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30/3/202416-year-old Jamaican sprinter Nickekoy Branwell wins the gold medal with 47.26 at the 51st Carifta Games breaking Usain Bolt's Under-17 22-year-old 400m record (47.33).
30/3/2022The General Assembly of the 4284 Members of Panathinaikos concludes and with a majority of 2051 (68.5%) out of a total of 2994 votes approves the full relocation of the team’s facilities, from the historic home ground at Alexandra Avenue (since 1924) to Votanikos, and the complete “double regeneration” of the two grounds, based on the detailed plan prepared by the Mayor of Athens K. Bakogiannis.
30/3/2022Ethnikos Piraeus women's water polo team win, after 12 years (2010), their second LEN Trophy by defeating Dunaujvaros 14-9 in the second final (they also won the first game 8-12).
30/3/2022Barcelona defeats Real Madrid 5-2 at Camp Nu and qualifies to the women’s Champions League semi finals. The 91,553 attendance breaks the women's football attendance record (60,739 at Atletico Madrid's Metropolitano stadium).
30/3/2013Lionel Messi scores in the 19th consecutive La Liga game, (Celta Vigo – Barcelona 2-2), becoming the first footballer in history to net in consecutive matches against every team in the league.
30/3/1999Yugoslavia is barred from taking part in Volleyball World League. Portugal takes its place
30/3/1991Everton goalkeeper Neville Southall completes 500 appearances in a match against Aston Villa
30/3/1970''Secretariat'' is born in Kentucky. Three years later he will win the 1973 Triple Crown
30/3/1969Panathinaikos defeats AEK, the European Basketball Champion, with 80-85 at the play-off game at Kallimarmaro stadium winning the Greek Championship. Rookie Giorgos Moshous, who enters the field in overtime, scores a 2p goal and wins the game with his performance. Politis, Kolokithas, Panagiotarakos, Iordanidis, Haikalis, Kyritsis and Peppas play for PAO, coached by Kostas Mourouzis and Amerikanos, Trontzos, Zoupas, Larentzakis and Christeas play for AEK.
30/3/1966AEK are defeated by Slavia Prague 103-73 at the European Champions Cup semi-final at Milan's Palalido. It is the last game for the great play-maker Giorgos Moschos who will die of cancer on December, 29. In his honor AEK's new basketball court will bear his name
30/3/1955Fedon Mattheou leaves the basketball team of Panathinaikos. He will move to Panionios, then to Sporting and then back to Panionios and he will end up at the italian Inis Vareze
30/3/1932Aviator Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to make a solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean. On 18/6/1928 she became the first woman to fly in an aircraft across the Atlantic (she was a passenger; Wilmer Stutz was the pilot and Lou Gordon the mechanic).
30/3/1924Dimitros Karabatis, world record holder with 38.94 in discus throw in Smyrni in 1922, stands forward in the first strike in SEGAS. Athletes do not turn up at the qualifying games at “Panathinaiko Stadium”, protesting against the limits for the Olympic Games of 1924
30/3/1896Antonios Pepanos wins the gold medal in 500m swimming in the 1st Modern Olympic Games of Athens
30/3/1895Oxford - Cambridge rowing race is the first british athletic event to be filmed, by cameraman Bert Acres
30/3/1889Harilaos Trikoupis presents to the Greek Parliament his dream of the union of Rio with Antirio. 115 years later, on 12/8/2004, on the eve of the Athens Olympic Games opening ceremony, the bridge will be given to circulation. However, the first ones to cross it will be the torch bearers who on 8/8/2004 will carry the olympic flame to Athens

 

             
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