May 17, 2003
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[edit] May 17, 2003
- Football (soccer): Arsenal beat Southampton 1 - 0 in the final of the FA Cup held in Wales at Cardiff's Millennium Stadium. The final is the first in the history of the event to be played under cover.
- Horse-racing: Funny Cide, the winner of the Kentucky Derby, wins the Preakness Stakes by 9 3/4 lengths.
- Flooding begins in Sri Lanka; it will leave 500 missing and 350,000 homeless.
