The history of Arsenal Football Club between 1886 and 1966 covers the
time from the club's foundation, through the first two major periods of
success and their subsequent decline to mid-table status. Arsenal were
founded in 1886 as a workers' team from Woolwich, in present-day South
East London. They turned professional in 1891 and joined the Football
League two years later, winning promotion into the First Division in
1904. Arsenal were bought out in 1910 by Sir Henry Norris, and he moved
the team to Arsenal Stadium in Highbury, North London, in 1913 to
improve their financial standing. It was not until the appointment of
Herbert Chapman as manager that Arsenal had their first period of major
success; under him and his successor George Allison, Arsenal won five
First Division titles and two FA Cups in the 1930s. After the Second
World War, Tom Whittaker continued the success, leading the club to two
First Division titles and another FA Cup. Arsenal's fortunes gradually
declined; by 1966, they were in mid-table obscurity and had not won a
trophy in thirteen years. This led to the dismissal of Billy Wright as
manager, and with it the appointment of Bertie Mee. (
Read more:
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1191:
Third Crusade: Forces under Richard I of England defeated
Ayyubid troops under Saladin in Arsuf, present-day Israel.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Arsuf>
1778:
American Revolutionary War: France invaded the island of
Dominica and captured the British fort there before the latter even knew
that France had entered the war as an ally of the United States.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_of_Dominica>
1901:
With Peking occupied by foreign troops from the Eight-Nation
Alliance, Qing China was forced to sign the Boxer Protocol, an unequal
treaty ending the Boxer Rebellion.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxer_Protocol>
1999:
Three weeks after an earthquake struck northwestern Turkey, a
major earthquake struck Athens, causing Greece and Turkey to initiate
"earthquake diplomacy".
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek%E2%80%93Turkish_earthquake_diplomacy>
2011:
Yak-Service Flight 9633, carrying the players and coaching
staff of the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl professional ice hockey team, crashed
near the Russian city of Yaroslavl, killing all aboard but one.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Lokomotiv_Yaroslavl_air_disaster>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
iatrogenesis:
(medicine) Any adverse effect (or complication) resulting from medical
treatment.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/iatrogenesis>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Brass shines as fair to the ignorant as gold to the goldsmiths.
--Elizabeth I of England
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Elizabeth_I_of_England>