Gateshead International Stadium is a multi-purpose, all-seater venue in

Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, England, built in 1955. The largest stadium in

the Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead, it has a history of use for

athletics events, sports, and musical performances. Gateshead Harriers

Athletic Club (which includes Jonathan Edwards) have used the site since

1956. At the 1974 "Gateshead Games", Brendan Foster broke the world

record in the men's 3,000 metres. It has since hosted the British Grand

Prix (2003–2010) and the European Athletics Team Championships in

1989, 2000 and 2013. Five world records have been set at the stadium,

including two by pole vaulter Yelena Isinbayeva and a tied 100 metres

record by Asafa Powell in 2006. It has been used by Gateshead F.C. and

its predecessors since 1973. The stadium was home to the rugby league

club Gateshead Thunder during their spell in the Super League, and the

replacement Gateshead Thunder club played home games in the main arena

until 2015.

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Today's selected anniversaries:

1810:

Napoleonic Wars: The French Navy defeated the Royal Navy,

preventing them from capturing the harbour of Grand Port on Mauritius.

1832:

Black Hawk, the leader of the Sauk tribe of Native Americans,

surrendered to U.S. authorities to end the Black Hawk War.

1979:

The Troubles: the IRA ambushed and killed 18 British soldiers

near Warrenpoint, and assassinated Lord Mountbatten on his boat at

Mullaghmore.

1990:

American musician Stevie Ray Vaughan, one of the most

influential guitarists in the revival of blues in the 1980s, was killed

in a helicopter crash.

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Wiktionary's word of the day:

Amazonomachy:

(Ancient Greece, mythology) Synonym of Amazonomachia (“a battle with

Amazons (“mythical female warriors thought to inhabit the Black Sea

region”); also (art), an artistic representation of such a scene”).

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Wikiquote quote of the day:

  The History of the world is none other than the progress of the

consciousness of Freedom; a progress whose development according to the

necessity of its nature, it is our business to investigate.  

--Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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