With just 26 seconds of the game remaining in Sydney, England’s star man dropped the goal that changed the score to 20-17 and won England the 2003 World Cup.
It was the first time a side from the northern hemisphere had won the competition.
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Here are the other notable events that happened on this day:
1917: The National Hockey League ( NHL ) was formed in Montreal.
1922: St Albans’ Billy Minter scored seven goals in an FA Cup tie against Dulwich, but ended up on the losing side as the match finished 8-7.
1986: Mike Tyson became the youngest world heavyweight boxing champion when he beat Trevor Berbick at the age of 20 years and six months.
2007: Steve McClaren was sacked as England manager after the team failed to qualify for Euro 2008.
2008: New Zealand won the rugby league World Cup final 34-20 against Australia in Brisbane.
2010: The Scottish Football Association drew up contingency plans to deal with a proposed strike by referees, including ”sourcing match officials in other countries”. The strike went ahead, with officials brought in from Israel, Malta and Luxembourg.
2011: Cricket Australia announced South African Mickey Arthur as the new Australia coach.
2013: England failed to cope with the pace of Mitchell Johnson as they lost six wickets for nine runs in a hapless collapse which turned the first Ashes Test on its head at the Gabba.
2015: Rory McIlroy took victory in the DP World Tour Championship to claim a third Race to Dubai title in the last four years. The Northern Irishman had a bogey on the 17th but held on to his one-stroke lead on the 18th to edge out England’s Andy Sullivan.