100px|Gillingham F.C. players warm up before a match at Crabble Stadium in 2008

Gillingham F.C. is an English professional football club based in the town of Gillingham, Kent. The only Kent-based club in the Football League, they play their home matches at the Priestfield Stadium. In the 2008–09 season, the club was promoted to Football League One after victory over Shrewsbury Town in the League Two play-off final; however, they were relegated back into the basement division the following season. The club was founded in 1893 and joined the Football League in 1920. They were voted out of the league in favour of Ipswich Town at the end of the 1937–38 season, but returned to it 12 years later after it was expanded from 88 to 92 clubs. Twice in the late 1980s they came close to winning promotion to the second tier of English football, but a decline then set in and in 1993 they narrowly avoided relegation to the Football Conference. Between 2000 and 2005, Gillingham were in the second tier of the English football league system for the only time in their history, achieving a club record highest league finish of eleventh place in 2002–03. (more...)

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627:

A Byzantine army under Emperor Heraclius defeated Emperor Khosrau II's Persian forces, commanded by General Rhahzadh, near present-day Mosul, Iraq. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Nineveh_%28627%29

1531:

The Apparition of Our Lady of Guadalupe: According to traditional Catholic accounts, the image of the Blessed Virgin Mary miraculously appeared imprinted on Juan Diego's tilma. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Lady_of_Guadalupe

1901:

Guglielmo Marconi received the first trans-Atlantic radio signal, from Poldhu Wireless Station in Cornwall, England, to Signal Hill in St. John's, Newfoundland. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guglielmo_Marconi

1956:

The Irish Republican Army began its Border Campaign, a guerrilla campaign to overthrow British rule in Northern Ireland. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Border_Campaign_%28Irish_Republican_Army%29

1985:

Arrow Air Flight 1285 crashed after takeoff in Gander, Newfoundland and Labrador, killing 256, including 248 members of the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow_Air_Flight_1285

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