| 26/3/2023 | The European Karate Championships concludes in Quadalachara, Spain. The Greek national team wins 3 silver (Dionysis Xenos in -67 kgs, Stefanos Xenos in -60 kgs and Giorgos Tzanos in +854 kgs) and 2 bronze medals (Konstantinos Mastrogiannis in -84 kgs. |
| 26/3/2018 | Olympiacos defeats Korivos with 54-104 for the 20th matchday of Stoiximan.gr Basketball League. The +50 points difference of Olympiacos is one of the top ten biggest differences in the history of Basket League. 104-54 is Olympiakos's widest victory in the professional championship and their 9th highest in the A1 category. At the same time, this is the biggest victory of an away team in the league since April 2007. Korivos, on the other hand, reach 100 matches at Stoiximan.gr Basket League. |
| 26/3/2008 | 33-year-old David Beckham of Los Angeles Galaxy plays with England in a friendly match against France in Stade de France becoming the fifth Englishman to win 100 caps, after Billy Wright, Bobby Charlton, Bobby Moore and Peter Shilton |
| 26/3/2006 | Iraklis Thessaloniki is defeated by Sisley Treviso with 3-1 in the final of the Indesit European Champions’ League 2005/06 in Rome. In the all-Russian bronze medal match Lokomotiv Belgorod defeats Dinamo Moscow with 3-1 |
| 26/3/2000 | Demolition experts bring down Sheattle's Kingdome Stadium to make way for a new outdoor football stadium |
| 26/3/2000 | One of the leading NHL scorers Maurice ''The Rocket'' Richard dies of cancer at the age of 78. He was the first player to score 50 goals in one single season |
| 26/3/1999 | Paralysed from the waist down O.J. Waddell comes second riding ''Hutt Girl'' at the Los Alamitos Race Course |
| 26/3/1995 | An opera based on Martina Navratilova's life premieres at New York's Carnegie Hall |
| 26/3/1992 | Former world heavyweight champion Mike Tyson is sentenced to 6 years for raping ''Miss Black America'' Desire Washington in Indianapolis, USA |
| 26/3/1991 | PAOK win the European Cup Winners Cup after defeating Zaragoza 76-72 |
| 26/3/1989 | For the first time in greek football history a team is sentenced to play in an empty stadium. Panathinaikos defeat Apollon Salonica 3-0 at Leoforos |
| 26/3/1975 | Giorgos Delikaris and Milton Viera of Olympiacos play with "The Rest of the World" team under the coaching of Rinus Michels against Anderlecht (3-8) at Brussels. The game is played in honour of Belgian Paul van Himst with the participation of Pele, Cruijff, Zairzinho and others |
| 26/3/1959 | Mushtaq Mohammed makes his debut with Pakistan in a match against West Indies in Lahore, becoming the youngest cricket player (15 years and 124 days old) |
| 26/3/1940 | Spyros Louis dies penniless in Athens aged 67. The greek state remembered him only once, when he was invited by Hitler to carry the greek flag during the Berlin Olympics opening ceremony |
| 26/3/1804 | Wolfgang von Kempelen, the Hungarian author and inventor, dies at the age of 70. He became famous for the construction of “The Turk”, a chess playing automation, later revealed to be a hoax, as it was in fact a mechanical illusion that allowed a human chess master hiding in a box under the chess board to move a model doll dressed in Turkish robes and a turban holding a long Turkish pipe by the means of a clockwork mechanism. The machine was created in order to impress the Empress Maria Theresa and many years later, in April 1836, will be described in an essay by Edgar Allan Poe, titled “Maelzel’s Chess Player”, after Johann Nepomuk Maelzel, who will acquire it in 1817, thirteen years after Kempelen’s death. |
