Richard Day reviews this day in the club's history
News relevant to Gillingham FC on this day in history, games, players, debuts etc...NEWS...
1995 - Gillingham boss Mike Flanagan was made redundant as part of the cost-cutting made by the club's administrators after 20 months in charge at Priestfield Stadium. Player-coach Neil Smillie took over in a caretaker capacity.
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FIXTURES...
1914 - Gillingham 0-0 Cardiff City SLD1
1920 - Gillingham 2-3 Brighton & HA SLD1
Arthur Wood hit two but Albion took the points
1925 - Gillingham 0-1 Northampton T D3S
1931 - Gillingham 0-5 Notts County D3S Att: 8,264
1948 - Dartford 2-1 Gillingham SLD1
Jackie Briggs scored the Gills goal at Watling Street
1953 - Gillingham 0-1 Bristol City D3S Att: 12,571
1959 - Gillingham 5-1 Workington D4 Att: 6,787
Goals from Pat Terry (above - 2), Sammy Moore, John Edgar and David Laing, ensured a comfortable victory
1970 - Gillingham 0-1 Barrow D3 Att: 5,018
1975 - Charlton Ath 2-1 Gillingham D3 Att: 18,929
Peter Feely was on target at the Valley
1981 - Gillingham 0-1 Plymouth Arg D3 Att: 4,396
1984 - Millwall 4-3 Gillingham AMC1 Att: 2,364
The Lions won despite goals from Tony Cascarino (2) and Brian Sparrow
1987 - Gillingham 2-0 Mansfield T D3 Att: 4,251
Tony Cascarino was on target again, along with Howard Pritchard, as the Stags were beaten
1989 - Gillingham 1-3 Preston NE D3 Att: 3,038
The visitors took the points despite a George Burley effort
1998 - Wycombe W 1-0 Gillingham D2 Att: 5,583
Keith Ryan won the game for the Chairboys in the 29th minute
2004 - Crystal Palace 1-0 Gillingham C Att: 17,485
Nicky Southall was twice denied from the penalty spot, first by Eagles keeper Cedric Berthelin and then the woodwork as Iain Dowie's 10-man Palace won thanks to Danny Butterfield's winner.
2009 - Gillingham 1-0 Bournemouth L2 Att: 5,353
Nicky Southall was luckier this time,striking the only goal of the game
2012 - Gillingham 5-4 Hereford Utd L2 Att: 3,784
A stunning game saw the Gills trailing 0-2 and 2-4 before remarkably netting a 90th minute winner through Gavin Tomlin. The other scorers were Chris Whelpdale, Danny Kedwell and Charlie Lee (2).
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DEBUTS...
The following players made their Gillingham debuts in the above games...
1987 - Phil Kite versus Mansfield at home
1989 - Francis Joseph against Preston at Priestfield
2004 - Lars Hirschfeld at C.Palace
2012 - Ollie Lee in the epic with Hereford
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DEATHS...
1948 - Reg Dann
Born in Maidstone he joined the Gills from Aylesford Paper Mills in the summer of 1935 but had to wait until the October of that year before making his debut at Bournemouth.
It proved to be the first of just eight appearances before moving to Tottenham Hotspur in May 1936 before later having a spell with Bradford Park Avenue.
Reg died in Maidstone on this day in 1948.