Amador Valley High School is a public school in Pleasanton, California, a city east of San Francisco. Amador Valley is one of three high schools in the Pleasanton Unified School District, which includes Foothill High School and Village High School. The school was founded as Amador Valley Joint Union High School and opened in 1922. Major construction and renovations were undertaken after district voters approved bonds in 1922, 1965, 1997, and 2016. The school has been named a California Distinguished School and a National Blue Ribbon School. Amador Valley offers its students Advanced Placement courses, varsity sports, vocational training, and a variety of extracurriculars. The school placed second in RoboSub, an international robotics competition, and first in We the People, a national civics competition, in 2022. The Amador Theater, one of Pleasanton's performing arts facilities, has been hosted at the high school since 1932.
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1969:
Experimental results from the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center were published showing that protons were composed of smaller particles, the first evidence of quarks. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quark
1977:
Three members of the American rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd died when their chartered plane crashed in Gillsburg, Mississippi. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynyrd_Skynyrd_plane_crash
1982:
During a UEFA Cup match between FC Spartak Moscow and HFC Haarlem, a large number of attendees trying to leave the Central Lenin Stadium resulted in a stampede that caused 66 deaths. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luzhniki_disaster
2011:
First Libyan Civil War: Muammar Gaddafi, the deposed Libyan leader, was captured by rebel forces during the Battle of Sirte, and was killed shortly thereafter. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Muammar_Gaddafi
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shoestring: 1. (chiefly US) The string or lace used to secure a shoe to the foot; a shoelace. 2. (figuratively, often attributively) 3. An object that is long and thin, like a shoestring (sense 1). 4. (cooking) A long, narrow cut of a food; a julienne. 5. Chiefly in on a shoestring: very little money; a tight budget. 6. (US, chiefly American football, baseball) Of a catch or tackle: made near the ground, close to a player's shoes. 7. (transitive, American football) To tackle (a player) using a shoestring tackle (“one made near the ground, close to a player's shoes”). 8. (transitive, baseball) To catch (a ball) using a shoestring catch (“one made near the ground, close to a player's shoes”). https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/shoestring
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Consider with due attention, for the path is very strait, even while it is more spacious than the heavens and the earth and what is between them. --The Báb https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/B%C3%A1b