Dover Athletic Football Club is an association football club formed in 1983, based in the town of Dover, Kent, England. In the 1989–90 season Dover Athletic won the Southern League championship, but failed to gain promotion to the Football Conference as the club's ground did not meet the required standard. Three seasons later the team won the title again and this time gained promotion to the Conference, where they spent nine seasons before being relegated. The club was transferred to the Isthmian League Premier Division in 2004, but another poor season led the club to a further relegation. After three seasons in the Isthmian League Division One South, the club won the championship and promotion back to the Premier Division, and the following season won another championship and promotion to Conference South. In the 2013–14 season, Dover defeated Ebbsfleet United to return to the Conference Premier after a twelve-year absence. Nicknamed the Whites for their white shirts, they have played at the Crabble Athletic Ground since the club's formation. Their best performance in the FA Cup was reaching the third round proper in both the 2010–11 and 2014–15 seasons.
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1055:
Theodora (pictured on coin) became sole ruler of the Byzantine empire after the death of her brother-in-law Constantine IX Monomachos. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodora_(11th_century)
1693:
An intensity XI earthquake, the most powerful in Italian history, struck the island of Sicily. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1693_Sicily_earthquake
1912:
Immigrant textile workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts, U.S., went on strike in response to a pay cut corresponding to a new law shortening the working week. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1912_Lawrence_textile_strike
1923:
Troops from France and Belgium invaded the Ruhr to force the German Weimar Republic to pay its reparations in the aftermath of World War I. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupation_of_the_Ruhr
2013:
French special forces failed in an attempted rescue of a DGSE agent who had been taken hostage in July 2009 by Al-Shabaab in Bulo Marer, Somalia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulo_Marer_hostage_rescue_attempt
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