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November 2004 In Sports
__NOTOC__ November 30, 2004 (Tuesday) *College football: Notre Dame fires head coach Tyrone Willingham in the third year of a five-year contract. He becomes the first Notre Dame coach to be fired before the end of his contract. The leading candidate to succeed Willingham is reportedly Utah head coach Urban Meyer, a former Notre Dame assistant(ESPN)*NFL: Cleveland Browns head coach Butch Davis resigns after his team loses their fifth straight game. Offensive coordinator Terry Robiskie has been named interim coach(AP)* Rowing: Four-times Olympic gold medallist, Matthew Pinsent, announces his retirement(BBC)*Cricket: Australia beat New Zealand by 213 runs to win their 2 test series 2–0(Cricinfo) November 29, 2004 (Monday) * Baseball: Toronto Blue Jays parent company, Rogers Communications, agrees to purchase SkyDome, the Blue Jays' home stadium, from investment group Sportsco International, LP, for $25 million CAD (about $21.24 million USD)(TSN) [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
November 26
Events Pre-1600 * 783 – The Asturian queen Adosinda is held at a monastery to prevent her king from retaking the throne from Mauregatus. *1161 – Battle of Caishi: A Song dynasty fleet fights a naval engagement with Jin dynasty ships on the Yangtze river during the Jin–Song Wars. * 1476 – Vlad the Impaler defeats Basarab Laiota with the help of Stephen the Great and Stephen V Báthory and becomes the ruler of Wallachia for the third time. 1601–1900 *1778 – In the Hawaiian Islands, Captain James Cook becomes the first European to visit Maui. *1789 – A national Thanksgiving Day is observed in the United States as proclaimed by President George Washington at the request of Congress. *1805 – Official opening of Thomas Telford's Pontcysyllte Aqueduct. *1812 – The Battle of Berezina begins during Napoleon's retreat from Russia. *1852 – An earthquake as high as magnitude 8.8 rocks the Banda Sea, triggering a tsunami and killing a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |