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Today's featured article Foxboro Stadium, host venue of MLS Cup 1999 MLS Cup 1999was the fourth edition of theMLS Cup,the championship match ofMajor League Soccer(MLS), the top-levelsoccerleague of the United States. It took place on November 21, 1999, atFoxboro Stadium(pictured)inFoxborough, Massachusetts,and was contested byD.C. Unitedand theLos Angeles Galaxyin a rematch of theinaugural 1996 finalplayed 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 won2–0with first-half goals fromJaime MorenoandBen Olsenfor their third MLS Cup victory in four years; Olsen was named themost valuable playerof the match for his winning goal. The final was played in front of 44,910 spectators and drew 1.16 million viewers on itsABCtelevision broadcast. It was also the first MLS match to be played with a standard game clock and without atiebreaker shootout.(Full article...) Recently featured: Siege of Constantinople (674–678) Edith Roosevelt Donkey Kong Country On this day... November 21:Armed Forces Dayin Bangladesh Alan Freed 1894–First Sino-Japanese War:Aftercapturingthe Chinese city ofPort Arthur,the Japanese army begana massacre of the city's soldiers and civilians. 1959– Americandisc jockeyAlan Freed(pictured),who popularized the termrock and roll,was fired fromWABC-AMfor his role in thepayolascandal. 1964– TheVerrazzano-Narrows Bridge,connectingStaten IslandandBrooklynin New York City, opened to traffic as thelongest suspension bridge in the worldat the time. 1974–Bombs explodedin twopubsin centralBirmingham,England, killing 21 people and leading to the imprisonment ofsix people who were later exonerated. 2009–An explosionin a coal mine inHeilongjiang,China, killed 108 miners. Voltaire(b.1694) Hetty Green(b.1834) Milka Planinc(b.1924) Catherine Bauer Wurster(d.1964) More anniversaries: November 20 November 21 November 22

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