| 19/7/2019 | Christos Frantzeskakis wins the silver medal in the hammer throw final with 84.22 meters by setting a new national U20 record at the U20 European Championship in Boras, Sweden. Ukraine’s Myhaylo Kokhan won gold with a throw of 84.73 metres, which happened to be a new European U20 record. |
| 19/7/2011 | HJK Helsinki beat Bangor City 10-0 during the second qualifying round of the 2011–12 UEFA Champions League recording the largest margin of victory in the current Champions League format |
| 19/7/2011 | 32-year-old Marianna Liberta of Greece wins the bronze medal in the women's 10 kilometre open water swimming with 2 hours 2 minutes and 1.8 seconds at the 14th FINA World Championships held in Shanghai, China. Liberta becomes the first Greek female swimmer to step on the pontium. |
| 19/7/2010 | 37-year-old journalist Socratis Giolias, president of the radio station “Thema 9.89” and former business partner of Makis Triantafylloulos, is killed by 16 shots outside his house. A few days later, troktiko.blogspot.com, the blog with most hits in Greece, will cease to be updated, after many goodbyes to the deceased. |
| 19/7/2007 | After 50 years of operation, the last Aston Martin rolls off the production line and the Newport Pagnell factory shuts down. David Brown purchased it in 1954 and in 1958 the site began with DB4. Since then, nearly 13.000 cars have been produced in some 30 different models. In 2007, 308 Vanquish S were manufactured, and the last 50 are sold for 270.000€ each |
| 19/7/2006 | The draw of the football championship Superleague Hellas 2007 takes place at the Concert Hall in Athens. At the same time, the emblem of the new organiser is presented by the General Manager, Giorgos Kyriakos and the Executive Manager, Patrick Komninos |
| 19/7/1999 | Aristidis Grigoriadis of Aris Salonica smashes Dimitris Papanicolaou's 16 year-old record (2:15.61) in 200m back style with 2:14.76 at the Greek Juniors Aquatics Championships in Athens |
| 19/7/1997 | Daniel Komen of Kenya becomes the first to run 2 miles in less than 8 minutes (7.58) |
| 19/7/1996 | The 26th Olympic Games "Golden Olympics'' open in Atlanta. Muhammad Ali lights the Olympic Flame. 7.060 men and 3.864 women from 197 countries take part in 26 events. Mountain Bike is first introduced. More than 5.000.000 people visit the city for the games |
| 19/7/1974 | Nikos Gioutsos is not included in the group of Olympiacos players in their trip to Germany and finishes his career having scored 98 goals in 276 champioship games over the last decade. The “Hungarian” will move to Ethnikos where he will play for two seasons and score 2 goals in 41 matches |
| 19/7/1968 | 1st International Special Olympics Summer Games start in Chicago, Illinois, USA |
| 19/7/1966 | Mexican goalkeeper Antonio Carbajal sets a record 5 appearances in World Cups (1950-1966). His last game, Mexico - Uruguay (0-0) in England. Lothar Matthaeus will equal the record in France in 1998 |
| 19/7/1903 | French Maurice Garin wins the first Tour de France |
| 19/7/1877 | Spencer Gore beats William Marshall (6-1, 6-2, 6-4) in front of 200 spectators who paid 1 shilling entrance fee, in the first Wimbledon Men’s Tennis Singles Tournament. Wimbledon was founded in 1868, originally under the name “The All-England Croquet Club” and added “Lawn Tennis” to it because of the tennis event. The first ladies singles tournament will be held 7 years later in 1884 |
