The United States scored the tying and go-ahead goals 43 seconds apart late in the third period and poured in two more for good measure in a 5-2 win over Canada to claim the ice hockey World Cup. With Canada ahead 2-1, Brian Leetch fired a 50-footer for the Americans from the blue line, which Brett Hull tipped past goalie Curtis Joseph to tie the score with 3:18 remaining. Amonte’s game-winner came at 17:25 as the forward banged home a rebound of a shot by Derian Hatcher. The goals by Hull and Amonte were both reviewed by replay officials to see if Hull had held his stick too high on the deflection, and Amonte’s to determine if he had kicked the puck in. Both goals were upheld and the fired-up Americans scored twice more.
Other important events:
1814 Francois Scott Key writes America’s national anthem, ‘The Star Spangled Banner’.
1891 The first penalty kick in the English Football League is taken by Wolverhampton Wanderers in their match against Accrington.
1901 US President William McKinley dies of gunshot wounds inflicted by an assassin.
1905 Great Britain’s Royal Automobile Club holds its first race on the Isle of Man.
1917 Russia is officially proclaimed a republic.
1918 Austria-Hungary makes peace offer to Allies in World War I.
1923 Miguel Primo de Rivera assumes power in Spain.
1927 Modern dance pioneer Isadora Duncan dies in Nice, France, when her scarf becomes entangled in a wheel of the car in which she was riding.
1948 A ground-breaking ceremony takes place in New York at the site of the United Nations’ world headquarters.
1956 American surgeons perform the first US prefrontal lobotomy, at George Washington University Hospital in Washington, DC
1959 Soviet space probe Luna 2 becomes the first man-made object to reach the moon.
1960 The Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) is founded.
1982 Princess Grace of Monaco, formerly actress Grace Kelly, dies at age 52.
1989 Swapo leader Sam Nujoma ends 29 years of exile.
1993 Israel and Jordan sign an ‘agenda for peace’ in Washington, DC.
1994 Tropical storms in north-central Africa kill about 100 people.
1996 Bosnia holds its first post-war election.
1997 German and US military planes collide off the coast of Namibia killing 33 people.
2000 Cheng Kejie, a former deputy chairman of China’s parliament is executed for corruption.
2002 American Tim Montgomery breaks the 100m world record in a time of 9.78 seconds.
2003 In a referendum, Estonia approves joining the European Union
2008 A passenger jet travelling from Moscow to Perm crashes, killing all 88 people on board.
2009 The rear of a Fokker 100 passenger plane catches fire as it makes an emergency landing at Germany’s Stuttgart airport.
2010 Australia’s first woman prime minister Julia Gillard takes over office with shaky coalition.
2012 A passenger bus collides with a fuel tanker on the highway from Kabul to Kandahar, Afghanistan and killing 51 people.
2013 Japan successfully launch a new rocket, its first space telescope.
2015 Taliban insurgents in military uniform storms an Afghan prison in Ghazni, freeing hundreds of inmates.
