Leek Town Football Club is an English football club based in Leek,
Staffordshire, currently playing in the Northern Premier League Division
One South. The team, nicknamed "The Blues", play their home games at
Harrison Park (pictured). The club was founded in 1946 and played in a
variety of local leagues, including the Staffordshire County,
Manchester, Mid-Cheshire and Cheshire County leagues, before becoming
founder members of the North West Counties League in 1982 and from there
progressing to the Northern Premier League in 1987. In 1997 they were
Northern Premier League champions and gained promotion to the Football
Conference, the highest level of English non-league football, spending
two seasons at that level before being relegated. Leek Town reached the
final of the FA Trophy in 1990, having progressed all the way from the
first qualifying round, but lost in the final at Wembley Stadium 3-0 to
Barrow.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leek_Town_F.C.>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1847:
Scottish physician James Young Simpson discovered the
anaesthetic qualities of chloroform.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chloroform>
1890:
London's City and South London Railway (locomotive pictured),
the first deep-level underground railway in the world, opened, running a
distance of 3.2 mi (5.1 km) between the City of London and Stockwell.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_and_South_London_Railway>
1960:
At the Kasakela Chimpanzee Community in Tanzania, Dr. Jane
Goodall observed a chimpanzee using a grass stalk to extract termites
from a termite hill, the first recorded case of tool use by animals.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kasakela_Chimpanzee_Community>
1970:
Authorities in Temple City, California, discovered a 13-year-
old feral child known as "Genie", who had spent almost her entire life
in social isolation.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genie_(feral_child)>
1995:
Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated by Yigal
Amir while at a peace rally at the Kings of Israel Square in Tel Aviv.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Yitzhak_Rabin>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
froth at the mouth:
1. To spew saliva as froth.
2. (figuratively) To rage, to vent one's anger.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/froth_at_the_mouth>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
If you ever injected truth into politics you'd have no politics
… Humanity is not yet ready for either real truth or real harmony.
--Will Rogers
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Will_Rogers>