The 2009 International Bowl was a postseason American college football
bowl game between the Connecticut Huskies and the Buffalo Bulls played
in Canada at the Rogers Centre (pictured) in Toronto on January 3,
2009. Connecticut represented the Big East Conference; Buffalo was the
Mid-American Conference champion. At the pregame luncheon, members of
the 1958 Buffalo Bulls were honored. The 1958 team was the first from
the university to be invited to a bowl game, the Tangerine Bowl, where
they would have faced Florida State. Because that stadium prohibited
integrated football games, the team's African-American
players—starting running back Willie Evans and backup defensive end
Mike Wilson—were not allowed to play. The players unanimously voted to
reject the bowl bid, and Buffalo would not play in a bowl until the 2009
game, which ended in a 38–20 victory for Connecticut.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_International_Bowl>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1888:
The 36-inch (91 cm) refracting telescope at the Lick
Observatory near San Jose, California, the largest in the world until
1897, was used for the first time.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lick_Observatory>
1919:
Emir Faisal of Iraq signed an agreement with Zionist leader
Chaim Weizmann on the development of a Jewish homeland in Palestine and
an Arab nation in a large part of the Middle East.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faisal%E2%80%93Weizmann_Agreement>
1961:
Twenty-five people died in Finland's worst civilian air
accident when Aero Flight 311 crashed near Kvevlax.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aero_Flight_311>
2009:
The bitcoin cryptocurrency network was created when Satoshi
Nakamoto mined the first block of the chain.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
castle in the air:
(idiomatic) A desire, idea, or plan that is unlikely to ever be
realized; a visionary project or scheme; a daydream, an idle fancy, a
near impossibility.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/castle_in_the_air>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Appetitus rationi pareat. Let your desires be ruled by reason.
--Cicero
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Cicero>