| 21/10/2023 | Sir Bobby Charlton, one of the greatest players in English football history, dies at the age of 86. A graduate of Manchester United youth Academy, he played 758 games and scored 249 goals during 17 years as a Manchester United player, winning the European Cup, three league titles and the FA Cup. For England, he won 106 caps and scored 49 goals, and won the 1966 World Cup. Following his retirement, he went on to serve the club as a director for 39 years. |
| 21/10/2020 | Olympiacos defeats Marseille 1-0 for Champions League group stage and Pedro Martins becomes the manager with the most European victories (15) coaching Olympiacos surpassing the record previously held by Dušan Bajevic. |
| 21/10/2018 | 20-year-old Stefanos Tsitsipas becomes the first Greek tennis player to win an ATP World Tour title after beating Ernests Gulbis 6-4, 6-4 in the final of the Stockholm Open |
| 21/10/2014 | 26-year-old Oscar Pistorius, the first double leg amputee to participate in the Olympics entering the men's 400 metres and 4 x 400 metres relay races, is sentenced to five years in prison for the death of Reeva Steenkamp in February 2013. |
| 21/10/2011 | Super League decides to maintain 16 teams in their football league. One day later, they will include Doxa Dramas and Levadiakos in the places of Kavala and Olympiakos Volos who are already relegated because of the case of the "fixed" games. |
| 21/10/2010 | Guard J.R. Holden of CSKA Moscow becomes the first player to take part in 200 Euroleague Basketball games. Holden came off the bench in the first quarter of CSKA's season-opening Turkish Airlines Euroleague game against visiting Armani Jeans Milano (73-88). |
| 21/10/2006 | 12,388 chessplayers, mostly children, play in Pachuca, 100 kilometers northeast of Mexico City, and break the world participation record held by Havana in 2002 with 11,320 players |
| 21/10/1998 | The NY Yankees complete a 3-game sweep of San Diego to win their 24th World Series |
| 21/10/1991 | Greek basketball players go on strike protesting for foreigners playing as greeks in the Greek championship |
| 21/10/1989 | Betram Lee and Peter Bynoe buy the Denver Nuggets for $65 million and become the first black to own an NBA team |
| 21/10/1984 | Austrian F1 pilot Niki Lauda wins the world title for the third time as he finishes second (behind his teammate Alain Prost) at the Portuguese Grand Prix |
| 21/10/1980 | The Philadelphia Phillies beat the Kansas City Royals and win their first baseball world series in 98 years |
| 21/10/1979 | Norwegian Greta Waitz is the first woman to run a marathon in less than 2 hours and 30 minutes (2:27.33). She won the New York Marathon 9 times from 1978 to 1988 |
| 21/10/1976 | Dr Julius Erving is traded from the New York Nets to the Philadelphia Sixers for the incredible sum of $3 million |
| 21/10/1968 | The ''Black Power'' salute is given once again during the 4x400m relay medal ceremony at the Mexico Olympics |
| 21/10/1964 | Ethiopian runner Abebe Bikila becomes the first to win a second consecutive gold medal in marathon at the Tokyo Olympics (2:12.11.2). Five weeks earlier, he had undergone an appendicitis operation |
| 21/10/1961 | Jockey Eddie Arcaro wins his 10th Jockey Gold Cup (record) at Belmont Park |
