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The San Antonio Spurs held off the New
York Knicks in June to win the team's
first-ever NBA championship. The Spurs,
led by David Robinson and Tim Duncan,
clinched all four playoff series games on
the road, completing the playoffs with a
15-2 record. The team also set an N BA
single-season record with 12 consecutive
victories in the postseason.

Robert Downey Jr., the one-time
Oscar nominee and star of such
films as "Natural Born Killers"
and "Less Than Zero," was
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rehabilitation prior to his latest
arrest, and had spent more than
six months behind bars.
The dreadful events that plagued the life of John F. Kennedy Jr.
painted an eerie backdrop for the tragic plane crash that killed him,
his wife, Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, and her sister, Lauren Bessette. 'an Remiorz/AP
The bodies of the three victims were recovered by divers in the
Atlantic about seven miles off of Martha's Vineyard, where the Piper
Saratoga II Kennedy was piloting crashed five days before. In the A controversial goal in the third
overtime lifted the Dallas Stars to
end, the nation and the world was left to mourn the loss of a man
they came to know as a little boy, saluting the casket of his victory over the Buffalo Sabres in
assassinated father, a boy who grew up to inherit the bittersweet Game 6 of the Stanley Cup Finals in
June. On the winning goal, Dallas'
Kennedy legacy.
Brett Hull took two whacks at the
puck and finally knocked it past the
Sabres' fallen goalie. After further
review, the shot was ruled fair to give
Dallas its first championship in
franchise history.

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The first century of the second millennium began with
Leif Eriksson sailing west to become the first European in
the New W orld. Eriksson and 35 other men crossed the
Atlantic from Greenland to a place they called Vinland
near what is now Newfoundland. The year was 1000 A.D.
A new measure of literary brilliance was discovered in
1008, when Japan's Lady Murasaki Shikibu wrote what is
believed to be the first true novel, "The Tale of Genji."
The colorful story of the life and loves of Prince Genji is
considered a masterpiece and the pinnacle of Japanese Photos
literature.
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Canute of Denmark became the king of England in

the country three years before. W hile presiding over a
period of prosperity in England, C a n u te th e G re a t also