The first match between the association football teams of Scotland and Wales took place on 25 March 1876 at Hamilton Crescent, Partick, Scotland. The fixture was organised by Llewelyn Kenrick, who had founded the Football Association of Wales only a few weeks earlier. The Welsh team was selected after trial matches were held at the Racecourse Ground in Wrexham, Wales. Scotland, the more experienced team, dominated the match and had several chances to score in the first half. They had a goal disallowed after scoring directly from a corner kick, before taking the lead after 40 minutes through John Ferguson. In the early stages of the second half, Wales attempted to play more openly to find a goal, but the Scottish side took advantage of their opponent's inexperience and scored two further goals. Scotland added a fourth through Henry McNeil and claimed a victory in front of a crowd of around 17,000 people, a record for an international fixture at the time.

Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1876_Scotland_v_Wales_football_match

_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1799:

War of the Second Coalition: In their second battle in seven days, the French Army of the Danube and Habsburg forces battled for control of the Hegau region. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Stockach_%281799%29

1949:

The Soviet Union began mass deportations of more than 90,000 "undesirable" people from the Baltic states to Siberia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Priboi

1959:

Chain Island was sold by California to a Sacramento businessman who planned to use it as a "hunting and fishing retreat". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chain_Island

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

pleroma: 1. (botany) 2. A plant of the genus Pleroma. 3. (archaic or obsolete, rare) Synonym of plerome (“the central portion of the apical meristem in a growing plant root or stem which, according to the histogen theory, gives rise to the endodermis and stele”) 4. (Christianity) A state of perfect fullness, especially of God's being as incarnated in Jesus Christ. 5. (Gnosticism, historical) Often preceded by the: the spiritual universe seen as the totality of the essence and powers of God. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pleroma

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

Bangladesh, Bangladesh Where so many people are dying fast And it sure looks like a mess I've never seen such distress. Now won't you lend your hand, try to understand? Relieve the people of Bangladesh.   --George Harrison https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/George_Harrison