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1988–89 Clydebank F.C. season | The 1988-89 season was Clydebank 's twenty-third season in the Scottish Football League . They competed in the Scottish First Division and finished 3rd . They also competed in the Scottish League Cup and Scottish Cup . |
(I Wanna Give You) Devotion | '' ( I Wan na Give You ) Devotion '' is a house/rave themed club track by British dance outfit Nomad . The track was a top ten UK hit in 1991 , where it reached number 2 , and a number 1 Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart single in the United States , where it reached the top spot in June 1991 and stayed there for one week . |
(5407) 1992 AX | ( 5407 ) 1992 AX is a Mars-crossing minor planet . It was discovered by Seiji Ueda and Hiroshi Kaneda in Kushiro , Hokkaidō , on January 4 , 1992 . |
1899 U.S. National Championships – Men's Singles | Malcolm Whitman defended his title by beating Jahial Parmly Paret in four sets in the challenge round . |
14K | 14K may refer to : 14K ( Death Race ) a fictional character in the Death Race film series . 14K Triad , a Chinese criminal organization Gnome-Rhône 14K , an aircraft engine of the 1920s and 1930s 14K , another term for Fourteener mountain peaks ( above 14,000 feet ) of Rocky Mountains in western North America . |
1922 in sports | 1922 in sports describes the year 's events in world sport . |
1994–95 UMass Minutemen basketball team | The 1994 -- 95 UMass Minutemen basketball team represented the University of Massachusetts Amherst during the 1994 -- 95 NCAA Division I men 's basketball season . The Minutemen , led by seventh year head coach John Calipari , played their home games at William D. Mullins Memorial Center and were members of the Atlantic 10 Conference . They finished the season 29 -- 5 , 13 -- 3 in A-10 play to finish in first place . |
1924 Latvian Football Championship | Statistics of Latvian Higher League in the 1924 season . |
1959 World Archery Championships | The 1959 World Archery Championships was the 20th edition of the World Archery Championships . The event was held in Stockholm , Sweden in August 1959 and was organised by World Archery Federation ( FITA ) . It marked the first win in a run of 13 successive championship wins for the United States men 's team . |
1989 Virginia Slims Championships | The 1989 Virginia Slims Championships were the nineteenth WTA Tour Championships , the annual tennis tournament for the best female tennis players in singles on the 1989 WTA Tour . It was held in the week of 13 November 1989 , in Madison Square Garden in New York City , United States . |
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1920 SAFL Grand Final | The 1920 SAFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football competition . beat 69 to 21 . |
1937 Women's Western Open | The 1937 Women 's Western Open was a golf competition held at Beverly Country Club , the 8th edition of the event . Helen Hicks won the championship in match play competition by defeating Bea Barrett in the final match , 6 and 5 . Category : Women 's Western Open Category : Golf in Illinois Category : Sports in Chicago Women 's Western Open Women 's Western Open Women 's Western Open |
11th Gurkha Rifles | The 11th Gurkha Rifles was a Gurkha regiment of the British Indian Army . It was formed in Mesopotamia and Palestine in May 1918 , saw active service in the First World War and the Third Anglo-Afghan War , and was disbanded in April 1922 . |
1973 San Diego State Aztecs football team | The 1973 San Diego State Aztecs football team represented California State University San DiegoSan Diego State University was officially named California State University , San Diego from 1972 -- 1973 . See : San Diego State during the 1973 NCAA Division I football season as a member of the Pacific Coast Athletic Association.The Big West Conference was known as the Pacific Coast Athletic Association from its founding in 1969 through 1987 . See : Big West Conference The team was led by head coach Claude Gilbert , in his first year , and played their home games at San Diego StadiumQualcomm Stadium was known as San Diego Stadium from its opening in 1967 through 1980 . See : Qualcomm Stadium in San Diego , California . They finished the season as Conference Champion for the second consecutive year , with a record of nine wins , one loss and one tie ( 9 -- 1 -- 1 , 3 -- 0 -- 1 PCAA ) . |
1952 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team | The 1952 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team represented the University of Minnesota in the 1952 Big Ten Conference football season . In their second year under head coach Wes Fesler , the Golden Gophers compiled a 4 -- 3 -- 2 record and were outscored by their opponents by a combined total of 171 to 131 . Halfback Paul Giel was named an All-American by the Associated Press , FWAA and Look Magazine . Giel received Chicago Tribune Silver Football , awarded to the most valuable player of the Big Ten . Giel , running back Bob MacNamara and guard Percy Zachary were named All-Big Ten first team . Giel finished third in voting for the Heisman Trophy . Paul Giel was awarded the Team MVP Award . Total attendance for the season was 270,292 , which averaged to 54,058 . The season high for attendance was against rival Iowa . |
