The Okęcie Airport incident was a dispute between the players and staff
of the Poland national football team on 29 November 1980, climaxing at
Okęcie Airport (pictured). It occurred at a time when civil resistance
was intensifying in communist Poland and led to the suspension of
several prominent players and the resignation of the team manager,
Ryszard Kulesza. Kulesza had initially angered the team by deciding to
prevent a hung-over player, Józef Młynarczyk, from flying with the
team, but eventually relented. Polish media attacked the rebellious
players over the following days. Another player, Stanisław Terlecki,
defied the communist authorities by arranging for the players to meet
Pope John Paul II. The Polish Football Association sent Terlecki and
others home and imposed various bans. Kulesza resigned in protest over
the harshness of the sanctions imposed on the players. Most of the
banned players were reinstated within a year, but Terlecki never played
for Poland again.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ok%C4%99cie_Airport_incident>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1854:
An estimated crowd of more than 10,000 demonstrators swore
allegiance to the Eureka Flag as a symbol of defiance, in advance of the
Eureka Rebellion in Ballarat, Australia.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eureka_Flag>
1899:
FC Barcelona, one of the most successful clubs in Spanish
football, was founded by Swiss football pioneer Joan Gamper.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FC_Barcelona>
1972:
Atari announced the release of Pong, one of the first video
games to achieve widespread popularity in both the arcade and home-
console markets.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pong>
1987:
A time bomb planted by North Korean agents on Korean Air
Flight 858 detonated over the Andaman Sea, killing all 115 people on
board.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Air_Flight_858>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
endow:
1. (transitive, archaic or obsolete) To provide with a dower (“the
portion that a widow receives from her deceased husband's property”) or
a dowry (“property given to a bride”).
2. (transitive) To give property to (someone) as a gift; specifically,
to provide (a person or institution) with support in the form of a
permanent fund of money or other benefits.
3. (transitive) Followed by with, or rarely by of: to enrich or furnish
with some faculty or quality.
4. (transitive) Usually in the passive: to naturally furnish (with
something).
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/endow>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
When things go wrong, you'll find they usually go on getting
worse for some time; but when things once start going right they often
go on getting better.
--The Magician's Nephew
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Chronicles_of_Narnia#The_Magician's_Nephew_%281955%29>