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Ernst-Happel-Stadion, where the final took place

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. (Full article...)

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Interior of the Palace Theatre

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Wei Jingsheng

534 – The second edition of the Code of Justinian, a codification of Roman law by Byzantine emperor Justinian I, was published.
1776 – American Revolutionary War: British and Hessian units captured Fort Washington on Manhattan from the Patriots.
1938 – Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann first synthesized the psychedelic drug LSD in Basel, Switzerland.
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.
1997 – Chinese dissident Wei Jingsheng (pictured) 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.

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Eleanor Coade (d. 1821)
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The cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) is a large cat native to Africa and central Iran. Cubs are highly vulnerable to predators during the first few weeks of life, and predation is the leading cause of mortality among cheetah cubs. A study showed that in areas with a low density of predators (such as Namibian farmlands) around 70 per cent of the cubs survived beyond the age of 14 months, whereas in areas like the Serengeti National Park, where several large carnivores exist, the survival rate was just 17 per cent. This cheetah cub was photographed in the Phinda Private Game Reserve in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, amid long grass.

Photograph credit: Charles James Sharp

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