Day: 7 October 2017

By Tony Attwood I’ll begin this section of the story with an amusing and trivial note: on 6 October 1916  an Army Order removed the requirement for soldiers to wear moustaches.  I have no idea if this order had been enforced up to this point – I’ve not seen any references to men being punished for being …

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This is our daily review of Arsenal anniversaries taken from the Arsenal day by day  files prepared by the AISA Arsenal History Society.   Below are the Anniversaries from  October 7 Our headline story comes from 1976. Yesterday’s anniversaries are to be found at: Tottenham 3-0 up against Arsenal in 26 minutes and still can’t win. …

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