Michael Gomez (born 1977) is a former professional boxer. He was born
to an Irish Traveller family in Longford, County Longford, Ireland,
spending his early years in Dublin before moving to Manchester, England
with his family at the age of nine. Gomez finished his career fighting
in the lightweight division, however, he is more notable for his fights
in the featherweight and super featherweight divisions. During his
career he has amassed a number of championship title belts: the IBF
Inter-Continental featherweight title; and the British, WBO
Inter-Continental, WBA Inter-Continental and WBU super featherweight
titles. He was the first Irish boxer to win the Lonsdale Belt outright.
Of his 17 fights between February 2001 and March 2008, 16 ended in
knockouts. On 21 June 2008, Gomez lost what was seen as possibly his
last bout—a last chance saloon opportunity to resurrect his career
against rising star and Olympic silver medallist Amir Khan. The fight
ended with Gomez suffering a TKO when the referee stopped the fight in
the fifth round.
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Today's selected anniversaries:
435:
Nestorius, the originator of Nestorianism, was exiled by Byzantine
Emperor Theodosius II to a monastery in Egypt.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nestorius>
1916:
Irish nationalist Sir Roger Casement was hanged at London's Pentonville
Prison for treason for his role in the Easter Rising, a rebellion to
win Irish independence from Britain.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Casement>
1948:
Before the House Un-American Activities Committee of the United States
House of Representatives, former spy turned government informer
Whittaker Chambers accused U.S. State Department official Alger Hiss
of being a communist and a Soviet spy.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whittaker_Chambers>
1949:
The Basketball Association of America agreed to merge with the National
Basketball League to form the National Basketball Association.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Basketball_Association>
2005:
President Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya of Mauritania was overthrown in a
military coup while he was attending the funeral of King Fahd in Saudi
Arabia.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maaouya_Ould_Sid%27Ahmed_Taya>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
mastermind (v):
To act in the role of a person responsible for the highest level of
planning and execution of a major operation
<http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mastermind>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
I have tried at times to place humans in perspective against the
vastness of universal time and space. I have been concerned with where
we, as a race, may be going and what may be our purpose in the
universal scheme — if we have a purpose. In general, I believe we do,
and perhaps an important one.
--Clifford D. Simak
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