| 30/11/2024 | Two-time NBA MVP Giannis Antetokounmpo records his first career 40-point triple-double as the Milwaukee Bucks defeated the Washington Wizards 124-114, with 42 points, 12 rebounds and 11 assists. |
| 30/11/2023 | IOC Honour Member since 2002 and former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, who played a pivotal and polarising role in US foreign policy during the Cold War dies at the age of 100 |
| 30/11/2022 | Lionel Messi plays against Poland at the Qatar FIFA World Cup and breaks Diego Maradona’s record (21) of the most World Cup appearances with Argentina with 22 |
| 30/11/2019 | Maccabi Tel Aviv set new a new record during the league fixture against Hapoel Kiryat Shmona when after ten minutes of play and Maccabi’s goalmouth still not breached, goalkeeper Daniel Tenenbaum has played 11 consecutive matches this season (1,002 minutes) without conceding a goal. The mark had been held by Maccabi Haifa’s Giora Antman, who set the record in the 1988/89 season. |
| 30/11/2013 | Lukas Giannakoulis is killed when his racing car, a Porsche 911, impinges on a tree during the "Palladium" Rally for the National Championship. The 53-year-old driver who was a climber (climbed the Himalayas in 1985), rider (67th in the overall standings at the 2003 Paris Dakar and 4th in the Super Production 251-400cc class), and a classic car driver, was an engineering architect and was married to Maria Bobola, the daughter of the publisher of “ETHNOS” newspaper since 1992. |
| 30/11/2011 | PAOK defeats Tottenham 1-2 in London, playing with 10 players in one half, and qualifies to the Europa League Round of “32”. It is the first win of a Greek team in England after 35 years, when AEK defeated Derby County 2-3 in 1976. |
| 30/11/1999 | Manchester United become the first english team to win the Intercontinental Cup when they defeat Palmeiras 1-0 (Keane) in Tokyo |
| 30/11/1998 | FIBA allows the players' free tranfer in european games and adopts the 24'' rule |
| 30/11/1988 | Greek football teams are allowed to use three foreigners in the league |
| 30/11/1986 | Ivan Lendl becomes the first tennis player whose earnings surpass the sum of $10 million |
| 30/11/1982 | The daily sports journal “Filathlos” is first published with Nikos Karagiannides as the editor |
| 30/11/1979 | Sugar Ray Leonard wins for the first time in his career the midweight boxing title by knocking out Wilfred Benitez in round 15. Nicknamed ''Bruce Lee'' Leonard has already won the gold medal at the Montreal 1976 Olympics by beating Cuban Andres Aldama 5-0. He fought in three different categories. He is considered the most commercial boxer in boxing history |
| 30/11/1973 | Kathy Whitworth is proclaimed ''Golfer of the Year'' for the 7th time in 8 years |
| 30/11/1962 | Ossip Bernstein, a very important chess player who obtained the title of International Grandmaster in 1950, dies at the age of 80. In the Russian Revolution, at the age of 36, he lost all his fortune as a businessman, was arrested and executed. The head of the execution squad, looking at the names of those arrested, recognized the chess player's name and challenged him to a match for his life, where Bernstein easily won and was saved. |
| 30/11/1955 | Lights are used for the first time in an international football match at Wembley in the England-Spain match (4-1). A friendly game between clubs preceded on 10/5/1933 in Paris and on 18/4/1939 lights were installed at Panathinaikos home ground at Alexandra Avenue with the permission of Minister K. Kotzias. |
| 30/11/1951 | The first post-war rally commences from the Irodou Attikou Theatre. The “Greek Rally” comes true thanks to the contribution of the Shell Company and a few car lovers who addressed to ELPA (Automobile and Touring Club of Greece). Costas Spiliotakis, driving a 6-cylinder Jaguar starts first among ten cars covering a distance of 1923 km. Petros Peratikos with a FIAT 1400 will finish first at the Stadium of Kifissia and Spiliotakis second after a 43- hour race, which until 1960, when the special stages will be introduced, will run without a stop. |
| 30/11/1887 | First softball game held in Chicago |
| 30/11/1872 | First official international match in football history, England vs Scotland 0-0 in Glasgow. Two unofficial matches were played in 1870 and 1871, with teams mainly consisting of rugby players |
