| 8/12/2020 | Cameroonian Youssoufa Moukoko makes his debut for Dortmund in the UEFA Champions League as a substitute against Zenit Saint Petersburg, becoming the youngest player in the competition's history at the age of 16 years and 18 days, breaking the record previously held by Celestine Babayaro of Anderlecht (16 years and 87 days). |
| 8/12/2019 | Greek Cyclist Christos Volikakis wins the bronze medal in the scratch race at the 4th World Cycling Cup in Cambridge, New Zealand. |
| 8/12/2019 | PAOK swimmer Anna Doudounaki wins the bronze medal at the 100m butterfly during the last day of the 20th European Short Course Swimming Championships in Glasgow, breaking the national record (57.18) and becoming the first Greek athlete to win a medal in the competition. 16-year- old Belorussian Alexandra Shkurdai hit the wall first setting a new junior European record (56.21). |
| 8/12/2019 | Greek Olympian Anna Korakaki adds another gold medal to her enormous collection by winning the Belgrade Grand Prix in the 10 meter pistol competition, equaling in the process her own world record. The Greek champion equaled the world record with 587/600 in the qualifiers before finishing first in the final with 243.6 points. |
| 8/12/2016 | The documentary "90 Years PAOK: Sighing The Future" premiers. It lasts 1 hour and 42 minutes, and is directed by Nikos Triantafyllidis (son of Harry Klyn), who died at the age of 50 after a battle with cancer six months earlier, on 7/6/2016. |
| 8/12/2013 | Kostas Mourouzis is awarded by the Association of Veteran Basketballers for his contribution to basketball, during a friendly match between Panathinaikos Veterans, with Dimitris Diamantidis , Francis Albert and Kostas Tsartsaris and coach Apostolos Kontos and Veterans Association Greece. Prefect of Attica Yiannis Sgouros and George Kalafatakis play for the Veterans’ Association and Vangelis Nikitopoulos is their coach. Peter Poulidis, wearing a suit, will succeed in two 3-pointers, one from the bench. Referees of the match are Zavlanos, Papadimitriou, Kafes, Koromilas and Sideris, while next to the "fox of the bench" there are Tasos Stefanou, Andrew Chaikalis, Andreas Papantoniou, Michalis Kiritsis, the Andritsos Liveris, etc . |
| 8/12/1996 | Brazil beat Spain 6-4 in the final game of the Calcetto World Championship in Barcelona |
| 8/12/1993 | Lothar Matthaeus becomes the first ''Football Player of the Year'' |
| 8/12/1992 | Dominique Wilkins of the Atlanta Hawks sets new free throws NBA record after scoring 23/23 against the Chicago Bulls |
| 8/12/1987 | The whole team of Alianza Lima die when the plane which carries the team back home after the away match with Deportivo Pucallpa, where Alianza won by 1-0 (Carlos Bustamante), falls into the sea, 6 miles away from the “Jorge Chavez” International Airport of Lima |
| 8/12/1987 | Journalist Leda Ventoura is killed in a car accident at the “Malliakos Horseshoe” |
| 8/12/1956 | The 16th Olympic Games close in Melbourne. 2.813 men and 371 women from 67 countries took part in 17 events. Spain, Switzerland, Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon and China chose to abstain for political reasons. Germany participated as one country. Harald Connolly, born with an atrophic arm, won the gold medal in hammer with 63.19m |
| 8/12/1951 | Costas Kotzias, Mayor of Athens dies from heart attack at the age of 59. In his youth he was an athlete in track and field and later he became president of the football federation and Panathinaikos |
| 8/12/1949 | Marion Ladewig is the first female bowling world champion after winning the All-Star tournament in Chicago |
| 8/12/1940 | Chicago Bears set NFL record after beating Washington Redskins 73-0 |
| 8/12/1863 | Football Association (FA), established one and a half month earlier (26/10/1863), present the 14 Laws of the Football Game. Especially rules 9 and 10 clarify that “no player shall run with the ball” and “neither tripping nor hacking shall be allowed…”. These two laws distinguish football from rugby and all 14 laws replace the Cambridge Rules, set up by Mr. H. de Winton and Mr. J.C. Thring in 1848. In 1895, A. Vlastos will translate in greek, part of the regulations, which will be completed in 1989 by I. Chryssafis |
