Richard Day reviews this day in the club's history
News relevant to Gillingham FC on this day in history, games, players, debuts etc...FIXTURES…
1897 - Swindon T 2-1 New Brompton SLD1
1899 - Reading 2-0 New Brompton SLD1
1905 - West Ham Utd 2-0 New Brompton SLD1
1911 - Northampton T 2-1 New Brompton SLD1
Joe Satterthwaite scored at the County Ground
1922 - Gillingham 5-2 Norwich City D3S
The Canaries were put to flight by a Tommy Hall hat-trick, the first ever for the Gills in a Football League fixture, Charlie Freeman and Leo Cassell, his only goal for the club.
1925 - Gillingham 0-0 Bristol Rovers D3S
1928 - Northampton T 1-0 Gillingham D3S Att: 9,538
1933 - Crystal Palace 5-1 Gillingham D3S Att: 8,280
The Gills consolation came from Sim Raleigh
1950 - Gillingham 4-1 Exeter City Res SLD1 Att: 7,609
Hughie Russell, Bill Burtenshaw, Jackie Carr and Harold Williams were all on target in this comfortable victory
1956 - Norwich City 5-1 Gillingham D3S Att: 7,586
The scorer in this heavy defeat was Billy Millar
1961 - Bradford PA 0-0 Gillingham D4 Att: 7,483
1961 - Gillingham 'A' 2-0 Canterbury Seanglian Lge
1967 - Middlesbrough 1-1 Gillingham D3 Att: 18,945
Bill Brown found the net at Ayresome Park
1975 - Bury 0-1 Gillingham D3 Att: 4,473
The Gills winner came from Dave Galvin
1984 - Gillingham 2-1 Bournemouth D3 Att: 4,891
Goals from Dave Mehmet and John Leslie proved too much for the Cherries
1989 - Bristol City 1-0 Gillingham D3 Att: 7,319
1992 - Aldershot 0-0 Gillingham D4 Att: 2,986
This result was expunged from the records after The Shots resigned from the Football League around a month later.
1995 - Chesterfield 2-0 Gillingham D3 Att: 3,070
2006 - Gillingham 1-1 Tranmere R L1 Att: 6,803
A Darren Byfield equaliser salvaged a point for the Gills
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DEBUTS...
The following players made their Gillingham debuts in the above games...
1989 - Billy Manuel and Alan Reeves away at Bristol C
2006 - Justin Cochrane against Tranmere
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BIRTHS...
1893 - Arthur Dominy
Having previously scored 146 goals in 369 games for Southampton, the forward arrived at Gillingham from Everton in March 1928, aged 35, and made his debut at Brighton & HA.
He went on to score 17 goals, including a hat-trick against Norwich City, in 57 games before joining Clapton Orient in May 1929 and he later appeared occasionally for Newport (IoW).
Arthur managed the Saints during the war years of 1943 until early 1946 when Bill Dodgin was appointed.
1909 - Tommy Robinson
The forward joined the Gills from Northampton Town in the summer of 1936 and made his debut in the second game of the 1936-37 campaign away at Bournemouth.
In his one season with the Gills he scored 13 goals in 38 games before moving to Walsall in May 1937.
1910 - George Bond
The former Millwall centre-forward signed for the Gills from Northfleet in August 1935 and scored on his debut the following month in a 3-3 draw at Notts County.
He scored once more, in a total of nine appearances, before emigrating to Malta the following summer.
1942 - Charlie Crickmore
Charlie played for Hull Schoolboys and home-town club Hull City before moving to Bournemouth for £2,000 in June 1962.
The classy right winger joined Gillingham in June 1966 from the Cherries in an exchange deal that took left back David Stocks and forward Tommy Taylor in the opposite direction.
He made his Gills debut at Scunthorpe in August 1966, scoring in a 2-1 victory.
After 17 goals in 63 appearances, the last of which was a 2-1 home win over Oxford United in October 1967, Gillingham received a then club record fee of £20,000 from Rotherham United and he went on to play for Norwich City and Notts County before a knee injury ended his career while at Meadow Lane.