Tyson stops Nielsen by a technical knock out
2001 - Mike Tyson’s seven-round technical knockout (TKO) over Brian Nielsen was his longest fight in five years, a workout the ‘rusty’ Tyson said he needed. But don’t look for a title fight right away. The former undisputed heavyweight champion admitted that’s two bouts away. Tyson bloodied the Dane in the second round and knocked him down in the third. But Nielsen fought gamely until the referee finally ended the fight because his swollen left eye left him sitting on the stool when the seventh was to start. “I tested him and he could not see,” US referee Steve Smoger said, who then asked Nielsen’s American trainer Mike Hall to confirm he wanted to stop. Tyson entered the ring wearing a baby blue hooded sweatshirt with ‘New York’ embossed on it.
October 13
1792 - The cornerstone of the Executive Mansion, later known as the White House, is laid during a ceremony in Washington, DC.
1880 - Transvaal declares independence from Britain.
1923 - Ankara becomes the new capital of Turkey.
1943 - Italy declares war on former Axis partner Germany.
1952 - Egypt reaches agreement with Sudan on Nile waters.
1957 - The East German government seals its borders and recalls all East-mark holdings for conversion into a new currency.
1968 - New military government in Panama names civilian cabinet.
1969 - The Soviet Union sends third spacecraft into orbit in as many days, putting seven cosmonauts in space.
1970 - Canada and China announce they will establish diplomatic relations.
1981 - Hojatoleslam Ali Khamenei is sworn in as President of Iran.
1987 - Costa Rica’s President Oscar Arias Sanchez wins Nobel Peace Prize for sponsoring plan to end civil wars in Central America.
1988 - Egyptian author Najeeb Mahfouz becomes the first Arabic-language writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature.
1990 - General Michel Aoun, the Christian army commander, surrenders power in the face of a Syrian-led military attack during the civil war.
1992 - The pyramids, the Sphinx and other monuments survive Cairo earthquake that kills at least 400 and injures more than 4,000.
1993 - Andreas Papandreou becomes Prime Minister of Greece.
1996 - British driver Damon Hill wins the 1996 Formula One world championship.
1997 - British Prime Minister Tony Blair has a historic handshake with Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams.
2001 - President Hosni Mubarak issues an order that 83 suspected militants stand trial in Egypt’s state security court.
2004 - A leading Turkish militant, Metin Kaplan, known as the ‘Caliph of Cologne’, is charged by a criminal court in Istanbul.
2011 - Raj Rajaratnam, the hedge fund billionaire, is sentenced to 11 years behind bars for insider-trading scam in the US.
2014 - Colombo-Jaffna rail link reopens after 24 years.
