an association football club to the West Riding of Yorkshire as an
alternative to rugby league. They were immediately elected to the
Football League to replace Doncaster Rovers in Division Two, and made
their permanent home in the Valley Parade stadium. Under the management
of Peter O'Rourke the club won promotion to Division One in 1908, and
the FA Cup in 1911 (team pictured). After subsequent relegations, they
remained in the third and fourth tiers of the English football league
system until 1985–86. During that time, they endured several periods
of financial hardship, and in 1985, their ground suffered a disastrous
fire in which 56 people died. After coming close to returning to the
top division of the League in 1987–88, the club enjoyed mixed fortunes
before finally achieving promotion to the Premier League in 1998–99.
After two seasons in the top tier, the club's playing and financial
misfortunes multiplied; successive relegations saw them fall into the
bottom tier of The Football League, before promotion in 2012–13
brought them back up a division.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Bradford_City_A.F.C.>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
306:
Roman Herculian guard Adrian of Nicomedia, who had converted to
Christianity after being impressed with the faith of Christians that he
had been torturing, was martyred.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_and_Natalia_of_Nicomedia>
1681:
King Charles II of England granted Quaker William Penn a
charter for the Pennsylvania Colony.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Penn>
1899:
Cyclone Mahina struck Bathurst Bay, Queensland, killing over
400 people, the deadliest natural disaster in Australian history.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclone_Mahina>
1918:
The first known case of the so-called Spanish flu was first
observed at Fort Riley, Kansas.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1918_flu_pandemic>
1980:
Robert Mugabe of the Zimbabwe African National Union was
elected to head the first government in Zimbabwe.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Mugabe>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
philtrum:
The shallow groove running down the center of the outer surface of the
upper lip.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/philtrum>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
The problem of Eternity, of which the face of the Sphinx
speaks, takes us into the realm of the impossible. Even the problem of
Time is simple in comparison with the problem of Eternity.
--P. D. Ouspensky
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/P._D._Ouspensky>
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