News relevant to the club on this day
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Richard Day looks back at news relevant to Gillingham FC on this day in history, games, players, debuts etc...
1949 - Gillingham 8-0 Hastings Utd SL Att: 7,568
BIRTHS...
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made his debut versus Darlington
David Byrne - 1985
made his first appearance as a substitute at Bournemouth
Mark Weatherly - 1974
were debutants at Barnsley
Bobby Folds and Derek Bellotti - 1968
all made their debuts against Brighton
John Simpson and Ron Saunders, Don Rossiter, Dave Laing, Jack Hannaway, Jim Fletcher, Roger Darvell - 1957
debuted in the home game with Hastings
J.Day - 1949
DEBUTS...
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Mamady Sidibe was on target but the Cobblers claimed victory
2004 - Gillingham 1-2 Northampton T LC1 Att: 3,108
minute winner for the CanariesthPaul McVeigh notched the 40
2002 - Norwich City 1-0 Gillingham L1 Att: 20,588
Bob Taylor and Nicky Southall scored to complete a 4-0 aggregate win
1999 - Gillingham 2-0 Brighton & HA LC1 2L Att: 4,592
Simon Ratcliffe netted to earn an away point
1996 - Wycombe W 1-1 Gillingham D2 Att: 4,582
David Crown was on the mark at Bootham Crescent
1991 - York City 1-1 Gillingham D4 Att: 2,328
Mel Sage struck for the Gills against the Quakers
1985 - Gillingham 1-1 Darlington D3 Att: 2,949
A Damien Richardson double wasn't enough at Gay Meadow1974 - Bournemouth 2-0 Gillingham D3 Att: 7,252
1976 - Shrewsbury T 4-2 Gillingham D3 Att: 3,858
Brian Gibbs hit the winner at Oakwell
1966 - Southend Utd 0-0 Gillingham LC1 Att: 5,661
1968 - Barnsley 0-1 Gillingham D3 Att: 8,646
Goals from Gordon Pulley and Brian Gibbs earned the points
1955 - Gillingham 0-1 Leyton Orient D3S Att: 13,526
1957 - Gillingham 0-1 Brighton & HA D3S Att: 11,249
1960 - Gillingham 0-0 Crewe Alex. D4 Att: 8,452
1963 - Gillingham 2-0 Bradford Park Ave D4 Att: 8,562
Harold Williams fired a double hat-trick with Jackie Carr and George Forrester adding others in this rout
1925 - Dick Hales
The Gillingham born right-back was signed from Sittingbourne as an amateur in August 1951.
He played in the Eastern Counties League side before making his first-team debut against Bournemouth four months later.
After just five appearances he returned to the reserves and joined Faversham Town in the summer and later returned to Sittingbourne
1930 - Billy Hall
The centre-forward arrived from home-town club Gosport Borough in September 1952 and made his debut at Bristol Rovers.
He made nine first-team appearances in total, and topped scored for the reserves before being released by the Gills
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DEATH...
1955 - Joe North
Joe played for Sheffield-based Atlas & Norfolk Works early in his career which was interrupted by World War I, where he fought in the Army, winning the Military Medal.
Following the war, in which he guested for Sheffield United, he joined Arsenal in 1919, as an amateur.
The centre forward made 23 appearances (scoring six goals) in three seasons with the Gunners.
After a spell at Reading he moved to Gillingham in July 1923 and scored on his debut against Bristol Rovers.
Joe scored 17 goals in 43 appearances in his one season at Priestfield which included a five-goal FA Cup haul against non-league Nunhead in a 6-0 away win.
He later played for Norwich City and Watford and after retiring briefly coached at Northfleet United.
As a cricketer Joe played 24 times for Middlesex between 1923 and 1927 and made three first-class appearances for the M.C.C before later becoming an umpire in the Minor Counties Championship.
Joe died in Havant on 24th August 1955.