125px|Sounders FC players lift the 2009 and 2010 U.S. Open Cup trophies after repeating as champions by winning the 2010 final.

The 2010 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup Final was played on October 5, 2010, at Qwest Field (now CenturyLink Field) in Seattle, Washington. The match determined the winner of the 2010 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup, a tournament open to amateur and professional soccer teams affiliated with the United States Soccer Federation. This was the 97th edition of the oldest competition in United States soccer. Seattle Sounders FC won the match, defeating the Columbus Crew 2–1. The final drew an attendance of 31,311, surpassing the 81-year-old record for the event. Sounders FC became the first team since 1983 to win two consecutive U.S. Open Cup championships and the first Major League Soccer club to ever do so. As a result of its U.S. Open Cup championship, Seattle earned a berth in the preliminary round of the 2011–12 CONCACAF Champions League, as well as a $100,000 cash prize. The Crew received the runner-up prize of $50,000. (more...)

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1824:

Mexico enacted its first constitution, defining the nation as a federal republic. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1824_Constitution_of_Mexico

1957:

Soviet spacecraft Sputnik 1 , the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth, was launched by an R-7 rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome near Tyuratam, Kazakh SSR. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sputnik_1

1967:

Hassanal Bolkiah became Sultan of Brunei upon the abdication of his father, Omar Ali Saifuddien III. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hassanal_Bolkiah

1997:

Armored car driver David Ghantt stole $17.3 million from his employer, one of the largest cash robberies in U.S. history. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loomis_Fargo_Bank_Robbery

2003:

A suicide bomber killed 21 people and injured more than 50 others inside the Maxim restaurant in Haifa, Israel. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxim_restaurant_suicide_bombing

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Disunion and civil war are at hand; and yet I fear disunion and war less than compromise. We can recover from them. The free States alone, if we must go on alone, will make a glorious nation. --Rutherford B. Hayes http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Rutherford_B._Hayes