| 1/12/2004 | Evangelos Mantzios scores a hat-trick against Dinamo Tbilisi and Panionios wins with 5-2, upsetting the first half’s score of 0-1. The game is played in the context of the 4th matchday of UEFA Cup and 5 years later, it will be judged by head of UEFA’s disciplinary service, Peter Limacher, as the first, in a row of 200 international matches in at least 9 countries, suspicious game for fixed results. In the context of this investigation, UEFA will inform EPO in April 2011 that some Greek games are judged as “highly suspicious” to “corrupted”. These games along with those indicated by LAOS MP Thanassis Plevris, will cause the intervention of the assistant DA Popi Papandreou. |
| 1/12/1999 | Soviet high jumper Volodomir Yashchenko dies of liver cancer at the age of 40. He was just 18 years old when he broke the 2.30m barrier (2.33m). In 1978 he set new world indoors high jump record with 2.35m in Milan. One year later he set new world outdoors high jump world record with 2.34m |
| 1/12/1998 | Real Madrid win the Intercontinental Cup for the first time since 1960 after defeating Vasco Da Gama 2-1 in Tokyo |
| 1/12/1998 | German Katarina Witt, figure skating champion and gold medalist at the Winter Olympics of 1984 (Sarajevo) and 1988 (Calgary) appears naked in Playboy magazine, two days before her 33rd birthday (born 3/12/1965). Witt, who won the World Championships in 1984, 1985, 1987, and 1988, and six consecutive European Championships (1983-1988) and who is considered to be one of the most successful figure skaters of all time, was a state informant for Stasi |
| 1/12/1997 | Olympic gold winner Voula Patoulidou presents her book ''Soul bursting'' |
| 1/12/1997 | The people of Didimoticho decide to erect a statue of Costas Gatsioudis (bronze medal in javelin at the Athens 1997 European Championships) |
| 1/12/1996 | Colin Montgomerie from Scotland becomes the first to win the Million Dollar Challenge |
| 1/12/1996 | NBA's 7.000.000th point is scored |
| 1/12/1992 | Michael Adams of Washington sets new three-point NBA record (795) in a game against San Antonio (119-106). The previous record holder was Louie Dampier (794) |
| 1/12/1991 | ''Podilatis'' (Cyclist) magazine is first published |
| 1/12/1981 | Kareem Abdul Jabbar of the LA Lakers becomes NBA's second all-time scorer after completing 26.712 points in a game against the Utah Jazz (117-86). In 1984 he will surpass Wilt Chamberlain as leading all-time scorer with 31.259 points. He will close his career with 37.387 points |
| 1/12/1979 | Jacek Gmoch, the Polish national footballer and national team coach (1976-1978), succeeding Kazimierc Gorski, is appointed PAS Giannina coach |
| 1/12/1973 | Jack Nicklaus wins the Walt Disney World Open Championship and becomes the first golfer to earn $2 million a year. He will be also the first to earn $3, $4 and $5 million |
| 1/12/1969 | Harilaos Vasilakos, the silver medallist in Marathon at the 1896 Olympic Games in Athens (3.06.03), second behind Spyros Louis, dies at the age of 92 |
| 1/12/1967 | Wilt Chamberlain sets NBA record after missing 22 free throws |
| 1/12/1892 | “Le Velo”, the leading French sports newspaper of the end of 19th century is first published. Mixing sports reporting with news and political comment it will achieve a circulation of 80.000 copies a day and will be easily recognized by the green-tinted newsprint. Pierre Giffard, its director, is “left-wing”, “Dreyfusard”, but many of the manufacturers, who fund the advertisements, are anti-Dreyfusards, like Comte Jules-Albert de Dion (owner of the DeDion-Bouton cars), Eduard Michelin and Adolphe Clement and gradually will withdraw their support and promote the creation of rival paper “L’Auto”. Thus “Le Velo” will cease activities within five years (in 1904) and “L’Auto”, printed in yellow paper and after World War II will be transformed to “Le Equipe”. |
| 1/12/1863 | The first set of 14 Football Association rules is agreed. In 1898 the Laws will reach 17 in number |
