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Alf Ramsey (22 January 1920 – 28 April 1999) was an English football player and manager. As England manager from 1963 to 1974, he guided them to victory in the 1966 FIFA World Cup. Knighted in 1967, he also managed his country to third place in the 1968 European Championship and the quarter-finals of the 1970 World Cup and the 1972 European Championship. As a player, he was a defender and a member of England's 1950 World Cup squad, and a part of the Tottenham Hotspur side that won the English League championship in the 1950–51 season. A statue of Ramsey was dedicated at the reconstructed Wembley Stadium in 2009, and various honours have been afforded to him for his eight years as Ipswich Town manager. He is the first person to be inducted twice into the English Football Hall of Fame: in 2002 in recognition of his achievements as a manager, and again in 2010 for his achievements as a player. He remains widely regarded as one of British football's all-time great managers. (Full article...)

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April 28: Workers' Memorial Day; Yom HaZikaron in Israel (2020)

Mounted police, including one on a white horse, maintaining order at the FA Cup Final

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1923 – The 1923 FA Cup Final between Bolton Wanderers and West Ham United was held on the opening day (crowd and police pictured) of the Empire Stadium in London.
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Old Age is the fourth in a series of allegorical oil-on-canvas paintings by American artist Thomas Cole, entitled The Voyage of Life, which represent man's journey through life. The final painting is an image of death. The man, still in his boat, has grown old, and the waters of the river have calmed as they flow into the sea of eternity. The figurehead and hourglass are missing from the battered boat; the withered old voyager has reached the end of earthly time. His guardian angel hovers close to the boat, while angels descend from heaven in the distance. The landscape is practically gone, with just a few rough rocks representing the edge of the earthly world, and dark water stretching ahead. This painting, along with the other three in the series, was painted in 1842 and is held by the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.

Painting credit: Thomas Cole

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