| 17/4/2022 | Stefanos Tsitsipas defends his Rolex Monte-Carlo Masters title, dispatching Spaniard Alejandro Davidovich Fokina 6-3, 7-6(3) to capture his second ATP Masters 1000 crown. With his one-hour, 34-minute victory, Tsitsipas has become the sixth player to win back-to-back Monte Carlo titles in the Open Era joining Rafael Nadal (2005-12, 2016-18), Juan Carlos Ferrero (2002-03), Thomas Muster (1995-96), Bjorn Borg (1979-1980) and Ilie Nastase (1971-1973). |
| 17/4/2015 | 17-year-old swimmer of Herodikos, Dimosthenis Mihalentzakis, makes a world record with 2:13.09 in the 200m Butterfly S9 during the second day of the Berlin Internatinal Swimming Meeting, breaking the record held by Italian Deferico Morlacci since 29/4/2011 with 2:15.10. |
| 17/4/2013 | Additional Assistant Referees are introduced for the first time in Greek football competitions when two extra match officials are involved in the first semifinal of the Greek Cup PAOK-Asteras Tripoli. The same model will be used in the 2nd semifinal and the final. |
| 17/4/2011 | The “Sunday Eleftherotipia” newspaper publishes a list with 39 football games that are considered by UEFA as being suspicious of match fixing, based on a “corruption” scale, from 1 (slightly suspicious) to 5 (highly corrupted). These games along with those indicated by LAOS MP Thanassis Plevris will result in the intervention of assistant DA Popi Papandreou. |
| 17/4/2003 | Ship owner Yannis Latsis dies at the age of 93. The so called “captain” who sponsors the national basketball team through Eurobank had sent, on 14/6/1987, a congratulating letter to the coach, Kostas Politis, following the team’s success at Eurobasket |
| 17/4/2002 | SLUC Nancy loose to Lokomotiv Rostov 95-74 in Russia but they win the Korac Cup as they have won the first game 98-72 in France (10/4). It is the last Korac Cup final as next month, FIBA will announce the merging of Korac Cup and Saporta Cup in one competition. Two weeks later, on 30/4/2002, Pamesa will lose to Montepaschi 71-81 in the last Saporta Cup Final |
| 17/4/2001 | Maroussi win the Saporta Cup after defeating Chalon 74-72 in Warsaw. Vangelis Vourtzoumis becomes the first Greek basketball player to have won 3 european trophies playing on different teams (Aris Salonica, Panathinaikos and Maroussi) |
| 17/4/2000 | 28 year-old Danalyn Adams Scharf becomes the first woman to run a marathon (the Boston Marathon) after having undergone a heart transplant |
| 17/4/1993 | Neil Thomas becomes the first British to win a medal (silver) in a world gymnastics championship |
| 17/4/1972 | Nina Kuscsik becomes the first woman to win the Boston Marathon |
| 17/4/1964 | Jerrie Mock becomes the first woman to fly solo around the world |
| 17/4/1937 | One of the largest football crowds (149.547) watch England beat Scotland 3-1 at Glasgow's Hampden Park |
| 17/4/1920 | American Professional Football Association (NFL) established |
| 17/4/1888 | First official meeting for the establishment of the English football league at Manchester's Royal Hotel. The 12 founders are: Accrington, Aston Villa, Blackburn Rovers, Bolton Wanderers, Burnley, Derby County, Everton, Notts County, Preston North End, Stoke, West Bromwich Albion ?a? Wolverhampton Wanderers |
| 17/4/1875 | Colonel Sir Neville Champerlain adds coloured balls to a billiards game during an officer’s mess in Jamalpur, a city of Central India, thus creating / inventing a new game. The game of billiards dates back to the 15th century and its name is considered to be originating from the French word “bille” (ball), but the new game is named “snooker”, a derogatory term used for a first-year cadet of the Royal Military Academy of Woolwich in England. However, the first World Snooker Championship will have to wait for half a century as it will be organized in 1927 |
| 17/4/1860 | The first international boxing match with bare fists between British Tom Sayers and American John C. Heenan in Faranborough, Hampshire ends in a tie after 37 rounds. According to the rules each round ends with a knock down |
