The 1919–20 Gillingham Football Club season was their 22nd season in England's Southern League, and their 21st in the league's Division One. George Collins was appointed as Gillingham's new manager, and most of the players were new; the club struggled to find a settled team during the season, fielding nearly 40 players, including 6 goalkeepers. Gillingham finished in 22nd place out of 22 teams but nonetheless gained entry to the national Football League when it absorbed the entirety of the Southern League Division One. Gillingham also competed in the FA Cup, progressing from the sixth qualifying round before losing in the first round proper. The team played 47 competitive matches, winning 11, drawing 10, and losing 26. Arthur Wood (pictured) was the team's top goalscorer, with 12 goals in the league and 14 in total. Tom Leslie made the most appearances, playing 40 times. The highest attendance recorded that season at the club's home ground, Priestfield Road, was approximately 10,000.

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1602:

Anglo-Spanish War: An English fleet intercepted and attacked six Spanish ships at the Battle of the Narrow Seas (depicted). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Narrow_Seas

1849:

American author Edgar Allan Poe was found semi-conscious and delirious in Baltimore, Maryland, under mysterious circumstances; it was the last time he was seen in public before his death four days later. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Allan_Poe

1952:

The United Kingdom successfully completed a nuclear test, becoming the world's third state with nuclear weapons. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Hurricane

1991:

Nadine Gordimer became the first South African to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadine_Gordimer

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

auslaut: Synonym of coda (“the optional final sound of a syllable or word, occurring after its nucleus and usually composed of one or more consonants”) https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/auslaut

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What Christ is saying always, what he never swerves from saying, what he says a thousand times and in a thousand different ways, but always with a central unity of belief, is this: "I am my Father’s son, and you are my brothers." And the unity that binds us all together, that makes this earth a family, and all men brothers and the sons of God, is love.   --Thomas Wolfe https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Thomas_Wolfe