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MLS Cup 1999 was the fourth edition of the MLS Cup, the championship match of Major League Soccer (MLS), the top-level soccer league of the United States. It took place on November 21, 1999, at Foxboro Stadium (pictured) in Foxborough, Massachusetts, and was contested by D.C. United and the Los Angeles Galaxy in a rematch of the inaugural 1996 final played at the same venue. Both teams finished atop their respective conferences during the regular season under new head coaches and advanced through the first two rounds of the playoffs. D.C. United won 2–0 with first-half goals from Jaime Moreno and Ben Olsen for their third MLS Cup victory in four years; Olsen was named the most valuable player of the match for his winning goal. The final was played in front of 44,910 spectators – a record for the MLS Cup – and drew 1.16 million viewers on its ABC television broadcast. It was also the first MLS match to be played with a standard game clock and without a tiebreaker shootout. (Full article...)
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- Samantha Harvey (pictured) wins the Booker Prize for her novel Orbital.
- Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby announces his resignation as a result of the John Smyth abuse scandal in the Church of England.
- In Zhuhai, China, 35 people are killed in a vehicle-ramming attack.
- Alliance for Change, led by Navin Ramgoolam, wins the Mauritian general election.
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- ... that Texas and Pacific 610 was once bought for $1?
- ... that Helmut Bauer confirmed around 150,000 young people, including 500 in Tanzania?
- ... that although the plant species Dolichostachys elongata was first described in 1962, it was not considered validly published until 60 years later?
- ... that a review described He Fucked the Girl Out of Me as being about "all the ways in which American society fails its most vulnerable"?
- ... that the restoration of Neknampur Lake was recognised "as the best model of lake restoration in India"?
- ... that Benjamin Franklin Shumard's assistant named an oak species after him, and then sabotaged his reinstatement after he was fired?
- ... that the 2013 book Brick by Brick, about how The Lego Group reinvented itself, became a popular business text?
- ... that the Trilobite Wilderness is so rich in trilobite fossils that in places virtually every rock contains a fossil?
- ... that cavalry officer Harvey Tuckett retired from the British Army to become an actor, but was shot in a duel by his former commanding officer?
On this day (November 21)
November 21: Armed Forces Day in Bangladesh
- 1894 – First Sino-Japanese War: After capturing the Chinese city of Port Arthur, the Japanese army began a massacre of the city's soldiers and civilians.
- 1959 – American disc jockey Alan Freed (pictured), who popularized the term rock and roll, was fired from WABC-AM for his role in the payola scandal.
- 1964 – The Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge, connecting Staten Island and Brooklyn in New York City, opened to traffic as the longest suspension bridge in the world at the time.
- 1974 – Bombs exploded in two pubs in central Birmingham, England, killing 21 people and leading to the imprisonment of six people who were later exonerated.
- 2009 – An explosion in a coal mine in Heilongjiang, China, killed 108 miners.
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- Milka Planinc (b. 1924)
- Catherine Bauer Wurster (d. 1964)
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The red-lored whistler (Pachycephala rufogularis) is one of nine species of whistler occurring in Australia and a member of the family Pachycephalidae. It resides in the low mallee, spinifex, cypress pine and broombush woodland in the desert of central New South Wales, north-western Victoria and adjacent south-eastern South Australia, preferring low mallee woodlands or shrublands with open canopy, above a moderately dense but patchy scrub layer. The male bird has an orange or buff face and throat, a grey breastband extending around the neck and over the head, and rufous underparts with pale yellow or olive edging to primaries. The female is similar but with a paler throat and underparts. While it is often seen perched in trees and shrubs, the red-lored whistler feeds, for the most part, on the ground. Little is known about the movement of this species, although it is thought to be sedentary, with some movement possibly after breeding. It builds a substantial, cup-shaped nest made mostly of coarse bark and mallee leaves, neatly woven around the rim in low shrubs and lays two or three eggs. The species's limited range has seen it listed nationally as a vulnerable species. This red-lored whistler was photographed in the Nombinnie Nature Reserve in New South Wales. Photograph credit: John Harrison
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