Riders Field is a baseball park in Frisco, Texas, United States. The home of the Frisco RoughRiders, a Double-A team of the Texas League, it opened on April 3, 2003, and can seat 10,216 people. Primarily a venue for Minor League Baseball games, the facility also hosts high school and college baseball tournaments and other public and private events. It has been the site of three Texas League All-Star Games. In his design, park architect David M. Schwarz desired the creation of a village-like "park within a (ball)park". The stadium received the 2003 Texas Construction award for Best Architectural Design. Attendance for RoughRiders games at the stadium has consistently placed first or second in the Texas League and at the Double-A classification since its opening. After having the second-highest attendance in its first two seasons, it had the highest in the league and classification from 2005 to 2019.

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1721:

Robert Walpole took office as First Lord of the Treasury, Chancellor of the Exchequer and Leader of the House of Commons, becoming the first de facto prime minister of Great Britain. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Walpole

1933:

Douglas Douglas-Hamilton and David McIntyre undertook the first successful flight over Mount Everest. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houston%E2%80%93Mount_Everest_flight_expedition

1948:

Division of Korea: A communist uprising began on Jeju Island, eventually leading to thousands of deaths and atrocities committed by both sides. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeju_uprising

2010:

Apple Inc. released the first generation iPad, a tablet computer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPad_%281st_generation%29

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nutty slack: (Britain, historical) A cheap fuel consisting of slack (“coal dust”) and nuts (“small lumps of coal”); unlike other solid fuel it was not rationed during the period after World War II. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/nutty_slack

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