Sport
- February 13 - The last hockey game is played at Maple Leaf Gardens as the team moves to the new Air Canada Centre.
- April 16 - Wayne Gretzky retires from ice hockey.
- July 23–August 8 - The Pan American games are held in Winnipeg.
- November 13 - Lennox Lewis defeats Evander Holyfield to become the Heavyweight Champion of the World.
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“Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence: in other words it is war minus the shooting.
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—George Orwell (1903–1950)
“Sweet Auburn, loveliest village of the plain,
Where health and plenty cheered the labouring swain,
Where smiling spring its earliest visit paid,
And parting summer’s lingering blooms delayed,
Dear lovely bowers of innocence and ease,
Seats of my youth, when every sport could please,
How often have I loitered o’er the green,
Where humble happiness endeared each scene.”
—Oliver Goldsmith (1730?–1774)
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