The history of Liverpool Football Club from 1959 to 1985 opens with the appointment of Bill Shankly as manager of Liverpool, then a Second Division club. Shankly overhauled the team and created the "Boot Room", a meeting place to discuss strategy. The club quickly won promotion to the First Division, and within four years won their first League championship since 1946–47 and their first FA Cup. They won further League championships in 1965–66 and 1972–73, the FA Cup in 1974, and their first European trophy, the UEFA Cup, in 1973. Shankly retired and his assistant Bob Paisley took over. Paisley won three European Cups, the UEFA Cup and six League championships in nine years before retiring at the end of 1982–83; he was replaced by his assistant, Joe Fagan. Liverpool won three trophies during Fagan's first season as manager: a fourth European Cup, the League championship and the Football League Cup. At the European Cup Final in 1985, Liverpool fans were responsible for crowd trouble at the Heysel Stadium. In the resulting panic, a wall collapsed; 39 fans, mostly Italian, died, and English clubs were banned from European competition for five years. (
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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:
365:
A large earthquake that occurred near Crete and its subsequent tsunami caused widespread destruction throughout the eastern Mediterranean region. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/365_Crete_earthquake
1831:
In Brussels, Leopold I was inaugurated as the first King of the Belgians. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_I_of_Belgium
1861:
In the First Battle of Bull Run, the first major land battle in the American Civil War, the Confederate Army under Joseph E. Johnston and P. G. T. Beauregard routed Union Army troops under Irvin McDowell. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Battle_of_Bull_Run
1969:
During the Apollo 11 mission, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first humans to walk on the Moon. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buzz_Aldrin
2012:
Turkish adventurer Erden Eruç became the first person in history to complete a solo human-powered circumnavigation of the Earth. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erden_Eru%C3%A7
_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:
praemunire: (law, historical) The offence in English law of bringing suit in or obeying a foreign (especially papal) court or authority, thus challenging the supremacy of the Crown. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/praemunire
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