| 11/6/2023 | Manchester City win the Champions League title for the first time by beating Inter Milan 1-0 (68’ Rodri) in Istanbul’s Ataturk Olympic Stadium, making them the second English team to complete the treble making them only the second English club to complete it after Manchester United also won the Premier League, FA Cup and Champions League in 1999. It is the third time Pep Guardiola lifts the trophy as a coach (Barcelona 2009 & 2011). | | 11/6/2023 | Novak Djokovic beats Casper Ruud in straight sets to lift his 3rd French Open title and 23rd Grand Slam title, more than any player in history on the men’s tour. | | 11/6/2021 | Stefanos Tsitsipas becomes the first Greek tennis player to play in a Grand Slam final after defeating Alexander Sverev 3-2 (3-6, 3-6, 6-4, 6-4, 3-6) in the 1st French open semi final. | | 11/6/2019 | The United States record the biggest ever victory in the FIFA Women's World Cup as they crushed Thailand 13-0. The United States' previous biggest win in the tournament was a 7-0 success over Chinese Taipei in 1991, while Germany's thrashing of Argentina 11-0 came in 2007. This win is the largest margin of victory in either the men's or women's World Cup. | | 11/6/2014 | Former basketball player and coach, Costas Mourouzis dies at the age of 80 after years of battle with cancer. As an athlete, he played with the Triton from 1948 to 1955 and at the age of 17 he joined the Greek national team making an overall of 24 appearances and scoring 242 points. His first appearance with the National was on 24/07/1955, at the Greece-Italy match during the Mediterranean Games, where he scored six points. Since 1955 and for five consecutive seasons he played for Girona Bologna, Italy where he was the top scorer of the Italian championship in 1956. In 1959 he returned to Triton as a player-coach, but an injury forced him to retire in 1962. As a coach, he started from Triton. He remained for four years (1962-1966) and he then moved to Panathinaikos, where he stayed from 1966 to 1974. During this time, Panathinaikos won six championships (1967, 1969, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974), reached the Cup Winners Cup semifinals in 1969 and twice the Champions Cup semifinals (1972, 1973). He continued with the National Men's team (1973-1974 where in 40 games he had 22 wins and 18 defeats), AEK (from 1975 to 1976, where he won a Cup), and Olympiacos (1976-1980). In his first year with Olympiacos, he won the Greek Cup, next year he won the double and led the team to be one of the six best teams in Europe. | | 11/6/2013 | The Greek government, issuing a legislative act, closes ERT after 47 years of operation. The news is announced at the 18:00 news broadcast and at 23:15 the digital signal of all channels of public television (ET1, NET, ET3, Vouli) and all the radio stations "drops" while the dismissal of 2,656 employees is announced. This action will cause many reactions from both domestic and international Press and the "crisis" will lead DIMAR to leave the tripartite government. | | 11/6/2012 | Cuban amateur boxer Teófilo Stevenson Lawrence dies at the age of 60 years. He was one of the only three boxers to win three Olympic gold medals (1972 Munich, 1976 Montreal, 1980 Moscow), alongside Hungarian László Papp and fellow Cuban Félix Savón. | | 11/6/2009 | Manchester United accepted an €94 million bid for 25-year-old Portugese striker Cristiano Ronaldo from Real Madrid, making Ronaldo the most expensive player in football history, while smashing the world record of €73 million in transfer fees Real paid for Zinedine Zidane in 2001. The third largest transfer (€65 million) is that of Brazilian Kaka from AC Milan, again to Real Madrid, 3 days ago. | | 11/6/2004 | Greek economist and former prime minister of Greece (1990) Xenophon Zolotas dies aged 100. ''Kyrie, I eulogize the archons of the Panethnic Numismatic Thesaurus and the Ecumenical Trapeza for the orthodoxy of their axioms…'', begins the famous speech he delivered on September 26, 1957 at the closing session of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development in Washington, a speech that consisted only of greek words used in english. One can easily notice that the only ''universal'' greek word the professor did not use was ''athlete'', despite the fact that he was a great swimmer | | 11/6/1990 | 16 year-old Monica Seles becomes the youngest winner of the french open Roland Garros | | 11/6/1989 | 17-year-old Michael Chang becomes the first American to win the Roland Garros in 34 years | | 11/6/1980 | Greece lose 1-0 to Holland for the Euro 1980 in Naples, Italy | | 11/6/1978 | Dutch player Rob Rensenbrink scores goal no1.000 in World Cup history as Holland beat Scotland 3-2 | | 11/6/1970 | Jack Charlton, brother of Bobby, appears for the 35th and last time with the English national team against Czechoslovakia for the Mexico World Cup. Four months later, in October, he will appear at a television football programme saying that he once had a “little black book” of names of players whom he intended to hurt or exact some kind of revenge upon during his playing days in Leeds. He will later say that this was a figure of speech and that no such book ever existed. He will retire from playing aged 38, in 1973, after an injury, with 774 club appearances and 96 goals | | 11/6/1955 | One of the biggest tragedies in car races occurs at the French Grand Prix in Le Mans. Pierre Levegh's Mercedes strikes the rear of an Austin Healy driven by Lance Macklin and flies into the crowd killing the driver and 83 spectators. Mike Hawthorn wins the race driving a Jaguar at 107.9m/h | | 11/6/1919 | ''Sir Barton'', winner of Kentucky Derby and Preakness, wins Belmont Stakes in New York and becomes the first horse to win the Triple Crown |
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