ONTHIS DAY

■ 2001 – Britain’s Lennox Lewis regained the WBC, IBF and IBO heavyweight boxing titles with a fourth-round knockout of Hasim Rahman in Las Vegas.

■ 2005 – Roy Keane left Manchester United after 12 and a half years at the club.

■ 2013 – Former British number one Elena Baltacha announced her retirement from tennis. She died of liver cancer in May 2014 at the age of 30.