| 24/4/2023 | 11-year-old Evangelia Siskou is crowned world champion at the World School Championships held in Rhodes, Greece, winning 7,5 points (7 wins, one duce and one loss) among 34 chess players. A few months ago, in November 2022, she was place third at the World U10 Championship. |
| 24/4/2021 | Giannis Antetokounmpo becomes the third player in Bucks history to reach the 12,000-point plateau when he made his first free throw of the game at the 9:40 mark of the first quarter. Antetokounmpo’s 24 points will see himself pass Glenn Robinson for No. 2 on the all-time franchise scoring list. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (14,211) is No. 1. |
| 24/4/2021 | Lefteris Petrounias wins fifth consecutive gold medal at the 2021 European Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Basel, Switzerland performs on the rings during the men’s apparatus finals |
| 24/4/2000 | Barcelona refuse to play their semi-final second leg against Atletico Madrid for the Spanish Cup (Copa del Rey) claiming that they cannot field a team because of international commitments and injuries. By decision of the referee, Atletico wins by 3-0 |
| 24/4/1997 | Olympiacos win the Euroleague title by defeating Barcelona 73-58 in Rome. It is the second Greek basketball team after Panathinaikos to win the trophy |
| 24/4/1996 | 26-year-old Chelsea striker, Eidur Smari Gudjohnsen, and his 43-year-old father, Arnor, enter football history in an Iceland international friendly against Estonia in Tallinn. His father starts the match and Eidur comes in the second half as a substitute to his father. This is the first time that a father and son have ever played in the same international match |
| 24/4/1992 | Gary Lineker is voted ''Best Footballer of the Year'' for the second time after 1986 |
| 24/4/1941 | The first president of AEK Athens Konstantinos Spanoudis dies aged 70. Born in Constantinople in 1871, he was a writer and a journalist |
| 24/4/1932 | Film is used as evidence in order to prove that Allen's goal in the Arsenal - Newcastle derby is not valid. |
| 24/4/1906 | A friendly match between Greece and Denmark is played at the Velodrome (where the Karaiskakis Stadium will be built), 0-9 in the first half. Greeks refuse to play second half. 17 year-old Giorgos Kalafatis, future founder of Panathinaikos, is on that team |
| 24/4/1901 | The American Baseball League opens with a Chicago - Cleveland game (8-2) |
| 24/4/1880 | AAA (Amateur Athletic Association) for men’s athletics in England and Wales is founded in Oxford |
| 24/4/1741 | George Stevenson becomes the first boxer to die in a boxing match at Tottenham Court Road in London |
