| 4/6/2023 | At AC Milan's San Siro, just after the win against Hellas Verona with 3-1, AC Milan striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic announces his retirement from football aged 41, after 25 years. The Swedish striker scored 511 goals in 866 club games as well as 62 in 122 for Sweden. |
| 4/6/2023 | SEGAS and the Municipality of Piraeus organize the 1st Piraeus Street Long Jump, the first long jump competition in Greece, in front of the Municipal Theater of Piraeus. In the men competition, Miltos Tedoglou is the winner with 8.24m. on his last jump, Tobias Modler (Sweden) is second with 7.88m, and Anvar Anvarov (Uzbekistan) is third with with 7.84m. In the women competition, Militsa Gardasevic (Serbia) wins the first place with 6.77 meters, marking the third best performance this year in Europe, Alina Rotaru-Cotman (Romania) is second with 6.71 m, and Angelina Topic (Serbia) third with 6.52. |
| 4/6/2016 | Muhammad Ali, three-time World Heavyweight Champion boxer (1964, 1974, 1978) dies at the age of 74 at a Phoenix-area hospital, where he had spent the past few days being treated for respiratory complications. At 22, he won the world heavyweight championship from Sonny Liston in an upset in 1964. Shortly after that, Cassius Clay converted to Islam, changing his "slave" name to Muhammad Ali. In 1966, he was stripped of his boxing title convicted of draft evasion and sentenced to five years in prison, while in 1971 the conviction was reversed. Nicknamed "The Greatest", he was involved in several historic boxing matches. Notable among these were the three with rival Joe Frazier, including the “fight of the century”, where he lost and the “Thrilla in Manilla” (1974) in which along with "The Rumble in the Jungle" (1978) with George Foreman he regained titles. Ali retired from boxing in 1981 and next year he was diagnosed with Parkinson’s. |
| 4/6/2016 | For the 4th time in the club’s history Jug Dubrovnik (CRO) win the LEN Champions League after beating Olympiacos 6-4 in the final, the first defeat for Olympiacos in the entire season |
| 4/6/2008 | Panathinaikos defeats Olympiacos with 90-76 at the 5th play-off final and wins the 10th greek basketball championship in 11 years. 34-year-old Fragiskos Alvertis participates for the 18th year (1990-2008) with the team and reaches 21 titles (10 Greek Championships, 6 Greek Cups, 4 Euroleague titles and 1 Intercontinental title) |
| 4/6/2004 | The Olympic Flame starts a journey, during which it will visit 26 states and 34 towns in all 5 continents |
| 4/6/1996 | Coach Dusan Bajevic resigns from AEK Athens to sign with Olympiacos. In his career he won 5 league titles (2 as a player, 68 goals), 1Super Cup and 1 Greek Cup |
| 4/6/1991 | FIBA celebrates the basketball jubilee by organizing an international tournament at Piraeus' Peace and Friendship stadium. Italy will rank first and Greece second |
| 4/6/1988 | Steffi Graf wins the Roland Garros after defeating Natalia Zvereva (6-0, 6-0) in just 32 minutes |
| 4/6/1987 | Danny Harris outruns Edwin Moses by 0.13'' in the 400m hurdles in Madrid. It is Moses' first defeat in 9 years, 9 months and 9 days (122-win streak, since the 26th August 1977) |
| 4/6/1978 | AEK beats PAOK at the final of the Greek Cup with 2-0 and wins the “double” after 39 years |
| 4/6/1965 | Australian runner Ron Clarke smashes his own 5000m record with 13.25 at Compton |
| 4/6/1961 | Costas Mourouzis scores 21 points in the friendly match against Libya in Tunis. The player of Triton will score a total of 232 points in 24 matches with the national basketball team |
| 4/6/1953 | The 8th Eurobasket concludes in Moscow during which FIBA decides to inforce in the future the 30” attack rule. This happened because during the match USSR-Hungary the Russians holding the ball for 15 minutes reached a half-time score of 5-2 (!) winning at last with 29-24. For the record, USSR were crowned champions |
| 4/6/1896 | Henry Ford, the later (in 1903) founder of Ford Motor Company rides for the first time Quadricycle, his 4-wheel self-propelled vehicle, which in practice consists of two parallel bicycles and an internal combustion motor working with gasoline. He is inspired by the steam engines, very popular at that time, which were used for threshing or powering a sawmill. However, the first car was invented in Europe, 10 years ago (29/1/1886) by Karl Benz and Gottlieb Daimler. 33-year-old Ford, who was “by instinct an engineer” had worked until now as a watch repairman and farmer, and only during the last five years worked as an engineer in Edison Illuminating Company and spent his free time in experimenting and manufacturing his first car |
| 4/6/1783 | The Montgolfier brothers (Joseph-Michel and Jacques-Étienne), the inventors of the montgolfière style hot air balloon, publicly demonstrate their craft for the first time at Annonay, France |
