| 1/4/2023 | The Greek team wins 8 medals (2 gold with Kontou-Fitsiou and Anastasiadou, 5 silver with Douskos, Gaidatzis-Papakonstantinou, Makrygiannis, Cholopoulos-Papazoglou and Kostoulas-Koutras and 1 bronze with Dalidou) at the Paolo d'Aloja Regatta in Piediluco, Italy |
| 1/4/2022 | Honorary president (since 2002) of the Hellenic Basketball Federation, Zacharias Alexandrou, dies at the age of 97. He was one of the founding members of the federation, being elected president in 1977, succeeding the first president of the Federation, Vladimiros Vallas, and remained in the administration of the Federation until 1998. |
| 1/4/2021 | FIBA, the world basketball’s governing body, announces that Greek basketball legend Panagiotis Giannakis is entering FIBA’s Hall of Fame. The Class of 2021 will be enshrined into the FIBA Hall of Fame together with the Class of 2020, at a digital ceremony which will take place on June 18. |
| 1/4/2020 | Wimbledon is being cancelled for the first time since World War Two because of the coronavirus pandemic. The tournament was due to be played between 29 June and 12 July. |
| 1/4/2016 | Panathinaikos basketball player Dimitris Diamantidis is officially named a “Euroleague Basketball Legend” before his team's last home game of the Top 16 against Cedevita Zagreb in OAKA. Dimitris Diamantidis has collected more team and individual trophies during his 12-year career than any other player in the continent's top competition. The long-time Panathinaikos point guard and captain boasts some of the most impressive achievements in European club basketball history, starting with the three Euroleague trophies that he led the Greens to lift in 2007, 2009 and 2011. For the first and last of those, he was voted Final Four MVP. A rarity at this elite level, Diamantidis has played his entire Euroleague career with one club, Panathinaikos. Upon arriving to the Greens in 2004, he immediately became a star under head coach Zeljko Obradovic, for whom Diamantidis played eight seasons. In that period, he was chosen by fans and media to the All-Euroleague First Team four times and was voted by the competition's head coaches as the Best Defender Trophy winner six times. |
| 1/4/2015 | 11 years after the Euro 2004 title, the Greek football team defeats 6-1 the Cypriot national team in a friendly match at GSP stadium in Nicosia, with Otto Rehhagel at their bench. The match took place following the initiative of the Captain of the National Team, and now MEP, Theodoros Zagorakis and Cypriot MEP Eleni Theocharous. The Greek team was constituted by Nikopolidis, Basinas, Goumas, Dellas, Dabizas, Seitaridis, Karagounis, Kapsis, Nicolaidis, Giannakopoulos, Fyssas, Chalkias, Venetidis, Haristeas, Zagorakis, Lakis, Katergiannakis, Kafes, Georgiadis and Vryzas. |
| 1/4/2010 | 58-year-old Prime Minister Giorgos Papandreou covers a distance of 12 nautical miles rowing non-stop in his canoe for 4 hours from Ermioni beach in Peloponnisos to the island of Hydra |
| 1/4/2008 | FC Barcelona’s Bojan Krkic scores against Schalke 04, becoming the youngest (17 years and 217 days) goalscorer in a Champions League knockout match. Peter Ofori-Quae is still the youngest player (17 years and 194 days) to score a Champions League goal but he scored in the group stage (1/10/1997). |
| 1/4/2006 | Gary Kasparov, who ruled chess for over 20 years and managed to get the highest ever ELO Rating (2851) in his chess career, does not appear at the FIDE rating lists as he did not play any game over the last year. Thus, Vesselin Topalov from Bulgaria is No. 1 chess player with a rating of 2804, followed by Viswanathan Anand, India (2803) |
| 1/4/2004 | Giannis Kyrastas dies aged 52 struck by a rare disease. A key defender for Olympiacos (5 Greek league titles, 3 Greek Cups), Panathinaikos (2 Greek league titles, 3 Greek Cups) and Greece (46 caps), Kyrastas started a career as football coach, which culminated in his two seasons with Panathinaikos (1999-2000 and 2001-2002) |
| 1/4/2001 | Massimo Taibi of Regina scores the equalizing goal against Udinese (1-1) becoming the first goalkeeper in italian league history to score |
| 1/4/1999 | The World Aquatics Championships open in Hong Kong. Ian Thorpe smashes Giorgio Lamberti's 9 year-old 200m free style world record (1:43.64) with 1:43.28. The swedish team smashes China's 4x200m free style world record (7:51.92) with 7:51.70 |
| 1/4/1993 | England set new rugby record by beating France 72-6 in Swinton |
| 1/4/1992 | The NHL players begin their first strike in the 75 year history of the NHL |
| 1/4/1992 | Former Real Madrid footballer Juanito (1977-87) dies in a car accident aged 37 |
| 1/4/1990 | First English League football match broadcast by satellite. Rangers face Celtic at Ibrox Park |
| 1/4/1987 | Steve Newman becomes the first man to walk around the world |
| 1/4/1985 | The NCAA committee decides to apply time limit (45'') for the 1986 season |
| 1/4/1984 | 8 men set rowing record (13 miles in 24 hours) |
| 1/4/1976 | Ignis Varese (founded in 1945) win the European Champions Cup by beating Real Madrid 81-74 in Geneva. It is the last year of a quite successful streak (10 finals, 5 trophies) |
| 1/4/1976 | Apple I is released by inventors Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, who will create Apple Computers nine months later, on January 3, 1977. One year later, Rob Janoff will create the apple logo with the rainbow color theme with a bite out of it so that people would not mistake the apple for a tomato or another fruit. Nine years later, in May 1985, Steve Jobs will be “fired” from Apple, but will eventually return in 1996 when Apple will buy “NeXT”. |
| 1/4/1966 | AEK are defeated by CSKA Moscow with 85-62 and is placed 4th at the FIBA Champions Cup Final Four at Bolognia, Italy. Olimpia Milano is crowned champion after defeating USK Prague with 77-72 at the final |
| 1/4/1940 | The state of New York legalizes a totalisator |
| 1/4/1938 | The Baseball Hall of Fame opens in Cooperstown, New York |
| 1/4/1931 | Virne Mitchell becomes the first female in professional baseball after signing with Tennessee's Chattanoga Club |
| 1/4/1916 | First US national women's swimming championships held |
| 1/4/1914 | Roland Garros wins the international aeroplane rally in Monaco |
| 1/4/1912 | Constantinos Tsiklitiras, with 3.47, comes very close to Ray Ewry's world record in standing long jump (3.475m) during the Greek Athletics Championships held at Panathinaikon Stadium. The previous day he had jumped 1.67m in standing high jump |
| 1/4/1876 | First official National League baseball match. Boston Red Caps - Philadelphia A's 6-5 in Philadelphia |
