| 14/4/2025 | Milwaukee Bucks star Giannis Antetokoumpo ends his 2024–25 season averaging 30.4 points, 11.9 rebounds and 6.5 assists per game in 67 contests. It's the third time in his career when he's averaged at least 30 points, 10 rebounds and 5 assists, passing Wilt Chamberlain and Oscar Robertson who accomplished this stat feat just two separate times in their respective careers. |
| 14/4/2024 | 21-year-old Mykolas Alekna from Lithuania throws 74.35m in the men’s discus competition at the Oklahoma Throws Series in Ramona, taking down the oldest men’s world record in athletics (74.08 meters) set by German Jurgen Schult in 1986, 16 years before Alekna was born |
| 14/4/2023 | Ten-time World Cup Series medalist on beam, three-time Olympian, five time beam finalist at Europeans, and winner of the beam final at the 2012 Olympic Test Event, 38-year-old and mother of 2 girls, Vasiliki Millousi is awarded the “SmartScoring Shooting StarAward” by European Gymnastics at Attalia, Turkey. The award aims to put a gymnast with an exceptional story in the spotlight, someone who is an inspiration for the future generation of gymnasts and the general public alike. |
| 14/4/2012 | 26-year-old Livorno midfielder Permario Morosini, dies of heart attack in the 31st minute of the match against Pescara. The Italian Football Federation will postpone all games scheduled for next weekend, as this is the second death, within in a few weeks, folowing the loss of Vigor Bovolenta, the 37-year-old international volleyball player on 24/3/2012. |
| 14/4/2007 | Gary Kasparov is arrested by the Moscow police while heading for a demonstration. He will be held for 10 hours, fined and released. “The Dissenters’ March” is a series of political opposition protests that took place three times on the past already (16/12/2006, 3/3/207, 24/3/2007) in various Russian cities. In the following October, Kasparov will announce his intention to stand for the Russian presidency as a candidate of “other Russia”, but on December 12, he will withdraw. |
| 14/4/1993 | Journalists from Athens meet with journalists from Salonica for a friendly basketball game on the day off before the Euroleague final in Athens. The northerners decide to make fun of the southeners and their problem with the lack of water, so they present them with bottles of water right before the game starts |
| 14/4/1986 | The European Wrestling Championships open at Peace and Friendship Stadium |
| 14/4/1985 | Ahmed Salah wins the first World Cup marathon |
| 14/4/1969 | First baseball game played outside the US. Expos beat the St. Louis Cardinals 8-7 at Montreal's Jarry Park |
| 14/4/1968 | The first game of the NBA, N.Y. Nicks – Clippers, is played at the newly built Madison Square Garden, which opened it gates on 14/2/1968 |
| 14/4/1961 | First live television broadcast from Soviet Union |
| 14/4/1960 | Montreal win their 5th consecutive NHL Stanley Cup after beating Toronto |
| 14/4/1958 | Sputnik 2 with dog Laika burns up in the atmosphere after 2570 orbits with all its systems dead. Laika’s cabin was equipped with a television camera and sensors to measure pressure and temperature allowing controllers to monitor the dog’s behaviour in space |
| 14/4/1950 | Nikos Mantzaroglou, one of the most important greek table tennis players, is killed in a car accident. He won the Bristish (1927), the German (1927-1929), and the Greek Championship (1930-1931) as well as the silver medal at the European Championship in 1932. |
| 14/4/1929 | Prince Pierre inaugurates the 1st Monaco Grand Prix, with a lap of honour in a Torpedo Voisin driven by Charles Faroux, course director. 16 cars start, 8 Bugattis, 3 Alfa Romeos, 2 Maseratis, 1 Licorne and 1 Mercedes SSK. An Englishman by the name of Williams, will be the winner in a green 35B Bugatti in 3 hours, 56 minutes and 11 seconds, with an average speed over 100 laps of 80.194 km/h. |
| 14/4/1894 | Thomas Edison demonstrates the kinetoscope, a device for peep-show viewing using photographs that flip in sequence, a precursor to movies |
