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The 2020 season for Seattle Sounders FC was their twelfth in Major League Soccer (MLS). It was the 37th season under the Sounders name. Seattle, the reigning MLS Cup champions, started their regular season on March 1, but it was suspended on March 12 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Matches resumed in July in a special tournament. The Sounders played behind closed doors at CenturyLink Field (pictured). They finished second in the Western Conference, winning the conference championship but losing the 2020 MLS Cup final 3–0 to the Columbus Crew SC.

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Saraswati enthroned

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... that historian Gu Jiegang continued secret research on children's copybooks during the Cultural Revolution?
... that a 1968 protest at Bucks County Community College was among the earliest gay-rights campus protests?
... that Marion Wiesel translated 14 of her husband's books from French?
... that the first mass message to the U.S. government's employees was an enticement for resignation?
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On this day

Andrew Watson

1537 – Croatian–Ottoman wars: After the execution of feudal lord Petar Kružić, Croatian forces at Klis surrendered to the Ottoman forces in exchange for their safe passage to northern locations.
1881 – Andrew Watson (pictured) captained the Scotland national football team against England, becoming the world's first black international footballer.
1947 – Cold War: U.S. president Harry S. Truman proclaimed the Truman Doctrine to help stem the spread of communism.
1952 – British diplomat Lord Ismay was appointed the first secretary general of NATO.
1971 – The Turkish Armed Forces executed a "coup by memorandum", forcing the