The history of Burnley Football Club, an English professional
association football club, includes an FA Cup win when they defeated
Liverpool in the 1914 final, and two top-flight league titles: in the
1920–21 season after a 30-match unbeaten run, and in 1959–60 under
manager Harry Potts, with a last-day victory over Manchester City.
Founded on 18 May 1882 in Burnley, Lancashire, by Burnley Rovers rugby
club members, Burnley F.C. were one of the twelve founder members of the
Football League, in 1888–89. From the 1950s until the 1970s under
chairman Bob Lord, the club became known for its youth policy and
scouting system, and was one of the first to set up a purpose-built
training ground. Frequently promoted and relegated, they prevented
relegation to the highest level of non-League football on the last
matchday in 1986–87. By winning the Fourth Division, in 1991–92,
they became the second team to win all four professional divisions of
English football. (This article is part of a featured topic: Burnley
F.C.).
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_topics/Burnley_F.C.>
_______________________________
Today's selected anniversaries:
1868:
The Nanbu clan of Honshu surrendered to imperial forces during
the Boshin War.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanbu_clan>
1955:
An explosion, likely caused by a World War II–era naval
mine, capsized the Soviet ship Novorossiysk in the harbor of Sevastopol,
with the loss of 608 men.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_battleship_Giulio_Cesare>
1998:
At 77 years old, former astronaut John Glenn returned to space
aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery on the STS-95 mission.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Glenn>
2012:
Hurricane Sandy, the largest Atlantic hurricane on record, made
landfall in New Jersey and caused nearly $75 billion in damages,
becoming the second-most destructive storm in U.S. history.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Sandy>
_____________________________
Wiktionary's word of the day:
stroke:
1. [...] (medicine) The loss of brain function arising when the blood
supply to the brain is suddenly interrupted. [...]
2. (intransitive)
3. (medicine) Chiefly followed by out: to suffer loss of brain function
when the blood supply to the brain is suddenly interrupted; to have a
stroke [...].
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/stroke>
___________________________
Wikiquote quote of the day:
Look a-here, sweet mama, Let's burn off both our shoes Well, my
heart's a-beatin' rhythm And my soul is singin' the blues.
--Jerry Lee Lewis
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jerry_Lee_Lewis>
Show replies by date