The 2000 Sugar Bowl was the designated Bowl Championship Series (BCS) National Championship Game for the 1999 college football season and was played on January 4, 2000, at the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana. The Florida State Seminoles, led by head coach Bobby Bowden (pictured) and representing the Atlantic Coast Conference, defeated the Virginia Tech Hokies, then representing the Big East Conference, by a score of 46–29. With the win, Florida State clinched the 1999 Division I college football championship, the team's second national championship. An estimated total of 79,280 people attended the game in person, while approximately 18.4 million US viewers watched the game on ABC television. The resulting 17.5 television rating was the third-largest ever recorded for a BCS college football game. Florida State wide receiver Peter Warrick was named the game's most valuable player.

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1698:

Most of London's Palace of Whitehall, the main residence of the English monarchs dating from 1530, was destroyed by fire . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palace_of_Whitehall

1854:

Captain William McDonald aboard the Samarang discovered the McDonald Islands, uninhabited, barren islands located in the Southern Ocean about two-thirds of the way from Madagascar to Antarctica. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heard_Island_and_McDonald_Islands

1884:

The Fabian Society, an intellectual movement whose purpose is to advance the socialist cause by gradualist and reformist methods rather than revolutionary means, was founded in London. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabian_Society

1989:

In the Second Gulf of Sidra incident over the Gulf of Sidra in the Mediterranean Sea, two American F-14A Tomcats shot down two Libyan MiG-23 Flogger Es that appeared to be attempting to engage them. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_of_Sidra_incident_%281989%29

2004:

Spirit, the first of two rovers of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Mission, landed successfully on Mars at 04:35 Ground UTC. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirit_rover

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