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Ball, John (died c. 1381)

English priest. He was one of the leaders of the Peasants' Revolt of 1381, known as ‘the mad priest of Kent’. A follower of John Wycliffe and a believer in social equality, he was imprisoned for disagreeing with the archbishop of Canterbury. During the revolt he was released from prison, and when in Blackheath, London, incited people against the ruling classes by preaching from the text ‘When Adam delved and Eve span, who was then the gentleman?’ When the revolt collapsed he escaped but was captured near Coventry and executed.


From the Hutchinson Encyclopedia of World History. © Research Machines plc [2006] All Rights Reserved, Helicon Publishing is a division of Research Machines.
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2 January 1971
Football disaster at Ibrox Stadium in Glasgow, Scotland. 66 football fans are crushed to death on the exit steps of the ground towards the end of a match between Glasgow Rangers and Glasgow Celtic.
7 January 1927

The Harlem Globetrotters play their first competitive Basketball match.

9 January 1900
The Italian football club, S.S. Lazio, is founded in Rome.
12 January 2001

Sven-Goran Eriksson starts his job as the manager of the England football team. He is the first foreigner to hold this position.

14 January 1969

Football legend Sir Matt Busby announces that he will retire as manager of Manchester United at the end of the season.

20 January 1987

British police launch their largest ever crackdown on football hooliganism.

27 January 1995

Manchester United player Eric Cantona is fined £20,000 and banned from playing football for nine months after he attacked a fan who taunted him.

2 February 1999
Glenn Hoddle is sacked as England football manager after comments that disabled people were reaping the punishment for something done in a previous life.
6 February 1971
The first golf ball is hit on the moon by Alan Shepard during a two day walk from Apollo 14.
9 February 1979
Trevor Francis becomes the first one million pound football player as he transfers from Birmingham City to Nottingham Forest.
21 February 1995

Steve Fossett becomes the first person to make a solo flight across the Pacific Ocean in a balloon.

26 February 1983

Irish goalkeeper Pat Jennings becomes the first footballer to play in 1,000 football league matches.

6 March 1902
The Spanish football club Real Madrid is founded.
15 March 1892
In England, Liverpool football club is established.
20 March 1966
The football world cup trophy, the Jules Rimet, is stolen whilst being exhibited in London.
21 March 1999
The Breitling Orbiter 3, piloted by Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones becomes the first hot air balloon to circumnavigate the Earth.
28 March 1991
In England, a jury rules that the death of 96 fans at the Hillsborough football disaster occurred accidentally.
8 April 1974
In baseball, Hank Aaron breaks Babe Ruth's record by hitting his 715th home run.
12 April 1984
Miners' leader Arthur Scargill maintains the miners strike, refusing to ballot members.
15 April 1989
Britain's worst football disaster at Hillsborough Stadium in Sheffield; 96 football fans are crushed to death shortly after the start of the FA Cup semi-final match between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest. Most of those killed are from Liverpool.
2 May 1953
Football legend Sir Stanley Matthews, at the age of 38, wins an FA Cup winners' medal as Blackpool come back from trailing 3-1 to beat Bolton 4-3. In recognition of the impact he had on the match, it has become known as the 'Matthew’s Final'.
7 May 2006
In the English Premier League, Arsenal Football club play their last game at their Highbury ground.
8 May 1898
The first games of the Italian Football League are played.
9 May 2001

In Ghana, during a football match at Accra Stadium 126 fans lose their life during a stampede. 

