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PPL Park

The 2014 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup Final was the 101st edition of the oldest competition in American soccer, played on September 6, 2014, at PPL Park (pictured) in Chester, Pennsylvania. Seattle Sounders FC won the match before a crowd of 15,256, defeating the Philadelphia Union. Philadelphia and Seattle both play in the top tier of American soccer, Major League Soccer, and bypassed the initial stages of the tournament with entries into the third round of play. The Sounders were in the midst of a Supporters' Shield-winning regular season, while the Union's start was so poor that their coach was replaced a week prior to their first game in the competition. The Union's Maurice Edu gave his team the lead with a goal in the first half, but the Sounders equalized with a second half strike by Chad Barrett, and the match went into extra time. Clint Dempsey took the lead for Seattle, and Obafemi Martins sealed the victory with a late goal. Seattle earned a $250,000 cash prize, as well as a berth in the 2015–16 CONCACAF Champions League. (Full article...)

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Monsoon flooding kills nearly 1,300 people and affects 45 million others in India, Pakistan, Nepal, and Bangladesh.
North Korea conducts its sixth nuclear test.
The European X-ray free-electron laser is inaugurated in Hamburg, Germany.
The Supreme Court of Kenya rules that the country's presidential election (candidates pictured) was conducted improperly, nullifying its results and ordering a new election within 60 days.
In boxing, Floyd Mayweather Jr. defeats Conor McGregor.
The Women's Rugby World Cup concludes with New Zealand defeating England in the final.

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September 6

William McKinley

1781 – American Revolutionary War: General Benedict Arnold led British forces to victory in the Battle of Groton Heights.
1901 – U.S. President William McKinley (pictured) was fatally wounded by anarchist Leon Czolgosz at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York.
1952 – A prototype aircraft crashed at the Farnborough Airshow in Hampshire, England, killing the pilot and test observer on board, and 29 spectators.
1976 – Soviet pilot Viktor Belenko landed his MiG-25 in Hakodate, Japan, and declared his intention to defect.
2007 – The Israeli Air Force carried out an airstrike on a suspected nuclear reactor in the Deir ez-Zor region of Syria.

Charles Porter (b. 1631) · Jessie Willcox Smith (b. 1863) · Abby Martin (b. 1984)

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The tower and Umbul Pasiraman bathing complex at Taman Sari, the site of a former royal garden in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. It is located within the grounds of the palace of the city's sultan. Built in mid-18th century, Taman Sari historically consisted of four distinct areas. However, only the central bathing complex is well preserved today.

See the west gate and east gate

Photograph: Chris Woodrich

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