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Manchester United Football Club is an English professional football
club, based in Old Trafford, Greater Manchester, that plays in the
Premier League. Founded as Newton Heath LYR Football Club in 1878, the
club earned its first FA Cup victory on 30 October 1886. The club
changed its name to Manchester United in 1902 and moved to Old Trafford
(pictured) in 1910. In 1968, under the management of Matt Busby,
Manchester United was the first English football club to win the
European Cup, ten years after the Munich air disaster that claimed the
lives of eight players. The current manager, Sir Alex Ferguson, has won
37 major honours since he took over in November 1986. Manchester United
has won more titles than any other club in English football: 53
domestic trophies, a record 19 league titles, a record 11 FA Cups, four
League Cups and 19 FA Charity/Community Shields. The club has also been
successful globally, winning seven international titles: three European
Cups, one UEFA Cup Winners' Cup, one UEFA Super Cup, one
Intercontinental Cup and one FIFA Club World Cup. In 1998–99, the club
won a "Treble" of the Premier League, the FA Cup and the European Cup.
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1226:
Tran Thu Do, head of the Tran clan of Vietnam, forced Ly Hue Tong, the
last emperor of the Ly dynasty, to commit suicide.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tran_Thu_Do>
1863:
Seventeen-year-old Danish Prince Vilhelm arrived in Athens to become
George I , King of Greece.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_I_of_Greece>
1960:
Surgeon and scientist Michael Woodruff performed the first successful
kidney transplant in the United Kingdom at The Royal Infirmary of
Edinburgh.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Woodruff>
1961:
The Soviet hydrogen bomb Tsar Bomba was detonated over Novaya Zemlya
Island in the Arctic Ocean as a test. With a yield of around 50
megatons, it is the largest nuclear weapon ever detonated.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsar_Bomba>
1991:
The Madrid Conference, an attempt by the international community to
start a peace process through negotiations involving Israel and the
Arab countries, convened in Madrid, Spain.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madrid_Conference_of_1991>
1995:
In a referendum, 50.58 percent of voters supported the province of
Quebec remaining a part of Canada, narrowly averting sovereignty.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec_independence_referendum%2C_1995>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
Mediterraneanize (v):
to make (someone or something) Mediterranean in behaviour or style
<http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Mediterraneanize>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
As to the history of the revolution, my ideas may be peculiar, perhaps
singular. What do we mean by the Revolution? The war? That was no part
of the revolution; it was only an effect and consequence of it. The
revolution was in the minds of the people.
--John Adams
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