| 1/9/2024 | 19-year-old Zoe Karangelou wins the gold medal in the solo freestyle program, accumulating 283.2958 points at the World Junior Artistic Swimming Championships held in Lima, Peru |
| 1/9/2024 | Frenchman Mathieu Valbuena scores a goal on his debut with Athens Kallithea against Panathinaikos and at the age of 39 years and 339 days becomes the oldest footballer to find the net in the history of the First National League/Super League 1, breaking after 27 years and 133 days the record held since 21/4/1997 by Tasos Mitropoulos (he had scored for Veria against AEK when he was 39 years and 241 days old). |
| 1/9/2010 | Ben Gordon of the Detroit Pistons scores the 10 millionth point in NBA regular season history against Philadelphia, 63 years since New York Knicks’s Ossie Schectman scored the first basket in NBA history on 1/11/1946 at Maple Leaf Gardens |
| 1/9/2006 | National Basketball team score 101 points against USA, who reply with 95 and Greece qualify to the final of Worldbasket in Japan achieving the biggest success in their history. It is the first time that the Greek team beat the Americans, it is the first time, that the Greek team reaches this level in Worlbasket (in Athens in 1998 the Greeks finished fourth). Giorgos Vassilakopoulos declares : “it is the greatest moment in my life” |
| 1/9/2002 | Real Madrid sign Ronaldo from Inter Milan for 47 million
euros |
| 1/9/2001 | England crush Germany 5-1 in Munich for the 2002 World Cup qualifying round. It is Germany's first official home defeat in 16 years. England defeated Germany 6-3 in Berlin in 1938, when the English were forced to give the nazi salute to Hitler |
| 1/9/1989 | 34 year-old Chris Evert becomes the first tennis player to complete 100 wins in US tennis championships history after defeating Patricia Tarabini 6-2, 6-4 in the US Open final |
| 1/9/1989 | Former Manchester City Polish player Kazimerz ''Kaz'' Deyna dies in a car accident aged 41. He had 102 caps for Poland |
| 1/9/1989 | Takis Michailidis, former sports editor in various athletic newspapers and founder member of PSAT, drowns in Loutraki |
| 1/9/1987 | 15-year-old Michael Chang becomes the youngest tennis player to win a US Open game |
| 1/9/1973 | The first World Aquatics Championships open in Belgrade |
| 1/9/1972 | Bobby Fisher wins the world chess title by defeating Boris Spassky 12.5-8.5 in Reykjavik, Iceland. Fisher was the first to break a 25 year-old tradition of Soviet champions, starting with Mikhail Botvinnik in 1948 |
| 1/9/1969 | A small group of military officers led by Muammar Abu Minyar al-Qaddafi (Gaddafi) overthrow King Idris of Libya. All greek businessmen are forced to leave the country immediately. Among them, Mihalis Mastrandreas, the later president of CEV and the Greek Volleyball Federation, who is a dominant local figure in sports since 1950 |
| 1/9/1959 | During the General Assembly of the Hellenic Football Federation, the formation of the 1st Division of the Greek football Championship with the participation of 18 teams in the 1959-1960 season is decided |
| 1/9/1945 | The “USA vs USSR radio chess match 1945”, conducted over the radio, starts and will be completed 2 days later, on 4/9. The ten leading masters of the Unite States play against those of the Soviet Union (except Paul Keres). Two games are played by each pair and the moves are transmitted using the Uedermann Code, taking an average of 5 minutes per move. The Soviets who will win 15 ˝ - 4 ˝ (15,5 – 4,5) have 4 players of Jewish origins whereas the Americans have 9. |
| 1/9/1945 | A chess tournament between USA and the Soviet Union (4.5-15.5) is the first athletic event after the war |
| 1/9/1892 | Liverpool, coached by John McKenna, play their first match (friendly) against Roderham Town |
| 1/9/1890 | First and last tripleheader played in baseball. Boston - Pittsburg 10-9, 3-2, 8-4 |
| 1/9/1661 | First yacht race held, England's King Charles II vs his brother James |
