men's 4 × 100 metres medley relay swimming team that won the gold
medal at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. This was the only year
since its inception that the event has not been won by the United
States, which was boycotting the Moscow Olympics after the Soviet
invasion of Afghanistan. The quartet consisted of backstroker Mark
Kerry, breaststroker Peter Evans, butterflyer Mark Tonelli and
freestyler Neil Brooks. Tonelli, the oldest at 23, was also a
spokesperson for the Australian athletes' campaign to compete at the
Olympics against the wishes of the Fraser Government. All four clashed
with swimming authorities over disciplinary issues, and three were
suspended or expelled from the Australian team. After the backstroke
leg, Australia was in fourth place and more than a second behind, but
Evans was the fastest breaststroker, moving into second position at the
halfway point, and Tonelli completed his leg in a personal best time.
Brooks overtook the Soviet swimmer Sergey Kopliakov in the latter half
of the final leg to secure a narrow victory.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quietly_Confident_Quartet>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1241:
First Mongol invasion of Poland: Mongols overwhelmed the Polish
armies of Sandomierz and Kraków provinces in the Battle of Chmielnik
and plundered the abandoned city of Kraków.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Chmielnik>
1741:
New York governor George Clarke's complex at Fort George was
destroyed by a fire supposedly set by slaves, starting the New York
Conspiracy of 1741.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Conspiracy_of_1741>
1871:
French President Adolphe Thiers ordered the evacuation of Paris
after an uprising broke out as the result of France's defeat in the
Franco-Prussian War, leading to the establishment of the Paris Commune
government.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_Commune>
1906:
Romanian inventor Traian Vuia became the first person to fly a
heavier-than-air monoplane with an unassisted takeoff.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traian_Vuia>
1996:
The deadliest fire in Philippine history burned a nightclub in
Quezon City, leaving 162 dead.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozone_Disco_Club_fire>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
saw gourds:
(chiefly late-19th-century US slang, intransitive) To snore very
loudly.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/saw_gourds>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Our brains are no longer conditioned for reverence and awe. We
cannot imagine a Second Coming that would not be cut down to size by the
televised evening news, or a Last Judgment not subject to pages of
holier-than-Thou second-guessing in The New York Review of Books.
--John Updike
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Updike>
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