News relevant to the club on this day previously
Richard Day looks back at news relevant to Gillingham FC on this day in history, games, players, debuts etc...FIXTURES...
1902 - Kettering 0-0 New Brompton SLD1
1913 - Crystal Palace 1-0 Gillingham SLD1
1919 - Gillingham 1-1 Swansea T FAC6Q
A Tom Leslie penalty saw the game go to a replay
1924 - Newport Co 2-0 Gillingham D3S
1930 - Norwich City 4-0 Gillingham D3S Att: 6,061
1945 - Gillingham 2-0 Shorts Sports KL
Clark and Ravenscroft were the Gills scorers
1947 - Gillingham 3-0 Rochdale FAC2R Att: 17,078
George Forrester, Tug Wilson and Jackie Briggs all found the net in this cup replay
1952 - Gillingham 1-1 Newport Co D3S Att: 7,179
Ken Lambert netted to earn a point
1958 - Millwall 2-0 Gillingham D4 Att: 11,176
1969 - Gillingham 0-1 Brighton & HA D3 Att: 3,930
1975 - Gillingham 1-0 Brighton & HA D3 Att: 9,294
Damien Richardson notched the only goal of the game against the Seagulls
1977 - Peterborough U 2-0 Gillingham FAC2R Att: 8,542
1980 - Chester 1-2 Gillingham D3 Att: 1,934
John Crabbe and Ken Price were on target at Sealand Road
1985 - Darlington 3-2 Gillingham D3 Att: 2,075
The scorers at Feethams were Dave Shearer and Tony Cascarino
1997 - Wrexham 0-0 Gillingham D2 Att: 2,827
2008 - Gillingham 1-1 Brentford L2 Att: 5,521
A tempestuous battle saw both sides have a man sent off. Simeon Jackson scored for the Gills, who had skipper Barry Fuller dismissed.
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BIRTHS...
1959- Pat Walker
Walker was recommended to the club by Damien Richardson's father, and made a good impression in the youth side where he scored 30 goals and helped set up many more.
He won 10 caps for the Republic of Ireland youth team, which created a lot of interest from big clubs.
Pat scored on his Gills debut against Colchester and went on to make a total of 51 appearances, but only added two more goals to that debut strike.
He later moved to Sweden to qualify as an English teacher.