Wikipedia:Main Page history/2020 November 6

the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit.

From today's featured article

Portman Road

The 1981 UEFA Cup Final was an association football match played over two legs between AZ '67 of the Netherlands and Ipswich Town of England. It was the final of the 1980–81 season of European cup competition, the UEFA Cup. Both Ipswich and AZ '67 were appearing in their first European cup final. Watched by a crowd of 27,532 on 6 May at Ipswich's home ground, Portman Road (pictured), Ipswich won the first leg 3–0; John Wark, Frans Thijssen and Paul Mariner scored. In the second leg at the Olympic Stadium in Amsterdam on 20 May, a crowd of 28,500 watched Ipswich take an early lead courtesy of a Thijssen goal. AZ '67 quickly equalised through Kurt Welzl before taking the lead after a goal from Johnny Metgod. Wark scored again for Ipswich to equalise the leg, but AZ '67 struck back through Pier Tol and Jos Jonker. Ipswich won the final 5–4 on aggregate to win their first and, as of 2020, only European trophy. (Full article...)

Recently featured:

Did you know ...

Cem river in Kelmend, Albania

... that the Cem river basin (pictured) in the borderlands of Albania and Montenegro is home to more than a quarter of the total plant species identified in each country?
... that James Nathan Calloway, born in slavery in Tennessee, established an experimental cotton-growing farm in Togo?
... that Dua Lipa created the music video for her 2020 song "Hallucinate" with teams working in London, Paris, and Los Angeles?
... that Ibaqa Beki was briefly married to Genghis Khan, who abruptly gave her to one of his generals, possibly as a reward to that general for killing her father?
... that the date of Amy Coney Barrett's Supreme Court nomination – September 26, 2020 – was the nearest to a presidential election in U.S. history?
... that the Battle of Roan's Tan Yard ended Missouri State Guard recruiting activities in Randolph County?
... that "All Praise and Glad Thanksgiving" is sung to the hymn tune of "Gott Vater, sei gepriesen"?
... that a radio interview with Swedish police chief Mats Löfving was described as "a bombshell"?

In the news

COVID-19 pandemic: Disease; Virus; By location; Impact; Portal

Typhoon Goni

In Afghanistan, a shooting at Kabul University's campus leaves 35 people dead and 50 others injured.
Typhoon Goni (satellite image shown) makes landfall in the Philippines as a super typhoon, killing at least 24 people.
Scottish actor Sean Connery dies at the age of 90.
An earthquake in the Aegean Sea kills at least 110 people and injures more than 1,000 others.

On this day

November 6: Gustavus Adolphus Day in Estonia, Finland and Sweden (1632); Finnish Swedish Heritage Day in Finland

George Eliot

447 – A powerful earthquake destroyed large portions of the Walls of Constantinople, including 57 towers.
1789 – Pope Pius VI appointed Father John Carroll as the first Catholic bishop in the United States.
1856 – The first story from the collection Scenes of Clerical Life by English author George Eliot (pictured) was submitted for publication.
1963 – Nguyễn Ngọc Thơ was appointed to head the South Vietnamese government by General Dương Văn Minh's junta, five days after the latter deposed and assassinated President Ngô Đình Diệm.
1977 – The Kelly Barnes Dam in Stephens County, Georgia, collapsed; the resulting flood killed 39 people and caused US$2.8 million in damages.

John Mowbray, 3rd Duke of Norfolk (d. 1461)
Ida Lou Anderson (b. 1900)
Nadezhda Kuzhelnaya (b. 1962)

More anniversaries:

From today's featured list

2GGC: Greninja Saga, a tournament held in May 2017

Numerous tournaments have been held for the crossover fighting video game Super Smash Bros. for Wii U. Players control one of 58 characters drawn from Nintendo and third-party game franchises, and try to knock their opponents out of an arena. Each player has a percentage meter which rises as they take damage; characters become easier to knock into the air or out of bounds as the percentage increases. While Smash for Wii U tournament rules initially varied, by 2016 they had standardized; the first player to knock their opponent out of the arena twice within a six-minute match timer wins the set. Matches are played as best-of-three sets in early rounds of the tournament and best-of-five sets in later rounds. Tournaments use the double-elimination format. Smash Bros. tournaments are generally seeded so that the best players do not face off against each other until the later stages of an event. (Full list...)

Recently featured:

Today's featured picture

An iceberg is a large piece of freshwater ice that has broken off a glacier or an ice shelf and is floating freely in the open sea. Because the sea around this iceberg is so calm, the underwater portion is visible through the clear water. The largest iceberg ever detected was B-15, which split from the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica in 2000, and had a flat top; it had a surface area of 11,000 km² (4,200 sq mi) and broke into several pieces in 2002 and 2003. This picture depicts an irregularly shaped iceberg with a rounded top, calved from a glacier in the Arctic and photographed in the Arctic Ocean north of Svalbard.

Photograph credit: Andreas Weith

Recently featured:

Other areas of Wikipedia

Community portal – Bulletin board, projects, resources and activities covering a wide range of Wikipedia areas.
Help desk – Ask questions about using Wikipedia.
Local embassy – For Wikipedia-related communication in languages other than English.
Reference desk – Serving as virtual librarians, Wikipedia volunteers tackle your questions on a wide range of subjects.
Site news – Announcements, updates, articles and press releases on Wikipedia and the Wikimedia Foundation.
Village pump – For discussions about Wikipedia itself, including areas for technical issues and policies.