Dave Gallaher (30 October 1873 – 4 October 1917) was a New Zealand rugby union footballer and the captain of the 1905–06 Original All Blacks. They were the first representative New Zealand team to tour the British Isles, winning 34 out of 35 matches on their world tour. With his vice-captain Billy Stead, Gallaher co-wrote the classic rugby text The Complete Rugby Footballer. Retiring as a player after the tour, he took up coaching, and was a selector for both Auckland and New Zealand for most of the following decade. The Originals helped to cement rugby as New Zealand's national sport, but Gallaher's role as wing-forward contributed to decades of strain between the rugby authorities of New Zealand and the Home Nations, and the International Rugby Football Board effectively outlawed the position in 1931. During the First World War, Gallaher was killed at the Battle of Passchendaele in Belgium. He has been inducted into the World Rugby Hall of Fame and New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame. The Gallaher Shield is awarded annually to the winner of Auckland's club championship, and the Dave Gallaher Trophy is contested between the national teams of France and New Zealand.
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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:
1806:
War of the Fourth Coalition: Believing they were massively outnumbered, the 5,300-man German garrison at Stettin, Prussia (now Szczecin, Poland), surrendered to a much smaller French force without a fight. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitulation_of_Stettin
1888:
King Lobengula of Matabeleland granted the Rudd Concession to agents of Cecil Rhodes, setting in motion the creation of the British South Africa Company. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudd_Concession
1918:
The Armistice of Mudros was signed in Moudros in the Lesbos Prefecture, Greece, ending the hostilities in the Middle-Eastern theatre of World War I, and paving the way for the occupation of Constantinople and the subsequent partitioning of the Ottoman Empire. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armistice_of_Mudros
1961:
The Soviet hydrogen bomb Tsar Bomba, the largest nuclear weapon ever detonated, was set off over Novaya Zemlya Island in the Arctic Ocean as a test. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsar_Bomba
1983:
As the military dictatorship came to an end, Argentina's first democratic election in a decade resulted in Raúl Alfonsín being elected President of Argentina. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argentine_general_election,_1983
_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:
horripilate: (transitive, intransitive) To bristle in fear or horror; to have goose bumps or goose pimples. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/horripilate
___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:
There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures in opposition to each other. This, in my humble apprehension, is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our Constitution. --John Adams https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Adams
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