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30/10/2023Manchester City’s Erling Haaland wins the Gerd Müller Trophy for the top scorer with 56 goals (in 57 games) and becomes the first player in history to win three top scorer trophies in a season, after the European Golden Boot (36 goals in 35 Premier League games) and the UCL Golden Boot (12 goals in 11 games)
30/10/2023Lionel Messi wins the Ballon d’Or award for a record-extending eighth time after leading Argentina to the World Cup title last year at the 67th annual ceremony presented by France Football at the "Theatre du Chatelet" in Paris. Aitana Bonmatí won her first Ballon d'Or Féminin, after she won the 2022–23 Women's Champions League with FC Barcelona and the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup with Spain. Jude Bellingham was given the Kopa Trophy, Emiliano Martínez won the Yashin Trophy, the Socrates Award was given to Vinícius Júnior, Erling Haaland claimed the Gerd Müller Trophy, the Men's Club of the Year award went to Manchester City for the second year in a row and FC Barcelona received the inaugural Women's Club of the Year award.
30/10/2015Vangelis Kanavos wins the silver medal in triple jump T20 with 13.70 m. (new Greek national record) at the 7th IPC Athletics World Championships in Doha, Qatar
30/10/2014Panathinaikos captain Dimitris Diamantidis becomes the first player in Euroleague Basketball history to dish 1,000 career assists when he feeds A.J. Slaughter off a screen for a three-pointer on the first play of the Panathinaikos - Fenerbahce Ulker game at Olympic Sports Center Athens for the 3rd round of the 2014-2015 regular season.
30/10/201124-year-old Red Bull's world champion Sebastian Vettel wins the first Formula One Grand Prix run in Buddh International Circuit in New Delhi. This is his 11th victory in 2011, and after taking pole position on Saturday, which set a new record based on the number of pole positions in a single year for a team, Vettel not only wins the race, but sets the fastest lap and leads every lap achieving a “grand chelem”, a term borrowed from tennis.
30/10/2003Greek champions Athina '90 mark their first victory after defeating Grakanica by 7-3 for the UEFA Futsal Cup
30/10/1999Celtic striker Mark Viduka scores one of the fastest hat tricks in the Scottish league (Celtic - Kilmarnock 5-1)
30/10/1996Fenerbahce stop Manchester Utd's 40 year-old winning streak at Old Trafford after beating them 1-0 for the Champions League
30/10/1996Pangiotis Giannakis' first basketball game as head coach of Greece (Israel - Greece for the qualifying round of Eurobasket 1997)
30/10/197937-year-old Pantelis Nikolaidis, MP, is killed in a car accident close to Belgrade. He was a pole vaulter in the 1960’s and took part in the Olympic Games of Mexico, but did not qualify to the final having jumped 4.80m
30/10/1974Muhammad Ali knocks out George Foreman in Kinshasa, Zaire (later Democratic Republic of Kongo). The fight will remain in history as “Rumble in the Jungle” and Ali will become the second fighter ever, after Floyd Patterson, to recover the world’s heavyweight crown
30/10/196338-year-old Lefter Kucukandonyadis, born in Turkey, but of Greek origin, arrives in Athens and signs with Egaleo football club, firstly as a coach and secondly as a player. During the season 1965-1966 he will play with AEK Athens in 5 games scoring 2 goals but he will be forced to retire after an injury at the game against Iraklis
30/10/1955Mimis Stefanidis of Olimpia “Borletti” Milano scores 25 points in the team’s win against Virtus Bologna, at the same time when Costas Mourouzis of Gira Ozzano scores 14 in the 82-44 win against Gimmastica Triestina, and Fedon Mattheou of Ignis Varese 19 in the tie 56-56 with Reyer Venezia. All three great greek players play in the Italian Basketball Championship with Stefanidis having been transferred only one week ago
30/10/1954The 24-second shot clock, invented by the American sports executive and businessman Leo Ferris, is used for the first time during the Celtics – Rochester Royals basketball game.
30/10/1927The “Sophia-Athens” Games conclude in Athens. The games started one day before and the Bulgarian athletes came to Athens with SEGAS expenses. Athenians win with 204 points against 128 of the Bulgarians
30/10/1900The first ever US auto show opens in Madison Square Garden in New York

 

             
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