[Wikipedia] York City F.C.

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   York City F.C. is an English football club based in York, North
   Yorkshire.  The club participates in the Conference National, the fifth
   tier of English football.  Founded in 1922, they joined The Football
   League in 1929, and have spent the majority of their history in the
   lower divisions.  The club once rose as high as the second tier of
   English football, spending two seasons in the Second Division in the
   1970s.  In the 2003–04 season the club lost their League status when
   they were relegated from the Third Division, and have since remained
   in the Conference.  York have enjoyed more success in cup competitions
   than in the league, with highlights including an FA Cup semi-final
   appearance in 1955.  In the 1995–96 Coca-Cola Cup, York beat Manchester
   United 3–0 at Old Trafford; Manchester United went on to win the FA
   Cup and Premiership double that season.  York play their home games at
   KitKat Crescent in York.  This stadium was formerly known as Bootham
   Crescent, but was renamed KitKat Crescent because of a sponsorship
   deal with Nestlé, whose confectionery factory, formerly known as
   Rowntrees, is one of the city's largest employers.

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Today's selected anniversaries:

1071:
   Byzantine-Seljuk wars: Seljuk Turks led by Alp Arslan captured
   Byzantine Emperor Romanos IV at the Battle of Manzikert.
   (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Manzikert)

1346:
   Hundred Years' War: English forces established the military
   supremacy of the English longbow over the French combination of
   crossbow and armoured knights at the Battle of Crécy.
   (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Cr%C3%A9cy)

1748:
   The first Lutheran denomination in North America, the Pennsylvania
   Ministerium, was founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
   (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylvania_Ministerium)

1789:
   French Revolution: The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the
   Citizen, defining a set of individual and collective rights of the
   people, was approved by the National Constituent Assembly at
   Versailles.

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declaration_of_the_Rights_of_Man_and_of_the_Citizen)

1968:
   The U.S. Democratic Party's National Convention began at the
   International Amphitheatre in Chicago, sparking four days of
   peaceful–to–violent clashes between anti–Vietnam War protesters and
   police.
   (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968_Democratic_National_Convention)


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Wiktionary's Word of the day:

   cachinnate: To laugh loudly, immoderately, or too often.
   (http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cachinnate)


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Wikiquote of the day:

   Our sufferings have taught us that no nation is sufficient unto
   itself, and that our prosperity depends in the long run, not upon the
   failure of our neighbors but their successes.  -- John Buchan, 1st
   Baron Tweedsmuir
   (http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Buchan%2C_1st_Baron_Tweedsmuir)