| 20/4/2016 | Honorary First Vice-President of the FEI Freddy Serpieris dies eight days before his 78th birthday. As an athlete he won the Greek national Junior Jumping Championship in 1955, and the Senior Championship in 1969, as well as individual gold in the 1973 Balkan Senior Championship. He was President of the first riding club founded in Greece, the Hellenic Riding Club, serving from 1980 until 1995. In a long career as a sports executive, Freddy Serpieris served as President of the Hellenic Equestrian Federation from the its formation in 1990 until 2001. He was elected Chair of FEI Regional Group 1 in 1997, a position he held until 2005. When The Infanta Dońa Pilar de Borbňn was elected as FEI President in 1998, she appointed Freddy Serpieri as her 1st Vice-President and he remained in the post until 2006. He was the great-grandson of the Italian businessman Gianbatista Serpieri, owner of the Lavrio Mines. |
| 20/4/2014 | Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, the American middleweight boxer who was wrongly convicted of murder and later freed via a petition of habeas corpus after spending almost 20 years in prison dies at the age of 77 years. Many celebrities, such as Muhammad Ali and Bob Dylan, who, in 1975, wrote the song “Hurricane”, worked toward his release. In 1999, Denzel Washington starred in the movie “The Hurricane” and received an Academy Award nomination for Carter’s portrayal. |
| 20/4/2011 | AEK beats Panionios 76-68 but the simultaneous victory of Ilissiakos against Kolossos 58-49 in Rhodes momentarily relegates AEK to the A2 basketball league, something that has never happened in the team’s history. A few days later, ESAKE sports judge will eliminate Ilissiakos, uphelding AEK’s objection for illegal participation of the club in the league. |
| 20/4/2011 | Panathinaikos basketball guard Dimitris Diamantidis is named the best defender in the Turkish Airlines Euroleague for the sixth time in seven seasons. The 30-year-old former Greece international - who retired from the national team after last summer's FIBA World Championship - missed out on the award last season when he finished third behind Russia's Viktor Khryapa and Ricky Rubio of Spain. He has won it every other year since its inception in 2005. Diamantidis beat out three players who, like him, helped their respective teams reach the Final Four in Barcelona next month: Montepaschi Siena power forward Shaun Stonerook and the Maccabi Electra Tel Aviv pair of Doron Perkins and Chuck Eidson. |
| 20/4/2008 | The 75,000-dollar ATP Challenger “Status Athens Open” tournament, which started on 12/4, at the Athens Lawn Tennis Club facilities, concludes. The singles title goes to the 2003 Roland Garros finalist, Dutch Martin Verkerk, who defeated the Romanian Adrian Cruciat 2-0 (6-3, 6-3) in the final while Spanish Marc Lopez and Gabriel Trujillo Soler defeated Konstantinos Economidis and Alexander Jakupovic in the doubles final with 2-0 (6-4, 6-4). Antonis Liberis, publisher of Status magazine was the author of the tournament |
| 20/4/2001 | Anatoly Karpov plays a simultaneous match in Rethymno, Crete, against 20 opponents, among whom are Manolis Kefalogiannis (MP), Lambis Tagmatarhis (NETMED), Costas Galanis (Galanis Sports Data), journalist Costis Parras, singer Miltos Pashalidis, etc. The next day he will play against Maria Kouvatsou, the World U16 Chess Champion. |
| 20/4/2000 | Panathinaikos win their second Euroleague title after defeating Maccabi Tel Aviv 73-67 in Salonica |
| 20/4/2000 | Charles Barkley plays his farewell NBA game (Huston Rockets - Philadelphia 76ers) |
| 20/4/1999 | Barcelona win their 5th (4th consecutive) Champions League title in handball by overcoming Bandel Zagreb 29-18 |
| 20/4/1999 | Zalgiris Kaunas beat Olympiacos 87-71 at the Munich Final Four semi-final |
| 20/4/1996 | 17 year-old Roma striker Lambros Houtos becomes the third Greek to play in campionato (Roma - Napoli 4-1). Alfredo Aragona from Corfu was the first (1946-52, Bari, Cosenza, Napoli, Brindisi) and Nikos Anastopoulos the second (1987-88, Avellino). Three years later, Houtos will be traded to Olympiacos |
| 20/4/1981 | Steve Davis wins his first (out of 6) world titles in snooker by overcoming Doug Mountjoy 18-12 at Sheffield's Crucible Theater |
| 20/4/1949 | Jockey Willie Shoemaker wins his first race riding ''Shafter'' at Golden Gate Fields in Albany, California |
| 20/4/1946 | 36-year-old Cypriot runner, athlete of Olympia Limassol AC, Stelios Kyriakidis, wearing a shirt with the number 77, wins the 50th Boston Marathon with 2:29.27, a record that will stand till the end of the 60s. In 1936 he represented Greece at the Berlin Olympic Games, where he was placed 11th in the Marathon Race. In 1990, the Municipal Stadium of Filothei, Athens will be named after him. |
| 20/4/1944 | The NFL legalizes coaching from the bench |
| 20/4/1926 | PAOK is founded in Salonica by a group of refugees from Constantinoupolis led by Triantafyllos Triantafyllidis, who becomes the first chairman. The team colours (black and white) symbolize their lost homes and the hope that never dies and its emblem is a fourleaf clover, inspired by Kostas Koemtzopoulos, taken by a packet of cigarettes |
| 20/4/1925 | Athens Ippodrome opens in Faliro |
| 20/4/1920 | The 7th Olympic Games open in Antwerp (the 6th never took place due to the war). 2.479 men and 64 women from 29 countries take part in 22 events. The new Olypic flag is hoisted and Belgian fencer Victor Boin takes the first Olympic Oath. The defeated countries (Germany, Austria, Hungary, Bulgary) are banned from the games |
| 20/4/1887 | The first car race is held in Paris. Count Jules Philippe Albert is the winner, top speed 37mph |
