Foxboro Stadium, host venue of MLS Cup 1999

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 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...)

Song Zhenzhong

• ... that Song Zhenzhong (pictured), the son of Song Qiyun and Xu Linxia, was detained by the Kuomintang before his first birthday and executed at the age of eight?
• ... that Napoleon III was buried in St Mary's Church, Chislehurst, before his remains were moved to Farnborough Abbey 15 years later?
• ... that Sankar Montoute became the first NFL player from Trinidad and Tobago in 1987?
• ... that a San Francisco–area radio station sometimes had to be quiet to avoid disturbing patients at a nearby dentist's office?
• ... that Bethwel Henry was the first Micronesian to receive a degree in his field, and served as a United Nations delegate at the age of 25?
• ... that the novel Bloody Bread, about the struggles of Polish immigrants in the US, was briefly criticized by communist censors for "glorifying the United States"?
• ... that Leonardo DiCaprio was set to star in the film adaptation of Leonardo da Vinci?
• ... that the fishing cat mainly inhabits wetlands and preys predominantly on fish?
• ... that Ewa Ligocka cooked another mathematician's goose?

Benjamin Netanyahu

• The International Criminal Court issues arrest warrants for Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu (pictured), former Israeli defense minister Yoav Gallant, and Hamas leader Mohammed Deif in its investigation of war crimes in Palestine.
• Forty-five pro-democracy activists are sentenced under the Hong Kong national security law for their participation in the 2020 pro-democracy primaries.
• In Canadian football, the Toronto Argonauts defeat the Winnipeg Blue Bombers to win the Grey Cup.

November 21: Armed Forces Day in Bangladesh

Alan Freed

• 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.
• 2009 – An explosion in a coal mine in Heilongjiang, China, killed 108 miners.