| 22/11/2022 | Argentinian Lionel Messi and Mexican Andres Guardado play against Saudi Arabia and Poland respectively for the Qatar World Cup group stage reaching 5 career World Cups (2006-2022) equalling Antonio Carbajal (1950-1966), Lothar Matthäus (1982-1998) and Rafael Marquez (2002-2018) |
| 22/11/2021 | Panathinaikos defeats Olympiakos 76-81 in Peace & Friendship Stadium (SEF) for the 8th matchday of Basketleague. Serbian guard Nemanja Nedovic becomes the first player of Panathinaikos to score 26 points at Olympiacos’ home ground for the greek championship, after 35 games and the incredible appearance of Kennedy Winston in 2008. Moreover, Nedovic surpasses Vassilis Spanoulis, who in 2012, was the last player to score at least 24 points in the last 20 games between the two teams in SEF, for the Greek Basket League. |
| 22/11/2020 | Liverpool set a new club record of 64 top-flight home matches without defeat following their 3-0 Premier League win against Leicester City. Liverpool's previous record of 63 matches unbeaten in the league at Anfield was set in December 1980, the run having started more than two years earlier in February 1978. |
| 22/11/2013 | Norwegian chess grandmaster Magnus Carlsen wins the World Chess Championships 2013, eight days before his 23rd birthday. The 10th match against the defending champion Viswanathan Anand from India ends in a draw, resulting in an overall score of 6.5 – 3.5, thus there is no need to play the last 2 scheduled matches. The ELO rating of the new champion is 2870 points, but his peak rating of 2872 was achieved on February earlier this year, the highest ever in chess history. Garry Kasparov remains second in this list with 2851 points since July, 1999. |
| 22/11/2000 | Legendary Czech runner Emil Zatopek dies aged 78. He achieved one of track's rarest feats, winning the 5000m, 10000m and marathon in a single Olympic Games (Helsinki 1952) |
| 22/11/1995 | Panathinaikos striker Alexandros Alexoudis scores the opening goal in the match against AaB after just 28 seconds, recording the fastest goal in Champions League history outdoing Andreas Muller of Borussia Dortmund who has scored on the 37” against Juventus on 13/9/1995 |
| 22/11/1992 | Sandra Volker sets new 50m back style world record with 28.57 |
| 22/11/1986 | Wayne Gretzky plays his 575th NHL game and scores his 500th goal as Edmonton Oilers beat Vancouver Canucks 5-2 |
| 22/11/1986 | Mike Tyson becomes the youngest boxer (20 years and 6 months old) to win the heavyweight title as he knocks out Travor Berbick in Las Vegas |
| 22/11/1981 | 37-year-old Argentina striker Juan Ramon Veron ends his 20-year football career at the Estudiantes-Atletiko match (2-1). Known as La Bruja (The Witch) because of his excuisite drible, he played with Panathinaikos (1972-73 and 1973-74) scoring 22 goals, while in 1975, his son, Juan Sebastian Veron, later Manchester United star, was born in Buenos Aires |
| 22/11/1977 | First Concorde flight from London to New York |
| 22/11/1975 | Vassilis Hatzipanagis comes to Greece from Pahtakor, Tashkent, Uzbekistan and makes his debut two weeks later. He will score his first goal on 28/3/1976 |
| 22/11/1967 | 200 black athletes decide to boycott the 1968 Olympics in Mexico during a black youth conference in Los Angeles |
| 22/11/1950 | The lowest scoring game in NBA (37 points). The Fort Wayne Pistons beat the Minneapolis Lakers 19-18 |
| 22/11/1930 | Clapton Orient face Brentford in one of the two football league matches played at Wembley |
| 22/11/1917 | The National Hockey League is founded in Montreal by Montreal Canadiens, Montreal Maroons, Toronto Arenas, Ottawa Senators and Quebec Bulldogs |
