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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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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guerdon (n): (now literary) A reward, prize or recompense for a service; an accolade http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/guerdon

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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