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Today was the equilux. That's when the length of day and night are equal. nights get longer from tomorrow. (But not outside the UK obviously.)

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60 years ago today the first satellite to be launched into space, USSR's Sputnik went into orbit...

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Three years ago today and Sir Les returned as 'Head of football operations', whatever that is...

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On this day seventy three years ago ( 1944 ) Rodney Marsh was born.
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1773 - America's first insane asylum opens.

They need a lot more!


But more importantly,

1823 - Charles Macintosh of Scotland sells the first raincoat.
 
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Just looked it up, it was 1956 and Portsmouth v Newcastle was the first ever football league floodlit fixture. The Sheffield game must've been a friendly or something.
A surprisingly long gap between the two matches though.
 
QPR999 said:
Just looked it up, it was 1956 and Portsmouth v Newcastle was the first ever football league floodlit fixture. The Sheffield game must've been a friendly or something.
A surprisingly long gap between the two matches though.
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The Football League didn't start till 1888 so it must have been a local friendly match. Possibly played late afternoon rather than at night. I remember as a kid there were games played on Wednesday afternoon rather than evenings as Wednesday was half-day at shops everywhere...
 
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