| 10/2/2025 | Takis Ikonomopoulos, former goalkeeper of Panathinaikos and the Greek national team, dies at the age of 82, nine days after suffering a serious stroke on 1/2. The "bird", as he was nicknamed, due to his impressive jumps, is one of the top goalkeepers of Greek football. According to the International Federation of Football History and Statistics, he is the starting goalkeeper in the “best 11” of all time in Greece. He began his career at Kallithea and then went to Apollon Smyrnis. In 1962 he transferred to Proodeftiki, and a year later to Panathinaikos, where he stayed for 13 years and won five Championships (1964, 1965, 1969, 1970 and 1972) and two Greek Cups (1967 and 1969). He was a starter in the 1971 Wembley final and holds the Greek record for keeping a clean sheet for 1,088 minutes (17/1/1965 – 27/5/1965). In 1976 he moved to Panachaiki and a year later to Apollon Smyrnis where he ended his career. He played 25 times with the National Team. From 1979 to 2006 he was the goalkeeper coach of Panathinaikos. |
| 10/2/2024 | 100-year-old Iranian Taghi Askar, who in his youth was the greatest diver in Asia and the most important in Iran, dives from 1m to show his talent at the World Aquatic Championships in Doha, Qatar |
| 10/2/2023 | Theodoros Lorantos is appointed as the new head coach of France’s women’s national water polo team. The 51-year-old succeeds Emilien Bugeaud, who stepped down from his position in November. |
| 10/2/2021 | The big owner and horse producer Theodoros Nanos dies at the age of 65. Since 2005 his name was associated with Greek horse racing. With over 120 horsepower to his credit, with a standard horse-drawn carriage and a jewel stable for the racecourse, he established himself as one of the largest and most successful owners of the era. The results, of course, did not take long to come, with the conquest of a number of big races and 2 Derbies (in 2006 with the horse Parforos and in 2009 with the horse Gradis Ken). He was a shareholder in many companies, Managing Director of Intrasoft, and publisher, together with Antonis Pikoulas, of the financial newspaper "Axia". |
| 10/2/2009 | Spyros Kapralos, president of Athens Stock Exchange, is elected president of the Hellenic Olympic Committee, succeeding Minoas Kyriakou, while Isidoros Kouvelos, husband of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Dora Bakogianni, is elected president of the International Olympic Academy |
| 10/2/2002 | Predrag Stojakovic becomes the first non American (serbian-greek) to win an NBA All star contest (3points) |
| 10/2/1999 | Former Panathinaikos No12 Petros Panagiotarakos dies aged 56. On November 14, 1962 he made his debut with the national basketball team in a game against Yugoslavia (70-81). He was capped 54 times (404 points) |
| 10/2/1998 | Young PAOK midfielder Panagiotis Katsouris is killed in a car accident |
| 10/2/1996 | The first match between Gary Kasparov and Deep Blue, the IBM supercomputer, starts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The match will last a week (until 17/2), 6 games are going to be played and Gary Kasparov will win by 4-2. However, the game on the starting day is going to be historical as it is won by Deep Blue, which will be the first machine to win a chess game against a reigning world champion. |
| 10/2/1992 | Bonny Blair becomes the first woman to win the 500m speed skating gold medal in two consecutive Olympics |
| 10/2/1991 | The Olympiacos - Athinaikos match is interrupted two minutes before the end (2-2) when outraged Olympiacos fans invade the pitch and attack the referee and the players of Athinaikos. The match is adjudged in favour of Athinaikos (0-2) and Olympiacos is punished with deduction of 2 points |
| 10/2/1933 | Primo Carnera knocks out Ernie Schaaf in round 13 at New York's Madison Square Garden. The crowd and the Press will shout that the match was fixed, yet Schaaf will die as a result of the knock-out punch |
| 10/2/1913 | Constantinos Tsiklitiras dies a few months after his achievements in the Stockholm Olympics (gold medal in standing long jump, 3.37m). At his own request he was sent to Bizani, one of 1st Balkan War most fierce ground battle. Struck by meningitis, he returned to Athens but it was too late |
| 10/2/1891 | Twenty seven distinguished members of athenian society found Panellinios, materializing an idea by Nicolaos Kotselopoulos |
