FC Porto's record in international club competitions is the best among Portuguese association football teams. They have won two UEFA Champions League (1987, 2004) and two UEFA Europa League (2003, 2011) titles, one UEFA Super Cup (1987), and two Intercontinental Cups (1987, 2004). They were also the runners-up in the Cup Winners' Cup in 1984 – their first European final – and in the UEFA Super Cup in 2003, 2004, and 2011. They played their first international competition match against Athletic Bilbao for the 1956–57 European Cup, and have qualified every season for UEFA competitions since 1974–75. After their 1986–87 European Cup success, Porto won the UEFA Super Cup and the Intercontinental Cup in their first appearances, and they remain the only Portuguese team to have won either of these trophies. Tomislav Ivić and José Mourinho, former head coaches, each won a record two international titles. Former Portuguese goalkeeper and captain Vítor Baía holds the club record for most international appearances (99), while Colombian striker Radamel Falcao holds the record for goals, with 22.
Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FC_Porto_in_international_club_football
_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:
1399:
Henry Bolingbroke, Duke of Lancaster, deposed Richard II to become Henry IV of England, merging the Duchy of Lancaster with the crown. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_IV_of_England
1882:
The Vulcan Street Plant, the first hydroelectric central station to serve a system of private and commercial customers in North America, went on line in Appleton, Wisconsin, US. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulcan_Street_Plant
1966:
Seretse Khama became the first President of Botswana when the Bechuanaland Protectorate gained independence from the United Kingdom. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seretse_Khama
1980:
Xerox, Intel and Digital Equipment Corporation published the first Ethernet specifications (8P8C connector pictured), currently the most widespread wired local area network (LAN) technology. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethernet
2009:
A 7.6 MW earthquake struck off the southern coast of Sumatra, Indonesia, killing 1,115 people and impacting an estimated 1.25 million people. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Sumatra_earthquakes
_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:
samizdat: 1. (uncountable, often attributive) The secret copying and sharing of illegal publications, chiefly in the Soviet Union; underground publishing and its publications. 2. (countable) A samizdat publication. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/samizdat
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Love rests on no foundation. It is an endless ocean, with no beginning or end. --Rumi https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Rumi