Ipswich Town Football Club are an English professional football team based in Ipswich, Suffolk. As of the 2013–14 season, they play in the Football League Championship, having last appeared in the Premier League in 2001–02, making them the league's longest-serving club. The club was founded in 1878 but did not turn professional until 1936, joining the Football League in 1938. They play their home games at Portman Road in Ipswich. The only fully professional football club in Suffolk, they have a long-standing and fierce rivalry with Norwich City in Norfolk, with whom they have contested the East Anglian derby 138 times since 1902. Ipswich won the English league title in 1961–62, and have twice finished runners-up. They won the FA Cup in 1977–78, and the UEFA Cup in 1980–81. They have competed in the top two tiers of English football uninterrupted since 1957–58, currently the longest streak among Championship clubs. They have competed in all three European club competitions, and have never lost at home in European competition. Former managers include Alf Ramsey (statue at Portman Road pictured) and Bobby Robson, both of whom later managed the England national team.

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1576:

Stephen Báthory and Anna Jagiellon (both pictured) were crowned as the elected rulers of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Jagiellon

1707:

Under the terms of the Acts of Union, the Kingdoms of England and Scotland merged to form the Kingdom of Great Britain, a single kingdom encompassing the entire island of Great Britain with a single parliament and government based in Westminster. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Great_Britain

1898:

The American Asiatic Squadron under Commodore George Dewey defeated the Spanish Pacific Squadron under Admiral Patricio Montojo at the Battle of Manila Bay, the first engagement of the Spanish–American War. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Manila_Bay

1974:

Argentine President Juan Perón expelled the Montoneros from a demonstration in the Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires, forcing the group to become clandestine and later a target of the Dirty War. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expulsion_of_Montoneros_from_Plaza_de_Mayo

1994:

Brazilian racing driver Ayrton Senna, a three-time Formula One World Champion, was killed in a crash during the 1994 San Marino Grand Prix. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Ayrton_Senna

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

tumpline: A strap used to carry objects tied to its ends by placing the broadened or cushioned middle of the strap over the head just behind the forehead. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tumpline

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

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