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2004

Tampa Bay Lightning win their first and only Stanley Cup

The 2004 Stanley Cup Finals was the championship series of the NHL 2003–04 season, and the culmination of the 2004 Stanley Cup playoffs. The Eastern Conference champion Tampa Bay Lightning defeated the Western Conference champion Calgary Flames in 7 games and was awarded the Stanley Cup. It was Tampa Bay’s first-ever appearance in the final.

1997

Detroit wins Stanley Cup, ends 42-year drought

The 1997 Stanley Cup Finals was the championship series of the NHL 1996–97 season, and the culmination of the 1997 Stanley Cup playoffs. It was contested by the Detroit Red Wings and the Philadelphia Flyers. Detroit won the series in four games to win the Stanley Cup for the 8th time in franchise history and the first time since 1955.

1996

Julio César Chávez vs. Oscar De La Hoya

De La Hoya faced his biggest challenge to fight with Julio Cesar Chavez, an experienced and popular Mexican fighter and the reigning World Boxing Council junior welterweight champion. Hoya defeated Chavez by a fourth-round TKO. The fight was stopped due to a bad cut suffered by Chavez.

1993

Montreal Canadiens win 10 straight OT games

The Canadiens and Los Angeles Kings met in Game 4 of the 1993 Stanley Cup final with the Canadiens winning 3-2 in overtime on John LeClair’s goal, moving within one victory of their 24th Cup championship.

1989

Wayne Gretzky wins his 9th NHL Hart Trophy in 10 years

Gretzky captured 9 Hart Trophies as the most valuable player, 10 Art Ross Trophies for most points in a season, 2 Conn Smythe Trophies as playoff MVP and five Lester B. Pearson Awards for the most outstanding player as judged by his peers. He won the Lady Byng Memorial Trophy for sportsmanship and performance five times and often spoke out against fighting in hockey.

1975

The inaugural Cricket World Cup begins in England

The inaugural Cricket World Cup the first of its kind is known as The Prudential World Cup. It opened in England. This first World Cup featured together 8 teams from six countries and two regional teams. The matches were played in traditional white uniform and with red balls.

1970

Brazil football legend Cafu is born

Cafu was raised in the Jardim Irene favela of São Paulo. In the early 1980s, he was rejected from the youth squads of Corinthians, Palmeiras, Santos, Atlético Mineiro and Portuguesa. It was not until 1988 that he made the youth squad of hometown club São Paulo, and subsequently won the Copa São Paulo youth tournament that year.

1962

Václav Mašek scores the second fastest goal in World Cup history

In a match against Mexico, he became famous for scoring a goal after only 16 seconds of play, the fastest goal in World Cup history until forty years later, when his record was beaten by Hakan Şükür of Turkey, by scoring after 11 seconds in the 3rd place match of the 2002 FIFA World Cup.

1927

Italian football club A.S. Roma is founded

Associazione Sportiva Roma commonly referred to as simply Roma, is a professional Italian football club based in Rome. Founded by a merger in 1927, Roma has participated in the top-tier of Italian football for all of their existence except for 1951–52.

Anniversaries of the (in)famous

born 1952

Liam Neeson

died 1954

Alan Turing

born 1974

Bear Grylls