Fred Keenor (1894–1972) was a Welsh professional footballer. He began
his career at Cardiff City after impressing the club's coaching staff in
a trial match in 1912. A hard-tackling defender, he appeared
sporadically for the team in the Southern Football League before his
spell at the club was interrupted by the outbreak of the First World
War. Keenor served in the 17th (Service) Battalion, Middlesex Regiment,
known as the Football Battalion. He fought in the Battle of the Somme,
suffering a severe shrapnel wound to his thigh in 1916. He returned to
the game with Cardiff, who joined the Football League in 1920 and won
promotion to the First Division one season later. Keenor helped the club
get to the 1925 FA Cup Final, in which Cardiff suffered a 1–0 defeat
to Sheffield United. He captained the team in a 1–0 victory over
Arsenal at the 1927 FA Cup Final. Their triumph remains the only time
the competition has been won by a team based outside England.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Keenor>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1781:
American Revolutionary War: British forces led by Lord
Cornwallis officially surrendered to Franco-American forces under George
Washington and the comte de Rochambeau, ending the Siege of Yorktown
(depiction shown).
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Yorktown>
1944:
The Guatemalan Revolution began when a small group of army
officers led by Francisco Javier Arana and Jacobo Árbenz launched a
coup against dictator Jorge Ubico.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guatemalan_Revolution>
1965:
A group of ethnic Hutu officers from the Burundian military
failed in their attempt to overthrow the government.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1965_Burundian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat_attempt>
1987:
Iran–Iraq War: U.S. Navy forces destroyed two Iranian oil
platforms in the Persian Gulf in response to an Iranian missile attack
on a Kuwaiti oil tanker three days earlier.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Nimble_Archer>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
stink to high heaven:
1. To have a very strong and unpleasant smell.
2. (figuratively) Of a person or situation: to be highly ethically
dubious; also, of a person: to be very incompetent.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/stink_to_high_heaven>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
In every war zone that I've been in, there has been a reality and
then there has been the public perception of why the war was being
fought. In every crisis, in every confrontation that has come my way,
the issues have been far more complex than the public has been allowed
to know.
--John le Carré
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_le_Carr%C3%A9>