August 31, 2004
- Football (soccer): Manchester United F.C. sign England star Wayne Rooney from Everton F.C.. The potential fee of £27 million is the second highest ever for an exclusively British transfer. (Reuters)
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“Until, on Vinegar Hill, the fatal conclave.
Terraced thousands died, shaking scythes at cannon.
The hillside blushed, soaked in our broken wave.
They buried us without shroud or coffin
And in August the barley grew up out of the grave.”
—Seamus Heaney (b. 1939)