Events
- April 19 – The Dutch national team plays its 200th official match in history, losing 0-2 in a friendly against neighbouring Belgium.
- May 2 – Blackpool win the FA Cup Final, their only major silverware to date, beating Bolton Wanderers 4–3, despite being the score being 1–3 with only a few minutes remaining.
- November 25 – England v Hungary (1953). It was the first time England had lost at their Wembley Stadium home to a nation outside the British Isles.
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Famous quotes containing the word events:
“By many a legendary tale of violence and wrong, as well as by events which have passed before their eyes, these people have been taught to look upon white men with abhorrence.... I can sympathize with the spirit which prompts the Typee warrior to guard all the passes to his valley with the point of his levelled spear, and, standing upon the beach, with his back turned upon his green home, to hold at bay the intruding European.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“The system was breaking down. The one who had wandered alone past so many happenings and events began to feel, backing up along the primal vein that led to his center, the beginning of hiccup that would, if left to gather, explode the center to the extremities of life, the suburbs through which one makes one’s way to where the country is.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)
“Custom, then, is the great guide of human life. It is that principle alone, which renders our experience useful to us, and makes us expect, for the future, a similar train of events with those which have appeared in the past.”
—David Hume (1711–1776)