1981 Palanca Awards | The Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature winners in the year 1981 ( rank/prize , title of winning entry , name of author ) . __ NOTOC __ |
1990 Cameroonian Premier League | In the 1990 season of MTN Elite One , 16 teams competed . Union Douala won the championship . |
1904 International Cross Country Championships | The 1904 International Cross Country Championships was held in St Helens , England , at the Haydock Park Racecourse on March 26 , 1904 . A report on the event was given in the Glasgow Herald . Complete results , medallists , and the results of British athletes were published . |
1st CIMIC Battalion (Romania) | The 1st CIMIC Battalion , ( Batalionul 1 Cooperare Civil-Militară ) is the only Civil-Military cooperation battalion of the Romanian Land Forces and was formed in September 2001 . It is currently subordinated to the Romanian Staff Land Forces and its headquarters are located in Bucharest . The unit became completely operational in 2007 and it participated in peacekeeping missions in Afghanistan , Albania , Angola , Bosnia , Côte d'Ivoire , the Democratic Republic of Congo , Georgia , Iraq , Kosovo and Sudan . |
1891–92 Football League | The Football League 1891 -- 1892 was the fourth season of English league football , and the last season of the football league running in a single division . Sunderland were the winners of the league which was their first ever league success . At the beginning of the season Stoke had left the Football Alliance and rejoined the Football League . Darwen also joined from the Alliance but they conceded 112 goals and finished bottom . |
1605 in art | Events from the year 1605 in art . |
1909 Harvard Crimson football team | The 1909 Harvard Crimson football team represented Harvard University The Crimson were led by second year head coach Percy Haughton and played their home games at Harvard Stadium . They finished the season with a 9 -- 1 record . |
1966 European Athletics Championships | The 8th European Athletics Championships were held from 30 August to 4 September 1966 in the Nép Stadium in Budapest , Hungary . Contemporaneous reports on the event were given in the Glasgow Herald . A new IAAF ruling was applied for the first time making gender verification for female events mandatory . As a consequence , all women competitors were forced to have a sex check . Several of the greatest women athletes missed this year 's championships , among them world record holders Iolanda Balaș ( high jump ) from Romania , as well as Tamara Press ( shot put ) and Tatyana Shchelkanova ( long jump ) , both from the Soviet Union . |
184th Attack Squadron | The 184th Attack Squadron ( 184 ATKS ) is a unit of the Arkansas Air National Guard 188th Fighter Wing located at Fort Smith Air National Guard Station , Fort Smith , Arkansas . The 184th is equipped with the MQ-9 Reaper . In June 2014 the squadron transitioned from A-10C to the MQ-9 . |
1927 Big Ten Conference football season | The 1927 Big Ten Conference football season was the 32nd season of college football played by the member schools of the Big Ten Conference ( also known as the Western Conference ) and was a part of the 1927 college football season . The 1927 Illinois Fighting Illini football team , under head coach Robert Zuppke , compiled a 7 -- 0 -- 1 record , won the Big Ten championship , led the conference in scoring defense ( 3.0 points allowed per game ) , and was recognized as the national champion under the Dickinson System rankings . Guard Russ Crane and center Robert Reitsch received first-team All-American honors . The 1927 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team , under head coach Clarence Spears , compiled a 6 -- 0 -- 2 record , led the Big Ten in scoring offense ( 26.1 points per game ) , and was ranked No. 3 in the Dickinson System rankings . Fullback Herb Joesting was a consensus first-team All-American , and guard Harold Hanson also received first-team All-American honors from multiple selectors . The 1927 Michigan Wolverines football team , under head coach Elton Wieman , compiled a 6 -- 2 record , shut out its first four opponents , and was ranked No. 7 in the Dickinson System rankings . Michigan end Bennie Oosterbaan was a consensus first-team All-American for the third consecutive year . Halfback Louis Gilbert was Michigan 's leading scorer and a first-team All-Big Ten player . Chicago center Ken Rouse received the Chicago Tribune Silver Football trophy as the most valuable player in the conference . |
1986 European Athletics Championships – Women's 4 × 400 metres relay | The women 's 4 x 400 metres relay event at the 1986 European Athletics Championships was held in Stuttgart , then West Germany , at Neckarstadion on 31 August 1986 . |
