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...NEWS...
1989 - Goalkeeper Ron Hillyard broke Johnny Simpson's record of 617 appearances in a 3-0 home win against Chesterfield
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FIXTURES...
1893 - New Brompton 7-0 Maidstone Utd AC
A new competition - the FA Amateur Cup and a comprehensive victory
1900 - Swindon Town 2-3 New Brompton SLD1
Goals from George Seeley, John MacDonald and Jack Frettingham ensured victory in Wiltshire
1905 - Tottenham H 6-0 New Brompton SLD1
1911 - Swindon Town 5-0 New Brompton SLD1
1922 - Gillingham 1-4 Watford D3S
A Tommy Hall goal was a mere consolation
1933 - Norwich City 4-1 Gillingham D3S Att: 9384
A penalty from George Purcell wasn't enough at Carrow Road
1944 - Ford Sports 4-1 Gillingham KL
Stan Trumper netted in this defeat
1950 - Newport County 1-0 Gillingham D3S Att: 9828
1961 - Gillingham 2-1 Colchester Utd D4 Att: 8962
Harry Hughes and Tom Johnston scored in this win against United
1964 - Gillingham 5-0 Shrewsbury T D3 Att: 7770
Two goals from Brian Yeo, including a penalty, plus others from Brian Gibbs, Ron Newman and John Meredith saw Town thrashed
1967 - Barrow 0-1 Gillingham D3 Att: 6479
Gibbs was again on target as the Gills won at Holker Street
1970 - Gillingham 2-1 Walsall D3 Att: 2965
A Mike Green double, including a penalty, was too much for the West Midlands side
1972 - Lincoln City 1-0 Gillingham D4 Att: 5215
1975 - Gillingham 2-2 Chesterfield D3 Att: 5573
Kenny Hill and Peter Feely were the scorers in this draw with the Spireites
1978 - Peterborough Utd 1-1 Gillingham D3 Att: 5001
The Gills scorer at London Road was Terry Nicholl
1986 - Darlington 1-1 Gillingham D3 Att: 1512
Dave Shearer earned the Gills a point at Feethams
1989 - Gillingham 3-0 Chesterfield D4 Att: 2791
Lee Palmer and two Steve Lovell penalties proved too much for the visitors
1995 - Gillingham 4-0 Doncaster R D3 Att: 6302
There were four different scorers, Mark O'Connor, Simon Ratcliffe, Dennis Bailey and Mark Harris, against Rovers
1997 - Wigan Athletic 1-4 Gillingham D2 Att: 3214
Goals from Ade Akinbiyi, Ratcliffe again, Leo Fortune-West and a Steve Butler penalty saw the Gills romp to an impressive away win
2000 - Gillingham 0-0 Barnsley D1 Att: 9030
2006 - Brentford 2-2 Gillingham L1 Att: 5759
The Bees made the Gills fight for a point despite having their keeper dismissed. Michael Flynn scored both goals, one from the spot.
2008 - Gillingham 2-2 Notts County L2 Att: 4396
The Gills were two-up through Gary Mulligan and Nicky Southall but the visitors hit back - Delroy Facey netting one for County
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DEBUTS...
The following players made their Gillingham debuts in the above games...
1950 - George Dorling at Newport
1989 - Brendan Place at home to Chesterfield
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BIRTHS...
1947 - Terry Parmenter
The experienced full-back came to Priestfield in August 1971 having previously played for Fulham and Leyton Orient.
Having made his debut against Cambridge United he went on to make 54 appearances before joining home-town team Romford in January 1973.
1959 - John Sitton
The former Chelsea and Millwall defender cost boss Keith Peacock £10,000 in September 1981 and he quickly made his debut at Preston.
After five goals in 125 appearances he joined Leyton Orient in July 1985. Having had a decent spell as a player, he was later both youth-team boss and joint manager with the O's.
1991 - Tom Flanagan
The young central defender arrived on a six-month loan deal from MK Dons in July 2012.
He made his debut at Bristol City in the Capital One Cup victory the following month but returned early to his parent club due to metatarsal injury after one goal in 15 games.