| 1/6/2024 | Real Madrid are crowned European champions for the 15th time after defeating Borussia Dortmund 2-0 in the Champions League final. Toni Kroos becomes the first player in the UEFA Champions League era to reach the final 7 times, He also is the 1st player in 29 years to end his career after winning the UEFA Champions League Final and starting in it. The last before him was Frank Rijkaard 1995. |
| 1/6/2020 | Charis Lymberopoulos, one of the greatest sports journalists, dies at the age of 98. He was born in 1922 in Athens and studied journalism in New York. He was a founding member of PSAT, a president of the newspaper “Apogevmatini” and president of ERT’s sports department. |
| 1/6/2019 | Liverpool are crowned European champions for the sixth time as goals from Mo Salah and Divock Origi gave them a 2-0 win over Tottenham in the Champions League final in Madrid. |
| 1/6/2018 | Kostas Polychroniou dies of cancer at the age of 82. At the age of 17 he made his first appearance with Olympiacos and ended his career in 1968, playing exclusively for Olympiacos. He capped 305 times and scored 37 goals in the Greek National Championship and the 1st Division, 55/17 for the cup, 47/18 in the EPS Piraeus Championship and 16/2 in European competitions. He won 6 championship titles in Greece (1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1966, 1967), 8 Cups (1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1963, 1965, 1968, 1959) and 1 Balkan Cup (1963). He played for the Greek National Team for a decade, having a total of 27 caps. He made his debut on 5/5/1957, in the home match against Yugoslavia (0-0) for the World Cup 1958 qualifiers. On 4/6/1961 he was Pele's personal opponent in the friendly match of Olympiacos against Santos. After stopping football, he worked as a coach at Olympiacos (1993-94), AEL, Rhodes, Dragas, Apollo Smyrna, Levadiakos, Ionic and Paneleiakos, as well as at the National Team (1994-98), when he succeeded Alketas Panagoulias shortly after the 1994 World Cup. |
| 1/6/2014 | Niki Volos wins the Football League championship title of the 2013-2014 season and is promoted to Superleague for the first time in the club’s history |
| 1/6/2013 | At 18:30, before the start of the the first leg match of the 3rd qualification round for the 2013 CEV Volleyball European Championship Greece – Belgium, a ceremony is organized by the Municipality of Orestiada during which the Indoor Hall of Orestiada takes the name of Nikos Samaras, a very successful Greek volleyball player, who died from a brain aneurysm at the age of 42 years. |
| 1/6/2009 | 36-year-old Serbian midfielder Predrag Djordjevic announces his retirement during a press conference. During the last 13 years , he played for Olympiacos in 341 matches, scoring 127 goals. |
| 1/6/2001 | Greece's first away win over Russia (3-1) in volleyball history |
| 1/6/1997 | The 10th FINA CUP closes in Athens. Greece finish second after losing to USA (5-8) in the final |
| 1/6/1992 | Bosnian football coach Ivica Osim signs with Panathinaikos and will remain until 16/3/1994 |
| 1/6/1988 | “Jigger” Yannis Vardinogiannis and his co-driver Kostas Stefanis, will finish at the 6th position of the 35th Acropolis Rally with a LANCIA Delta Intergrale in front of all greek crews. This is the best score of the pair, who will lead for a period of six years (1987-1992) |
| 1/6/1973 | The Ethics Commission of HOC deregisters two football players, Themis Rigas and Panos Leventakos of Panahaiki with the accusation that they accepted money in order to play better (!) against PAOK (5-3), obviously from persons who wanted PAOK to lose the game |
| 1/6/1972 | Dusan Bajevic scores 5 goals for Yugoslavia in a match against Venezuela (10-0). In his football career he was capped 52 times. He remains third all-time scorer in Yugoslavia, following Stradic and Pancev |
| 1/6/1967 | “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band”, the eighth studio album by “The Beatles” and one of the greatest albums of all times, is released. The album will eventually sell over 30 million copies. Among the celebrities depicted on its cover in four rows, is a wax model of boxer Sonny Liston, swimmer Johnny Weissmuller and football player Albert Stubbins. |
| 1/6/1958 | At the age of 31 years, Ferenc Puskas joins Real Madrid for 10.000 pounds. The '' galloping major'' will score 242 goals in 262 games (35 goals in 39 european matches) until his retitrement in 1966. |
| 1/6/1939 | Lou Nova beats Max Baer in round 11 at New York's Yankee Stadium, in the first televised heavyweight boxing match |
| 1/6/1938 | Baseball helmets are worn for the first time in a match between Springfield Greys and House of David in New York |
| 1/6/1930 | Panathinaikos crush Olympiacos 8-2 at Leoforos. Before the match Olympiacos fans carried a coffin into the stadium, in which they would ''bury'' their opponents. In the riots that followed, the coffin broke to pieces. Panathinaikos won the 1929-30 Greek league (after defeating Olympiacos in their home 2-1) but it took them more than 20 years to regain the title |
| 1/6/1885 | A double mechanical chronometer is used for the first time during a chess tournament in London |
| 1/6/1862 | ? clepsydra is first used to measure the time (2 hours / 20moves) in a chess tournament in London |
| 1/6/1845 | A homing pigeon completes a 11.000km trip from Namimbia to London in 55 days |
