The 2008 ACC Championship Game was a college football game between the Virginia Tech Hokies and the Boston College Eagles to determine the winners of the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) football championship. Virginia Tech (representing the Coastal Division) defeated Boston College (representing the Atlantic Division) by 30 to 12. The game was held at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida, on December 6, 2008, and was also the final regular-season contest of the 2008 college football season in the ACC. Neither team clinched a spot in the game until the final week before the championship, and both had to rely on conference tie-breaking rules to earn a spot. Virginia Tech took the lead in the first quarter with a five-yard touchdown run by Tech quarterback Tyrod Taylor (pictured in the quarterback position on the right). Tech extended its lead in the second quarter, but Boston College managed to narrow Tech's lead by halftime. In the second half, Virginia Tech scored over twice as many points as the Eagles. Taylor was named the game's most valuable player. The game was a rematch of the previous year's contest, which Virginia Tech also won.

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1060:

Béla I the Champion (bust pictured) was crowned king of Hungary. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%A9la_I_of_Hungary

1865:

Slavery in the United States was officially abolished when the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution

1907:

At least 362 miners were killed when an explosion destroyed a mine in Monongah, West Virginia, leading to the establishment of the United States Bureau of Mines. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monongah_Mining_disaster

1956:

At the Melbourne Olympics, 14-year-old swimmer Sandra Morgan became the youngest Australian to win an Olympic gold medal. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandra_Morgan

1989:

Claiming that he was "fighting feminism", 25-year-old Marc Lépine killed fourteen women before committing suicide at École Polytechnique in Montreal. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89cole_Polytechnique_massacre

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

Nicholine: Created by, in the style of, or pertaining to (any of several people named) Nicholas. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Nicholine

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

If there is one thing which a comparative study of religions places in the clearest light, it is the inevitable decay to which every religion is exposed. It may seem almost like a truism, that no religion can continue to be what it was during the lifetime of its founder and its first apostles.   --Max Müller https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Max_M%C3%BCller