1213 Algeria | 1213 Algeria , provisional designation , is a carbonaceous asteroid from the outer region of the asteroid belt , approximately 32 kilometers in diameter . Discovered by Guy Reiss at Algiers Observatory in 1931 , it was named after the North African country of Algeria . |
1975 in New Zealand television | This is a list of New Zealand television-related events in 1975 . |
1998 in the European Union | Events from the year 1998 in the European Union . |
1994 Masters Tournament | The 1994 Masters Tournament was the 58th Masters Tournament , held April 7 -- 10 at Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta , Georgia . José María Olazábal won the first of his two Masters titles , two strokes ahead of runner-up Tom Lehman , and became the sixth winner from Europe in the past seven Masters . Olazábal was the second champion from Spain , following Seve Ballesteros , the winner in 1980 and 1983 . Larry Mize , the 1987 champion , led after each of the first two rounds , and Lehman assumed the 54-hole lead with one of two 69s on Saturday ; Olazábal had the other and was one stroke back , with Mize one behind in third . Lehman , age 35 , had yet to win on the PGA Tour . In the final round , Olazábal , Lehman , and Mize shared the lead entering the back nine . Mize made three bogeys coming home and fell out of contention . Lehman bogeyed the par-3 12th to fall a stroke back , and at the par-5 15th hole , both Olazábal and Lehman had putts for eagle . Olazabal made his from 35 ft , but Lehman missed from fifteen ( 4.5 m ) , and the lead was two After pars at 16 , Olazábal three-putted from off the 17th green for bogey , while Lehman missed a birdie from fifteen feet , and the lead was reduced to one at the final tee . Lehman 's one-iron found the left fairway bunker , the approach shot was well short of the green , and he bogeyed ; Olazábal put his approach into the gallery , but he scrambled for par and had a two-stroke Fred Couples , the 1992 champion , did not enter due to back problems , withdrawing the previous Friday . Olazábal won his second green jacket five years later in 1999 . Lehman won his first tour event six weeks later at the Memorial , and won a major at The Open Championship in 1996 . |
19th Division (Imperial Japanese Army) | The was an infantry division in the Imperial Japanese Army . Its tsūshōgō code name was the . It was also occasionally referred to in Korean accounts as Ranam Division , after the location of its main base . The 19th Division and the 20th Division were both raised as a garrison force for Korea . After Japan 's victory in the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905 , and subsequent occupation , and then annexation of Korea in 1910 , the need was felt for a dedicated garrison force , raised from people with local knowledge . The 19th Division was stationed in far northeast Korea , in what is now North Hamgyong Province . The division received its colors on 24 December 1915 and headquarters have moved to Yongsan District 16 April 1916 ; however , the division was not considered combat-ready until 1918 . The delay was due to limited funding available for the division to build its facilities in Korea and the need to recruit and train personnel from mainland Japan . In addition , the new division was beset with problems related to malaria and shigellosis at its main base at Ranam in northern Korea , having recorded 672 disease-related officers casualties during 1917 . As result , the headquarters have moved to Ranam-guyok only 10 April 1919 . The first commander of the 19th Division was Lieutenant General Tachibana Koichirō . |
1993–94 Scottish Challenge Cup | The 1993 -- 94 Scottish Challenge Cup was the fourth season of the competition , which was also known as the B&Q Cup for sponsorship reasons . It was competed for by the 26 clubs in the Scottish Football League Division One and Two . The defending champions were Hamilton Academical , who defeated Morton 3 -- 2 in the 1992 final . The final was played on 12 December 1993 , between Falkirk and St Mirren at Fir Park in Motherwell . Falkirk won 3 -- 0 , to win the tournament for the first time . |
19th Field Artillery Regiment | The 19th Field Artillery Regiment is a Field Artillery regiment of the United States Army first formed in 1916 . |
1999 Oakland Athletics season | The Oakland Athletics ' 1999 season involved the A 's finishing 2nd in the American League West with a record of 87 wins and 75 losses . In doing so , the Athletics finished with their first winning record since 1992 . The campaign was also the first of eight consecutive winning seasons for the Athletics ( the last of these coming in 2006 ) . |
(31669) 1999 JT6 | ( 31669 ) 1999 JT6 is an Earth-crossing asteroid belonging to the Apollo family of asteroids which also crosses the orbit of Mars . 1999 JT6 is the asteroid 's temporary discovery name . It has now been assigned a permanent number from the Minor Planet Center ( 31669 ) indicating that its orbit has been confirmed , but has not ( at least so far ) been assigned a name . Only a small fraction of asteroids have been named . It has an Earth minimum orbit intersection distance of 0.00354 AU ( 328,978 miles ) , which is close enough to classify it as a Potentially Hazardous Asteroid ( PHA ) . It will make a close approach to Earth on 14 December 2076 at 0.0260 AU ( 2,506,321 miles ) and an even closer approach to the minor planet Ceres on 16 Feb 2084 at 0.0171 AU ( 1,587,064 miles ) . |
