Jamal Lewis, running back for the Baltimore Ravens, rushed for 295 yards at M&T stadium in Baltimore, Maryland. The Baltimore Ravens beat the Cleveland Browns,
The first regular season outdoor game in the history of the National Hockey League took place at Edmonton’s Commonwealth Stadium in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, as
In college football, The Arkansas Razorbacks beat the Kentucky Wildbacks, 71-63 at Commonwealth Stadium in Lexington, Kentucky in 7 overtimes.
Ontario, Canada issued the first full same-sex marriage licenses in North America.
91% of Lithuanian voters opted to join the European Union—the first former Soviet nation to do so.
Rachel Corrie, a 23-year-old United States activist, was murdered in the Gaza Strip by a U.S.-made Israeli bulldozer while protesting destruction of Palestinian homes by
In over 100 countries, 15,000,000 people demonstrated against President George Bush’s war on Iraq. It was the largest coordinated protest in world history.
The space shuttle Columbia disintegrated as it tried to reenter the Earth’s atmosphere after a sixteen-day mission in space. All seven members of the crew
Outgoing Illinois governor George Ryan cleared the state’s death row by commuting the sentences of 167 inmates.
Brazil’s new leftist president, Luiz Inácio Lula de Silva, suspended purchase of 12 new fighter planes saying money could be better used to relieve hunger.
