Burnley F.C.'s 1920–21 season was the 29th of their seasons in the
Football League, and their 4th consecutive season in the Football League
First Division. After losing their first three games, Burnley had a
30-match unbeaten league run, winning the First Division and becoming
English champions for the first time in their history. Their unbeaten
run stood as a Football League record for more than 80 years. Burnley
ended the 1920–21 season on 59 points, having won 23 games, drawn
13, and lost 6. They reached the third round of the FA Cup, defeating
Leicester City away and Queens Park Rangers at home, before unexpectedly
losing to Hull City of the Second Division. Burnley used 23 players
during the season. Their top scorer was Scottish forward Joe Anderson,
with 31 competitive goals. Eight new players were signed by Burnley, and
eleven left the club. Match attendances were the highest they had been
at the club's home ground, Turf Moor, with an average gate of more than
30,000 and a highest attendance of 42,653.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1920%E2%80%9321_Burnley_F.C._season>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1877:
The Constantinople Conference concluded with the Great Powers
declaring the need for political reforms, which the Ottoman Empire
refused to undertake, later resulting in the Russo-Turkish War.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantinople_Conference>
1942:
The Holocaust: Reinhard Heydrich and other senior Nazi
officials met at the Wannsee Conference near Berlin to discuss the
implementation of the "Final Solution to the Jewish Question".
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wannsee_Conference>
1992:
Air Inter Flight 148 crashed into the Vosges while circling to
land at Strasbourg Airport, France, resulting in 87 deaths.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Inter_Flight_148>
2009:
In Washington, D.C., more than one million people attended the
inauguration of Barack Obama as the first African-American president of
the United States.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_inauguration_of_Barack_Obama>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
back-ganging:
1. Behind or late in payment or rent; in arrears.
2. Not in a good financial state; unprosperous.
3. Not in good health; sickly, unhealthy.
4. A going back; a returning; also, the way back.
5. A deterioration, especially in circumstances or health; a relapse, a
retrograde.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/back-ganging>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
"It can't happen here" is number one on the list of famous last
words.
--David Crosby
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/David_Crosby>
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