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Malmö FF are a Swedish professional football club based in Malmö. The club play their home matches at Swedbank Stadion. Formed on 24 February 1910, the club have won sixteen national championship titles and fourteen national cup titles, making them the most successful club in Sweden in terms of total trophies won. Malmö FF have also won the top tier league, Allsvenskan, on three occasions when the title of Swedish champions was not decided by the outcome of that league. They were the runners-up in the 1978–79 European Cup final, which they lost 1–0 to English club Nottingham Forest. This feat makes them the only Scandinavian club to have made it to the final of the most prestigious club competition in European football, presently named the UEFA Champions League. The club are currently playing in Allsvenskan, where the season lasts from April to October in contrast to a majority of other European national football leagues where the season lasts from August to May the following year. The club first won Allsvenskan in 1944 and most recently for the club's centennial anniversary in 2010. Malmö FF were most successful during the 1970s, when they won five Swedish championships and four Svenska Cupen titles. (more...)
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1525:
A Spanish-Imperial army defeated a French force in the Battle of Pavia in Pavia, present-day Italy, the decisive engagement of the Italian War of 1521–1526. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Pavia
1809:
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1831:
The Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek between the Choctaw and the United States government, the first removal treaty carried into effect under the Indian Removal Act, was proclaimed. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Dancing_Rabbit_Creek
1875:
The steamship SS Gothenburg hit a section of the Great Barrier Reef at low tide and sank about 50 kilometres (31 mi) northwest of Holbourne Island, Queensland, Australia, with the loss of over 100 lives. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Gothenburg
1989:
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