Sunderland A.F.C. is an English association football club based in
Sunderland, Tyne and Wear that competes in the Premier League. Since
its formation in 1879, the club has won six First Division titles—in
1892, 1893, 1895, 1902, 1913, and 1936 and the FA Cup twice, in 1937
and 1973 (see Sunderland A.F.C. seasons). The club was founded by
schoolteacher James Allan and was elected into The Football League in
1890 where the team performed well in the league, earning plaudits such
as a "wonderfully fine team". The Sunderland team won their first FA
Cup in 1937 with a 3–1 victory over Preston North End, and remained in
the top league for 68 successive seasons, losing the record to Arsenal
when they were relegated in 1958. Sunderland's most notable trophy win
after the Second World War was their second FA Cup in 1973, when the
club secured a 1–0 victory over Leeds United. The team has won the
second tier title 5 times in that period and the third tier title once.
Sunderland play their home games at the 49,000 capacity all-seater
Stadium of light having moved from Roker Park in 1997. The original
ground capacity was 42,000 which was increased to 49,000 following
redevelopment in 2000. Sunderland have a long-standing rivalry with
their neighbouring club Newcastle United, with whom they have contested
the Tyne–Wear derby since 1898.
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1854:
Florence Nightingale and a staff of 38 nurses were sent to Turkey to
help treat wounded British soldiers fighting in the Crimean War.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_Nightingale>
1858:
French composer Jacques Offenbach's operetta Orpheus in the Underworld,
featuring the can-can, was first performed at the Théâtre des Bouffes
Parisiens in Paris.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orpheus_in_the_Underworld>
1867:
The first of the Medicine Lodge Treaties was signed between the United
States and several Native American tribes in the Great Plains,
requiring them to relocate to areas in present-day western Oklahoma.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicine_Lodge_Treaty>
1944:
World War II: German forces surrendered to American troops, ending the
Battle of Aachen.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Aachen>
1983:
At the seventeenth General Conference on Weights and Measures, the
length of a metre was redefined as the distance light travels in vacuum
in 1/299,792,458 of a second.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/metre>
1987:
Sri Lankan Civil War: Indian Army soldiers, belonging to the Indian
Peace Keeping Force, entered the Jaffna Teaching Hospital in Jaffna,
Sri Lanka, and began killing about 68–70 patients, nurses, doctors and
other staff members.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaffna_hospital_massacre>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
gleek (v):
1. (archaic) To ridicule, mock; to make sport of.
2. (informal) To discharge a thin stream of liquid through the teeth
or from under the tongue
<http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gleek>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Should children be permitted to read Romances, & Relations of Giants &
Magicians, & Genii? — I know all that has been said against it; but I
have formed my faith in the affirmative. — I know no other way of
giving the mind a love of "the Great," & "the Whole." — Those who
have
been led by the same truths step by step thro' the constant testimony
of their senses, seem to me to want a sense which I possess — They
contemplate nothing but parts — and all parts are necessarily little —
and the Universe to them is but a mass of little things.
--Samuel Taylor Coleridge
<http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Samuel_Taylor_Coleridge>
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