Since 1980, York City F.C., a professional association football club
based in York, North Yorkshire, England, has seen many promotions and
relegations. The team won its only English Football League title after
finishing first in the Fourth Division in 1983–84 with 101 points, the
most season points scored by any team at the time. After four seasons in
the Third Division, they were relegated in 1987–88. They beat Crewe
Alexandra at Wembley Stadium in the play-off final in 1992–93, winning
promotion to the renamed Second Division. Later in the 1990s, they
knocked Premier League teams Manchester United and Everton out of the
League Cup in successive seasons. At the end of 2003–04, they lost
their Football League status. The 2011–12 FA Trophy (celebration
pictured) was the first national knockout competition won by York, and
they returned to the Football League that season. (
Read more:
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_York_City_F.C._%281980%E2%80%93present%29>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1776:
American Revolutionary War: British and Hessian units captured
Fort Washington from the Patriots.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Fort_Washington>
1885:
After a five-day trial following the North-West Rebellion,
Louis Riel, Canadian rebel leader of the Métis and "Father of
Manitoba", was hanged for high treason.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Riel>
1938:
Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann first synthesized the psychedelic
drug LSD at the Sandoz Laboratories in Basel, Switzerland.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Hofmann>
1973:
U.S. President Richard Nixon signed an act authorizing the
construction of the Alaska Pipeline to transport oil from the Arctic
Ocean to the Gulf of Alaska.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Alaska_Pipeline_System>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
seasteading:
The creation of permanent dwellings at sea, especially outside the
territory claimed by any national government.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/seasteading>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
I think that people don't understand. As the Firesign Theater
used to say, "Everything you know is wrong." But that is a very
liberating understanding, because if everything you know is wrong, then
all the problems you thought were insoluble can be framed differently.
And there's a way to take the world apart and put it back
unrecognizably. We don't really understand what consciousness is at the
really deep levels.
--Terence McKenna
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Terence_McKenna>