| 23/11/2022 | Olivier Giroud scores 51st goal for France in World Cup victory against Australia as AC Milan striker equals Arsenal legend Thierry Henry’s record for Les Bleus |
| 23/11/2019 | Greek Olympian Anna Korakaki wins the silver medal in the ISSF Rifle and Pistol World Cup Finals, held at Putian, China. The Greek athlete took part in the finals of the World Cup for shooting sports and managed to come second in the “Mixed 10m Pistol” competition, along with her sports partner Saurabh Chaudhary from India. First place is won by the team comprised of Manu Bhaker from India and Artem Chernousov from Russia. |
| 23/11/2019 | Greek Olympic champion Eleftherios Petrounias wins the silver medal during the World Cup finals in the German city of Cottbus. The Greek artistic gymnast of rings scored 14.866 points and thus came in second, behind Chinese Yang Liu, who took 15.133. |
| 23/11/2016 | During a ceremony at the White House, President Barack Obama presents the Medal of Freedom to 21 "extraordinary Americans" who have "lifted our spirits, strengthened our union and pushed us towards progress". Actors Tom Hanks, Robert De Niro, and Robert Redford, singers Bruce Springsteen and Diana Ross, Bill Gates, Michael Jordan and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, who together have scored more than 70.000 points in the NBA, comedian and television host Ellen DeGeneres, sports broadcaster Vin Scully and scientists Richard Garwin and Margaret Hamilton were among the "particularly impressive" class of 2016 picking up America's highest civilian honour. |
| 23/11/2011 | American Samoa defeat Tonga with 2-1 in an 2014 World Cup qualifying game. This is the first win in the country’s history after 17 years. The last win was in 1983 against Wallis and Futuna with 3-0 for the South Pacific Games. |
| 23/11/2010 | AEL F.C. Arena, the new football stadium for AEL FC, with a capacity of 16,118 sets, replacing the older stadium Alkazar, is inaugurated. The new athletic center, which was the dream of Kostas Piladakis, was developed in a total of 144,000 square meters in the region of Neapolis, Larissa and is constructed within UEFA three stars international specifications. |
| 23/11/2004 | Predrag Djordjevic scores at the Olympiacos – La Coruna (1-0) match and becomes the top scorer of a Greek team with 9 goals since the beginning of Champions League, surpassing Giovanni, Mihalis Konstantinou and Krzysztof Warzycha (8) as well as the first player of Olympiacos in participations (53) in European matches surpassing Kyriakos Karataidis (52) |
| 23/11/2004 | Sir Alex Ferguson celebrates his 1,000th game in charge of Manchester United with the win 2-1 against Olympique Lyonnais in Old Trafford for the Champions League Group Stage |
| 23/11/2003 | Platanias footballer James Mavromatis loses consciousness because of a heart problem and falls down during the game Platanias – Koutsouras for the 4th division of the Greek Championship at the Perivolia Stadium. Unfortunately, during his transportation to the hospital of Chania, he will die. Platanias will withdraw the jersey with the number "15" and will request that the team will not play on the day of November 23rd in the future, as a tribute and memory to the young player. |
| 23/11/1999 | Leonidas Sapanis (62 kg) wins 2 silver medals after lifting a total of 315kgs and Ioanna Hatzioannou (63 kg) one bronze in clean & jerk with 127,5kgs (Greek record) at the World Weightlifting Championships held at Peace and Friendship Stadium |
| 23/11/1998 | 37-year-old Dennis Rodman of the Chicago Bulls files for divorce from actress Carmen Electra 9 days after their wedding. His lawyers say he was too drunk to know what he was doing |
| 23/11/1997 | Austria and Hungary propose to host Euro 2004 |
| 23/11/1989 | MEGA is the first greek private channel to broadcast a football match (Olympiacos - Auxerre 1-1 at Karaiskakis Stadium) |
| 23/11/1988 | Sumo champion Chion Ofuji wins his 50th consecutive fight |
| 23/11/1988 | Wayne Gretzky scores his 600th goal in NHL |
| 23/11/1974 | Pablo Neruda’s “The Splendour and Death of Joaquín Murieta”, translated and directed by Manolis Mavromatis, is played, since October, at “Akadimos” theatre under the artistic direction of Rena Venieri. ?n January of the following year, Manolis Mavromatis will direct Somerset Maugham’s “Home Beauty”, translated/adapted by Melpo Zarokosta |
| 23/11/1893 | The steward of Ethnikos, Tr. Triantafylopoulos, prepares the regulation of the club, which will be approved by the Board of Directors on 27/11/1893. The first gym is located in the center of Athens and is open only on working days and hours |
