In Gillingham F.C.'s 1963–64 season, their 32nd in the Football
League, they competed in the Fourth Division. Gillingham were undefeated
in their first 13 games, the longest such run by any team in the
Football League, and by the end of September were top of the league
table, where they remained for much of the season. In April, the
postponement of several games allowed other teams to overtake them but
they moved back into the promotion places as they played the rescheduled
games. They won the championship on goal average in their final game.
They were eliminated in the first round of the FA Cup but reached the
fourth round of the League Cup. The team played 52 matches, winning 26,
drawing 15 and losing 11. Brian Gibbs was their top goalscorer with 18
goals in all competitions. Mike Burgess and John Simpson both played in
every game. The highest attendance recorded that season at the club's
home ground, Priestfield Stadium (pictured), was 17,421 for a game
against Carlisle on 9 October 1963.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1963%E2%80%9364_Gillingham_F.C._season>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1914:
World War I: Off the Cocos (Keeling) Islands, the Australian
light cruiser Sydney sank Emden, the last active German warship in the
Indian Ocean.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Cocos>
1918:
The government of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic adopted a
tricolour national flag that remains in use today with slight
modifications by the present-day Republic of Azerbaijan.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Azerbaijan>
2016:
A tram derailment in Croydon, London, killed seven people.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Croydon_tram_derailment>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
gleam:
1. (transitive) Chiefly in conjunction with an adverb: to cause (light)
to shine.
2. (intransitive)
3. To shine, especially in an indistinct or intermittent manner; to
glisten, to glitter.
4. (figuratively) To be strongly but briefly apparent.
5. (countable) An appearance of light, especially one which is
indistinct or small, or short-lived.
6. (countable, figuratively)
7. An indistinct sign of something; a glimpse or hint.
8. A bright, but intermittent or short-lived, appearance of something.
9. A look of joy or liveliness on one's face.
10. (obsolete)
11. (countable) Sometimes as hot gleam: a warm ray of sunlight; also, a
period of warm weather, for instance, between showers of rain.
12. (uncountable) Brightness or shininess; radiance, splendour. [...]
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gleam>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
It is sometimes said that scientists are unromantic, that their
passion to figure out robs the world of beauty and mystery. But is it
not stirring to understand how the world actually works — that white
light is made of colors, that color is the way we perceive the
wavelengths of light, that transparent air reflects light, that in so
doing it discriminates among the waves, and that the sky is blue for the
same reason that the sunset is red? It does no harm to the romance of
the sunset to know a little bit about it.
--Carl Sagan
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Carl_Sagan>