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...
1896 - Southampton St Mary's 5-0 New Brompton SLD1
1897 - New Brompton 4-1 New Brompton T&MC
1902 - Millwall Ath 3-1 New Brompton SLD1
Centre forward Albert Gosnall netted the consolation
1903 - Swindon T 1-1 New Brompton SLD1
George Smith scored to earn a point
1908 - New Brompton 1-3 Portsmouth SLD1
Army man Charlie McGibbon scored but it couldn't prevent a home loss
1910 - New Brompton 0-1 Coventry City SLD1
1914 - Gillingham 3-1 West Ham Utd SLD1
Sam Gilligan hit two and Ernie Pinkney the other as the Gills proved their mettle against the Iron
1921 - Southend Utd 1-0 Gillingham D3
1925 - Gillingham 0-0 Reading D3S
1928 - Gillingham 1-1 Exeter City D3S Att: 3,138
Tommy Millington netted to earn the Gills a point
1931 - Gillingham 3-2 Fulham D3S Att: 4,898
Roy Bethell, Harry Loasby and Bill White all found the net against the Cottagers
1932 - Cardiff C 1-0 Gillingham D3S Att: 10,455
1936 - Gillingham 1-3 Millwall D3S Att: 5,634
All the Gills had to show from this game was an own goal from Jimmy Wallbanks
1949 - Gillingham 4-1 Gloucester C SL Att: 5,047
Four different scorers - Jackie Carr, Les Gore, George Forrester and Hughie Russell, saw off City
1953 - Gillingham 1-1 Ipswich T D3S Att: 8,868
The Gills drew level thanks to a Ron Murchison own goal
1959 - Gillingham 1-1 Crystal Palace D4 Att: 8,754
Former Tonbridge forward Cliff Payton struck the equaliser
1964 - Stockport Co 2-0 Gillingham D4 Att: 2,605
1966 - Yeovil 1 - 1 Gillingham Testimonial
1970 - Shrewsbury T 2-2 Gillingham D3 Att: 3,532
Goals from Andy Smillie and Mike Green were sufficient to gain a point
1981 - Hull City 2-2 Gillingham D3 Att: 3,309
A Trevor Lee double was enough to earn a point against the struggling Tigers
1987 - Bury 1-0 Gillingham D3 Att: 2,197
1992 - Gillingham 2-0 Mansfield T D4 Att: 2,583
Steve Lovell and Peter Beadle fired the Gills to victory over the Stags
1998 - Gillingham 2-0 Fulham D2 Att: 10,507
A double from Ade Akinbiyi thwarted the Cottagers promotion push
2000 - Wycombe W 1-0 Gillingham D2 Att: 4,183
Andrew Baird netted the Chairboys winner seven minutes from time
2009 - Brentford 1-1 Gillingham L2 Att: 7,908
A Simeon Jackson penalty ensured a point at Griffin Park
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DEBUTS...
The following players made their Gillingham debuts in the above games...
1936 - Edwin Scott versus Millwall
1987 - Les Berry away at Bury
1992 - Rod Thomas against Mansfield T at home
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BIRTHS...
1925 - Joe Campbell
The Scot had played for St Mark's YM, St Anthony's, Glasgow Celtic and Leyton Orient before Archie Clark paid £2,000 to bring him to Gillingham in September 1950.
Just hours later Joe made his debut against Millwall at home but in his one season with the club he scored twice in a dozen games.
The following summer Joe moved to Bedford Town.
1987 - Simeon Jackson
Having been born in Jamaica and growing up in Canada, Simeon had played for Sunoco FC, ASPIRE Academy and Dulwich Hamlet as a youngster, he also had an unsuccessful trial with the youth team here at Priestfield.
He joined Rushden & Diamonds in August 2004 and had scored 42 goals in 93 games for the non-league side before Mark Stimson paid £150,000 for his services in January 2008, the striker signing a three-and-a-half year contract.
He made his debut for the club in the 0-0 home draw with Cheltenham Town but initially found it difficult to find his goalscoring form in League One and it took nine games before finding the net against AFC Bournemouth.
Over the next two seasons he hit 39 goals including two memorable one's, the first in the FA Cup Third Round tie with Aston Villa and then of course the last gasp goal against Shrewsbury Town in the play-off final at Wembley that secured promotion to League One.
Seven days after that goal Jackson made his debut for Canada, scoring the only goal of the game in a 1-0 win over Cyprus in Lanarca.
In July 2010 he moved to Norwich City for an undisclosed fee which included Cody McDonald spending a season on loan here at Priestfield and has gone on to score 17 goals for the Canaries so far.