(R)evolution | ( R ) evolution is the fifth album by Minimum Serious . It was released with Mercury Records . |
1960 in China | Events in the year 1960 in the People 's Republic of China . |
1951 Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race | The 1951 Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race , was the seventh annual running of the `` blue water classic '' Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race . Hosted by the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia based in Sydney , New South Wales , the 1950 edition began on Sydney Harbour , at noon on Boxing Day ( 26 December 1951 ) , before heading south for 630 nautical miles ( 1,170 km ) through the Tasman Sea , past Bass Strait , into Storm Bay and up the River Derwent , to cross the finish line in Hobart , Tasmania . The 1951 Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race comprised a fleet of 14 competitors . Margaret Rintoul , skippered by AW Edwards won line honours in a new record time of 4 days , 2 hours and 29 minutes , giving both the vessel and skipper back-to-back victories . Struen Marie , skippered by T Williamson was awarded handicap honours on adjusted time . |
1959 6-Hour Le Mans Production Car Race | The 1959 6-Hour Le Mans Production Car Race was staged on 1 June 1959 at the Caversham Race Circuit in Western Australia , Australia . The race , which was organised by the WA Sporting Car Club , was the fifth annual Six Hour Le Mans . The race was won by Clem Dwyer and Vin Smith , driving a Triumph TR3A . |
1927 Detroit Tigers season | The 1927 Detroit Tigers season was a season in American baseball . It involved the Detroit Tigers attempting to win the American League , and they finished in fourth place . Outfielder Harry Heilmann won his fourth American League batting title with a .398 batting average . |
1916 College Football All-Southern Team | The 1916 College Football All-Southern Team consists of American football players selected to the College Football All-Southern Teams selected by various organizations in 1916 . Georgia Tech posted the best SIAA record , and tied for the championship with Tennessee . Graham Vowell , Pup Phillips , and Irby Curry were selected for Walter Camp 's third-team All-American . Both Curry and Tommy Spence would die in France serving the United States in the First World War . |
1970s Topps | The 1970s saw Topps go largely uncontested in the sports card market . The decade featured full runs of baseball , football , basketball , and hockey . Aside from issues like Kellogg 's cereal premiums which ran throughout the 70s there was not much in the way of major national card manufacturers to compete with . Topps maintained its license agreement with O-Pee-Chee in baseball and hockey . The company would have significantly more ground to cover given the growth of the professional sports leagues during the decade . Major League Baseball added four new teams in 1969 and two in 1977 ; the National Football League added two teams in 1976 ; the National Basketball Association gained three in 1970 , one in 1974 , and the American Basketball Association picked up one in 1972 ; the NHL acquired two teams in 1970 , 1972 , and 1974 . Soccer also made the Topps roster in the 70s , producing English and Scottish ` Footballers ' for distribution in the United Kingdom . Domestic soccer was not to be forgotten with a North American Soccer League sticker set in 1979 . The following are trading card sets issued by Topps in the 1970s . All cards listed are standard size ( 2 1/2 × 3 1/2 inches ) . Exceptions are noted . |
1969–70 FC Bayern Munich season | The 1969 -- 70 FC Bayern Munich season was the club 's fifth season in Bundesliga . |
1999 Belgian Open | The 1999 Belgian Open was a tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts in Antwerp , Belgium that was part of Tier IV of the 1999 WTA Tour . The tournament was held from May 10 through May 16 , 1999 and carried the official name Flanders Women 's Open . |
1840 in science | The year 1840 in science and technology involved some significant events , listed below . |
1975–76 Eredivisie | The Dutch Eredivisie in the 1975/1976 season was contested by 18 teams . PSV won the championship . |
1994–95 Divizia A | The 1994 -- 95 Divizia A was the seventy-seventh season of Divizia A , the top-level football league of Romania . |
144th Guards Motor Rifle Division | The 32nd Rifle Division was first raised in 1934 at Vladivostok and organized as a Siberian Rifle Division . The division initially served Far Eastern Military District as part of the 39th Rifle Corps . It took part in a number of border skirmishes on the Manchurian border near Lake Khasan . By 1941 it consisted of the 17th , 113th , and 322nd Rifle Regiments and the 133rd and 154th Artillery Regiments . |
