| 10/6/2024 | Katerina Stefanidi wins the silver medal at the European Athletics Championship in Rome, after jumping 4.73m in the pole vault final |
| 10/6/2018 | World number one Rafael Nadal wins his 11th French Open title by beating Austrian Dominic Thiem in straight sets. He also earned his 17th Grand Slam, three adrift of Roger Federer's all-time men's record. |
| 10/6/2018 | Pavlos Giannakopoulos, Greek businessman, founder and owner of pharmaceutical corporation VIANEX, owner and president of Panathinaikos B.C., dies at age 89, on the 47th anniversary of his first involvement with Panathinaikos. During his presidency, Panathinaikos won 6 European championships, 13 Basket League Chmapionships and 9 Greek Cups. In 2015, the indoor hall of Apostolos Nikolaidis Stadium was named "Pavlos Giannakopoulos", in his honour. |
| 10/6/2010 | Giannis Spanoudakis, who along with his brother Alekos, were the leaders in the creation of the basketball team of Olympiacos and won the first two championship titles of the team (1949 and 1960), dies aged 79. He also played with the national team 39 times. |
| 10/6/2009 | AEK’s midfielder, Stelios Skevofilax, dies aged 71. He played with AEK in 339 matches, scoring 19 goals and winning 3 championship titles (1963,1968,1971). He also played 11 games with the National football team (1963-1966). |
| 10/6/2008 | David Villa becomes the first player to score a hat-trick for Spain in a European Championship match, when he netted Spain’s first three goals in a 4-1 win over Russia. Villa’s hat-trick is only the eighth in the history of the European Championship, after Dieter Muller (17/6/1976 Yugoslavia-West Germany 2-4), Klaus Allofs (14/6/1980 Netherlands-West Germany 2-3), Michel Platini (16/6/1984 France-Belgium 5-0 and 19/6/1984 France Yugoslavia 3-2), Marco van Basten (15/6/1988 England-Netherlands 1-3), Sergio Conceicao (20/6/2000 Portugal-Germany 3-0), and Patrick Kluivert (25/6/2000 Netherlands-Yugoslavia 6-1) and the first since Euro 2000. |
| 10/6/2006 | Belgium's Justine Henin-Hardenne wins her third Roland Garros crown, with a 6-4, 6-4 victory over Russia's Svetlana Kuznetsova in the final, becoming the first tennis player who wins the title without losing a set after Arantxa Sanchez from Spain in 1994 and the first female to win a consecutive Roland Garros title after Steffi Graf in the 1995-1996 season |
| 10/6/2004 | During the general assembly of Ethnikos, which takes place at the Cavo d'oro hotel, members of the amateur club and hundreds of fans, unanimously accept the proposition of N. Pirounia, the merging of the team with AO Mani |
| 10/6/2000 | Mary Pierce becomes the first French woman in 33 years to win the Roland Garros title after defeating Conchita Martinez 6-2, 7-5 |
| 10/6/1993 | Dionyssis Liveris wins the silver medal in precision pistol at the Mediterranean Games of Languedoc-Roussillon and becomes the only Greek to have won 2 medals in shooting in Mediterranean Games, after the bronze medal in air pistol in Athens in 1991. |
| 10/6/1989 | Arantxa Sanchez becomes the first Spanish to win the Roland Garros by overcoming Steffi Graf 7-6, 3-6, 7-5. It is Graf's first defeat in a Grand Slam tournament since the 1987 US Open |
| 10/6/1984 | Ivan Lendl wins his first Grand Slam after dominating the Roland Garros |
| 10/6/1956 | The equestrian events of Melbourne Olympics begin in Stockholm, following Australia's refusal to waive its stringent quarantine period. The events are held in June because of the weather conditions in Sweden |
| 10/6/1954 | The Greek national basketball team beats Yugoslavia with 90-76 in Athens in the 36th match in its history. Kostas Mourouzis debuts in this match, playing along with Fedon Mattheou (7 points), Themis Holevas (4), Aristidis Roubanis (18), Mimis Stefanidis (17), Panos Manias (30), Dinos Papadimas (14), I. Spanoudakis, Giorgos Papathanassiou, Nikos Poulakidas and Kostas Karamanlis. Mourouzis will complete 25 caps and score 242 points |
| 10/6/1944 | In baseball, Joe Nuxhall of the Cincinnati Reds becomes the youngest player ever to appear in a major league game in the modern era, pitching 2/3 of an inning at the age of 15 years, 316 days |
| 10/6/1934 | Italy win the World Cup after defeating Czechoslovakia 2-1 in Rome. Czechoslovakian star Oldrich Nejedly fails to score in the final, yet remains top scorer of the tournament (5 goals) |
| 10/6/1907 | The world's longest car race, from Beijing to Paris, starts |
| 10/6/1887 | Richard Lindon dies at the age of 71. He was a boot and shoe maker who supplied footwear the town of Rugby (on the River Avon), the birthplace of rugby football. It is believed he invented the fist footballs with rubber bladders replacing those of pig’s bladders, which he presented, along with William Gilbert, (both round and oval) in 1851 at the Great Exhibition in London |
| 10/6/1829 | At 19:52 starts the first Thames rowing race, Oxford vs Cambridge |
