During Liverpool Football Club's first 68 years, they won five Football League championships before being relegated to the Second Division in the 1950s. They were founded in 1892 when John Houlding needed a team for the Anfield stadium, recently vacated by Everton Football Club. After winning the Lancashire League title in their first season, they were accepted into the Football League for the 1893–94 season. With Tom Watson as manager, they were promoted to the top tier of English football, winning their first League championships in 1901 and 1906 and reaching the FA Cup final in 1914. Liverpool's fortunes fluctuated during the inter-war years, when the club often finished in midtable, although they did win two further championships in 1922 and 1923. An expansion to the Spion Kop terracing in the 1920s increased Anfield's capacity. Liverpool became League champions again in 1947, in the first season after the Second World War, but, following a gradual decline, they were back in the Second Division by the time of Bill Shankly's appointment as manager in 1959. (

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1759:

The British Museum in London, today containing one of the largest and most comprehensive collections in the world, opened to the public in Montagu House, Bloomsbury. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Museum

1815:

War of 1812: American frigate USS President, commanded by Commodore Stephen Decatur, was captured by a squadron of four British frigates. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capture_of_USS_President

1933:

A teenage girl in Banneux, Belgium, reported the first of several Marian apparitions, now known as Our Lady of Banneux. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Lady_of_Banneux

1951:

Ilse Koch, the wife of the commandant of the Buchenwald and Majdanek concentration camps, was sentenced to life imprisonment by a West German court. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilse_Koch

2009:

After US Airways Flight 1549 struck a flock of Canada geese during its initial climb out from New York City, Captain Chesley Sullenberger successfully made an emergency landing in the Hudson River. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_Airways_Flight_1549

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

lather: 1. The foam made by rapidly stirring soap and water. 2. Foam from profuse sweating, as of a horse. 3. A state of agitation. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/lather

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

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