Jesus College Boat Club is a rowing club for members of Jesus College,
Oxford, one of the colleges of the University of Oxford. The club was
formed in 1835, but rowing at the college predates the club's
foundation: a boat from the college was involved in the earliest
recorded races between college crews at Oxford in 1815, when it
competed against a crew from Brasenose College. In the early years of
rowing at Oxford, Jesus was one of the few colleges that participated
in races. A number of college members have rowed for the university
against Cambridge University in the Boat Race and the Women's Boat
Race. Barney Williams, a Canadian rower who studied at the college, won
a silver medal in rowing at the 2004 Summer Olympics, and participated
in the Boat Race in 2005 and 2006. Other students who rowed while at
the college have achieved success in other fields, including John
Sankey, who became Lord Chancellor, and Alwyn Williams, who became
Bishop of Durham. The college boathouse, which is shared with Keble
College's boat club, dates from 1964 and replaced a moored barge used
by spectators and crew-members.
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1167:
A 1,600-man force of the Holy Roman Empire led by Christian of Buch and
Rainald of Dassel defeated a 10,000-man Papal States army.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Monte_Porzio>
1453:
Constantinople fell to the besieging Ottoman army led by Sultan Mehmed
II, ending the Byzantine Empire.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_of_Constantinople>
1913:
The Rite of Spring, a ballet with music by Russian composer Igor
Stravinsky, was first performed at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in
Paris.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rite_of_Spring>
1953:
New Zealand explorer Edmund Hillary and Nepalese Sherpa mountaineer
Tenzing Norgay became the first people to reach the summit of Mount
Everest .
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Hillary>
1985:
A wall at Brussels' Heysel Stadium collapsed under the pressure of
football fans escaping a riot before the European Cup Final between
England's Liverpool F.C. and Italy's Juventus F.C., killing 39 people
and injuring over 600 others.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heysel_Stadium_disaster>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
life of Riley (n):
An ideal life of carefree prosperity and contentment
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.
--John F. Kennedy
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