The UEFA Euro 2008 Final was the last match of Euro 2008, UEFA's
competition for national football teams. The match was played at Ernst-
Happel-Stadion (pictured), Vienna, Austria, on 29 June 2008, and was
contested by Germany and Spain. The sixteen-team tournament had a group
stage, from which eight teams qualified for the knockout phase. Germany
lost to Croatia and beat Poland and Austria in Group B, and defeated
Portugal and Turkey in the knockouts. Spain beat Russia, Sweden and
Greece in Group D, and defeated Italy and Russia again in the
elimination games. The final took place in front of 51,428 supporters
and was refereed by Roberto Rosetti from Italy. Spain took the lead in
the 33rd minute through Fernando Torres. There were no more goals and
Spain won 1–0 to secure their second European title. Torres was named
the man of the match. Spain went on to win the 2010 FIFA World Cup in
South Africa, and retained their European title at Euro 2012.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UEFA_Euro_2008_Final>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1776:
American Revolutionary War: British and Hessian units captured
Fort Washington on Manhattan from the Patriots.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Fort_Washington>
1938:
Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann first synthesized the psychedelic
drug LSD in Basel, Switzerland.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Hofmann>
1981:
About 30 million people watched the fictional couple Luke
Spencer and Laura Webber marry on the television show General Hospital
in the highest-rated hour in American soap opera history.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luke_and_Laura>
1997:
Chinese dissident Wei Jingsheng was released for "medical
reasons" after spending seventeen and a half of the previous eighteen
years in prison, and was deported to the United States.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wei_Jingsheng>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
circuitry:
1. (countable) A specific system of electrical circuits in a particular
device; (uncountable) the design of such a system.
2. (uncountable) Electrical (or, by extension, other) circuits
considered as a group.
3. (uncountable, figuratively) The brain's neural network.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/circuitry>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
You can't satisfy everybody; especially if there are those who
will be dissatisfied unless not everybody is satisfied.
--Robert Nozick
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Robert_Nozick>
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