| 8/6/2024 | Miltos Tentoglou wins the gold medal in the long jump at the European Athletics Championships held in Rome. With a jump of 8.65m in his fifth attempt, he establishes a new personal best and the world’s leading performance of the year setting a championship record. It is the sixth gold medal for Tentoglou in European Championships (three outdoor and three indoor events). |
| 8/6/2022 | N.O. Palaio Faliro's Antonis Bougiouris finishes first among 14 athletes from 8 countries and wins the gold medal at the ILCA 7 Masters World Sailing Championship held in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. |
| 8/6/1998 | Joseph Blatter replaces Joao Havelange as president of FIFA. His opponent Lennart Johansson remains president of UEFA |
| 8/6/1996 | Stojan Vrankovic announces that he is leaving Panathinaikos for the NBA |
| 8/6/1996 | Sport FM begins broadcasting |
| 8/6/1996 | Euro '96 opens at Wembley. England face Switzerland (1-1, Shearer, Turkyilmaz) |
| 8/6/1992 | The founder of Daytona 500, William France, dies aged 82 |
| 8/6/1991 | Eintracht Frankfurt play against Sankt Pauli one round before the last of Bundesliga. The game ends in 1-1 and the 38 year old Karl Koerbel, known also as “Charly”, reaches 19 years of continuous presence (1972-1991) with the team of Frankfurt creating a record of 602 appearances in the german championship. To be noted is the fact that second in this list is Manfred Kaltz of Hamburg (1971-1991) with 581, and that “famous” Oliver Kahn will “climb” on the 11th (!) place in 2006 with 499 |
| 8/6/1991 | 43-year-old jockey Mary Bacon, dying of cancer, commits suicide by shoting herself with a pistol. On 30/6/1971 she became the first woman to ride to 100 wins on California Lassie at the Thistledown Race Track in Cleveland |
| 8/6/1983 | Carlos Vieira starts a non-stop race with his bicycle in Leiria of Portugal, which will last 191 hours |
| 8/6/1978 | 29-year-old Naomi James, sailing for 27,000 miles with her 53 ft yacht Express Crusader, breaks the solo round-the-world sailing record by two days. One year later, she will be named “Dame” in recognition of her achievement |
| 8/6/1966 | Merger of National and American Football leagues announced |
| 8/6/1919 | First foto taken during a european basketball game at the Arena di Milano |