1941 Fresno State Bulldogs football team | The 1941 Fresno State Bulldogs football team represented Fresno State Normal SchoolCalifornia State University , Fresno was known as Fresno State Normal School from 1911 -- 1948 . See : Fresno State during the 1941 college football season . Fresno State competed in the California Collegiate Athletic Association ( CCAA ) . The team was led by sixth-year head coach James Bradshaw and played home games at Ratcliffe Stadium on the campus of Fresno City College in Fresno , California . They finished the season as co-champions of the CCAA , with a record of four wins , three losses and two ties ( 4 -- 3 -- 2 , 2 -- 0 -- 1 CCAA ) . The Bulldogs outscored their opponents 118 -- 90 for the season , including shutting out their opponents four times . |
1972 Rugby League World Cup | The sixth Rugby League World Cup was held in France in October and November 1972 . Australia started as the favourites to retain the trophy they had won just two years previously . New Zealand had beaten all three of the other nations in 1971 and France were expected to be tough opponents on their home soil . In the event Great Britain confounded most expectations by running out worthy winners and levelling their tally of World Cup wins at 3 -- 3 with the Australians . The final was held at Stade Gerland in Lyon . Great Britain played Australia and in the end , with scores level and unchanged after extra time , claimed the cup on league placing . This was the last World Cup to be played under the four-tackle rule . |
18th Saturn Awards | The 18th Saturn Awards , honoring the best in science fiction , fantasy and horror film and television in 1991 , were held on March 13 , 1992 . Below is a complete list of nominees and winners . Winners are highlighted in bold . |
1013 Tombecka | 1013 Tombecka is a main-belt asteroid about 35 kilometers in diameter . It was discovered by Russian -- French astronomer Benjamin Jekhowsky at Algiers Observatory , Algeria , on January 17 , 1924 , and assigned a provisional designation of 1924 PQ . It was named in honor of secretary of the Faculty of Sciences of Paris , D. Tombeck . |
1960 Argentine Grand Prix | The 1960 Argentine Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at Buenos Aires on 7 February 1960 . It was race 1 of 10 in the 1960 World Championship of Drivers and race 1 of 9 in the 1960 International Cup for Formula One Manufacturers . This was the last Argentine Grand Prix until 1972 , and the last to be held on the No. 4 configuration of the circuit . The race was won by Bruce McLaren , his second consecutive victory , having won his first at Sebring at the end of the 1959 season . Stirling Moss suffered a suspension failure while leading , and took over Maurice Trintignant 's Cooper , but was not scored points for third place as a result of the shared drive , a rule that had been in place since 1958 . Venezuelan driver Ettore Chimeri participated in his only grand prix . He was killed two weeks later driving a Ferrari 250TR in Havana . He was the first driver from his country in Formula One , and the last until Johnny Cecotto in 1983 . It was the only grand prix appearances for Antonio Creus , Alberto Rodriguez Larreta and Roberto Bonomi . It was also the last grand prix appearances for the driver who scored Ferrari 's first World Championship race victory , José Froilán González , and experienced American driver Harry Schell , who would be killed during practice for a non-championship race at Silverstone . Three other local drivers took part in the practice sessions for the race . The Scuderia Centro Sud Maserati ( № 10 ) was driven in the first practice session by Pedro Llano , as well as by eventual race driver Nasif Estéfano and Rodriguez Larreta . In the second practice session , Julio Pola shared Chimeri 's № 44 Maserati . Also , Oscar Cabalén shared Estéfano 's car in the qualifying session as a reserve driver . |
1998 Arab Nations Cup | The 1998 Arab Nations Cup is the seventh edition of the Arab Nations Cup hosted by Qatar , in Doha . Saudi Arabia won their first title . |
1947–48 Blackpool F.C. season | The 1947-48 season was Blackpool F.C. 's 40th season ( 37th consecutive ) in the Football League . They competed in the 22-team Division One , then the top tier of English football , finishing ninth . They also reached the FA Cup Final , in which they lost 4-2 to Manchester United ( see 1948 FA Cup Final ) . Stan Mortensen was the club 's top scorer for the fourth consecutive season , with 31 goals ( 21 in the league and ten in the FA Cup , including a hat-trick against Tottenham in the semi-finals ) . |
1922–23 Svenska Serien | Svenska Serien 1922 -- 23 , part of the 1922 -- 23 Swedish football season , was the ninth Svenska Serien season played . The league was divided into to regional divisions with AIK and GAIS winning the eastern and western divisions . GAIS won the competition after defeating AIK in a final play-off . |
