The Arsenal Anniversary Files
Below are the Arsenal (and occasionally one or two non-Arsenal) anniversaries for today taken from the complete files of over 6000 Arsenal anniversaries which appear on the Arsenal History Society website. An index to the Anniversary files can be found in the left column of this site under “Pages”
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23 June 1914: The RAF was established.
23 June 1953: Alf Haynes died. He played 29 games as a centre half under Herbert Chapman. Later he ran a newsagents in Oxford and wrote a sports column for the local newspaper and kept his connections with Arsenal under Whittaker, acting as a scout.
23 June 1971: Ex Arsenal man Jimmy Bloomfield became manager of Leicester. After that he went to Orient, and led them to an FA Cup semi-final at Arsenal and later managed Luton, before his tragically early death from cancer.
23 June 1976: Patrick Vieira born in Dakar, Senegal. Qualifying for French citizenship he played for Cannes, and made two appearances for Milan before they unexpectedly released him, and Mr Wenger bought him, while he was still managing in Japan.
23 June 1976: Terry Neill resigned as Tottenham manager. He had lasted 2 years. At the time such an early departure at Tottenham was unusual, but since then only four of the club’s 24 subsequent managers have lasted longer. See also here
23 June 1953: Death of Alf Haynes. After ending his playing career he had become a scout and had among other things recommended Cliff Holton to Arsenal.
23 June 1955: David Price born in Surrey. He joined Arsenal in 1970 and made his first team début aged 17 in an end-of-season game against Leeds.
23 June 2016: After rumours that Arsenal had tried to sign Vardy from Leicester the club and player admitted that he had signed a new contract.
