The first game in the history of the Wales national football team was in 1876, making Wales the third-oldest side in international association football, after Scotland and England. Wales played annual games against Scotland, England, and later Ireland, which became the British Home Championship. Wales won their first championship in the 1906–07 tournament, three more titles during the 1920s, and four in the six years prior to World War II. After the war, Wales played teams from other European nations and began competing in the FIFA World Cup, but failed to qualify in 1950 and 1954. Wales qualified in 1958, being defeated by Brazil in the quarter-final. The side declined in the 1960s, failing to qualify for a World Cup or the European Nations' Cup. Wales won their last British Championship during the 1969–70 season, before the competition was discontinued. Manager Mike Smith led the side to the quarter-finals of the 1976 European Championships in their centenary year, when they were defeated by Yugoslavia.
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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:
1942:
World War II: The Imperial Japanese Navy achieved a Pyrrhic victory against the United States at the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Santa_Cruz_Islands
1967:
American Catholic priest Philip Berrigan led a protest against the Vietnam War by pouring blood over Selective Service records in Baltimore, Maryland. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Berrigan
1999:
Armed men led by Nairi Hunanyan attacked the National Assembly of Armenia, killing prime minister Vazgen Sargsyan, president of the National Assembly Karen Demirchyan, and six others. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vazgen_Sargsyan
2011:
Michael D. Higgins was elected president of Ireland with far more votes than any politician in the country's history. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Irish_presidential_election
_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:
get a word in edgewise: (US, usually in the negative) To break into or participate in a conversation. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/get_a_word_in_edgewise
___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:
Men with the muckrake are often indispensable to the well-being of society, but only if they know when to stop raking the muck, and to look upward to the celestial crown above them. … If they gradually grow to feel that the whole world is nothing but muck their power of usefulness is gone. --Theodore Roosevelt https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Theodore_Roosevelt
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