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...
2007 - Forward Luke Freeman becomes the club's youngest ever player when, at 15 years 233 days, he makes a substitute appearance at Barnet in a FA Cup First Round tie
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FIXTURES...
1900 - New Brompton 1-2 Tottenham H SLD1
John MacDonald got the goal against the Spurs
1906 - New Brompton 0-1 Tottenham H SLD1
1923 - Q.P.R 1-1 Gillingham D3S
William Cosgrove scored in the West London draw
1928 - Charlton Ath 1-1 Gillingham D3S Att: 8,488
A Francis Taylor goal earned a point at the Valley
1934 - Swindon Town 3-0 Gillingham D3S Att: 5289
1945 - Royal Marines 3-5 Gillingham KL
Stan Trumper notched a hat-trick and Tug Wilson the other two
1951 - Gillingham 3-3 Aldershot D3S Att: 14,759
Jackie Briggs (2) and Dave Thomas were on target in as the teams shared six goals
1956 - Colchester Utd 0-0 Gillingham D3S Att: 8,891
1962 - Gillingham 4-3 Oldham Athletic D4 Att: 8,426
Gordon Pulley, John Arnott, Harry Hughes and Brian Gibbs were the scorers against the Latics
1970 - Rochdale 0-1 Gillingham D3 Att: 3,291
The scorer at Spotland was Tommy Watson
1973 - Gillingham 2-1 Torquay Utd D4 Att: 6,201
Brian Yeo was on target twice against the Gulls
1979 - Sheffield Utd 4-0 Gillingham D3 Att: 14,329
1984 - Gillingham 2-1 Rotherham Utd D3 Att: 3,568
Dave Mehmet and Dave Shearer were the marksmen against the Millers
1998 - Gillingham 2-1 Oldham Ath D2 Att: 5,188
The Gills goals came from Carl Asaba and Mark Patterson
2001 - Crewe Alex 0-0 Gillingham D1 Att: 5,419
2007 - Barnet 2-1 Gillingham FAC1 Att: 2,843
David Graham put the Gills ahead at Underhill but the Bees hit back to win
2012 - Plymouth A 2-2 Gillingham L2 Att: 6,396
A last minute goal from Adam Barrett earned a point at Home Park, Ben Strevens was the other scorer
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DEBUTS...
The following players made their Gillingham debuts in the above games...
1956 - Jim McDonald at Colchester
2007 - Luke Freeman against Barnet at Underhill
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BIRTHS...
1931 - Jim Fletcher
Born in Wouldham, Jim had played for a number of Kent sides before joining the Gills in the summer of 1957.
He made his Gills debut against Brighton & HA on the opening day of the season.
After 13 goals in 28 appearances he joined Southend United in July 1958 before returning to the county playing for four more sides prior to retiring in June 1964.
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DEATHS...
1973 - Charles Gellatly
The former Hlifax Town left-back joined the Gills from Leicester City in June 1931, having made his debut at Luton Town in September, he went onto make 61 appearances for the club.
Charles died in Surrey on 10th November 1973.