1977 ATP Buenos Aires | 1977 ATP Buenos Aires may refer to : 1977 ATP Buenos Aires ( April ) 1977 ATP Buenos Aires ( November ) |
1985 South Australian Open – Doubles | Mark Edmondson and Kim Warwick won in the final 6 -- 4 , 6 -- 4 against Nelson Aerts and Tomm Warneke . |
10K resolution | 10K resolution is horizontal resolution of about 10,000 pixels . 10K resolution was added to HDMI 2.1 to support computer monitors . This resolution is expected to be used in computer monitors , and is not a standard format in digital television and digital cinematography , which feature 4K resolutions and 8K resolutions . |
1857 in Russia | Events from the year 1857 in Russia |
1895 Oklahoma Sooners football team | The 1895 Oklahoma Sooners football team represented the Oklahoma Sooners of the University of Oklahoma during the 1895 college football season and was its first football team ever fielded . The team completed its inaugural season with a 0 -- 1 record . The Sooners played their first football game in history against a town team from Oklahoma City and lost by a final score of 34 -- 0 . This was the program 's one and only season under the guidance of head coach John A. Harts , the next season he was gold prospecting in the Arctic . |
1991 in LGBT rights | This is a list of notable events in the history of LGBT rights that took place in the year 1991 . |
't Zand, Hattem | ' t Zand is a hamlet in the Dutch province of Gelderland . It is located in the municipality of Hattem , about 6 km west of the city of Zwolle . |
1945 Detroit Tigers season | The 1945 Detroit Tigers was the team 's 45th since they entered the American League in 1901 . The team won the American League pennant , then went on to win the 1945 World Series , defeating the Chicago Cubs 4 games to 3 . It was the second World Series championship for the Tigers . Detroit pitcher Hal Newhouser was named the American League 's Most Valuable Player for the second consecutive season . |
1881 Penn Quakers football team | The 1881 Penn Quakers football team represented the University of Pennsylvania in the 1881 college football season . They finished with a 0 -- 5 record . |
1925 NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans | The 1925 College Basketball All-American team , as chosen by the Helms Foundation . The player highlighted by gold indicates that he was chosen as the Helms Foundation Player of the Year . |
1995 NCAA Division I Women's Volleyball Tournament | The 1995 NCAA Division I Women 's Volleyball Tournament began with 48 teams and ended on December 16 , 1995 , when Nebraska defeated Texas 3 games to 1 in the NCAA championship match . Nebraska defeated Texas 11-15 , 15-2 , 15-7 , 16-14 . Nebraska was led by Katie Crnich and Billie Winsett who each had 25 kills . After losing its second match of the season to then-No . 1 Stanford , Nebraska reeled off 31 consecutive matches to claim the NCAA title and had the program 's best season at 32-1 ( .970 % ) . |
1902 in sports | 1902 in sports describes the year 's events in world sport . |
1185 in Norway | Events in the year 1185 in Norway . |
1609 in Ireland | Events from the year 1609 in Ireland . |
18th Military Police Brigade (United States) | The 18th Military Police Brigade is a military police brigade of the United States Army based in Grafenwoehr , Germany , with subordinate battalions and companies stationed throughout Germany . It provides law enforcement and force protection duties to United States Army Europe . Activated during the Vietnam War , the Brigade oversaw all Military Police operations in the country for a large portion of the conflict , undertaking a wide variety of missions throughout the country and providing command and control for other military police groups in the region . After Vietnam , the Brigade deployed units to several other operations , namely Operation Desert Storm and Operation Provide Comfort . The brigade itself also deployed to Kosovo , supporting many of the units operating there attempting to settle unrest in the area due to the 1999 Bosnian War . The brigade has also seen multiple deployments in the Global War on Terrorism to the Iraq War . Its primary responsibilities have been to train and equip the national Iraqi Police forces . The Brigade recently returned from its third deployment to Iraq , after serving for 15 months in the Baghdad area . |
1997 Yokohama Flügels season | 1997 Yokohama Flügels season |
1998 OFC Nations Cup Final | The 1998 OFC Nations Cup Final was the final match of the 1998 OFC Nations Cup . It was held on 4 October in Brisbane between Australia and New Zealand . New Zealand won the match 1 -- 0 with Mark Burton scoring the only goal in the 24th minute . New Zealand won the right to play in the 1999 FIFA Confederations Cup as the representative from the OFC . |
11th Kisei | The 11th Kisei was the 11th edition of the Kisei tournament . Since Koichi Kobayashi won the previous year , he is given an automatic place in the final . Eleven players battled in a knockout tournament to decide the final 2 . Those two would then play each other in a best-of-3 match to decide who would face Kobayashi . Masaki Takemiya became the challenger after beating Hideo Otake 2 games to 1 , but he would lose to Kobayashi 4 games to 1 in the final . |
