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Today's featured article Ferry Boat Inn, behind which Gedling Town was based Gedling Town Football Club was a semi-professional association football club based in Stoke Bardolph in Nottinghamshire, England. Founded in 1985 as R & R Scaffolding, the works team of a construction firm from Netherfield, the club played its first four seasons in amateur football. Between 1990 and 2008, Gedling competed in three Central Midlands Football League divisions and Division One of the Northern Counties East Football League, winning three league titles in the process. Gedling then joined the Premier Division of the East Midlands Counties Football League at the tenth tier of the English football pyramid, in which the club remained until its dissolution in 2011 due to insolvency. Its home ground from the early 1990s was the Riverside Stadium behind the Ferry Boat Inn (pictured). Tournament records included reaching the third qualifying round of the FA Cup in in 2003–04 and the fourth round of the FA Vase in 2003–04, 2004–05 and 2005–06. The team were nicknamed "The Ferrymen", and their colours were primarily yellow and blue. (Full article...) Recently featured: Mells War Memorial Justus George Floyd (American football) Selected anniversaries November 12 Destruction of Tirpitz in Operation Catechism 1944 – Second World War: In Operation Catechism, the Royal Air Force sank the German battleship Tirpitz (video featured) near Tromsø, Norway, killing about 1,000 sailors on board. 1956 – Suez Crisis: During an invasion of Rafah, Israeli soldiers shot and killed an estimated 111 Palestinian refugees and local inhabitants. 1970 – The Oregon Highway Division unsuccessfully attempted to destroy a rotting beached sperm whale near Florence, Oregon, with dynamite. 1991 – Indonesian forces opened fire on student demonstrators protesting the occupation of East Timor in the capital Dili, killing at least 250 people. 2014 – The European Space Agency's lander Philae touched down on 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko, becoming the first spacecraft to land on a comet. Johan Rantzau (b. 1492) Rachel Barrett (b. 1874) Jo Stafford (b. 1917) Robert Goff, Baron Goff of Chieveley (b. 1926) More anniversaries: November 11 November 12 November 13	In the news Olaf Scholz A suicide bombing by the Balochistan Liberation Army at the Quetta railway station, Pakistan, kills 32 people. The German ruling coalition (Chancellor Olaf Scholz pictured) collapses over disagreements on economic policies. Donald Trump wins the United States presidential election. Maia Sandu is re-elected President of Moldova. In baseball, the Yokohama DeNA BayStars defeat the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks to win the Japan Series. Ongoing: Israel–Hamas war Israel–Hezbollah conflict Russian invasion of Ukraine timeline Sudanese civil war timeline Recent deaths: Judith Jamison June Spencer John Nott Ram Narayan Elwood Edwards Anna Lo Did you know... Members of the Fijian Labour Corps in 1918 ... that members of the Fijian Labour Corps (pictured) attracted notice on the Western Front of World War I for their height and muscularity? ... that Ye Gongchuo worked for emperors, warlords and republicans before leaving politics to focus on art? ... that controversy ensued when the painting Pleasure Garden was offered to the Robert McDougall Art Gallery? ... that Walter Campbell Smith's training in mineralogy led him to volunteer with the chemical warfare unit of British Army during World War I? ... that Will Wood performed nude for the music video of a song on SELF-iSH? ... that Wilf Perreault's artwork of landscapes and alleyways was influenced by artists such as Reta Cowley and Dorothy Knowles? ... that the Hollywood Boulevard Commercial and Entertainment District has 102 properties within 12 blocks and contains "excellent examples of the predominant architecture styles of the 1920s and 1930s"? ... that Dutch rabbi Meijer de Hond, who grew up in poverty, was known as the "Volksrebbe" for his popularity among the Jewish poor of Amsterdam? ... that Chinese Garden MRT station did not originally have access to the Chinese Garden?
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