Rex Ryan (born 1962) is an American football head coach for the New York
Jets of the National Football League (NFL). After serving as an
assistant coach for 22 years, Ryan attained his first head coaching job
in the NFL with the Jets in 2009. He is the son of former Philadelphia
Eagles and Arizona Cardinals head coach Buddy Ryan and is the fraternal
twin brother of Rob Ryan, defensive coordinator for the Dallas Cowboys.
Upon graduating from Southwestern Oklahoma State University, Ryan spent
the next 22 years serving as an assistant coach on different teams at
both the college and professional level. At the behest of their head
coach Brian Billick, Ryan joined the Baltimore Ravens in 1999 and spent
nine years there. In 2005 he earned the title of defensive coordinator
and in 2008 became the assistant head coach. Hours after the Ravens lost
to the Steelers in the 2008 playoffs, Ryan accepted a contract offer
from the Jets for their vacant head coaching position. He has become
well known throughout the league for his outspoken manner, boisterous
attitude and success with the Jets, and his teams are highly regarded by
critics for their defensive capabilities.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rex_Ryan>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1577:
Sir Francis Drake left Plymouth, England, with five ships and
164 men on his round-the-world voyage.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Drake>
1636:
The Massachusetts Bay Colony organized three militia units, an
act considered to be the founding of the National Guard of the United
States.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Guard_of_the_United_States>
1862:
American Civil War: Union forces under Maj. Gen. Ambrose
Burnside suffered severe casualties against entrenched Confederate
defenders at the Battle of Fredericksburg in Fredericksburg, Virginia.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Fredericksburg>
1937:
Second Sino-Japanese War: Japanese forces captured Nanjing in
China and then began to commit numerous atrocities over the next several
weeks.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanking_Massacre>
2001:
The Parliament of India was attacked by five gunmen, resulting
in 15 deaths, including those of the perpetrators.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_Indian_Parliament_attack>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
calendrical:
Of, pertaining to, or used by a calendar system.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/calendrical>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
If our animosities are born out of fear, then confident generosity is
born out of hope. One of the central lessons I have learned after a half
century of working in the developing world is that the replacement of
fear by hope is probably the single most powerful trampoline of
progress.
--Aga Khan IV
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Aga_Khan_IV>
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