11 May 1985
In England, 56 football fans are killed as a fire engulfs Bradford City’s stadium.
21 May 1904
Football's international governing body, FIFA, is established in Paris.
24 May 1964
A riot breaks out during a football match between Peru and Argentina when the referee disallows a goal. More than 300 people are killed in the fighting.
25 May 1967
Glasgow Celtic becomes the first British football club to win the European Cup beating Inter Milan 2-1 in Lisbon.
26 May 1999
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29 May 1985
39 football fans are killed and at least another 400 injured when a wall collapses during crowd violence at the Heysel Stadium in Brussels only minutes before the start of the European Cup Final between Liverpool and Juventus.
31 May 1985
Following the Heysel stadium disaster on 29th May, the Football Association bans English clubs from playing in European club competitions.
1 June 1993
Serb forces launch an artillery barrage on a make-shift football match in Bosnia killing eleven people.
2 June 1985
European football's governing body UEFA announces an indefinite ban on English football clubs from taking part in any European competitions following the riot by Liverpool FC fans in Brussels’ Heysel stadium on 31st May, in which 39 people died.
9 June 2006
The football World Cup kicks off in Munich, Germany.
14 June 1970
Manchester United footballer Bobby Charlton plays his 106th and last international match for England against West Germany in the World Cup in Mexico.
15 June 1954
The Union des Associations Europeennes de Football (UEFA) is founded in Basle, Switzerland.
16 June 1961
Russian ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev defects to the West after landing at Paris Airport with other members of the Kirov Ballet.
17 June 1994
Start of football's World Cup Finals in the United States of America with an opening ceremony which included President Bill Clinton, television celebrity Oprah Winfrey and singer Diana Ross.
19 June 1846
In America, the first official game of baseball using the “Knickerbocker Rules” is played at Hoboken, New Jersey, America.
21 June 1970
Brazil wins the football World Cup for the third time.
27 June 2006
Brazilian footballer Ronaldo breaks the all-time World Cup finals goal-scoring record by scoring his 15th World Cup goal against Ghana in Germany.
29 June 1958
Brazil win football's World Cup beating Sweden 5-2 in the final in Stockholm. A young 17 year old Pele scores two goals in the final.
4 July 1995
Prime Minister John Major retains the leadership of the Conservative Party after winning a ballot of Conservative M.P.s designed to put an end to attempts to destabilise Major’s leadership of the party.
9 July 2006
In his last game of professional football Zinedine Zidane is sent off for headbutting Italian defender Marco Materazzi as France go on to lose to Italy 5-3 on penalties in the World Cup final.
11 July 1914
Babe Ruth makes his Major League Baseball debut in America.
12 July 1974
The legendry Bill Shankly announces his retirement as manager Liverpool Football Club.
16 July 1950
The largest ever crowd at a football match - more than 199,000 in Montevideo to see Uruguay beat Brazil 2-1 in the World Cup final.
30 July 1930
Uruguay beat Argentina 4 – 2 in Montevideo to win the first ever football World Cup.
16 August 1948
American Baseball legend Babe Ruth dies from cancer in New York City.
17 August 1978
The first successful trans-Atlantic balloon crossing is completed when Eagle II lands in Paris, France.
18 August 1989
In England, Manchester United football club is sold for £20 million – the biggest deal in football history at the time.
20 August 1970
England football captain Bobby Moore is cleared of stealing an emerald bracelet in Colombia.
23 August 1979
Alexander Godunov, a member of the Bolshoi Ballet, is given political asylum in the United States.
25 August 1974
In England, the human cannon ball Mary Connors fails to break the English record for being shot out a cannon.
26 August 1957
The Soviet Union announces that it has successfully tested an intercontinental ballistic missile.
8 September 1888
The first official Football League matches are played in England.
9 September 1987
25 Liverpool football fans are extradited to Belgium for questioning about the Heysel stadium disaster. 14 of the fans were eventually charged and found guilty of voluntary manslaughter.
22 October 1797
Frenchman Andre-Jacques Garnerin makes the world’s first parachute jump - launching himself from a balloon over the Parc Monceau in Paris.
24 October 1857
The world’s first official football club Sheffield Football Club is established in Yorkshire, England.
26 October 1863
In England, the Football Association is formed at a meeting at the Freeman’s Tavern in London.
27 October 1954

Film star Marilyn Monroe and Baseball legend Joe DiMaggio get divorced.

3 November 1964
In America residents of the District of Columbia cast their ballots in a presidential election for the first time. They had originally been denied the vote due to the fact that D.C. was not a state and was the seat of government. This was rectified by the 23rd Amendment to the Constitution in 1961.
6 November 1986
One of the most successful British football mangers ever, Alex Ferguson, starts his reign as manager of Manchester United.
7 November 1991
Basketball legend, Earvin "Magic" Johnson, announces his retirement from the Los Angeles Lakers, after testing positive for HIV.
16 November 1983
English football hooligans cause a night of mayhem in Luxembourg following the national team’s failure to qualify for the European Championships.
18 November 1302
Papal bull Unam sanctam is issued by Pope Boniface VIII. The ball decrees that the Pope is the sole leader of the Catholic Church.
19 November 1992
In England, the High Court rules that the feeding tubes keeping Tony Bland alive, a victim of the Hillsborough football disaster, can be withdrawn. His life support machine was turned off in February 1993 and he died the following month. 
25 November 1953
The English Football loses at Wembley stadium for the first time to opponents outside of the British Isles losing 6 - 3 to Hungary.
29 November 1899
Spanish football club FC Barcelona is founded.
30 November 1872
In Glasgow, the first international football match is played between England and Scotland and ends in a 0-0 draw.
15 December 1995
The European Court of Justice issues its landmark “Bosman ruling” which revolutionises football transfers in Europe allowing players to move club for free when their contract comes to an end.
18 December 1892
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