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Malmö FF are a Swedish professional football club based in Malmö. The
club play their home matches at Swedbank Stadion. Formed on 24 February
1910, the club have won sixteen national championship titles and
fourteen national cup titles, making them the most successful club in
Sweden in terms of total trophies won. Malmö FF have also won the top
tier league, Allsvenskan, on three occasions when the title of Swedish
champions was not decided by the outcome of that league. They were the
runners-up in the 1978–79 European Cup final, which they lost 1–0 to
English club Nottingham Forest. This feat makes them the only
Scandinavian club to have made it to the final of the most prestigious
club competition in European football, presently named the UEFA
Champions League. The club are currently playing in Allsvenskan, where
the season lasts from April to October in contrast to a majority of
other European national football leagues where the season lasts from
August to May the following year. The club first won Allsvenskan in
1944 and most recently for the club's centennial anniversary in 2010.
Malmö FF were most successful during the 1970s, when they won five
Swedish championships and four Svenska Cupen titles. (more...)
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1525:
A Spanish-Imperial army defeated a French force in the Battle of Pavia
in Pavia, present-day Italy, the decisive engagement of the Italian War
of 1521–1526.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Pavia>
1809:
After standing only 15 years, London's Drury Lane theatre, the third
building of that name, burned down , leaving owner Richard Brinsley
Sheridan destitute.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theatre_Royal%2C_Drury_Lane>
1831:
The Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek between the Choctaw and the United
States government, the first removal treaty carried into effect under
the Indian Removal Act, was proclaimed.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Dancing_Rabbit_Creek>
1875:
The steamship SS Gothenburg hit a section of the Great Barrier Reef at
low tide and sank about 50 kilometres (31 mi) northwest of Holbourne
Island, Queensland, Australia, with the loss of over 100 lives.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Gothenburg>
1989:
United Airlines Flight 811 experienced a cargo door failure in flight
after leaving Honolulu International Airport, Hawaii, causing a
decompression that blew out several rows of seats and killed nine
passengers.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Airlines_Flight_811>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
vulcanize (v):
To treat rubber with heat and (usually) sulphur to harden it and make
it more durable
<http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/vulcanize>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right even
though I think it is hopeless.
--Chester W. Nimitz
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