125th Ohio Infantry | The 125th Ohio Volunteer Infantry ( or 125th OVI ) was an infantry regiment in the Union Army during the American Civil War . |
1926–27 French Amateur Football Championship | Statistics of the French Amateur Football Championship in the 1926-27 season . The Championship was the main competition for the amateur football clubs from 1926 to 1929 . There were 3 divisions : Excellence , Honor and Promotion . |
1814 in birding and ornithology | Following the death of George Shaw James Francis Stephens takes over General Zoology , or Systematic Natural History William Elford Leach describes the fasciated antshrike and the black-throated coucal in his Zoological Miscellany ( 1814 -- 1817 ) Edward Smith Stanley publishes Remarks on the birds of Abyssinia in A Voyage to Abyssinia , & Travels into the interior of that country , executed under the orders of the British Government in the years 1809 & 1810 by Henry Salt . He scientifically describes the striped kingfisher and the red-billed oxpecker . The Linnaean Society of New England founded . Like many such societies it was short-lived . Foundation of Natural History Museum at the University of Oslo Category : Years in birding and ornithology Category :1814 in science |
1845 in archaeology | The year 1845 in archaeology involved some significant events . |
1991–92 St. Francis Terriers men's basketball team | The 1991 -- 92 St. Francis Terriers men 's basketball team represented St. Francis College during the 1991 -- 92 NCAA Division I men 's basketball season . The team was coached by Ron Ganulin , who was in his first year at the helm of the St. Francis Terriers . The Terrier 's home games were played at the Generoso Pope Athletic Complex . The team has been a member of the Northeast Conference since 1981 . The Terriers finished their season at 15 -- 14 overall and 8 -- 8 in conference play . |
1903 in film | The year 1903 in film involved many significant events in cinema . |
1917 Argentine Primera División | The 1917 Argentine Primera División was the 26 ° season of top-flight football in Argentina . The season began on April 1 , and ended on December 30 . Racing Club won its fifth consecutive league title . Sportivo Barracas made its debut in Primera División , while Gimnasia y Esgrima ( BA ) and Banfield were relegated at the end of the season . |
1945 All-Ireland Minor Hurling Championship | The 1945 All-Ireland Minor Hurling Championship was the 15th staging of the All-Ireland Minor Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Gaelic Athletic Association in 1928 . As a result of the Emergency it was the first championship to be staged since 1941 . Cork entered the championship as the defending champions , however , they were beaten by Tipperary in the Munster semi-final . On 2 September 1945 Dublin won the championship following a 3-14 to 4-6 defeat of Tipperary in the All-Ireland final . This was their first All-Ireland title . |
1717 in Russia | Events from the year 1717 in Russia |
1926 U.S. National Championships – Men's Singles | René Lacoste defeated Jean Borotra 6 -- 4 , 6 -- 0 , 6 -- 4 in the final to win the Men 's Singles tennis title at the 1926 U.S. National Championships . It was Lacoste 's first U.S. Championships title and his third Grand Slam title overall . |
1979 Avon Championships of Detroit | The 1979 Avon Championships of Detroit was a women 's tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts at the Cobo Hall & Arena in Detroit , Michigan in the United States that was part of the 1979 Avon Championships circuit . It was the eighth edition of the tournament and was held from February 19 through February 25 , 1979 . Fifth-seeded Wendy Turnbull won the singles title and earned $ 30,000 first-prize money . |
1977 Preakness Stakes | The 1977 Preakness Stakes was the 102nd running of the $ 200,000 Grade 1 Preakness Stakes thoroughbred horse race . The race took place on May 21 , 1977 , and was televised in the United States on the ABC television network . Seattle Slew , who was jockeyed by Jean Cruguet , won the race by one and one half lengths over runner-up Iron Constitution . Approximate post time was 5:41 p.m. Eastern Time . The race was run on a fast track in a final time of 1:54 -2 / 5 . The Maryland Jockey Club reported total attendance of 77,346 , this is recorded as second highest on the list of American thoroughbred racing top attended events for North America in 1977 . |
13th FAI World Rally Flying Championship | 13th FAI World Rally Flying Championship took place between July 26 -- August 3 , 2003 in Rustenburg in South Africa . There were 51 crews from 14 countries : South Africa ( 7 ) , Poland ( 4 ) , France ( 4 ) , Czech Republic ( 4 ) , Austria ( 6 ) , United Kingdom ( 6 ) , Germany ( 6 ) , Russia ( 3 ) , Spain ( 3 ) , Chile ( 3 ) , Greece ( 2 ) , Hungary ( 1 ) , Cyprus ( 1 ) , Portugal ( 1 ) . |
