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What happened to Division 2? And the Conference is non-league too.

Perhaps someone at google is Australia. 87 (abd by extendsion 187, 287, ...) is their "bad luck" cricket number, like Nelson (111) for the English team (also 222, 333 ...).
Surely the 42nd anniversary should be acknowledged, as it is so meaningful in life terms.
I believe it's been 150 years since Wisden's almanac was first published and I guess they just cobbled that together with his birthday.
And last week was the 135th anniversary of the Princess Alice disaster, which seems to have gone unnoticed.
Google Doodles seem to like celebrating Non-League anniversaries - surely most days there's at least a Division Three one somewhere?

... and Waterhouse - what?!?
Well, Google did wish me happy birthday last month - oh, does that mean I've given away more than I thought?? Still, it made me smile.
What about 16th and 18th, in human age terms?
Apologies for appalling typos above. That will teach me to post before finishing the first cup of coffee. I meant of course "Australian" and "and by extension", and should probably have capitalised Google.

I'm sure we can quibble about the boundaries, but 16th and 18th anniversaries have less resonance for me than 21st.
Lunar year? Gregorian calendar year? Julian calendar year? ?????????
Andrew - yes, I thought that too, until the other day when I was talking to a 20 year old I know - I enquired what the party would be and was informed that 21 isn't celebrated now in the same way it was years ago. I suspect that's because you can (legally) have sex at 16 and vote at 18. In the UK, there are few things that are reserved until 21 (some classes of driving maybe).
It's my fifth wedding anniverary this week and I've been wondering what to write in the card. "Division Three" it is then.
I'd swop 200 and 250. Somehow the quarter millennium seems more important than 200 years.
The Bill shankly '100th' celebration was interesting - He was born 100 years ago, the day after Liverpool played Man Utd on september 1st 2013. the Sky numpty said the celebration was to honour the 100th anniversary since his birth - Surely the next day would be the 99th anniversary? or am I the numpty?
Not sure about the numptiness, but the nth anniversary of something is usually celebrated exactly n years after the something. So as he was born in 1913, his hundredth anniversary would be in 2013. Or hudredth birthday, as it's sometimes known! The day you are born is your zeroth birthday, not your first (unless you are Chinese).
I didn't mention it because 11 is a rubbish anniversary

Oh come. It's the age at which one becomes eligible for Hogwarts. (Or, indeed, for secondary school more generally, in Britain at least.)
You start by mentioning the 500th anniversary of Flodden -- and then having got its hopes up, you haven't given 500th a mention in the league table.
Oops, I shouldn't have missed out 500.
Now added, thanks (and I've given the top divisions a slight tweak).
Dr Who's premiership-runner-up 50th anniversary is generating more press today than the non-league 12th anniversary of 9/11.
Surely there was no such thing as a "British monarch" 500 years ago?










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