In their 1980–81 season, the English football club Ipswich Town F.C. finished as runners-up in the championship of the Football League First Division, were semi-finalists in the FA Cup, and won the UEFA Cup. Ipswich played 66 competitive games during the season, winning 37, drawing 13 and losing 16. The season began with an unbeaten run in the club's opening 15 league matches. By the middle of March, they were strong title contenders with only two defeats in thirty-two, but a 2–1 defeat at Manchester United triggered a slump which handed the initiative to eventual league champions Aston Villa. This result was the second-best finish Ipswich had achieved in their history, bettered only by their 1961–62 championship-winning season. The club reached the semi-final of the FA Cup, losing in extra time to Manchester City. They won the final of the 1981 UEFA Cup, where a 5–4 aggregate victory over the Dutch team AZ Alkmaar clinched the club's first and only European trophy (celebration pictured). (Full article...).

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1896:

Philippine Revolution: In the Battle of San Juan del Monte, the first real battle of the war, a Katipunan force temporarily captured a powder magazine before being beaten back by a Spanish garrison. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_San_Juan_del_Monte

1942:

British and Australian prisoners of war in Singapore revolted against their Japanese captors, who required them to pledge not to escape. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selarang_Barracks_incident

1967:

Thurgood Marshall was confirmed as the first African-American Supreme Court justice. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thurgood_Marshall

1974:

A powerful bomb exploded at the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries headquarters in Marunouchi, Tokyo, killing eight people. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1974_Mitsubishi_Heavy_Industries_bombing

2025:

Ukrainian politician Andriy Parubiy was assassinated in Lviv, Ukraine. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Andriy_Parubiy

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