Burnley F.C.'s 1920–21 season was the 29th of their seasons in the Football League, and their 4th consecutive season in the Football League First Division. After losing their first three games, Burnley had a 30-match unbeaten league run, winning the First Division and becoming English champions for the first time in their history. Their unbeaten run stood as a Football League record for more than 80 years. Burnley ended the 1920–21 season on 59 points, having won 23 games, drawn 13, and lost 6. They reached the third round of the FA Cup, defeating Leicester City away and Queens Park Rangers at home, before unexpectedly losing to Hull City of the Second Division. Burnley used 23 players during the season. Their top scorer was Scottish forward Joe Anderson, with 31 competitive goals. Eight new players were signed by Burnley, and eleven left the club. Match attendances were the highest they had been at the club's home ground, Turf Moor, with an average gate of more than 30,000 and a highest attendance of 42,653.
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1877:
The Constantinople Conference concluded with the Great Powers declaring the need for political reforms, which the Ottoman Empire refused to undertake, later resulting in the Russo-Turkish War. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantinople_Conference
1942:
The Holocaust: Reinhard Heydrich and other senior Nazi officials met at the Wannsee Conference near Berlin to discuss the implementation of the "Final Solution to the Jewish Question". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wannsee_Conference
1992:
Air Inter Flight 148 crashed into the Vosges while circling to land at Strasbourg Airport, France, resulting in 87 deaths. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Inter_Flight_148
2009:
In Washington, D.C., more than one million people attended the inauguration of Barack Obama as the first African-American president of the United States. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_inauguration_of_Barack_Obama
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back-ganging: 1. Behind or late in payment or rent; in arrears. 2. Not in a good financial state; unprosperous. 3. Not in good health; sickly, unhealthy. 4. A going back; a returning; also, the way back. 5. A deterioration, especially in circumstances or health; a relapse, a retrograde. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/back-ganging
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"It can't happen here" is number one on the list of famous last words. --David Crosby https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/David_Crosby