Chelsea Football Club are a professional English football club based in
West London. Founded in 1905, they play in the Premier League and have
spent most of their history in the top tier of English football.
Chelsea have been English champions three times, and have won the FA
Cup four times, the League Cup four times and the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup
twice. The club had their first major success in 1955, winning the
league championship. Chelsea won several cup competitions during the
1960s and 1970s, but after that did not win another major title until
1997. The past decade has been the most successful period in Chelsea’s
history, capped by winning consecutive Premier League titles in 2005
and 2006, and reaching their first UEFA Champions League final in 2008.
Chelsea's home is the 42,500-person-capacity Stamford Bridge football
stadium in Fulham, West London, where they have played since their
establishment. Despite their name, the club are based just outside the
Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, in the London Borough of
Hammersmith and Fulham. Chelsea's traditional kit colours are royal
blue shirts and shorts with white socks.
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1757:
British Royal Navy Admiral John Byng was court-martialled and executed
by firing squad for breaching the Articles of War when he failed to "do
his utmost" during the Battle of Minorca at the start of the Seven
Years' War.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Byng>
1794:
American inventor Eli Whitney patented the cotton gin (pictured), the
first ever machine that quickly and easily separated cotton fibers from
their seedpods.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/cotton_gin>
1945:
The British Royal Air Force first used the Grand Slam, a 22,000 lb
(9.98 t) earth quake bomb, on strategic railroad viaduct in Bielefeld,
Germany.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Slam_bomb>
1991:
The "Birmingham Six", wrongly convicted of the 1974 Birmingham pub
bombings in Birmingham, England, were released after sixteen years in
prison.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birmingham_Six>
1994:
Version 1.0.0 of the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel, was
released, becoming one of the most prominent examples of open Source
software.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_kernel>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
guerdon (n):
(now literary) A reward, prize or recompense for a service; an accolade
<http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/guerdon>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Today we must abandon competition and secure cooperation. This must be
the central fact in all our considerations of international affairs;
otherwise we face certain disaster. Past thinking and methods did not
prevent world wars. Future thinking must prevent wars ... The stakes
are immense, the task colossal, the time is short. But we may hope — we
must hope — that man’s own creation, man’s own genius, will not destroy
him.
--Albert Einstein
<http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein>