| 13/10/2023 | France defeates Netherlands 1-2 for the 2nd group of the Euro 2024 Qualifiers. It is the 81st consecutive international appearance for Antoine Griezmann, who since 13 June 2017 (3-2 against England), has played absolutely every match, including every friendly, of France, a new record for the longest run of games in international football history. |
| 13/10/2022 | Stavros Sarafis, top scorer in the history of PAOK in the championship, dies at the age of 72 after the stroke he suffered on 17/9. Sarafis emerged from the local team “Anagennisi”, however his career began in 1968 with PAOK. For 14 seasons in 358 matches of the First Division he scored 136 times. He was a key figure in the team's "golden era" in the 1970s, winning the 1975-76 league and the 1971-72 and 1973-74 cups. He played for the Greek National Team from 1969 to 1977, recording 32 appearances and seven goals. Earlier, he capped with the Youth National Team, the National U19 National Team (won the Balkan Cup) and the National Armed Forces National Team. |
| 13/10/2021 | One of Kenya’s leading athletes, Agnes Tirop, has been found stabbed to death at her home in Iten, with police treating her husband as a suspect. The 25-year-old athlete, smashed the women-only 10km world record in Germany last month, crossing the line in 30:01 to shave 28 seconds from the previous record, set by Morocco’s Asmae Leghzaoui in 2002. She also won bronze medals at the 2017 and 2019 world championships and competed for Kenya over 5,000m at the Tokyo Olympics, finishing fourth in the final. |
| 13/10/2018 | 19-year-old Mick Schumacher, son of seven-time F1 sporting icon Michael Schumacher, wins the Formula 3 European in Hockenheim, Germany, 28 years after his father achieved the same feat. Michael Schumacher won the German F3 tournament in 1990 before embarking on his Formula One debut with the Jordan-Ford team at the 1991 Belgian Grand Prix. |
| 13/10/2013 | Zacharias Tsamoudakis becomes the leading European walker of the year after finishing first at the 10km walk race of the European championships in 41.43.4 in Chiasso, Switzerland. He also made a national record in both Boys and Juniors categories. The former record in the Boys category belonged to him with 42.40 since 14/10/2012 (Lugano Meeting) and the record in the Juniors category belonged to Alexandros Papamichail with 42.09 since the 14/4/2007 (Balkan Championships). |
| 13/10/2001 | The 80,000-seater "Atatürk" Olympic stadium is inaugurated in Istanbul, Turkey |
| 13/10/1992 | An Air France aircraft goes round the world in record time 33 hours and 1 minute |
| 13/10/1991 | The 15th World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships close at Peiraeus' Peace and Friendship Stadium. Maria Sansaridou and Areti Sinapidou qualify for the Barcelona Olympics |
| 13/10/1988 | 43-year-old American jockey, Michael Joseph Venezia is thrown from his horse and trampled to death during a race at Belmont Park, recording the first life loss during a race. The horse, ''Mr Walter K.'' breaks his leg and has to be put to death. Venezia had been a jockey for twenty-five years and had ridden more than 2,200 wins. Annually, the New York Racing Association will provide the “Mike Venezia Memorial Award” to a rider who exemplifies extraordinary sportsmanship and citizenship |
| 13/10/1986 | The IOC announces that baseball will become an olympic event at the 1992 Olympic Games |
| 13/10/1982 | The IOC restores 2 gold medals from the 1912 Olympics to Jim Thorpe. He was deprived of his medals because he was a professional baseball player |
| 13/10/1976 | SEGAS recognizes handball as an official sport |
| 13/10/1972 | The Uruguayan plane, which is carrying 40 passengers to Chile, most of whom players of the Old Christian Club rugby team, crashes in the Andes Mountains. Twelve of the people die in the crash while the rest will feed themselves on the dead passengers in order to stay alive. On 22/12/72, after being isolated for 72 days, rescuers will find out that there are 16 survivors, while on 15/1/1993 the American movie “Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors”, based on the story, will be released. |
| 13/10/1968 | Olympiacos, AEK and Panathinaikos invite their fans to watch an Olympiacos-AEK match for the financial support of Olympiacos footballer Aristidis Papazoglou |
| 13/10/1967 | ABA's first game. The Oakland Oaks face the Anaheim Amigos |
| 13/10/1954 | British Chris Chataway smashes Vladimir Kut's 5000m world record by 9 seconds (13:51.6) in London |
| 13/10/1951 | A football with rubber covering is used for the first time. Georgia Tech beat LSU 25-7 in Atlanta, Georgia |
| 13/10/1894 | Everton defeat Liverpool 3-0 in the first Merseyside derby at Goodison Park |
