The 2007 Appalachian State vs. Michigan football game was a regular season college football game between the Appalachian State Mountaineers and Michigan Wolverines. The Wolverines were ranked No. 5 in the upper- tier Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS), while the Mountaineers were ranked No. 1 in the second-tier Football Championship Subdivision (FCS), of which they were the defending champions. Games between FBS and FCS teams typically result in lopsided victories for the FBS team, and the game was not expected to be an exception. However, in an upset hailed as one of the greatest in college football history, the Mountaineers won 34–32 (scoreboard pictured), blocking a potentially game-winning field goal attempt by Michigan in the waning seconds to secure their win. The Mountaineers became the first FCS team to defeat a ranked FBS team, while the Wolverines became the first top-five team to drop out of the polls as the result of a single game. The game received a large amount of coverage in American sports media, and both teams went on to have successful seasons, with Appalachian State winning the FCS championship and Michigan winning a bowl game.

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1526:

Ottoman–Hungarian Wars: Louis II, the last Jagiellonian king of Hungary and Bohemia, died after his army was defeated by Ottoman forces led by Suleiman the Magnificent at the Battle of Mohács. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Moh%C3%A1cs

1831:

Michael Faraday discovered electromagnetic induction, leading to the formation of Faraday's law of induction. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faraday%27s_law_of_induction

1885:

Gottlieb Daimler patented the world's first internal combustion motorcycle, the Reitwagen. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daimler_Reitwagen

1930:

The last 36 residents of St Kilda, Scotland, now a UNESCO World Heritage Site for its natural and cultural qualities, voluntarily evacuated to Morvern. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Kilda,_Scotland

1984:

Followers of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh deliberately contaminated salad bars in The Dalles, Oregon with salmonella, the first and single largest bioterrorist attack in United States history. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1984_Rajneeshee_bioterror_attack

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skyclad: (Wicca) Naked outdoors. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/skyclad

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There is reason to think, that, if men were better instructed themselves, they would be less imposing on others.   --John Locke https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Locke