The 2014 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup Final was the 101st edition of the oldest competition in American soccer, played on September 6, 2014, at PPL Park (pictured) in Chester, Pennsylvania. Seattle Sounders FC won the match before a crowd of 15,256, defeating the Philadelphia Union. Philadelphia and Seattle both play in the top tier of American soccer, Major League Soccer, and bypassed the initial stages of the tournament with entries into the third round of play. The Sounders were in the midst of a Supporters' Shield-winning regular season, while the Union's start was so poor that their coach was replaced a week prior to their first game in the competition. The Union's Maurice Edu gave his team the lead with a goal in the first half, but the Sounders equalized with a second half strike by Chad Barrett, and the match went into extra time. Clint Dempsey took the lead for Seattle, and Obafemi Martins sealed the victory with a late goal. Seattle earned a $250,000 cash prize, as well as a berth in the 2015–16 CONCACAF Champions League. Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Lamar_Hunt_U.S._Open_Cup_Final> _______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries: 1781: American Revolutionary War: General Benedict Arnold led British forces to victory in the Battle of Groton Heights. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Groton_Heights> 1901: U.S. President William McKinley was fatally wounded by anarchist Leon Czolgosz at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_William_McKinley> 1952: A prototype aircraft crashed at the Farnborough Airshow in Hampshire, England, killing the pilot and test observer on board, and 29 spectators. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1952_Farnborough_Airshow_DH.110_crash> 1976: Soviet pilot Viktor Belenko landed his MiG-25 in Hakodate, Japan, and declared his intention to defect. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Belenko> 2007: The Israeli Air Force carried out an airstrike on a suspected nuclear reactor in the Deir ez-Zor region of Syria. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Orchard> _____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day: trope: 1. (art, literature) Something recurring across a genre or type of art or literature, such as the ‘mad scientist’ of horror movies or the use of the phrase ‘once upon a time’ as an introduction to fairy tales; a motif. 2. (rhetoric) A figure of speech in which words or phrases are used with a nonliteral or figurative meaning, such as a metaphor. […] 3. (music) Musical senses. 4. A short cadence at the end of the melody in some early music. 5. A pair of complementary hexachords in twelve-tone technique. 6. (Judaism) A cantillation pattern, or one of the marks that represents it. 7. (Roman Catholicism) A phrase or verse added to the Mass when sung by a choir. […] <https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/trope> ___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:   Till the hour when the trump of the Archangel shall sound to announce that Time shall be no more, the name of Lafayette shall stand enrolled upon the annals of our race, high on the list of the pure and disinterested benefactors of mankind.   --John Quincy Adams <https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Quincy_Adams>