The 2009 International Bowl was a postseason American college football bowl game between the Connecticut Huskies and the Buffalo Bulls played in Canada at the Rogers Centre (pictured) in Toronto on January 3, 2009. Connecticut represented the Big East Conference; Buffalo was the Mid-American Conference champion. At the pregame luncheon, members of the 1958 Buffalo Bulls were honored. The 1958 team was the first from the university to be invited to a bowl game, the Tangerine Bowl, where they would have faced Florida State. Because that stadium prohibited integrated football games, the team's African-American players—starting running back Willie Evans and backup defensive end Mike Wilson—were not allowed to play. The players unanimously voted to reject the bowl bid, and Buffalo would not play in a bowl until the 2009 game, which ended in a 38–20 victory for Connecticut.

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1888:

The 36-inch (91 cm) refracting telescope at the Lick Observatory near San Jose, California, the largest in the world until 1897, was used for the first time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lick_Observatory

1919:

Emir Faisal of Iraq signed an agreement with Zionist leader Chaim Weizmann on the development of a Jewish homeland in Palestine and an Arab nation in a large part of the Middle East. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faisal%E2%80%93Weizmann_Agreement

1961:

Twenty-five people died in Finland's worst civilian air accident when Aero Flight 311 crashed near Kvevlax. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aero_Flight_311

2009:

The bitcoin cryptocurrency network was created when Satoshi Nakamoto mined the first block of the chain. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

castle in the air: (idiomatic) A desire, idea, or plan that is unlikely to ever be realized; a visionary project or scheme; a daydream, an idle fancy, a near impossibility. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/castle_in_the_air

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

Appetitus rationi pareat. Let your desires be ruled by reason.   --Cicero https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Cicero