| 16/11/2022 | Theopoula Sarvanaki of Greece wins the silver medal in the women’s under-62kg final after being defeated by Sarah Chaari from Belgium at the World Taekwondo Championships |
| 16/11/2019 | Greece’s Panos Triantafyllou wins gold on the final day of individual competition at the International Wheelchair and Amputee Sports Federation’s (IWAS) Wheelchair Fencing World Cup in Amsterdam. Triantafyllou, who was paralyzed after a car accident north of Athens in 2004, won silver at Rio’s Paralympic Games. |
| 16/11/2018 | Blind swimmer Christos Koromilas of IONAS Club, wins the gold medal in the oceanman world championship held in Qatar. The 55-year-old athlete, who lost his vision 10 years ago, was accompanied by his trainer Giorgos Goudas. |
| 16/11/2012 | The professional French free climber Patrick Edlinger dies at the age of 52 after falling downstairs at his home. Edlinger was considered a pioneer and a legend of sport climbing having won some of the first climbing competitions in history: Sportroccia in 1986, Rock Master and Snowbird in 1988. |
| 16/11/2009 | Antonio de Nigris Guajardo, the Mexican striker of Larissa dies by a fatal heart attack aged 31. He played in six different countries representing twelve clubs in nine years. |
| 16/11/1997 | 42 goals scored in First Division - a record for the Greek league |
| 16/11/1989 | The English Football Federation restores the England Travel Club in an attempt to control the hooligans |
| 16/11/1983 | England defeats Luxemburg with 4-0 but is eliminated from the final stage of the European Championship since Greece was defeated, earlier that day, from Denmark with 2-0 at OAKA. Uproarious incidents occur in Luxemburg resulting in the arrest of 50 British fans and the imprisonment of 13 |
| 16/11/1982 | The NFL ends a 57-day strike, the longest in the history of professional sports |
| 16/11/1981 | Eric Clapton performs a concert prior to the West Bromwich Albion player John Wile testimonial game. Eric Clapton is an Albion supporter and has been reported that the club rejected his offer to invest cash around that time. |
| 16/11/1969 | Romania – Greece 1-1 (Domazos). Greece needed a victory to qualify for the World Cup finals of Mexico. This is the last game for Giorgos Sideris, known as “Fontakas”, who has a scoring percentage of 50% with the national team (14 goals in 28 games) |
| 16/11/1964 | The 82nd and last Porsche 901 car is built. The model which started to be manufactured 2 months before, on September 14th, was presented at the International Frankfurt Motor Show since September 1963 replacing Porsche 356. However, during the Porsche 901 presentation at the Paris Auto Salon, French car maker Peugeot objected to Porsche using any three digit number where the middle was zero (0). As a result, Porsche was made to replace “0” with “1” and called the car Porsche 911. The 901s already constructed would be used for testing and for exhibitions and Porsche will sell none to private customers. |
| 16/11/1953 | The tramrail is removed overnight by decision of the minister of Public Works Konstantinos Karamanlis. Fifty years later, the tramway will restart in Athens for the 2004 Olympics |
| 16/11/1938 | Tottenham striker Willie Hall scores 3 goals in 3.5 minutes (the fastest hat trick in an international game) in England's victory over Ireland (7-0) in Manchester |
| 16/11/1911 | French Jean Bouin sets the first official record in 10000m (30' 58'' and 4/5) at Colombes Stadium, Paris |
