| 22/4/2023 | Ermioni Gika is the new European champion at the U16 and U18 categories at the 2023 ILCA 4 Youth European Championship that take place in Cadiz, Spain. Marialena Kalakona wins the silver medal in the U18 category. |
| 22/4/2017 | Olympic gold medallist Lefteris Petrounias has just made it three in a row in the European Championships. The Greek gymnast triumphed in the rings at Cluj in Romania having also won in Montpellier in 2015 and in Bern in 2016. The athlete of the Irini Peristeriou club scored 15,433 points executing perfectly a routine with a 6.30 difficulty value. The 27-year-old has therefore become only the second gymnast ever to win three European championships in a row in the rings. |
| 22/4/2007 | Dimitris Diamantidis of Panathinaikos steals the ball just one time during the Panathinaikos – Maroussi (79-73) match reaching 395 steals in Division A1, outdoing Fanis Christodoulou (394). Angelos Koronios leads with 583, Giorgos Sigalas is second with 512, Nikos Boudouris is third with 488 and Nikos Vetoulas is fourth with 460 steals |
| 22/4/2004 | Pat (Patrick) Tillman, the American football player of Arizona Cardinals, dies at the age of 28 in Afganistan. Two years earlier, in 2002, eight months after the September 11 attack, he left NFL and his professional career and enlisted in the US Army. He is the first professional football player to be killed in combat since the death of Bob Kalsu (21/7/1970) |
| 22/4/2002 | Iraklis are crowned champions for the first time in greek volleyball history after their away win over Olympiacos (3-2) |
| 22/4/2001 | Panellinios win their first women's volleyball championship after defeating Panathinaikos 3-2 at Leoforos. Sofia Iordanidou, Ira Fedodova and coach Giannis Nikolakis become the first to have won the trophy with 3 different teams |
| 22/4/2001 | Olympiacos become the first team to complete a 14 game winning streak after their away win over PAS Giannina (5-1). Their streak will end in Nea Smyrni (Panionios-Olympiacos 2-1) |
| 22/4/2001 | Skoda Xanthi-Iraklis 1-0. An ordinary Greek league match goes down to history because for the first time a team (iraklis) fields 4 goalkeepers in various positions |
| 22/4/1994 | Michael Moorer becomes the first left handed heavyweight champion after beating Evander Holyfield |
| 22/4/1991 | Former featherweight boxing champion Jack ''Kid'' Berg dies |
| 22/4/1988 | For the first time women are allowed to compete in the Little 500 bicycle race in Bloominghton, Indiana |
| 22/4/1947 | Philadelphia Warriors win their first ABA championship after defeating Chicago Bulls 83-80 in the fifth final (4-1) |
| 22/4/1914 | 19-year-old Babe Ruth plays his first official game as a Baltimore pitcher (Baltimore win Buffalo 6-0) |
| 22/4/1906 | Ten years after the first Olympics an ''Olympiad'' is held in Athens with 884 athletes taking part from 20 countries (300 Greeks). The games have great success, Greece nevertheless cannot finance the next two ''Olympiads'' in 1910 and 1914 because of the war |
| 22/4/1883 | A double-headed chess clock, manufactured by T.B.Wilson of Manchester, is used for the first time in chess games during the London 1883 “International Chess Tournament”, in which Johannes Zukertort finished first (22p.) and Wilhelm Steinitz second (19p.). Previously, time was measured by hourglasses, as it was the case in the London 1862 “International Chess Tournament”. |
