15/6/2023 | Chrysoula Paraskevopoulou and Melina Zoumboulaki defeat Aliki Hanoglou and Zara Zafirovska in the final 6-3, 6-2 to win the doubles title of the international tournament of Tennis Europe, Crna Reka Open U16, in Kavantarsi, North Macedonia with Aliki Hanoglou winning the 2nd place. |
15/6/2023 | 15-year-old champion Maria Luisa Ghika wins the bronze medal at the 43 kg category at the European U17 Wrestling Championship in Tirana |
15/6/2021 | Portugal beat Hungary 3-0 in the group stage match of the European Football Championship 2020. Guerreiro scores one goal, while Cristiano Ronaldo, the captain and forward of the Portuguese team, scores twice, becoming the oldest player (36 years and 130 days old) to score a double in the European Championship matches. These goals are the 10th and 11th for Ronaldo in the European championships. Thus, he outperformes the famous French former football player Michel Platini, who had scored nine goals at the Euros. He also becomes the first player to participate in 5 Euros finals. |
15/6/1996 | A bomb goes off at Arndale trading center in Manchester (200 injured) without affecting Euro '96 |
15/6/1994 | Panagiotis Giannakis, the international guard, moves from Panionios to Panathinaikos, where he will meet again with Nikos Galis, but for a very short time, as Nick will play his last game almost at the beginning of the season, on October 12, whereas Panagiotis will play for two years and will eventually become European Champion in 1996 in Paris |
15/6/1982 | Hungary crush El Salvador 10-1 in Elche, Spain setting World Cup highest score record. Laszlo Kiss scores a hat trick and becomes the first substitute to score 3 goals in a World Cup tournament |
15/6/1980 | Brazil lose to Soviet Union 1-2 in Maracana in an international friendly. Minutes before the end of the game, VIPs get wet although the weather is clear. Serafim Fyntanidis, who is among the spectators, along with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs delegation, looks up and discovers that a group of angry fans pee above the spectators’ heads. |
15/6/1969 | During the last matchday of the football championship, Olympiacos beats Panathinaikos with 2-1 at Karaiskaki Stadium and Giorgos Sideris, who scores his 35th goal in the season on the 80th minute, becomes the second scorer in Europe behind Bulgarian Zekov |
15/6/1954 | The UEFA (Union of European Football Associations) is founded by 31 states members in Basel, Switzerland. Henri Delaunay becomes its first general secretary |
15/6/1947 | Lew Worsham beats Sam Snead in the first US Open Golf Tournament with TV coverage by a local channel in Oakmont, USA |
15/6/1943 | “Esperos” Kallithea is founded during the Occupation. Beyond its social and cultural activity the team will become a major force in Athenian football during the 50s and the 60s, while it will participate 6 times in the A1 Basketball Division from 1970 to 2000. |
15/6/1924 | AS Monaco founded |
15/6/1919 | Sir John William Alcock, a Captain in the Royal Air Force, together with navigator Lieutenant Arthur Whitten Brown, complete the first non-stop transatlantic flight from St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada to Clifden, Connemara, Ireland in 16 hours and 12 minutes after flying 1,980 miles (3,186 km). The flight is made in a modified Vickers Vimy bomber, and wins a £10,000 prize offered by London's Daily Mail newspaper for the first non-stop flight across the Atlantic. |
15/6/1909 | Benjamin Shibe patents the cork center baseball |
15/6/1878 | With the intention of winning a bet for Leland Stanford, Edward Muggeridge attempts to have a horse photographed by a row of 12 cameras in order to prove that the horse's legs are off the ground while running |
15/6/1869 | American Mike McCoole beats British Tom Allen in the first bare knuckle fight, whose winner receives money prize |
15/6/1844 | 44-year-old American Charles Goodyear receives a patent for vulcanization, a process to strengthen rubber he discovered in 1839 |