| 5/11/2021 | Greece’s 27-year-old swimming champion Andreas Vazaios climbs to the top of Europe for the second time in his career (Glasgow 2019) winning the gold medal at the 200 m individual medley event with 1.51.70 at the European Short Course Championships held in the city of Kazan, Russia. |
| 5/11/2016 | Greek businessman Andreas Vgenopoulos, Chairman of Marfin Investment Group (MIG) dies of cardiac arrest at the age of 63. He was the grandson of Andreas Vgenopoulos, who served as president of the Athens Football Clubs’ Association in the 1950s. He was a national champion in fencing in 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1977, 1980 and 1981, and won more than 45 medals in European and Balkan Games in foil and epee. He also participated in the Olympic Games of 1972 in Munich. In 2008, he founded PEK (Panathinaikos United Movement) with the intention of fund raising for the amateur teams of Panathinaikos. |
| 5/11/2014 | Argentine striker Lionel Messi scores both Barcelona’s goals in Amsterdam against Ajax (0-2) for the 4th matchday of the Champions League group stage, equalling Raul's all-time Champions League goalscoring record of 71 goals. Portuguese footballer of Real Madrid, Christiano Ronaldo, is in the third place with 70 goals. |
| 5/11/2003 | The largest score in Champions League history. Monaco crash Deportivo La Coruna 8-3 at Monaco's Louis II. The largest scoring difference, Juventus-Olympiacos 7-0, less than one month later (10/12/2003) |
| 5/11/1999 | Jockey French Holly, who made his debut a week earlier, is killed when he falls off his horse at Middleham |
| 5/11/1994 | 45 year-old George Foreman becomes the oldest heavyweight champion after beating Michael Moorer in Las Vegas. Twenty years earlier (on October 30, 1974), he had lost the title to Muhammad Ali |
| 5/11/1991 | 68-year-old British media proprietor and former Member of Parliament Robert Maxwell dies from “accidental drowing” after falling overboard from his luxury yaught “Lady Ghislaine” off the Canary Islands. He was born in Czechoslovakia and rose from poverty to build an extensive publishing empire, which will collapse after his death. He was chairman of Oxford United FC and in 1987 he bought Derby County FC, having attempted, three years earlier (1984) to buy Manchester United but failed due to high price set by the owner Martin Edwards. |
| 5/11/1971 | Princess Anna of England is voted ''Sportswoman of the Year''. She won a European Equestrian Tournament at Burghley |
| 5/11/1967 | Liesel Westermann from West Germany smashes the discus world record with 61.26m. One year later (July 24, 1968) she throws 62.54m. On September 27, 1969 she will improve once again her own record (63.96m). Faina Melnik from the Soviet Union will put an end to her dominance in 1971 after throwing 64.88m |
| 5/11/1959 | The AFL (American Football League) is founded by 8 teams |
| 5/11/1946 | Boston Celtic Chuck Connors becomes the first in NBA history to thrash a backboard. The match against the Chicago Stags started one hour later than scheduled |
| 5/11/1932 | Arsenal manager Herbert Chapman persuades the London underground administration to name Arsenal the new metro station near Highbury |
