| 3/7/2025 | Liverpool's 28-year-old Portuguese striker Diogo Zota is killed along with his 25-year-old brother Andre in a car accident in the Spanish region of Zamora, Spain, while returning to England and after being advised by doctors not to travel by plane following recent lung surgery. He had played for Atletico Madrid (2016-2017) and Wolves (2017-2020) before joining Liverpool, and he also was a player of the national team of Portugal. | | 3/7/2023 | The 3rd European Games 2023 conclude in Krakow-Malopolska, Poland with Greece collecting 17 medals (27th place). 2 gold medals for Anna Korakaki (in the 25m pistol) and Miltos Tentoglou (in the long jump with 8.34), 5 silver medals with Emmanuela Katzourakis in the shooting skit, Emmanuel Karalis in the pole vault with 5.80, Giorgos Tsambodimos Leovaris in the -63kg Point Fighting category of kickboxing, Dionysis Xenos and Stefanos Xenos in karate and 10 bronze medals with Dora Goundoura in the sword, the Skeet shooting team (Makis Mitas, Nikos Mavrommatis, Babis Chalkiadakis), Semeli Zarmakoupis in kick boxing, Kyriakos Bakirtzis in the combat category -91 kg in Muaythai, Apostolos Telikostoglou in tae kwon do, Konstantinos Hamalidis and Konstantinos Dimitropoulos in tae kwon do, Kelly Kydonaki and Tzortzina Xenou in karate, and Evangelia Platanioti/Sofia Malkogeorgou in the technical duet. | | 3/7/2022 | The greek national team, with Eleni Fragaki, Eleni Frangou, Garyfaliana Nikou, Krystalenia Gialama, Zoi Karangelou, Maria Karapanagiotou, Dimitra Karatzoglou, Ifigenia Krommidaki, Eleni Papadopoulou, and Lydia Fotini Papanastasiou with 84,1332 points win the bronze medal in the free combination competition at the 2022 European Junior Artistic Swimming Championships held in Alicante, Italy. Spain wins gold with 88,2332 points and Italy silver with 85,0668 p | | 3/7/2022 | Greece win the bronze medal at the water polo FINA World Championships held in Hungary on Sunday after beating Croatia 9-7. | | 3/7/2019 | Greek Cyclist Christos Volikakis wins two gold medals (in the points race and scratch race) at the 2nd European Games in Minsk, Belarus in the cycling events. | | 3/7/2012 | 32-year-old Spanish Marussia test driver and daughter of former Formula One driver Emilio de Villota, Maria de Villota crashes into a support truck after completing her opening installation lap during her first test for the Formula One team at Duxford Airfield. She will be taken to Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge suffering life-threatening head and facial injuries, where she will have an operation but she will lose her right eye. | | 3/7/2012 | Sergio Pininfarina, the Italian automobile designer, dies at the age of 86 at his home town Turin. He was born as Farina but he changed his name in 1961, at the age of 35, to match that of his company “Carrozzeria Pininfarina”, founded by his father Battista “Pinin” Farina. In 1965, he persuaded Enzo Ferrari to adopt a “mid-engined” configuration for a new line of road cars and the resulting “Ferrari Dino Berlinette Speciale” was presented the same year. He designed many cars for many manufacturers mainly Italian and French. | | 3/7/2005 | Roger Federer wins his third straight Men's Singles Wimbledon title by defeating Andy Roddick 6-2, 7-6 (7-2), 6-4 in one hour and 41 minutes. The 23-year-old Swiss becomes the 4th tennis player in history, after Fred Perry, Bjorn Borg and Pete Sampras, to collect a Wimbledon hat-trick | | 3/7/1999 | Italy are crowned European champions for the first time since 1983 (Nantes) by overcoming Spain 64-56 in Paris. Yugoslavia rank third. Italian Gregor Fucka is voted MVP of the tournament | | 3/7/1978 | 19-year-old Maribel Atienzar is the first female bullfighter to appear in Madrid since the war. She kills 2 bulls 500 kgr each while the crowd cheers her name | | 3/7/1974 | German striker Gerd Mueller breaks Fontaine's World Cup record by scoring his 14th goal against Poland in the West Germany World Cup | | 3/7/1971 | American Patrick Matzdorf breaks Valeriy Brumel's record (2.28m - on July 21, 1963) in high jump with 2.29m at Berkley | | 3/7/1960 | Greece is defeated by Denmark with 7-2 (Takis Loukanidis) in a friendly match in Copenhagen. The Greek team is complemented by the goalkeeper, Savvas Theodoridis and Stefanakos, Leandros, Grigoriadis, Dermatis, Papaemmanouil, Sideris, Holevas and Aristidis Kamaras, who makes his debut | | 3/7/1920 | Bill Tilden beats Australian Gerald Patterson (2-6, 6-3, 6-2, 6-4) at the final and becomes the first American to win the Wimbledon | | 3/7/1905 | Marvin Hart and Jack Root fight the first boxing match officiated by an ex boxer, James J. Jeffries |
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