Mickey's treble
1997 - Michael Owen scored his first reds hat-trick as we beat Grimsby Town 3-0 at Anfield in a League Cup Fourth Round tie.

Oggy signs on
1977 - Steve Ogrizovic signed from Chesterfield for £70,000. He only made five first-team starts in five years at Anfield as understudy to Ray Clemence, sitting on the bench on a further 27 occasions. He had more luck at Coventry City, winning the FA Cup with them in 1987 and making more than 500 League appearances.

Derby despair
1995 - Robbie Fowler netted our consolation very late on as we lost 2-1 at home to Everton through an Andrei Kanchelskis brace. Ex-red Gary Ablett was carried off with knee ligament damage.

Finland's best
2002 - Sami Hyypiä was named Finland's Player of the Year, retaining the award he had won the previous year. He went on to win this award on six occasions within the space of eight years.

Beating the Mancs
1978 - A late penalty from Phil Neal was enough to see off Manchester City at Anfield.

1911 - We also sent Manchester United home without the First Division points, with Jack Parkinson adding to a John Bovill brace in our 3-2 victory.
1939 - Meanwhile, Willie Fagan bagged the only goal of our Wartime League meeting with United from the spot.

An Anfield win
1931 - England beat Wales 3-1 at Anfield in the British International Championships. England's goals were scored by Derby County's Samuel Crooks, Jack Smith from Portsmouth and Leicester City's Ernest Hine, with Walter Robbins of Cardiff City responding for the Welsh. Future reds Ernie Blenkinsop and Tom Cooper both featured for the home side.

Twice against Villa and the Geordies
We have twice entertained Aston Villa in the First Division on this day in history, without losing.
1899 - We drew 3-3 when John Walker, Hugh Morgan and Alex Raisbeck were on the scoresheet.
1922 - Donald Mackinlay, Harry Chambers and Dick Johnson struck as we won 3-0.

1984 - We won 2-0 at Newcastle United with Steve Nicol and John Wark netting.
1972 - We also beat United in the top-flight at home with Peter Cormack, Alec Lindsay and John Toshack grabbing our goals as we won 3-2, despite Tommy Smith missing a penalty.

Corrigan's day
1948 - Former reds goalkeeping coach Joe Corrigan was born in Manchester. He made nearly 600 appearances for Manchester City, as well as winning nine England caps. He spent ten years on our backroom staff before moving on after the arrival of Rafael Benítez.

Finn to Fulham
1998 - Steve Finnan joined Kevin Keegan's Fulham from Notts County for £600,000. He went on to play 209 times for the Cottagers, winning First and Second Division League titles, to add to the Third Division he had won with County.
2006 - Finn played his hundredth reds League game in our goalless Premiership draw at Middlesbrough as our away day blues continued.

Yossi's debut
1998 - Future red Yossi Benayoun made his senior international debut as Israel lost a friendly 2-0 in Portugal, who included fellow future red Abel Xavier.

Reds on opposite sides
1998 - Patrik Berger and future red Vladimír Šmicer both ran out at Wembley as England beat the Czech Republic 2-0 in a friendly, with Robbie Fowler coming on as a substitute. Meanwhile, Vegard Heggem and future red Stéphane Henchoz also played in international friendlies.
1939 - England's Jack Balmer netted past future reds keeper Cyril Sidlow as they beat Wales 3-2 in a Wartime international at the Racecourse Ground.

First and last caps
1998 - Dietmar Hamann won his first cap as a Newcastle United player, and thirteenth in total, as Germany were held to a 1-1 draw in their friendly against the Netherlands in Gelsenkirchen. On the same day, Jason McAteer won his 28th cap, and his final one as a reds player, as the Republic of Ireland lost 1-0 in a Euro 2000 qualifier in Yugoslavia. Steve Staunton also played.

1981 - Avi Cohen won his first cap in his second spell with Maccabi Tel-Aviv as Israel lost a World Cup qualifier 1-0 in Northern Ireland. Kenny Dalglish, Alan Hansen, Terry McDermott, Phil Neal, Ian Rush, Graeme Souness, Phil Thompson and ex-reds Joey Jones and Kevin Keegan all also played in qualifiers that day.

Half century for Aldo
1992 - Ex-red John Aldridge had a goal wrongly ruled out for offside while winning his fiftieth cap. The Republic of Ireland held Spain to a goalless draw in their World Cup qualifier in Seville, with ex-reds Ray Houghton and Steve Staunton also playing. Ian Rush, ex-reds Jim Magilton and Dean Saunders, and future reds Paul Ince, Gary McAllister and Karlheinz Riedle all also featured in internationals that day.

Tosh exits the Bernabeu for the first time
1990 - John Toshack was sacked as Manager of Real Madrid on the back of three straight defeats, eleven games into the new season, having led them to the League title earlier that year. He returned to the Bernabeu in February 1999, lasting just nine months before being sacked again.

Young future reds on target
2003 - Djibril Cissé struck as France Under-21's lost the second leg of their European Championships play-off game to Portugal 2-1 in Clemont-Ferrand. He was later dismissed, which led to him missing out on the senior Euro 2004 tournament. Alou Diarra and Florent Sinama-Pongolle both also featured with the tie ending level at 3-3 on aggregate, although Portugal won through 4-1 on penalties. Meanwhile, Robbie Keane bagged a brace as the Republic of Ireland beat Canada 3-0 in a friendly in Dublin.

1995 - Leicester City's Emile Heskey struck twice for England Under-18's in their 6-2 European Championships qualifying defeat of Sweden in Kettering.
1980 - Future red David Hodgson struck his first goal for England Under-21's as they thumped Switzerland 5-0 in a European Championships qualifier at Portman Road.

Mark moves
2005 - Ex-reserves forward Mark Smyth signed for Accrington Stanley. He had made just one solitary first-team appearance, in the Carling Cup win at Tottenham Hotspur in December 2004, but only spent one season with Stanley, and is now with Cheshire League side Witton Albion.

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