| 8/3/2024 | 37-year-old Manuel Neuer etches his name in the history books of Champions League, adding another clean sheet to his account after Bayern Munich 3-0 victory over Lazio. He is now up to 57 clean sheets, equaling Iker Casillas' previous record. Neuer is just one clean sheet away from becoming the goalkeeper with the most in the tournament's history. |
| 8/3/2017 | Barcelona pulls off the biggest comeback in UEFA Champions League history, obliterating Paris Saint-Germain's 4-0 first-leg win with a 6-1 victory. |
| 8/3/2015 | Journalist Vangelis Alysandratos, who for three decades covered Panathinaikos reportage for “Athlitiki Iho” and Panathinaikos Press Officer, dies of cancer aged 70 |
| 8/3/2015 | Greece won two silver medals on the final day of the European Indoor Track & Field Championships in Prague on Sunday, as Antonis Mastoras and Katerina Stefanidi finished second in the men’s high jump and the women’s pole vault respectively. Mastoras cleared a personal best 2.31 meters to finish joint-second with Italy’s Silvano Chesani in the final, behind winner Daniyil Tsyplakov from Russia. Stefanidi, on the other hand, came close to her personal best of 4.77 meters, clearing 4.75 m. |
| 8/3/2014 | Greek champion Kostas Philippides wins the gold medal in pole vault with 5.80m achieving a personal record during the IAAF World Indoor Championship) in Sopot, Poland |
| 8/3/2002 | The daily sports journal ''Goalnews'' is first published |
| 8/3/2001 | Divers recover from the bottom of the waters of Coniston Lake of Cumbria, the wrechage of Donald Cambell’s boat, who was killed in 1967 during his attempt to break the speeding record on water |
| 8/3/1999 | Baseball legend Joe Di Maggio dies aged 84 |
| 8/3/1994 | For the first time two team mates, Pete Myers and Scottie Pipen of Chicago, score a 4-point shot (3-point shot and one free throw from foul) in Chicago's victory over Atlanta (116-95) |
| 8/3/1991 | Atletico Madrid goalkeeper Abel Resino sets new clean sheet record (1.274 minutes) |
| 8/3/1986 | Martina Navratilova becomes the first female tennis player to earn over $10 million. In a single year (1984) she earned record amount $2.173.556 |
| 8/3/1971 | Muhammad Ali faces Joe Frazier at New York Madison Square Garden for a $2.5 million prize. Joe Frazier wins unanimous 15-round decision over Ali to retain the world heavyweight boxing championship |
| 8/3/1963 | Violent riots (1 dead, 10 wounded) break out in Brazil when Sao Paolo fans accuse Pele of using black magic to score 5 goals against their team |
| 8/3/1954 | The Milwaukee Hawks beat the Baltimore Bullets twice 64-54 and 65-54 in the only doubleheader in NBA history |
| 8/3/1942 | Cuban chess player Jose Raul Capablanca, world champion from 1921 to 1927 and one of the greatest players of all times, dies in New York at the age of 53. He lost the title to Alexander Alekhine with 6 wins, 3 losses and 25 draws, a result which surprised almost the entire chess world. The night before his death, he was playing chess at the Manhattan Chess Club where he collapsed and was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital. |
| 8/3/1917 | Ferdinard von Zeppelin, also known as Graf Zeppelin, dies at the age of 79. He was an airship manufacturer and founder of the Zeppelin Airship company which will manufacture a total of 130 airships, exactly one more after the LZ129, known as Hindenburg, which will be destroyed in May 6, 1937 over New Jersey. |
| 8/3/1910 | Baronne Raymonde de Laroche becomes the first licensed female pilot |
