The 1998 FIFA World Cup final was the final match of the 32-team 1998
FIFA World Cup, played on 12 July at the Stade de France (pictured) in
Paris, France, between defending champions Brazil and hosts France.
Before the match, speculation surrounded the fitness of striker Ronaldo,
who was at first left out of Brazil's starting line-up, only to be
restored before kick-off. France took the lead shortly before the half-
hour mark, when Zinedine Zidane outjumped Leonardo to connect with a
header from an in-swinging corner from the right taken by Emmanuel
Petit. Zidane scored again, with another header from a corner, shortly
before half-time to give France a 2–0 lead. Petit then added a third
goal in second-half injury time, striking the ball low into the net
following a pass by Patrick Vieira, to complete a 3–0 win for France,
giving them their first World Cup title. Zidane was named the man of the
match, while Ronaldo was awarded the Golden Ball as FIFA's outstanding
player of the tournament.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998_FIFA_World_Cup_final>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1537:
The Honourable Artillery Company, now the oldest surviving
regiment in the British Army, was granted a royal charter by
Henry VIII.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honourable_Artillery_Company>
1875:
Matthew Webb became the first person to swim across the English
Channel, doing so in approximately 21 hours 40 minutes.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Webb>
2001:
American singer Aaliyah and several members of her record
company were killed when their overloaded aircraft crashed shortly after
taking off from Marsh Harbour Airport in the Bahamas.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_Marsh_Harbour_Cessna_402_crash>
2012:
The NASA space probe Voyager 1 became the first man-made
object to enter interstellar space.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_1>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
storm:
1. (impersonal, chiefly US) Preceded by the dummy subject it: to have
strong winds and usually lightning and thunder, and/or hail, rain, or
snow.
2. (transitive)
3. To make (someone or something) stormy; to agitate (someone or
something) violently.
4. (figurative)
5. To disturb or trouble (someone).
6. To use (harsh language).
7. (chiefly military) To violently assault (a fortified position or
stronghold, a building, etc.) with the aim of gaining control of it.
8. (figurative, often poetic) To assault or gain control or power over
(someone's heart, mind, etc.).
9. (Britain, dialectal, agriculture) To protect (seed-hay) from stormy
weather by putting sheaves of them into small stacks.
10. (intransitive)
11. Of the weather: to be violent, with strong winds and usually
lightning and thunder, and/or hail, rain, or snow.
12. To be exposed to harsh (especially cold) weather.
13. (figurative)
14. To move noisily and quickly like a storm (noun sense 1), usually in
a state of anger or uproar.
15. (by extension, chiefly military) To move quickly in the course of an
assault on a fortified position or stronghold, a building, etc.
16. To be in a violent temper; to use harsh language; to fume, to rage.
17. Any disturbed state of the atmosphere causing destructive or
unpleasant weather, especially one affecting the earth's surface
involving strong winds (leading to high waves at sea) and usually
lightning, thunder, and precipitation; a tempest.
18. (by extension) A heavy fall of precipitation (hail, rain, or snow)
or bout of lightning and thunder without strong winds; a hail storm,
rainstorm, snowstorm, or thunderstorm.
19. (by extension) Synonym of cyclone (“a weather phenomenon consisting
of a system of winds rotating around a centre of low atmospheric
pressure”)
20. (by extension, Canada, Scotland, US, dated) A period of frosty
and/or snowy weather.
21. (meteorology) A disturbed state of the atmosphere between a severe
or strong gale and a hurricane on the modern Beaufort scale, with a wind
speed of between 89 and 102 kilometres per hour (55–63 miles per hour;
10 on the scale, known as a "storm" or whole gale), or of between 103
and 117 kilometres per hour (64–72 miles per hour; 11 on the scale,
known as a "violent storm").
22. (figurative)
23. A heavy expulsion or fall of things (as blows, objects which are
thrown, etc.).
24. A violent agitation of human society; a domestic, civil, or
political commotion.
25. A violent commotion or outbreak of sounds, speech, thoughts, etc.;
also, an outpouring of emotion.
26. (pathology) Chiefly with a qualifying word: a violent attack of
diease, pain, physiological reactions, symptoms, etc.; a paroxysm.
27. (Canada, US, chiefly in the plural) Ellipsis of storm window (“a
second window (originally detachable) attached on the exterior side of a
window in climates with harsh winters, to add an insulating layer of
still air between the outside and inside”).
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/storm>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
The nature of man remains ever the same: in the ten thousandth
year of the World he will be born with passions, as he was born with
passions in the two thousandth, and ran through his course of follies to
a late, imperfect, useless wisdom. We wander in a labyrinth, in which
our lives occupy but a span; so that it is to us nearly a matter of
indifference, whether there be any entrance or outlet to the intricate
path.
--Johann Gottfried Herder
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Johann_Gottfried_Herder>