| 23/4/2023 | American sprinter Tori Bowie, who won 4x100m relay gold at the Rio Olympics in 2016, plus 100m silver and 200m bronze, dies in her home due to complications in childbirth aged 32. She converted from long jump in 2014 and had an immediate impact on the track, becoming the fastest woman in the world that year. She was the only American woman to have won an Olympic or world 100m title since Carmelita Jeter in 2011. |
| 23/4/2017 | Lionel Messi scores twice against Real Madrid in El Clasico, including the last-minute winner to secure a 3-2 victory for Barcelona against Real Madrid at Santiago Bernabeu. The goal is Messi's 500th for Barca (343 in the championship, 94 in Champions League, 43 in Copa del Rey, 12 in the Spanish Super Cup, 5 in the Clubs World Cup and 3 in the European Super Cup |
| 23/4/2011 | Elias Eliadis wins the gold medal after defeating Russian Kirill Denisov at the final of the middleweight category (90kg) at the 22nd European Judo Championships held in Istanbul, Turkey |
| 23/4/2000 | Mai Nakomouna becomes the first Japanese swimmer to smash a world record since 1972 when she wins the 50m back style race with 28.67 for the japanese championship |
| 23/4/2000 | Panathinaikos win their 9th women's volleyball championship after beating Filathlitikos 3-1 |
| 23/4/2000 | Three fans lose their lives during the match between Liberia and Chad (0-0) for the 2002 World Cup qualifying round |
| 23/4/1998 | AEK lose to Kinder Bologna 44-58 in the Euroleague final in Barcelona. Zoran Savic is voted MVP. It is the 6th Final Four for AEK coach Giannis Ioannidis |
| 23/4/1989 | Kareem Abdul Jabbar plays his last game as a Laker |
| 23/4/1988 | 31-year-old Kanellos Kanellopoulos, Olympic cycling champion and one of the leading Greek cyclists, flies with the human powered plane, "Daedalus" (mass 32 kg), starting from Heraklion Crete, above the Aegean Sea, covering an 119km route from the northern coast of Crete to Thira in 3 hours and 54 minutes. The flight holds official FAI wold records for total distance, straight-line distance, and duration for human-powered aircraft, something similar to the wings that were used by mythical Daedalus and Icarus. The record is recorded in the Guinness book of World Records. |
| 23/4/1977 | Czech chess master Vlastimil Hort puts on an amazing exhibition of simultaneous chess. He played 201 opponents simultaneously and lost only 10 games |
| 23/4/1962 | Stirling Moss survives a serious accident at the Goodwood track |
| 23/4/1954 | NBA adopts the 24 and shot clock rule and the bonus free throw for team fouls |
| 23/4/1948 | The national football team of Greece is defeated by Turkey with 3-1 at the ground of Leoforos Alexandra in a match attended by former and future PMs Nikolaos Plastiras and Sofoklis Venizelos, and former and future Athens Mayor Kostas Kotzias. The turkish player, but of greek origin, Lefter Kucukandonyadis, scores but doesn't celebrate. History says that we wore a Cross and crossed himself, being an Orthodox Christian, maybe the only one who played with the national team of Turkey. |
| 23/4/1948 | Johnny Longden becomes the first jockey to achieve 3.000 wins after winning Bay Meadows in San Mateo, California |
| 23/4/1946 | Enrico Piaggio, son of Rinaldo Piaggio, founder of Piaggio in 1884, which produced locomotives, takes a patent for a “motorcycle of a rational complexity of organs and elements combined with a frame with mudguards and casing covering the whole mechanical part” from the Ministry of Industry and Commerce. The initial product will be a single model motor scooter manufactured by Piaggio & Co of Pontedera, Italy, and will evolve to Europe’s largest motorcycle manufacturer of two-wheeled vehicles. The first prototype, because of its strange shape, will be baptized by the workers “Paperino”, the Italian Donald Duck, but Enrico Piaggio will change the name to “vespa” when he will hear the buzzing sound of the engine of the second prototype resembling to a wasp, which in Italian means vespa. |
| 23/4/1931 | Angelos Messaris scores 2 goals with headers and Panathinaikos equals AEK, who led the score with 2-0. It is the last game of the 21-year-old scorer, who is considered to be the best Greek football player of the pre-war era, and who will unexpectedly quit football, probably to focus on his studies at the National Technical University of Athens |
| 23/4/1927 | First English FA Cup final radio broadcast. Arsenal - Cardiff at Wembley |
| 23/4/1905 | Iraklis FC, under the name of “Musical Club”, play their first official football match in Thessaloniki |
| 23/4/1663 | Chess is presented for the first time to the Russian Czar Alexei I |
