Ipswich Town F.C. has a long history as an English association football club based in Ipswich, Suffolk. Founded on 16 October 1878, they have played at Portman Road, their home stadium, since 1884. They won their first trophy in the 1886–87 season over Ipswich School in the Suffolk Challenge Cup. The team played amateur football until 1936 when they turned professional and were elected into the Southern League. On 30 May 1938 they were elected into Division Three of the Football League in place of Gillingham F.C. They won the Football League Championship in 1961–62, one season after winning promotion from the Second Division. A decade later, under the guidance of Bobby Robson (pictured), they achieved success both in the FA Cup and in European competition, winning the UEFA Cup in 1981. Both Robson and Sir Alf Ramsey moved on from Ipswich to manage the England national football team, presiding over the team's best results in the World Cup: fourth place in 1990 and world champions in 1966.
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1793:
Marie Antoinette, queen consort of Louis XVI, was guillotined at the Place de la Révolution in Paris at the height of the French Revolution. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Antoinette
1841:
The Church of Scotland established Queen's College in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen%27s_University
1916:
Margaret Sanger established the United States' first family planning clinic in Brooklyn, New York. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Sanger
1986:
Italian mountaineer Reinhold Messner made his ascent of Lhotse, making him the first person to climb all fourteen "eight-thousanders". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinhold_Messner
1996:
At least 83 people were killed and more than 140 injured in a stampede at Guatemala City's Estadio Mateo Flores during a 1998 FIFA World Cup qualification match between Guatemala and Costa Rica. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estadio_Doroteo_Guamuch_Flores
_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:
food desert: Somewhere where food, especially healthy food, is difficult to obtain. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/food_desert
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All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex, and vital. --The Picture of Dorian Gray https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Picture_of_Dorian_Gray