The 2005 Texas Longhorns football team represented The University of Texas at Austin during the college football season of 2005–2006, winning the Big 12 Conference Championship and the national championship. The team was coached by Mack Brown, led on offense by quarterback Vince Young, and played its home games at Darrell K Royal – Texas Memorial Stadium. The team's penultimate game, the 2005 Big 12 Championship Game, was won by the largest margin of victory in Big 12 Championship Game history. Texas finished the season by winning the 2006 Rose Bowl against the University of Southern California Trojans for the national championship. Numerous publications have cited this victory and this team's season as standing among the greatest performances in college football history. The Longhorns finished as the only unbeaten team in NCAA Division I-A football that year, with thirteen wins and zero losses.

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31 BC:

Final War of the Roman Republic: Troops supporting Octavian defeated the forces of Mark Antony and Cleopatra in the naval Battle of Actium on the Ionian Sea near Actium in Greece. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Actium

1666:

A large fire began on London's Pudding Lane and burned the city for three days , destroying St Paul's Cathedral and the homes of 70,000 of the city's 80,000 inhabitants. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Fire_of_London

1901:

U.S. Vice President Theodore Roosevelt first uttered the famous phrase "speak softly and carry a big stick" at the Minnesota State Fair, describing his philosophy of negotiating peacefully while simultaneously threatening to use military force. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Stick_ideology

1957:

President Ngo Dinh Diem of South Vietnam became the first foreign head of state to make a state visit to Australia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ngo_Dinh_Diem_presidential_visit_to_Australia

1990:

The small country of Transnistria unilaterally declared its independence from what was then the Moldavian SSR of the Soviet Union, but independence has only been recognized by Abkhazia and South Ossetia, who are also partially recognised states. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transnistria

1998:

Swissair Flight 111, en route from New York City to Geneva, crashed into the Atlantic Ocean, killing all 229 people on board. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swissair_Flight_111

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

gird (v): 1. To bind with a flexible rope or cord. 2. To encircle with, or as if with, a belt http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gird

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

If thinking men are few, they are for that reason all the more powerful. Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and wherever he may be placed, the man who thinks becomes a light and a power. --Henry George http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Henry_George