Liverpool Football Club's participation in European competitions
organised by Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) began in
1964. Since then, Liverpool have won eleven European trophies, making
them Britain's most successful team in UEFA competitions. They have won
the UEFA Champions League (formerly known as the European Cup) five
times, the UEFA Europa League (formerly known as the UEFA Cup) three
times, and the UEFA Super Cup three times. Liverpool qualified for
European competitions for 21 consecutive seasons until the 1985
European Cup Final, the occasion of the Heysel Stadium disaster,
following which the club was banned from Europe for six seasons. Since
being readmitted, they have qualified for the Champions League eight
times and the UEFA Cup seven times. As a result of their victory in the
2005 UEFA Champions League Final, Liverpool won the European Champion
Clubs' Cup trophy (pictured) outright. Bob Paisley is the club's most
successful manager in Europe, with five trophies. Liverpool's biggest
win in Europe is an 11–0 victory over Strømsgodset in the 1974–75
European Cup Winners' Cup. In European competitions, Jamie Carragher
holds the club record for the most appearances, with 139, and Steven
Gerrard is the club's record goalscorer, with 38 goals.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liverpool_F.C._in_European_football>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1541:
Spanish conquistador Pedro de Valdivia founded Santiago, today
the capital of Chile, as Santiago del Nuevo Extremo.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santiago>
1855:
Michigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan, was
founded as the Agricultural College of the State of Michigan, the United
States' first agricultural college.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michigan_State_University>
1912:
Xinhai Revolution: Puyi, the last Emperor of China, abdicated
under a deal brokered by military official and politician Yuan Shikai,
formally replacing the Qing Dynasty with a new republic in China.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puyi>
1974:
Russian author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was arrested and
subsequently deported from the Soviet Union for writing The Gulag
Archipelago, an exposé of the Soviet forced labour camp system.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Solzhenitsyn>
2001:
NASA's robotic space probe NEAR Shoemaker touched down on Eros
(pictured), becoming the first spacecraft to land on an asteroid.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/433_Eros>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
snappish:
Exhibiting irritation or impatience; curt; irascible.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/snappish>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my
idea of democracy. Whatever differs from this, to the extent of the
difference, is no democracy.
--Abraham Lincoln
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln>