A 2–2 draw was played on 19 May 1977 between the English association
football clubs Coventry City and Bristol City. The teams were playing
their final match of the 1976–77 season in the Football League First
Division, at Highfield Road (pictured), Coventry. Both teams faced
potential relegation, along with Sunderland, who played their final game
at the same time, against Everton at Goodison Park; the lowest-placed of
the three teams would be relegated. As many Bristol City supporters were
delayed in traffic, the kick-off at Highfield Road was delayed by five
minutes. The score was 2–2 with five minutes remaining, when the
supporters and players learned via the stadium scoreboard that
Sunderland had lost to Everton and that a draw would let both Coventry
and Bristol City escape relegation at Sunderland's expense. As a result,
the last five minutes were played out with neither team's players
attempting to score and the match finished as a 2–2 draw. A complaint
by Sunderland was unavailing.
Read more:
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coventry_City_2%E2%80%932_Bristol_City_%281977%29>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1800:
Philip Gidley King, Governor of New South Wales, ordered the
formation of the Governor's Body Guard of Light Horse, described as the
first full-time military unit raised in Australia.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governor%27s_Body_Guard_of_Light_Horse>
1943:
World War II: In the Battle of Cape Gloucester, American and
Australian forces bombarded Japanese positions on New Britain in the
Territory of New Guinea while U.S. Marines invaded from two sides of the
island.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Cape_Gloucester>
1996:
The Federation of Korean Trade Unions called on its
1.2 million members to refuse to work, beginning the largest organized
strike in South Korean history.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996%E2%80%931997_strikes_in_South_Korea>
2006:
Two earthquakes off the southwest coast of Taiwan damaged
submarine communications cables, disrupting Internet services in Asia
and affecting financial transactions.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_Hengchun_earthquakes>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
troll:
1. Senses relating to a rolling motion.
2. (transitive)
3. (transitive) To move (something, especially a round object) by, or as
if by, rolling; to bowl, to roll, to trundle.
4. (intransitive)
5. To roll; also, to turn round and round; to rotate, to spin, to whirl.
6. To move or walk at a leisurely pace; to ramble, to saunter, to
stroll.
7. (specifically, slang) Chiefly of a man: synonym of cruise (“to stroll
about to find a (male) sexual partner”).
8. (obsolete) Followed by in: to flow or roll in like a stream.
9. Senses relating to the motion of passing around.
10. (transitive)
11. (music, archaic) To sing the parts of (a catch, round, or similar
song) in succession; also (generally), to sing (a song) freely or in a
carefree way, or loudly.
12. (obsolete) To pass (something, specifically a bowl or other communal
drinking vessel) from one person to another; to circulate, to send
about.
13. (obsolete) Often followed by in: to cause (something) to flow or
roll in like a stream.
14. (intransitive)
15. (archaic) Of bells: to ring a sequence of tones in a resounding
manner.
16. (music, archaic) Of a person: to sing the parts of a catch, round,
or similar song in succession; also (generally), to sing freely or in a
carefree way, or loudly.
17. (music, archaic) Of a song: to be sung freely or in a carefree way,
or loudly; also, of a tune: to be constantly in someone's mind.
18. (obsolete) Of a bowl or other communal drinking vessel, or the drink
inside it: to be passed around from one person to another.
19. Senses relating to a light, quick motion.
20. (transitive)
21. To say (something) lightly and quickly, or in a deep, resounding
voice.
22. (obsolete) To move (the tongue) lightly and quickly when speaking.
23. (intransitive)
24. To speak lightly and quickly, or in a deep, resounding voice.
25. (obsolete) To move lightly and quickly; especially of the tongue
when speaking; to wag.
26. Senses relating to fishing.
27. (transitive)
28. (fishing) To fish in (a place) using a running fishing line (that
is, a line with a hook on the end which is drawn along the water
surface, possibly a line which would originally have been spooled on to
a troll (etymology 2, noun sense 6.1)).
29. (figurative) To attract or draw out (someone or something); to
allure, to elicit, to entice, to lure.
30. (figurative, originally Internet slang) To make or post inflammatory
or insincere statements in an attempt to lure (someone) into combative
argument for purposes of personal entertainment or to manipulate their
perception, especially in an online community or discussion; also, to
post such statements on (an online location, such as a social media
website).
31. (intransitive)
32. (fishing) To fish using a running fishing line.
33. (fishing, Scotland, US) To fish using a line and bait or lures
trailed behind a boat similarly to trawling.
34. (figurative, originally Internet slang) To make or post inflammatory
or insincere statements in an attempt to lure people into combative
argument for purposes of personal entertainment or to manipulate their
perception, especially in an online community or discussion. [...]
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/troll>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
One’s destination is never a place, but rather a new way of
looking at things.
--Henry Miller
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Henry_Miller>