1893: - Liverpool beat Middlesbrough Ironopolis 6-0 in the Football League. The defeat for Middlesbrough Ironopolis was their heaviest defeat in their only season in the Football League.
1916: - Donald Bell, who was a pre-war full back with Bradford was awarded the Victoria Cross for bravery on the Somme. This is the only known instance of a professional footballer being awarded the supreme honour.
1933: - Bob Scott, who at 6’3” was one of the tallest goalkeepers of the day, made his League debut for Burnley against West Ham United at Upton Park.
1950: -The Barnsley centre-forward Cecil MacCormack scored 5 of his side’s 6 goals in a Second Division match against Luton Town.
1960: - The match between Blackpool and Bolton Wanderers became the first live Friday night match to be screened on TV. The game was intended to be the first of a regular Friday night programme, but as the game was a drab 1-0 win for Bolton the plan for a regular Friday night broadcast was dropped.
1998: - An inquest recorded a verdict of suicide on former Norwich City and Nottingham Forest striker Justin Fashanu who was found hanged at a locked-up garage in London on 2 May 1998.
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