Tommy Amaker (born 1965) is the head coach of the Harvard Crimson men's basketball team, playing in the American NCAA Division I. As point guard for Duke under Mike Krzyzewski, he was an All-American player, earning the first NABC Defensive Player of the Year award. He was a Duke assistant coach for nine seasons (including for the 1990–91 and 1991–92 National Champion teams). He coached Seton Hall to postseason tournaments in each of his four seasons there, and won the 2004 National Invitation Tournament coaching the Michigan Wolverines. As Harvard men's basketball coach, Amaker was the first coach to lead the Crimson to victory over a ranked opponent. The 2010–11 team became the first Harvard team to earn a share of the Ivy League championship, and the 2011–12 team became the first to appear in the Associated Press and Coaches Polls. Amaker's 2011–12, 2012–13, 2013–14 and 2014–15 teams repeated as Ivy League champions. The 2012–13 team gave Harvard its first NCAA tournament victory, and the 2013–14 team posted a record 27 wins.
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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:
1674:
Shivaji, who led a resistance to free the Maratha from the Sultanate of Bijapur and the Mughal Empire, was crowned the first Chhatrapati of the Maratha Empire. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shivaji
1882:
The Shewa kingdom made big strides towards gaining supremacy over the Ethiopian Empire by defeating the Gojjam and gaining control of territories south of the Gibe River. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Embabo
1894:
Colorado Governor Davis Hanson Waite ordered his state militia to protect and support the miners engaged in the Cripple Creek miners' strike. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cripple_Creek_miners%27_strike_of_1894
1971:
Hughes Airwest Flight 706 collided with a U.S. Marine Corps F-4B Phantom II near Duarte, California, killing all people on both aircraft. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hughes_Airwest_Flight_706
1985:
The remains of Josef Mengele, a Nazi physician notorious for human experiments done on Auschwitz inmates, were discovered in Embu das Artes, Brazil. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef_Mengele
_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:
enfranchise: To grant the franchise to an entity, generally meaning to grant the privilege of voting to a person. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/enfranchise
___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:
After having won a scepter, few are so generous as to disdain the pleasures of ruling. --Pierre Corneille https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Pierre_Corneille
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