The first match between the association football teams of Scotland and
Wales took place on 25 March 1876 at Hamilton Crescent, Partick,
Scotland. The fixture was organised by Llewelyn Kenrick, who had founded
the Football Association of Wales only a few weeks earlier. The Welsh
team was selected after trial matches were held at the Racecourse Ground
in Wrexham, Wales. Scotland, the more experienced team, dominated the
match and had several chances to score in the first half. They had a
goal disallowed after scoring directly from a corner kick, before taking
the lead after 40 minutes through John Ferguson. In the early stages of
the second half, Wales attempted to play more openly to find a goal, but
the Scottish side took advantage of their opponent's inexperience and
scored two further goals. Scotland added a fourth through Henry McNeil
and claimed a victory in front of a crowd of around 17,000 people, a
record for an international fixture at the time.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1876_Scotland_v_Wales_football_match>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1799:
War of the Second Coalition: In their second battle in seven
days, the French Army of the Danube and Habsburg forces battled for
control of the Hegau region.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Stockach_%281799%29>
1949:
The Soviet Union began mass deportations of more than 90,000
"undesirable" people from the Baltic states to Siberia.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Priboi>
1959:
Chain Island was sold by California to a Sacramento businessman
who planned to use it as a "hunting and fishing retreat".
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chain_Island>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
pleroma:
1. (botany)
2. A plant of the genus Pleroma.
3. (archaic or obsolete, rare) Synonym of plerome (“the central portion
of the apical meristem in a growing plant root or stem which, according
to the histogen theory, gives rise to the endodermis and stele”)
4. (Christianity) A state of perfect fullness, especially of God's being
as incarnated in Jesus Christ.
5. (Gnosticism, historical) Often preceded by the: the spiritual
universe seen as the totality of the essence and powers of God.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pleroma>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Bangladesh, Bangladesh Where so many people are dying fast And
it sure looks like a mess I've never seen such distress. Now won't you
lend your hand, try to understand? Relieve the people of Bangladesh.
--George Harrison
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/George_Harrison>