Margate F.C. is an English football team based in the seaside resort of
Margate, Kent. They currently play in the Isthmian League Premier
Division. The club was founded in 1896 and joined the Southern Football
League in 1933. After a spell in the Kent League after World War II,
the team returned to the Southern League in 1959 and remained there
until 2001 when they gained promotion to the Football Conference, the
highest level of English non-League football. Their stay at this level
saw the team forced to groundshare with other clubs due to drawn-out and
problematic redevelopment work at their Hartsdown Park stadium, and they
were expelled from the Conference National and subsequently relegated to
the Isthmian League. The team, known for a number of years during the
1980s as Thanet United, and nicknamed "The Gate", have twice reached the
third round proper of the FA Cup. On the second occasion, they played
Tottenham Hotspur, the reigning UEFA Cup holders.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margate_F.C.>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1795:
The Eleventh Amendment to the United States Constitution,
limiting the ability of U.S. citizens and foreign nationals to sue U.S.
states in federal courts, was ratified.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleventh_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution>
1914:
The film Kid Auto Races at Venice, featuring the first
appearance of comedy actor Charlie Chaplin's character "The Tramp", was
released.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Chaplin>
1948:
Neil Harvey became the youngest Australian to score a century
in Test cricket.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Harvey>
1991:
The Troubles: The Provisional Irish Republican Army launched
mortars at 10 Downing Street, London, in a failed attempt to assassinate
British prime minister John Major.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downing_Street_mortar_attack>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
finesse:
1. (transitive, chiefly Canada, US, politics) To evade (a problem,
situation, etc.) by using some clever argument or strategem.
2. (transitive, card games) To play (a card) as a finesse.
3. (transitive, intransitive) To handle or manage carefully or
skilfully; to manipulate in a crafty way.
4. (intransitive, card games) To attempt to win a trick by finessing.
5. (intransitive, croquet, obsolete) To play a ball out of the way of an
opponent.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/finesse>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.
--The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Martin_Chuzzlewit>