| 13/4/2025 | Lithuania’s 22-year-old Mykolas Alekna throws for a world record at the Oklahoma Throws Series World Invitational breaking his own world record (14/4/2024 74.35m) in the discus throw twice; 74.89 in his first attempt and 75.56 metres in his fourth, becoming the first man ever to throw the discus over 75 metres. He is the son of double Olympic discus throw champion Virgilijus Alekna. |
| 13/4/2025 | Greece loses to Spain 14-16 in the final of the Men’s Water Polo World Cup held in Podgorica, Montenegro, winning the silver medal (16th in major competitions). |
| 13/4/2020 | Former Panathinaikos (1997-199) and Iraklis (1999-202) basketball player Sascha Hupmann dies at the age of 49, after a long battle with “ataxia”, a nureological disorder that attacks the voice and motions of the body. He was a member of the German basketball team with 67 caps. |
| 13/4/2018 | Vassilis Spanoulis helped Olympiakos overcome the strong challenge of host Panionios behind closed doors at Nea Smyrni with a 79-73 score. Olympiakos captain scored nine points to reach 5,201 in his top-flight career, one more than former AEK star Nikos Hatzis, becoming the top scorer of all times in the A1 division. |
| 13/4/1999 | 22 year-old international handball player Giannis Grispos dies of cancer |
| 13/4/1999 | Former wrestler Giorgos Karpozilos dies |
| 13/4/1999 | John Korfas becomes the all-time leader in assists (1.000) in the Greek basketball championship |
| 13/4/1997 | 21 year-old Tiger Woods becomes the youngest golfer to win the Masters tournament |
| 13/4/1996 | Giannis Kouros sets a new world record when he runs 293,074km in the 24-hour Run in Melbourn |
| 13/4/1993 | The 6th European Champions Cup Final Four opens in Athens. Limoges win the trophy after beating Bennetton Treviso 59-55. PAOK finish third and Real Madrid forth |
| 13/4/1986 | 46-year-old Jack Nicklaus becomes the oldest golfer to win Masters tournament |
| 13/4/1986 | Lotus pilot Ayrton Senna defeats Nigel Mansell at the Spanish Grand Prix by 14/1000 of a second, the narrowest lead in F1 history |
| 13/4/1985 | Katrin Dorre wins the first women's World Cup marathon (2:33.30) |
| 13/4/1979 | The world's longest doubles table tennis match ends after 101 hours |
| 13/4/1940 | Cornelius Warmerdam becomes the first pole vaulter to jump 4.75m at the San Fransisco Olympic Club in Berkley, California |
| 13/4/1936 | Luton Town striker Joe Payne scores 10 goals against Bristol in a match for the third division |
| 13/4/1924 | The founding assembly of AEK takes place in Athens. The team’s emblem is the two-headed eagle and its colours are gold and black. On 30/5/1924, Konstantinos Spanoudis is elected president and Costas Dimopoulos General Secretary by refugees of 1922, headed by Emilios and Menelaos Ionas. The ground of the stadium will be acquired on 1929 and it will be inaugurated on 2/11/1930 with the friendly match against Olympiacos (2-2). |
| 13/4/1922 | The Municipality of Athens rents the ground of Alexandra Avenue to Panathinaikos for 2 years and with a monthly rent of 5 drachmas. The lease will end in 1924 and the court will be permanently ceded to Panathinaikos on July 21, of the same year |
| 13/4/1893 | German chess player Jean Dufresne dies at the age of 64 in Berlin, where he was born. In 1852, he lost to Adolf Anderssen, the “Evergreen Game”, translation given later by Steinitz, to the German word “Immergrun”, which refers to a specific evergreen plant, called vinca or periwinkle. The symbolic meaning of the name is expressed in the French translation, the “Forever Young Game” (La Toujours Jeane). |
| 13/4/1314 | King Edward II bans athletic games in the roads of London, which during that period were so popular to create troubles. The most dominant game was some kind of football with a ball from pork bladder. This is in fact the first ban of playing football games |
