| 5/5/2019 | Newly-crowned Super League champions PAOK claimed their 26th win of the season on Sunday by defeating PAS Giannina 2-0 and ended the season undefeated. The Thessaloniki club become the first team in 55 years that has achieved such a feat in the Greek premier football league and the only European club to complete the 2018/2019 domestic championship without a single loss |
| 5/5/2019 | World number 10 20-year-old Stefanos Tsitsipas captures his third ATP title after beating Uruguay's Pablo Cuevas 6-3 7-6 (7-4) to win the Estoril Open. It was his first clay court title, his second this season and first outdoors. |
| 5/5/2014 | Bryant Dunston of Olympiacos Piraeus is voted the 2014 Best Defender Trophy winner by Turkish Airlines Euroleague head coaches. He also becomes the first player in the Euroleague this century to compile at least 30 blocks and 30 steals in a single season. |
| 5/5/2007 | Theofanis Gekas scores his 20th goal with VfL Bochum against Hamburg (0-3), and will become the Top Goal Scorer in Bundesliga having played in 32 games. He will sign with Bayer 04 Leverkusen after the end of the german championship |
| 5/5/2002 | Panathinaikos win their third Euroleague trophy in Bologna after defeating Kinder Bologna 89-83 |
| 5/5/2000 | Gino Bartali, the legendary Italian cyclist of the 40s and 50s (2 times Tour de France winner), dies in Florence aged 85 |
| 5/5/1995 | Former 6-time-world chess champion Mikhail Botvinnik dies in Moscow aged 83. Aside from being one of the best all-time players Botvinnik worked as mechanical engineer on artificial intelligence projects developing programs for computer chess |
| 5/5/1992 | 15 people die and more than 800 get injured when a whole section of Fouriani Stadium in Corsica collapses during the French Cup semi-final between Bastia and Marseille |
| 5/5/1991 | First mountain bike Cross Country race held in Greece |
| 5/5/1990 | Women's European Gymnastics Championships open at Peace and Friendship Stadium |
| 5/5/1987 | Carl Lewis' father dies of cancer. At the funeral the world champion puts his 100m gold olympic medal in the hands of the deceased |
| 5/5/1956 | First Judo World Championships held in Tokyo, Japan |
| 5/5/1955 | Musical drama ''Damn Baseball'' opens in Broadway |
| 5/5/1935 | First European Basketball Championship closes in Geneva. The games started on March 2, with 10 teams. Latvia won the title after beating Spain 24-18 |
