Manon Melis (born 1986) is a Dutch manager of women's football
development at Feyenoord and a former professional footballer who played
as a forward. She spent most of her professional career playing in the
Swedish league Damallsvenskan, which she won three times with her club
LdB FC Malmö, in 2010, 2011, and 2013. Melis also won the Swedish
Supercup with Malmö in 2011, and was the Damallsvenskan top scorer
three times, in 2008, 2010, and 2011. At age 17, Melis made her debut
for the Netherlands national team in 2004. Her goalscoring helped the
Dutch qualify for their first major tournament, the UEFA Women's Euro
2009, where they reached the semi-finals. In the tournament, she scored
a crucial goal in the final group game against Denmark to send her team
into the knockout stage. When she retired from playing international
football in 2016, she had earned 136 caps and scored 59 goals. She was
the all-time top goal scorer for the Netherlands national team from 2010
to 2019.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manon_Melis>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1823:
U.S. president James Monroe issued the Monroe Doctrine, a
proclamation of opposition to European colonialism in the New World.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monroe_Doctrine>
1943:
World War II: The Luftwaffe conducted a surprise air raid on
Allied ships in Bari, Italy, sinking twenty-eight ships and releasing
one ship's secret cargo of mustard gas.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_raid_on_Bari>
1989:
The Malayan Communist Party and the Malaysian government signed
a peace accord to end the 21-year Communist insurgency.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_insurgency_in_Malaysia_%281968%E2%80%931989%29>
2001:
Less than two months after disclosing accounting violations,
Texas-based energy firm Enron filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy,
evaporating nearly $11 billion in shareholder wealth.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enron_scandal>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
PEBCAK:
(computing, humorous, also attributively) Chiefly used by technical
support helpdesk staff: a problem experienced with a user's computer
that is due to user error.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/PEBCAK>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
When tales of the cosmos are told, this period of ours may always
be recalled as that in which men first came to realise what a violent
universe we inhabit.
--Nigel Calder
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nigel_Calder>
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