The 2015 Boat Races took place on 11 April. The Boat Race is an annual side-by-side rowing race between crews from the universities of Oxford and Cambridge along a 4.2-mile (6.8 km) tidal stretch of the River Thames. For the first time ever, the men's, women's and both reserve races were all held on the Tideway. In the men's reserve race, Cambridge's Goldie faced Oxford's Isis after the women's race, as a preliminary to the main men's race, while the women's reserve race, held the day before, saw Oxford's Osiris race against Cambridge's Blondie. Oxford's women won the first running of the Women's Boat Race on the Tideway, and the 70th overall, by 6.mw-parser-output .sr-only{border: 0;clip:rect(0,0,0,0);height:1px;margin:-1px;overflow:hidden;padding:0;po sition:absolute;width:1px;white-space:nowrap} 1⁄2 lengths, to take the overall record in the event to 41–29 in Cambridge's favour. Oxford also won the men's reserve race, with Isis winning by 3 lengths. In the main men's race, umpired by Boris Rankov, Oxford (crew pictured) won by 6 1⁄2 lengths, taking the overall record in the event to 81–79 in Cambridge's favour. The women's reserve race was won by Osiris by 15 lengths, making the overall record 21–20 to Cambridge. .
Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Rankov
_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:
1888:
The Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, considered one of the world's finest concert halls, was inaugurated. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concertgebouw
1921:
Emir Abdullah established the first centralised government in the recently created British protectorate of Transjordan. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emirate_of_Transjordan
1951:
U.S. president Harry S. Truman relieved General of the Army Douglas MacArthur of his commands for making public statements about the Korean War that contradicted the administration's policies. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relief_of_Douglas_MacArthur
2001:
In a FIFA World Cup qualifying match, Australia defeated American Samoa by a score of 31–0, the largest margin of victory ever in an international football match. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia_31%E2%80%930_American_Samoa
_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:
flabbergast: (transitive) To overwhelm with bewilderment; to amaze, confound, or stun, especially in a ludicrous manner. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/flabbergast
___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:
When my own time comes to join the choir invisible or whatever, God forbid, I hope someone will say, "He's up in Heaven now." Who really knows? I could have dreamed all this. My epitaph in any case? "Everything was beautiful. Nothing hurt." I will have gotten off so light, whatever the heck it is that was going on. --Kurt Vonnegut https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Kurt_Vonnegut