During Liverpool Football Club's first 68 years, they won five
Football League championships before being relegated to the
Second Division in the 1950s. They were founded in 1892 when
John Houlding needed a team for the
Anfield stadium, recently vacated by
Everton Football Club. After winning the
Lancashire League title in their
first season, they were accepted into the Football League for the
1893–94 season. With
Tom Watson as manager, they were
promoted to the
top tier of English football, winning their first League championships in 1901 and 1906 and reaching the
FA Cup final in 1914. Liverpool's fortunes fluctuated during the inter-war years, when the club often finished in midtable, although they did win two further championships in 1922 and 1923. An expansion to the
Spion Kop terracing in the 1920s increased Anfield's capacity. Liverpool became League champions again in 1947, in the
first season after the
Second World War, but, following a gradual decline, they were back in the Second Division by the time of
Bill Shankly's appointment as manager in 1959. (
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1759 – The British Museum(pictured) in London, today containing one of the largest and most comprehensive collections in the world, opened to the public in
Montagu House, Bloomsbury.
The first season of How I Met Your Mother, an American
sitcom created by
Carter Bays and
Craig Thomas, premiered on
CBS in the United States on September 19, 2005 and concluded on May 15, 2006. The season was directed by
Pamela Fryman and produced by Bays & Thomas Productions and
20th Century Fox Television. It consists of 22 episodes, each running approximately 22 minutes in length. The season introduces
Ted Mosby (voiced by
Bob Saget) in the year 2030 as he sits his daughter and son down to tell them the story of how he met their mother. The story begins in 2005 with Ted (
Josh Radnor) as a single, 27-year-old architect living in
Manhattan with his two best friends from college: Marshall Eriksen (
Jason Segel), a law student, and
Lily Aldrin (
Alyson Hannigan), a
kindergarten teacher, who have been dating for almost nine years when Marshall proposes. Their engagement causes Ted to think about marriage and finding his soul mate, much to the disgust of his self-appointed best friend
Barney Stinson (
Neil Patrick Harris). The first season garnered an average of 9.47 million viewers per episode in the U.S. (Full list...)
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