Since 1980, York City F.C., a professional association football club based in York, North Yorkshire, England, has seen many promotions and relegations. The team won its only English Football League title after finishing first in the Fourth Division in 1983–84 with 101 points, the most season points scored by any team at the time. After four seasons in the Third Division, they were relegated in 1987–88. They beat Crewe Alexandra at Wembley Stadium in the play-off final in 1992–93, winning promotion to the renamed Second Division. Later in the 1990s, they knocked Premier League teams Manchester United and Everton out of the League Cup in successive seasons. At the end of 2003–04, they lost their Football League status. The 2011–12 FA Trophy (celebration pictured) was the first national knockout competition won by York, and they returned to the Football League that season. (

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1776:

American Revolutionary War: British and Hessian units captured Fort Washington from the Patriots. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Fort_Washington

1885:

After a five-day trial following the North-West Rebellion, Louis Riel, Canadian rebel leader of the Métis and "Father of Manitoba", was hanged for high treason. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Riel

1938:

Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann first synthesized the psychedelic drug LSD at the Sandoz Laboratories in Basel, Switzerland. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Hofmann

1973:

U.S. President Richard Nixon signed an act authorizing the construction of the Alaska Pipeline to transport oil from the Arctic Ocean to the Gulf of Alaska. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Alaska_Pipeline_System

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

seasteading: The creation of permanent dwellings at sea, especially outside the territory claimed by any national government. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/seasteading

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

I think that people don't understand. As the Firesign Theater used to say, "Everything you know is wrong." But that is a very liberating understanding, because if everything you know is wrong, then all the problems you thought were insoluble can be framed differently. And there's a way to take the world apart and put it back unrecognizably. We don't really understand what consciousness is at the really deep levels.   --Terence McKenna https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Terence_McKenna