The 139th Boat Race took place on 27 March 1993. Held annually, the Boat Race is a side-by-side rowing race between crews from the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge along the River Thames. Cambridge, using "cleaver blades" for the first time in the history of the race, won by three-and-a-half lengths in a victory that was described in The Times as "crushingly conclusive". The winning time of 17 minutes exactly was the fourth fastest time in the event. Cambridge's victory prevented what would have been Oxford's seventeenth win out of the last eighteen races, which would have levelled the overall score for the first time since the 1929 race. Oxford's crew featured two Olympic gold medallists and saw changes in their rowers and cox in the lead-up to the event. The race was umpired by the former Oxford Blue Mark Evans, who controversially instigated changes to the start procedure of the race. In the reserve race, Cambridge's Goldie defeated Oxford's Isis, while Cambridge won the Women's Boat Race.
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193:
Praetorian Guards assassinated Roman emperor Pertinax and sold the throne in an auction to Didius Julianus. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Didius_Julianus
1802:
German astronomer Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers discovered 2 Pallas, the second asteroid known to man. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2_Pallas
1920:
An outbreak of 37 tornadoes across the Midwestern and Southern United States left more than 380 people dead. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1920_Palm_Sunday_tornado_outbreak
1930:
Turkey changed the name of its largest city Constantinople to Istanbul. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_Istanbul
1999:
Serbian police and special forces killed at least 89 Kosovo Albanians in the village of Izbica, in the Drenica region of central Kosovo. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Izbica_massacre
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Always think of yourself as everyone's servant; look for Christ Our Lord in everyone and you will then have respect and reverence for them all. --Teresa of Ávila https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Teresa_of_%C3%81vila