The COVID-19 pandemic has wiped out most live sport all around the globe, but history will never be erased.
While you contemplate streaming yet another Netflix drama or rewatching another replay of your favorite sporting moments, here are some stories that were making news in years past on May 5.
1969
Milwaukee Bucks sign No.1 NBA draft pick Lew Alcindor, who would later be known as Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.
The towering big man is still regarded as the greatest centre to have played the game and is most famous for his near-flawless 'Sky Hook' shot.
Abdul-Jabbar won six NBA championships - one with the Bucks and five in eight years for the 'Showtime' Los Angeles Lakers of the 1980s.
His accolades as a player go unnoticed in the 'GOAT' chat, but he makes a good case as a 19-time NBA All-Star, six-time Most Valuable Player, two-time Finals MVP and an 11-time Defensive Player of the Year.
When he retired in 1989, aged 42, Abdul-Jabbar was the NBA's all-time scoring leader (38,387) - a record that still stands today.
1999
UFC legend Chuck 'The Iceman' Liddell makes his Octagon debut in a losing effort against submission wizard Jeremy Horn.
Knockout artist Liddell would avenge the loss six years later, battering Horn into submission. Liddell is regarded as one of the greatest light-heavyweight champions in UFC history and was the first true superstar of MMA.
After a seven-year run where Liddell won 18 of 20 fights, the American's career fell off a cliff, losing six of his last seven. He officially retired in 2018, after a knockout loss against Tito Ortiz.
2012
Oklahoma City Thunder defeat defending champions Dallas Mavericks 103-97 in the NBA Western Conference first-round for a 4-0 series sweep.
OKC would eventually make it to the finals, before losing 4-1 to LeBron James' Miami Heat.
The dynamic trio of Kevin Durant, Russell Westbrook and James Harden would play for the final time on the same NBA team.
At the end of the season, Harden was traded to the Houston Rockets for the 12th pick in the 2013 NBA Draft. The Thunder would use that pick to select Kiwi Steven Adams.
2017
The Kangaroos beat the Kiwis 30-12 in the final Anzac rugby league test in Canberra.
The result was overshadowed, when skipper Jesse Bromwich and Kevin Proctor were filmed snorting cocaine after the match.
As a result of the incident, Bromwich was stripped of the captaincy and the pair were suspended for the Rugby League World Cup later in the year.
The test was also Cameron Smith's 50th for Australia.
2018
Former Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson suffers a brain haemorrhage and is hospitalised.
The Scotsman would make a full recovery.
Birthdays
1965 - Two-time Australian supercars champion Glenn Seton, regarded as the best Australian driver to never win at Bathurst.
1986 - Former All Whites youth international and NZ Knights footballer Cole Tinkler
Newshub's top story 12 months ago....
Raymond Daniels scores stunning knockout win at Bellator Birmingham
American Raymond Daniels may well have pulled off the most astonishing knockout in combat sports history.
The Bellator mixed martial arts welterweight prospect - a veteran of 38 kickboxing fights - shared the cage with Wilker Barros in Birmingham, England.
The 39-year-old was winless in MMA, until he produced a devastating fight-stopper in the first round of their three-round clash.
Daniels sent Barros backing into the cage with a beautiful spinning back kick to the body, before spinning twice in the air, landing a right hook flush on the chin of his stunned opponent.
Barros was out cold and the combat sports world had just witnessed the first ever 720-degree spinning-hook knockout.
