| 5/2/2003 |
| Philippine anti-graft court Sandiganbayan convicts Florencio Campomanes, honorary president and former FIDE president (1982-1995), for failure to accredit government funds to the Philippine Sports Commission (PSC). Campo will be sentenced to prison for one year and 10 months, but will be cleared of charges. |
| 5/2/2000 |
| Italy becomes the 6th country to join the European Rugby League. The League was set up by the 4 british countries in 1883. France joined later |
| 5/2/2000 |
| Ricardo Pittis of Benetton Treviso completes 500 consecutive appearances in the italian basketball championship. He made his debut on September 21, 1986. He has won 3 championship titles, 5 Cups, 2 European Championship titles, 2 European Cups, 1 Korac Cup, 1 Intercontinental Cup and 1 Super Cup. He has been capped 116 times (2 silver medals) |
| 5/2/1977 |
| 1st International Special Olympics Winter Games start in Colorado Springs, USA |
| 5/2/1977 |
| Sugar Ray Leonard (olympic gold in 1976) beats Luis Vega in 6 rounds in his first professional fight |
| 5/2/1972 |
| Bob Douglas becomes the first black player elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame |
| 5/2/1970 |
| Preston Rudolph York, a Major League Baseball first baseman, who played for the Detroit Tigers (1934, 1937-45), Boston Red Sox (1946-47), Chicago White Sox (1947) and Philadelphia Athletics (1948), dies aged 57 |
| 5/2/1963 |
| Vassilis Georgiou begins his career as a sportscaster (Panathinaikos - Asteras 2-1 at Leoforos) |
| 5/2/1956 |
| The 7th Winter Olympic Games close in Cortina d' Ampezzo, Italy. 686 men and 132 women from 32 countries took part. For the first time the games were televised |
| 5/2/1948 |
| Dick Button becomes the first American to win olympic gold in ice skating at the St. Moritz Winter Olympics. Four years later he will repeat his triumph in Oslo |
| 5/2/1931 |
| Maxine Dunlap becomes the first woman to get a glider pilot license |
| 5/2/1927 |
| Henri Delaunay's suggestion to create a european football championship faces so many objections that it will take 30 years to materialize (March 27, 1957). Delaunay will only live to see UEFA founded (1954) |
| 5/2/1922 |
| First metal tennis racket (made by William Larned) tested |
| 5/2/1860 |
| Show Alter fabricates the baseball ball |
