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Oxford men's crew celebrating victory

The 2015 Boat Races took place on 11 April. The Boat Race is an annual side-by-side rowing race between crews from the universities of Oxford and Cambridge along a 4.2-mile (6.8 km) tidal stretch of the River Thames. For the first time ever, the men's, women's and both reserve races were all held on the Tideway. In the men's reserve race, Cambridge's Goldie faced Oxford's Isis after the women's race, as a preliminary to the main men's race, while the women's reserve race, held the day before, saw Oxford's Osiris race against Cambridge's Blondie. Oxford's women won the first running of the Women's Boat Race on the Tideway, and the 70th overall, by 6 ¹⁄₂ lengths, to take the overall record in the event to 41–29 in Cambridge's favour. Oxford also won the men's reserve race, with Isis winning by 3 lengths. In the main men's race, umpired by Boris Rankov, Oxford (crew pictured) won by 6 ¹⁄₂ lengths, taking the overall record in the event to 81–79 in Cambridge's favour. The women's reserve race was won by Osiris by 15 lengths, making the overall record 21–20 to Cambridge. (Full article...)

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The volcano La Soufrière (pictured) erupts in Saint Vincent, forcing the evacuation of around 20,000 people.
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On this day

April 11: Divine Mercy Sunday (Catholicism, Anglicanism; 2021)

Emir Abdullah of Transjordan

1544 – Italian War of 1542–1546: French and Spanish forces fought a massive pitched battle in the Piedmont region of Italy.
1888 – The Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, considered one of the world's finest concert halls, was inaugurated.
1921 – Emir Abdullah (pictured) established the first centralised government in the recently created British protectorate of Transjordan.
1951 – U.S. president Harry S. Truman relieved General of the Army Douglas MacArthur of his commands for making public statements about the Korean War that contradicted the administration's policies.
2001 – In a FIFA World Cup qualifying match, Australia defeated American Samoa by a score of 31–0, the largest margin of victory ever in an international football match.

Ramadan ibn Alauddin (d. 1349)
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Wheat Fields is a series of dozens of paintings by Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh. Ploughed fields ('The furrows'), painted in 1888, shows a field after ploughing with the earth lying in rough clods before the wheat has been sown. The picture is in the collection of the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam.

Painting credit: Vincent van Gogh

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