt and blue trousers)
3/6/178929-year old Alexander MacKenzie begins his expedition with 13 friends of his and 3 canoes from Great Slave Lake to the west following the river in the hope of reaching the Pacfic Ocean. After crossing 3.000 miles in 102 days he will end up moving north to the Arctic. The river that crosses Canada will be named after him. On the 22th July 1793 he begins another journey towards the Pacific

 

             
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