| 19/12/2015 | 45-year-old, Thetis Voula volleyball coach, Christos Papathanasiou suffers a heart attack immediately after the match against Ilissiakos for the A2 Women Volleyball Championship, is transferred to Asclepion but doctors fail to keep him alive. Papathanasiou was Samaras’s playmate in the national juniors team who ranked 5th in the world championship in 1989, and had played for Panerythraikos, Ionikos, Ktisifon and Nafpigia. As a coach, he led Fynikas Syros in historic first promotion to A1 League, and sat on the bench of several clubs such as Trachones, Ethnikos and Vrilissia. |
| 19/12/1997 | Brazilian striker Ronaldo of Inter wins the '' Golden Ball'' (awarded by ''France Football'' magazine) as the 1997 European footballer of the year |
| 19/12/1997 | 30-year-old Colombian football player Wilson Perez, arrested for drug possession at Bogota airport in 1995, is sentenced to 4 years |
| 19/12/1992 | Eric Cantona scores his first goal for Manchester United (Manchester United - Chelsea 1-1) |
| 19/12/1980 | Two fires start simultaneously at dawn at the athletic megastore “Katratzos” and “Minion”, which are completely destroyed, leaving 2.000 employees on the road. As it will be proven later, the cause was arson followed by proclamations |
| 19/12/1977 | The Cleveland Cavaliers withdraw Nate Thumond's No42 |
| 19/12/1973 | Greece is defeated by Yugoslavia with 2-4 (Costas Eleftherakis-Katalinski own goal) for the World Cup qualifiers at Karaiskaki Stadium. Dusan Bajevic is the scorer of one of the Yugoslavian goals but he will be sent off after an affray with Glezos. Yugoslavia, who needed a 3-goal difference win to qualify over Spain, played a play-off match and the finally qualified |
| 19/12/1943 | 21-year-old Haris Lyberopoulos, who will become a leading sports journalist in the following decades, scores 2 goals in the friendly match of Panionios against Olympiacos (3-2) and becomes one of the few players who score 3 goals against the Piraeus team. Vazos and Vagiakakos score for Olympiacos and the team’s goalkeeper is Aristidis Louvaris, the father of Giorgos, future vice-president of Olympiacos |
| 19/12/1920 | The first US indoor curling rink opens in Massachusetts |
| 19/12/1917 | First NHL game in Toronto |
| 19/12/1910 | By decision of the austrian War Department, skiing is introduced in the army |
