The history of Stoke City F.C., an English association football club based
in Stoke-on-Trent, covers the years from the club's formation to the present
day. The Stoke Ramblers were formed in 1863, playing their first documented
match on 17 October 1868 at the Victoria Cricket Club ground. In 1878 the
club moved to the Victoria Ground, its home for the next 119 years, and
merged with Stoke Victoria Cricket Club to become Stoke Football Club. The
club joined the Football League upon its formation in 1888, making it the
second oldest club in the Football League. The club moved in 1997 to the
Britannia Stadium, a 28,383 all-seater stadium; the Victoria Ground was
demolished later that year. In the 2007–08 season, Stoke won promotion from
the Football League Championship, the second tier of English football, and
as of 2008-2009 are playing in the top flight (currently English Premier
League) for the first time since 1985, when they were relegated with just 17
points, a record low unsurpassed for 21 years. Stoke's only major trophy was
the 1972 League Cup, won by beating Chelsea 2–1 in the final before a crowd
of 97,852.
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Today's selected anniversaries:
456:
Magister militum Ricimer defeated Emperor Avitus at Piacenza and became
master of the Western Roman Empire.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricimer)
1813:
The Sixth Coalition attacked Napoleon and the First French Empire in the
Battle of Leipzig, the largest conflict in the Napoleonic Wars with over
500,000 troops involved.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Leipzig)
1843:
William Rowan Hamilton first wrote down the fundamental formula for
quaternions, carving the equation into the side of Broom Bridge in Cabra,
Dublin, Ireland.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaternion)
1940:
World War II: Nazi Governor-General Hans Frank established the Warsaw
Ghetto, the largest Jewish ghetto in occupied Poland.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warsaw_Ghetto)
1978:
Karol Józef Wojtyła, a cardinal from Kraków, Poland, became Pope John Paul
II, the first non-Italian pope since the 16th century and the first ever
from a Slavic country.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_John_Paul_II)
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Wiktionary's Word of the day:
accrete: (v) To grow together, combine.
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http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/accrete)
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Wikiquote of the day:
A nuclear war does not defend a country and it does not defend a system.
I've put it the same way many times; not even the most accomplished
ideologue will be able to tell the difference between the ashes of
capitalism and the ashes of communism.
--John Kenneth Galbraith
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http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Kenneth_Galbraith)