1906–07 Illinois Fighting Illini men's basketball team | The 1906 -- 07 Illinois Fighting Illini men 's basketball team represented the University of Illinois . |
1950–51 Serie B | |
1999 J.League Cup | Statistics of J. League Cup in the 1999 season . |
1955–56 William & Mary Indians men's basketball team | The 1955 -- 56 William & Mary Indians men 's basketball team represented the College of William & Mary in intercollegiate basketball during the 1955 -- 56 NCAA men 's basketball season . Under the fourth year of head coach Boydson Baird , the team finished the season 12 -- 14 , 9 -- 7 in the Southern Conference . This was the 51st season of the collegiate basketball program at William & Mary , whose nickname is now the Tribe . William & Mary played its home games at Blow Gymnasium . The Indians finished in 5th place in the conference and qualified for the 1956 Southern Conference Men 's Basketball Tournament , held at the Richmond Arena . However , for the second consecutive year William & Mary fell to Richmond in the quarterfinals . |
1972 Torneo Descentralizado | The 1972 Torneo Descentralizado , the top category of Peruvian football , was played by 16 teams . The season was divided into 3 stages . The first stage was contested in two groups : Metropolitan ( teams from Lima and Callao ) and Regional ( teams from the rest of the country ) ; each group winner qualified for the Championship Group . The second stage was the Descentralised ( league tournament ) ; the top 4 qualified for the Championship Group and the bottom 2 were relegated . Championship Group was contested by 6 teams in Lima ; neither team carried their previous records . The national champion was Sporting Cristal . |
1749 Telamon | 1749 Telamon , provisional designation , is a dark Jupiter Trojan from the Greek camp , approximately 70 kilometers in diameter . . It was discovered by German astronomer Karl Reinmuth at Heidelberg Observatory on 23 September 1949 . The C-type Trojan asteroid shares the orbit of the gas giant Jupiter in the Greek Camp in the Lagrangian point of the Sun -- Jupiter system . It therefore orbits the Sun at a distance of 4.6 -- 5.7 AU once every 11 years and 8 months ( 4,268 days ) . Its orbit has an eccentricity of 0.11 and an inclination of 6 ° with respect to the ecliptic . It has an albedo of 0.06 -- 0.07 , based on observations by the Akari and Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer satellites . Photometric observations of the body from 1995 were used to build a light-curve rendering a rotation period of 11.2 hours with a brightness variation of in magnitude , while another observation in 2010 rendered a period of 16.9 hours . The asteroid was named by the discoverer after Telamon , from Greek mythology , who was an argonaut searching for the Golden Fleece , and father of Ajax and Teucer , after whom the minor planets 1404 Ajax and 2797 Teucer are named . Telamon banished his son Teucer ( as he had been banished by his own father ) when he returned home from the Trojan war without the remains of his brother . Naming citation was published before November 1977 . |
1928–29 Swedish football Division 3 | Statistics of Swedish football Division 3 in season 1928/1929 . |
1989 Senior PGA Tour | The 1989 Senior PGA Tour was the 10th season since the Senior PGA Tour officially began in 1980 ( it was renamed the Champions Tour in 2003 ) . The season consisted of 35 official money events with purses totalling $ 13,345,000 ( not including the PaineWebber Invitational , canceled due to Hurricane Hugo ) , including four majors . Bob Charles won the most tournaments , five . The tournament results , leaders , and award winners are listed below . |
1993–94 Saudi Premier League | Al-Nassr won the championship for the fourth time after beating outsiders Al-Riyadh in the final . The end of season playoffs were changed to one-legged affairs from the previous home-and-away two-legged matchups . Allowed the team record 3 foreign players in this year , and preparations for the national team camps |
1784 in Sweden | Events from the year 1784 in Sweden |
1991 UCI Road World Cup | The 1991 UCI Road World Cup was the third edition of the UCI Road World Cup . From the 1990 edition , the same events were retained , with the individual time trial finale event this year in Bergamo , Italy , ran as both the Grand Prix des Nations and the Trofeo Baracchi . The competition was won by Italian rider Maurizio Fondriest of . |
118P/Shoemaker–Levy | 118P/Shoemaker -- Levy ( also known as periodic comet Shoemaker -- Levy 4 ) is a comet discovered by astronomers Carolyn and Eugene M. Shoemaker and David Levy . During the 2010 apparition the comet became as bright as apparent magnitude 11.5 . The comet nucleus is estimated to be 4.8 kilometers in diameter . On December 3 , 2015 , comet Shoemaker -- Levy 4 will pass 0.0442 AU from asteroid 4 Vesta . This comet should not be confused with Comet Shoemaker -- Levy 9 ( D/1993 F2 ) which spectacularly crashed into Jupiter in 1994 . |
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