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:
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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>