The Calgary Hitmen are a major junior ice hockey team based in Calgary,
Alberta, Canada. The Hitmen play in the Western Hockey League. They
play their home games at the Scotiabank Saddledome. Their name is
derived from local-born professional wrestler Bret "The Hitman" Hart, a
founding owner. Established in 1994, the team has been owned by the
Calgary Flames hockey club since 1997. They are the third WHL team to
represent Calgary, preceded by the Centennials and Wranglers. The
Hitmen have had the best record in the WHL four times, and have
qualified for the playoffs every season since 1998. In 1999, they
became the first Calgary team to win the President's Cup as league
champions, and the first to represent Calgary in the Memorial Cup since
the Calgary Canadians won the national junior title in 1926. The Hitmen
hold numerous WHL attendance records, and in 2004–05 became the first
team in the Canadian Hockey League to average 10,000 fans per game.
Thirty-two former Hitmen players have gone on to play in the National
Hockey League. The Hitmen are the defending league champions, winning
their second title in 2009–10.
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1301:
The Árpád dynasty, which had ruled Hungary since the late 9th century,
ended with the death of King Andrew III.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%81rp%C3%A1d_dynasty>
1814:
Sweden and Denmark–Norway signed the Treaty of Kiel, whereby
Frederick VI of Denmark, a loser in the Napoleonic Wars, ceded Norway
to Sweden in return for the Swedish holdings in Pomerania.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Kiel>
1907:
A 6.5 MW earthquake struck Kingston, Jamaica, resulting in at least 800
deaths, which was at the time considered one of the world's deadliest
earthquakes recorded in history.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1907_Kingston_earthquake>
1933:
Cricketer Harold Larwood of England, employing the controversial tactic
known as Bodyline, bowled a ball into Australian captain Bill
Woodfull's chest, an image that became one of the defining symbols of
the series.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodyline>
1978:
Austrian logician Kurt Gödel , who suffered from an obsessive fear of
being poisoned, died of starvation after his wife was hospitalized and
unable to cook for him.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_G%C3%B6del>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
go hand in hand (v):
(idiomatic) Of two things, to be closely related or to go together well
<http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/go_hand_in_hand>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never
gets used up. That is possible for him who never argues and strives
with men and facts, but in all experience retires upon himself, and
looks for the ultimate cause of things in himself.
--Albert Schweitzer
<http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Albert_Schweitzer>
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