Ipswich Town Football Club are an English professional football team
based in Ipswich, Suffolk. As of the 2013–14 season, they play in the
Football League Championship, having last appeared in the Premier League
in 2001–02, making them the league's longest-serving club. The club
was founded in 1878 but did not turn professional until 1936, joining
the Football League in 1938. They play their home games at Portman Road
in Ipswich. The only fully professional football club in Suffolk, they
have a long-standing and fierce rivalry with Norwich City in Norfolk,
with whom they have contested the East Anglian derby 138 times since
1902. Ipswich won the English league title in 1961–62, and have twice
finished runners-up. They won the FA Cup in 1977–78, and the UEFA Cup
in 1980–81. They have competed in the top two tiers of English
football uninterrupted since 1957–58, currently the longest streak
among Championship clubs. They have competed in all three European club
competitions, and have never lost at home in European competition.
Former managers include Alf Ramsey (statue at Portman Road pictured) and
Bobby Robson, both of whom later managed the England national team.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ipswich_Town_F.C.>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1576:
Stephen Báthory and Anna Jagiellon (both pictured) were
crowned as the elected rulers of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Jagiellon>
1707:
Under the terms of the Acts of Union, the Kingdoms of England
and Scotland merged to form the Kingdom of Great Britain, a single
kingdom encompassing the entire island of Great Britain with a single
parliament and government based in Westminster.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Great_Britain>
1898:
The American Asiatic Squadron under Commodore George Dewey
defeated the Spanish Pacific Squadron under Admiral Patricio Montojo at
the Battle of Manila Bay, the first engagement of the Spanish–American
War.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Manila_Bay>
1974:
Argentine President Juan Perón expelled the Montoneros from a
demonstration in the Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires, forcing the group to
become clandestine and later a target of the Dirty War.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expulsion_of_Montoneros_from_Plaza_de_Mayo>
1994:
Brazilian racing driver Ayrton Senna, a three-time Formula One
World Champion, was killed in a crash during the 1994 San Marino Grand
Prix.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Ayrton_Senna>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
tumpline:
A strap used to carry objects tied to its ends by placing the broadened
or cushioned middle of the strap over the head just behind the forehead.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tumpline>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
 We are not human beings having a spiritual experience; we
are spiritual beings having a human experience.
--Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Pierre_Teilhard_de_Chardin>