The 1923 FA Cup Final was an association football match between Bolton Wanderers and West Ham United on 28 April, the first to be played at the original Wembley Stadium in London. This Football Association Challenge Cup (FA Cup), the showpiece match of English football's primary cup competition, drew a chaotic crowd of up to 300,000, far exceeding the stadium's official capacity of around 125,000. Mounted policemen, including one on a light-coloured horse (pictured) that became the defining image of the day, had to be brought in to clear the crowds from the pitch. (The match is still referred to as the "White Horse Final".) Although West Ham started strongly, Bolton proved the dominant team for most of the match and won 2–0. David Jack scored a goal two minutes after the start of the match and Jack Smith added a controversial second goal during the second half. The pre-match events prompted discussion in the House of Commons and led to the introduction of safety measures for future finals.

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1253:

Nichiren, a Japanese monk, expounded Namu Myōhō Renge Kyō for the first time and declared it to be the essence of Buddhism, in effect founding Nichiren Buddhism. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nichiren_Buddhism

1789:

About 1,300 miles (2,100 km) west of Tahiti, Fletcher Christian, acting lieutenant on board the Royal Navy ship Bounty, led a mutiny against the commander, William Bligh. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutiny_on_the_Bounty

1941:

Presaging a campaign of genocide against Serbs of Croatia, the Ustashe movement massacred around 190 people in Gudovac. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gudovac_massacre

1988:

Aloha Airlines Flight 243 suffered an explosive decompression in flight between Hilo and Honolulu, Hawaii, with one fatality as a flight attendant was ejected from the aircraft. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aloha_Airlines_Flight_243

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

do ill: (idiomatic) To harm, to injure. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/do_ill

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

Do you know what it feels like to be aware of every star, every blade of grass? Yes. You do. You call it "opening your eyes again." But you do it for a moment. We have done it for eternity. No sleep, no rest, just endless … endless experience, endless awareness. Of everything. All the time. How we envy you, envy you! Lucky humans, who can close your minds to the endless deeps of space! You have this thing you call … boredom? That is the rarest talent in the universe! We heard a song — it went "Twinkle twinkle little star …" What power! What wondrous power! You can take a billion trillion tons of flaming matter, a furnace of unimaginable strength, and turn it into a little song for children! You build little worlds, little stories, little shells around your minds, and that keeps infinity at bay and allows you to wake up in the morning without screaming!   --A Hat Full of Sky https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Discworld#A_Hat_Full_of_Sky_(2004)