| 2/5/2021 | 16-year-old Alexandra Efraimoglou scores 65800 points and wins the silver medal in acrobatic exercises at the European Championships in Trampoline, Tumbling and Double Mini-Trampoline in Sochi, Russia |
| 2/5/2009 | Olympiacos defeats AEK at the Greek Cup final at Olympic Stadium and wins the “double”. The match ends 3-3 at regular time, 4-4 at extra-time and 15-14 at the penalty shoot-outs, after 34 shots, a record in the history of the competition. It is the last match for Predrag Djordjevic, while Antonis Nikopolidis saves 2 penalties and scores another two from the penalty point. |
| 2/5/2001 | Former basketball player Enrico Bovone commits suicide at the age of 55 |
| 2/5/2000 | F1 pilot David Coulthard of McLaren escapes death when the light aircraft he is travelling in comes down in flames in Lyon |
| 2/5/1999 | Michael Schumacher drives Ferrari to its first win at the Imola Grand Prix in 16 years (1983, Patric Tambay) |
| 2/5/1999 | 3 spectators lose their life as a result of a crash involving Stan Wattles and John Paul Juniors in a race for the Indy racing league in Concord, North Carolina |
| 2/5/1999 | Spanish referee Antonio Lopez Nieto shows 16 yellow cards in the Atletic Bilbao - Atletico Madrid match, where only 33 fouls are committed |
| 2/5/1999 | The Church of Scotland reschedules the evening mess by 2 hours so as no to coincide with Sunday football matches |
| 2/5/1999 | American football legend John Elway ''The Magnificent 7'' announces his retirement |
| 2/5/1999 | Argentinian striker Sergio Galvan becomes the first to score 5 goals in the Colombian league (Once Calvas - America 6-0) |
| 2/5/1998 | 37-year-old British footballer Justin Fashanu, who has played for Norwich, Nottingham Forest, Southampton, etc, hangs himself in a dilapidated garage on the outskirts of London. The police will find him the next day along with a note, in which he denies the allegations of seducing a 17-year-old guy a few months ago in Maryland, USA. The note states that "I believe that I am already doomed just by the fact that I am gay" and that “… our sexual contact was consensual”. On 22/10/1990, as a player of West Ham, and as the first colored player in the Premier League who earned more than 1 million pounds, in an interview at the “Sun” newspaper titled "£1m Football Star: I AM GAY", he became the first player in the history of the sport who dared to publicly confess that he was gay. |
| 2/5/1979 | Panagiotis Kelesidis “holds” the "0" for Greece in the tied-match with Hungary in Budapest for the Nations Cup qualifiers |
| 2/5/1970 | Diane Crump becomes the first female jockey to ride at a Kentucky Derby |
| 2/5/1965 | ''Early Bird'' satellite goes into commercial service |
| 2/5/1953 | In front of 100.000 spectators, Blackpool beat Bolton Wandereres 4-3 at Wembley, in the stadium’s highest scoring FA Cup final. Mortensen scores 3 goals and Perry one, on the last minute, for the winners, whereas Lofthouse two, Moir one and Bell one for the losers, who were leading 3-1 twenty minutes from time. The match is known as “The Matthews Final” thanks to the performance of Blackpool’s 38-year-old Stanley Matthews, who although considered already old, he will carry on playing until the age of 50 |
| 2/5/1854 | Sophie de Marbois-Lebrun, Duchess of Plaisance, wife of Charles-François Lebrun, general of Napoleon Bonaparte dies at the age of 69 (the date corresponds to 14 May of the Gregorian calendar, adopted in Greece after 1923). Her father, François Barbé-Marbois, French Consul, describes as “Champs Elysees” the area in the center of Athens near Ilissos river. In 1848 the architect Stamatios Kleanthis completed the Duchess’ villa, which will host the Byzantine Museum in 1930. Both terms, Elysees and Ilissia sound exactly the same in the greek language (homophonic). As a result, there is confusion on the origin of the name of the area, which will adopt the name of the river and will be called Ilissia and the name of the local team, which will be written according to Elysees, refered by the greek epic poet Homer as “Elysia” |
