| 29/12/2022 | Edson Arantes do Nascimento, the legendary Pele, dies at the age of 82 in a São Paulo hospital after battling with pancreatic cancer. His record – of 1,281 goals in 1,363 matches – has not been surpassed to this day, while he will be remembered as the only footballer to win the World Cup three times (1958, 1962 and 1970), the first time when he was just 17 years old. With the Brazilian national team, he played 92 times, scoring 77 goals. With Santos, he won six Brazilian championships and the same number of international titles (three Intercontinental and three Copa Libertadores). On 20/11/1969, in his 909th appearance in a Brazilian A' Division game, he scored his 1,000th goal. In December 2000, Pelé and Maradona shared the prize of FIFA Player of the Century by FIFA. |
| 29/12/2022 | Stathis Tsonos, ERT director in numerous sports broadcasts, dies |
| 29/12/2021 | Curry closes out the third quarter with triple over Facundo Campazzo to become the first player in NBA history to make 3,000 career 3-pointers. Overall, Curry finished the 89-86 loss to Denver shooting 5/14 on 3-pointers to give him 3,004 in his career. |
| 29/12/1999 | Sporting Lisbon goalkeeper Peter Schmeichel (European champion with Manchester United) purchases a danish team of second division |
| 29/12/1999 | Vassilis Hatzipanagis receives a 1 million drachmas cheque from EPAE for his contribution to greek football and announces the foundation of a football academy in the year 2000 |
| 29/12/1998 | The 3d Eurostars is held in Berlin. East (featuring Economou, Radja, Bodiroga, Tarlac and coached by Eremine) beat West (coached by Pesic) 104-98. Carlton Mayers, winner of the 3-point contest, is voted MVP |
| 29/12/1995 | Lihuanian center Arvidas Sabonis is voted for the 4th time ''Best European Basketball Player'' by readers of ''Gazzetta Dello Sport'' |
| 29/12/1989 | Wayne Gretzky and Martina Navratilova are named ''Athletes of Decade'' by Associated Press |
| 29/12/1976 | 22-year-old Belgian European Champion in medium distances and silver olympic medallist in Montreal in 800m and 1500m, Ivo Van Dame, is killed in a car accident near the French city of Orange returning home after the Christmas holidays |
| 29/12/1974 | Costas Mourouzis coaches for the 40th, and last, time the National Basketball team (22 wins – 18 losses) in the game against Yugoslavia (58-71) in Salonica for the Balkan Championship. He will be succeeded by Vangelis Nikitopoulos |
| 29/12/1973 | Dimitris Kokolakis makes his debut with the national team against Great Britain in Athens. The “center” of Panathinaikos, Aris and Ilisiakos, will score a total of 1271 points in 177 caps |
| 29/12/1965 | Panagiotis Ventouris, who has benn recently transferred from Fostiras, abandones AEK moving to Cape Town, South Africa, looking for a better future. The "lost" 435.000 drs paid for his transfer threaten AEK with an economic disaster |
| 29/12/1963 | Manchester United beat Burnley by 5-1 and 16-year-old George Best scores his first goal with his team |
| 29/12/1958 | OPAP is founded and Nikolaos Paparodos is the first president. The first PROPO coupon will circulate on 1/3/1959 with 12 games and 6 months later, on the 17th contest of 28/6/1959, a 13th game will be added. |
| 29/12/1956 | For the first time in the history of greek football, 43 Greeks are granted a football coach degree, acknowledged by the Greek Football Federation (EPO). Among them are Negrepontis, Tsoutsos, Tzanetis, Simos, Ribas, Hatzistavridis, Houmis, and Helmis |
| 29/12/1930 | Fred P. Newton becomes the first man to swim the Mississippi River, 1.826 miles from Ford Dam, Minnesotta to New Orleans. The journey started on July 6, Newton spent 742 hours swimming |
| 29/12/1862 | The bowling ball is fabricated |
