| 29/11/2023 | Dimitrios Diamantakos scores two goals for Kerala Blasters in their 3-3 draw against Chennaiyin for the Indian Superleague and becomes the team’s top goal scorer with 16 goals in 30 caps in all competitions |
| 29/11/2020 | Former Premier League player and Senegal World Cup star Papa Bouba Diop dies aged 42 after a long illness. He played for Xamax, Grasshoppers, Lens, Fulham, Portsmouth, and AEK during 2010-11 season with 37 caps and 4 goals. He then moved to West Ham and Birmingham City, ending his career in 2013. Diop made 63 appearances for his country with the highlight of his international career coming at the 2002 World Cup where he scored the first goal of the tournament as Senegal stunned reigning champion France 1-0. |
| 29/11/2016 | A British Aerospace 146 short-haul plane, operated by a charter airline named LaMia, with the Brazilian first division football team Chapecoense crashes near Medellin, Colombia, killing 71 people. 6 people survived. The aircraft, which had departed from Santa Cruz, Bolivia, was transporting Chapecoense from southern Brazil for the first leg of a two-game Copa Sudamericana final against Atletico Nacional of Medellin, which was due to be played on 30/11. The pilot declared an emergency and lost radar contact because of an electrical failure. |
| 29/11/1998 | Maurice “Mans” Gatsonides dies at the age of 89. He was Dutch but born in Java, Indonesia and a rally driver and inventor. He won the Monte Carlo Rally in 1953 driving a Ford Zephyr. In order to improve his driving by measuring his cornering speed, he invented, in 1958, the Gatso “speed camera” which will be later used by police forces to catch speeding drivers. |
| 29/11/1991 | USA win the first women's World Cup (held in China) as they defeat Norway 2-1 |
| 29/11/1987 | Iraklis' sole win over Olympiacos (2-1) in OAKA Stadium |
| 29/11/1980 | Ronnie Carr of Western Carolina scores the first three-point goals in the history of college basketball in the game against Middle Tennessee State at Reid Gym in Cullowhee, one year after Chris Ford, who, on 12/10/1979, scored the first 3p goal in NBA history |
| 29/11/1975 | Graham Hill, one of the greatest motor racing drivers of Britain, is killed when his Piper Aztec aeroplane, which he was piloting, crashes in foggy conditions over Arkley Golf Course in North London. He was the only driver to win th Triple Crown, i.e. Indianapolis 500 (1966), 24 Hours of Le Mans (1972) and Formula 1 (1962,1968) or/and Monaco Grand Prix (1963, 1964, 1965, 1968, 1969). |
| 29/11/1970 | Ethnikos wins Olympiacos with 1-0 (89’) at Karaiskaki Stadium with a goal scored by Nikos Sideris, nephew of Giorgos. It’s the season where Olympiacos will note 7 loses and will be placed seventh in the standings table but will “win” the shipowner Nikos Goulandris, who will remain in the president’s position until Christmas of 1974 |
| 29/11/1931 | Greece is defeated by Romania with 2-4 (Angelakis) at “Leoforos” stadium for the 1st Balkan Cup. In the first game, Greece was also defeated with 2-1 in Bucharest |
| 29/11/1908 | The first statutory of Iraklis Thessaloniki is compiled during the first general assembley. The club, which is one of the oldest clubs in Greece, is dated since 1899 when the “Musical Club” was founded and in 1903 it included sports in its curriculum, with the first official game being that of 23/4/1905. The obligatory title of the club is “Otoman Greek Club of Thessaloniki: O Iraklis” because of the ottoman occupation. However, after the delivery of Thessaloniki in 1912 the name will be changed to Iraklis |
| 29/11/1899 | Swiss buisnessman Hans Gamper founds Barcelona FC |
| 29/11/1897 | First motorcycle race held in Surrey, England |
| 29/11/1855 | British Thomas Berry from Emmanuel College Sports becomes the first athlete to run 100 yards in 10 seconds |
