League championships before being relegated to the Second Division in
the 1950s. They were founded in 1892 when John Houlding needed a team
for the Anfield stadium, recently vacated by Everton Football Club.
After winning the Lancashire League title in their first season, they
were accepted into the Football League for the 1893–94 season. With
Tom Watson as manager, they were promoted to the top tier of English
football, winning their first League championships in 1901 and 1906 and
reaching the FA Cup final in 1914. Liverpool's fortunes fluctuated
during the inter-war years, when the club often finished in midtable,
although they did win two further championships in 1922 and 1923. An
expansion to the Spion Kop terracing in the 1920s increased Anfield's
capacity. Liverpool became League champions again in 1947, in the first
season after the Second World War, but, following a gradual decline,
they were back in the Second Division by the time of Bill Shankly's
appointment as manager in 1959. (
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Liverpool_F.C._(1892%E2%80%931959)>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1759:
The British Museum in London, today containing one of the
largest and most comprehensive collections in the world, opened to the
public in Montagu House, Bloomsbury.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Museum>
1815:
War of 1812: American frigate USS President, commanded by
Commodore Stephen Decatur, was captured by a squadron of four British
frigates.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capture_of_USS_President>
1933:
A teenage girl in Banneux, Belgium, reported the first of
several Marian apparitions, now known as Our Lady of Banneux.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Lady_of_Banneux>
1951:
Ilse Koch, the wife of the commandant of the Buchenwald and
Majdanek concentration camps, was sentenced to life imprisonment by a
West German court.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilse_Koch>
2009:
After US Airways Flight 1549 struck a flock of Canada geese
during its initial climb out from New York City, Captain Chesley
Sullenberger successfully made an emergency landing in the Hudson River.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_Airways_Flight_1549>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
lather:
1. The foam made by rapidly stirring soap and water.
2. Foam from profuse sweating, as of a horse.
3. A state of agitation.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/lather>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
I must say that I recognized at once that we had never understood
the meaning of these words, so common and yet so sacred: Justice,
Equity, Liberty; that concerning each of these principles our ideas have
been utterly obscure; and, in fact, that this ignorance was the sole
cause, both of the poverty that devours us, and of all the calamities
that have ever afflicted the human race.
--Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Pierre-Joseph_Proudhon>
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