| 3/4/2022 | Olympiakos retaines their European crown in women’s water polo winning its second LEN Euroleague in a row, and third overall after defeating Spain’s Sabadell with 11-7 in the final in “Papastratio” in Piraeus. |
| 3/4/2022 | Carlos Alcaraz becomes third-youngest ATP Masters 1000 champion in series history (283 events since 1990) with a 7-5 6-4 win over world No.8 Casper Ruud. Only American Michael Chang and fellow Spaniard Rafael Nadal were younger when they won their first respective ATP Masters 1000 titles. He also becomes the first Spaniard and the youngest male champion (break Novak Djokovic’s record, set in 2007 at the age of 19 years and 10 months)to win the tournament. The victory sees Alcaraz rise to world No.11. |
| 3/4/2016 | An article entitled «Panama Papers» (the Panama files) is published in the «Süddeutsche Zeitung» newspaper regarding 149 documents causing turmoil to state leaders and prominent millionaires. The scandal related to illegal transactions and evasion of large companies, and even politicians through the company’s «Mossack Fonseca» Panama legal services, was revealed in the newspaper in early 2015 when an anonymous source with the pseudonym John Doe gradually sent 11.5 million documents relating to 214.000 offshore companies. The scandal also affects the sports field as players and athletes such as Lionel Messi, Nico Rosberg, Bobby Fischer and international sports officials, such as Michel Platini, former president of UEFA, Gianni Infantino, president of FIFA and many others appear in the lists. |
| 3/4/2016 | Former AC Milan defender and Italy coach Cesare Maldini dies at the age of 84. The father of Paolo Maldini played over 400 matches for the Rossoneri between 1954 and 1966, winning four Serie A titles and the European Cup in 1963. He capped 14 times for Italy and participated in the 1962 World Cup. ?e went on to become Milan manager between 1972 and 1974 and the national team manager from 1996 to 1998. Later, he led Paraguay to the 2002 World Cup finals. |
| 3/4/2005 | The 42-year old president of Anagennisi Arta football club, Babis Baniotis, kills himself with a pistol at the offices of “Ipirotiki”, a computing & publishing company, which he owned |
| 3/4/1999 | The Udinese midfielder Jonathan Bachini becomes the first injured player on a stretcher to be shown the red card in the 4-3 Piacenza win over Udinese |
| 3/4/1999 | Athanassios Sembos, founder and first president of PSAT, dies aged 90. He was chief editor of ''Athlitiki Eco'' (Athletic Eco) along with Giorgos Giorgalas |
| 3/4/1999 | Chicago's largest home defeat (Chicago Bulls - Orlando Magic 115-68) |
| 3/4/1997 | Aris Salonica win the Korac Cup by overcoming Tofas Bursa 88-70 in Turkey |
| 3/4/1996 | Panathinaikos defeat Ajax 1-0 in Amsterdam, putting an end to Ajax's stunning winning streak of 189 european games. Ajax will take revenge in Athens (0-3) and qualify for the Champions League final |
| 3/4/1993 | Grand National is cancelled for the first time |
| 3/4/1986 | The IBM PC Convertible, model number 5140, IBM's first laptop computer is released. It is also the first IBM computer to utilize the 3.5" floppy disk and it features power management and the ability to run from batteries. |
| 3/4/1983 | Panathinaikos goalkeeper Vassilis Konstantinou retires at the championship game PAO-AEK 4-1. In his 17-year career with Panathinaikos (1967-1983) he participated in 302 championship matches, 44 Cup matches and 28 european matches |
| 3/4/1977 | Jean Ratelle of the Boston Bruins completes 1.000 points in NHL (Boston Bruins - Toronto Maple Leafs 7-4) |
| 3/4/1975 | Anatoly Karpov becomes the youngest world chess champion after Bobby Fisher's refusal to defend his crown |
| 3/4/1966 | Battista “Pinin” Farina, the founder of Pininfarina coach building company dies at the age of 73. Named “Pinin” because he was referred to being the “baby” of his family (10th out of 11 children), he formed Carrozzeria Pininfarina in 1930, at the age of 37, and he modified his name to “Battista Pininfarina” only in 1961 |
| 3/4/1948 | 46-year-old jockey Eddie Arcaro announces his retirement after 4.779 wins (2 Triple Crowns included) in 24.092 races in 31 years |
| 3/4/1938 | ?he Austrian team plays Germany in the Prater Stadium in Vienna, its last match as an independent Austrian team, as some weeks earlier, Germany had annexed Austria (Anschluss) and the Nazis ordered the dissolution of the Austrian team into a common team with Germany, albeit it had qualified for the 1938 FIFA World Cup. In the last 20 minutes, Matthias Sindelar and team-mate Karl Sesta both scored as the game finished 2-0. In the rematch, Germany will respond by winning 9-1. |
| 3/4/1896 | “La Gazzetta dello Sport”, the Italian newspaper dedicated to the coverage of various sports is founded and first published. It will cover the first modern Olympic Games in Athens, which will start in three-days-time, but it’s role will be gradually extended beyond news, reporting and features, to direct involvement in major events, including the organization of the “Giro d’ Italia” cycling stage race from 1909. Originally the newspaper comes out every 2 weeks, but 10 years later it will become daily. On the 29th of May 1969, a day after the final Milan-Ajax 4-1, a record of 1.486.110 papers sold will be established. |
