| 15/11/2021 | Former international basketball player and member of the great Sporting team, Vasso Beskaki dies at the age of 46 after an unequal battle with cancer.Vaso retired from active action at the age of 30, winning championships with the undefeated team of Sporting (1986-95, 2001-03) and playing with the women’s national basketball team (35 caps). After leaving the floor, she continued to serve basketball at HEBA, in the office of the National Teams and in the relations with the international federations and FIBA. In recent years she has become a commissioner in international competitions. |
| 15/11/2020 | Anna - Niki Stamolamprou sets an individual record with the Women's National Team, scoring 22 points and exceeding 100 points in total with the national team, reaching 106, but Greece is defeated by Slovenia 70-77 for the Women's Eurobasket qualifiers. |
| 15/11/2020 | Legendary Liverpool, Spurs & England goalkeeper Ray Clemence dies, aged 72. Clemence made 665 appearances for Liverpool (1967 – 1981), winning five league championships, three European Cups, an FA Cup, two UEFA Cups and a League Cup. During his seven-year spell at Spurs (1981-1989), Clemence helped the club retain the FA Cup in 1982 and clocked up 330 appearances. He also capped for England on 61 occasions. |
| 15/11/2020 | Greek football player and manager Antonis Georgiadis dies, aged 85. He played for the great Doxa Drama in the 50's, taking part in three Greek Cup finals against Olympiakos (1954, 1958, 1959) and at the age of 31 he started his career as a coach. He coached many teams (including Olympiakos, AEK, Aris, OFI and AEL), as well as the Greek National Team for three years (1989-1992). He recorded more appearances than any other Greek coach on the bench (586 in total). In 1996, as the coach of Paniliakos, he had a serious car accident that practically ended his coaching career. |
| 15/11/2019 | Former North Carolina State basketball player Anthony Grundy dies Thursday from stab wounds suffered as a result of a domestic dispute in Kentucky. He played for Panellinios (2007-09), AEK (2010-11) and Kavala (2012-13) and was the top scorer of the greek basketball championship twice (2007-09). |
| 15/11/2015 | The Second Exhibition of two-stroke vehicles is organized by ORCA Club in Varkiza, during which the oldest vehicle in circulation in Greece is presented. It is an 110 years French-made Moped. It is the «La Parisienne» 1905 model, owned by an Athens resident, Roccos Apergis, fervent collector of two-stroke engines. |
| 15/11/2007 | 71-year-old Giorgos Sideris, former football forward of Olympiacos and the Greek national team, is shot at Paleo Faliro, but escapes with just some wounds at the hand and ribs |
| 15/11/1998 | Greece ranks first (566 points) at the 69th Weightlifting World Championships in Lakhti, Norway. Greece won 15 medals (6 gold, 4 silver, 5 bronze - Leonidas Sapanis, Pyrros Dimas, Kakhi Kakhiasvili, Giorgos Tzelilis, Viktor Mitrou, Valerios Leonidis, Leonidas Kokkas and Oleg Panatidis) |
| 15/11/1997 | One of the best all-time discus throwers Czech Ludvik Danek dies aged 60. He was the dominant figure in discus for more than a decade (1963-76). He won the gold medal at the Munich 1972 Olympics, the silver in Tokyo (1964) and the bronze in Mexico (1968) |
| 15/11/1996 | Space Jam is released featuring Michael Jordan and Larry Bird, who help Looney Tunes (Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, etc) to play a basketball game against alien slavers, in order to determine their freedom |
| 15/11/1995 | Jockey Julie Krone on ''Dustin's Dreamer'' completes 3.000 wins |
| 15/11/1994 | Martina Navratilova (167 titles, 18 Grand Slams) plays her farewell tennis game. She loses to Gabriela Sabatini 4-6, 2-6 for the Virginia Slims tournament in New York |
| 15/11/1991 | President George Bush invites Magic Johnson to join anti-AIDS committee |
| 15/11/1987 | Austrian F1 pilot Gerhard Berger wins the first Australian Grand Prix |
| 15/11/1982 | First issue of “TO MAT (mate)” the chess magazine, which will be published twice a month by Costas Xatziotis and editor Triantafyllos Siaperas |
| 15/11/1969 | First BBC color broadcast of a football match. Liverpool beat West Ham 2-0 |
| 15/11/1966 | 82-year-old weightlifter and wrestler Dimitris Tofalos dies in Patras, his birthplace. He won the gold medal in weightlifting in the unofficial Intercalated Olympic Games in 1906 in Athens, he also won another 251 medals in America where he fought as catch wrestler, and he also became known as coach and manager of wrestler Jim Londos |
| 15/11/1954 | ''Gallant Fox'', the horse that won the 1930 Triple Crown, dies aged 27 |
| 15/11/1952 | Goalkeeper Ted Sagar plays his last game (463d) for Everton. He stayed with Everton for a record 22 years and 10 months |
| 15/11/1952 | 13 players (5 from the Baltimore Bullets and 8 from the Syracuse Nationals, NBA record) are suspended in a game that ends 97-91 in overtime |
