During their 1894–95 season, New Brompton F.C. (known as Gillingham F.C. since 1912) competed in the Southern Football League Division Two. The club had been formed a year earlier but in the inaugural season played only friendly matches and games in the qualifying rounds of the FA Cup and FA Amateur Cup. In 1894, New Brompton turned professional and joined the newly formed Southern League. The team dominated Division Two of the new league, winning all but one of their matches, and gained promotion to Division One by winning an end-of-season "test match" against Swindon Town, who had finished bottom of the higher division. New Brompton also entered the FA Cup, reaching the third qualifying round. The team played 15 competitive matches, winning 13, drawing none, and losing two. Arthur Rule was the team's top goalscorer for the season. The highest attendance recorded at the club's home, the Athletic Ground, was approximately 8,000 for the visit of Chatham in the FA Cup.

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1846:

Near La Salette-Fallavaux in southeastern France, shepherd children Mélanie Calvat and Maximin Giraud reported a Marian apparition, now known as Our Lady of La Salette (statue pictured). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Lady_of_La_Salette

1940:

World War II: Polish resistance leader Witold Pilecki allowed himself to be captured by German forces and sent to Auschwitz to gather intelligence. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witold_Pilecki

1970:

The first Glastonbury Festival was held at Michael Eavis's farm in Glastonbury, England. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glastonbury_Festival

1995:

Industrial Society and Its Future, the manifesto of American domestic terrorist Ted Kaczynski, was published in The Washington Post almost three months after it was submitted. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Kaczynski

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

avast: 1. Hold fast!; cease!; stop! 2. (slang) In imitation of pirates: listen!; pay attention! https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/avast

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

One of our faults is to believe that evil is somewhere else and inherent in another nation. My book was to say you think that now the war is over and an evil thing destroyed, you are safe because you are naturally kind and decent. But I know why the thing rose in Germany. I know it could it could happen in any country. It could happen here.   --William Golding https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/William_Golding