1928 West Ham completed the signing of John Hailes after his release by Newcastle.

The 20 year-old native of Hetton had hit the headlines the previous March when scoring six goals for the reserves on his debut, but wasn't retained at Gallowgate. 

1949 IF Kamraterna (Sweden) (a) 4-0 (2-0)
Friendly 
Milburn(1-0,3-0,4-0), Mitchell(3-0) 
22,105 
The penultimate game of Newcastle's marathon expedition across North America pitted them against fellow touring side Kamaterna of Sweden, aka IFK Gothenburg.

The largest crowd ever to attend a soccer match in Canada at that time paid from five shillings to 12 shillings & sixpence to see a game played in 35 degree heat.

Following this game at Exhibition Park in Toronto, both sides moved moved on to New York and met again four days later.

1964 As doubts grew over Newcastle's ability to stage the three 1966 World Cup fixtures allocated to them, Middlesbrough wrote to the Football Association offering their Ayresome Park as an alternative.

1964 Former Gallowgate favourite Jimmy Scoular was confirmed as the new boss of Cardiff City. The 39 year-old had finally retired from playing earlier in the year and had a brief unsuccessful spell at the helm of Bradford Park Avenue. 

1971 The 1971/72 fixtures were released, Leeds United punished for previous crowd trouble by the closure of Elland Road for the first four home games - including the visit of Newcastle in early September.

Attempts to reschedule those until later in the season were rejected, but as the punishment stopped short of forcing Don Revie's side to play behind closed doors, alternative venues were permitted.

The Leeds Road home of Huddersfield Town hosted two of the games, with a third at Hull City's Boothferry Park and Newcastle travelling to Sheffield Wednesday's Hillsborough Stadium.

1980 Northern Ireland's summer tour of Australia reached Melbourne, where they played out a 1-1 draw against the national side at the Olympic Park Stadium.

Newcastle's Tommy Cassidy was in the starting line-up alongside future Magpie David McCreery.

1995 Ex-Magpies boss Jim Smith returned to football management as he took the vacant position at Derby County.

1996 Former and future Magpies lined up for the Republic of Ireland as they beat Bolivia 3-0 in a friendly staged at Giants Stadium in New Jersey, USA.

Shay Given was between the posts (giving way in the latter stages to Packie Bonner, who made his 80th & final Eire appearance), while Liam O'Brien won the last of his 16 full caps for his country.

1998 England's World Cup Final campaign got underway at the Stade Velodrome in Marseilles (although a different sort of campaign had already begun in the streets round the port some hours earlier....)  

Alan Shearer opened the scoring with a header and a solid midfield display from David Batty saw Tunisia deservedly beaten 0-2.

1999 Defender Alain Goma joined United from PSG for £4.7m to form a central defensive partnership with fellow new signing Marcelino. What could go wrong? 

2001 It was announced that Alan Shearer finally had another medal to add to his collection - this time an OBE.

2005 Chelsea's Scott Parker became a Magpie as Laurent Robert joined Andy O'Brien at Portsmouth.

Meanwhile, an online petition by Blues fans caused Lee Bowyer to abandon his proposed switch to Birmingham City from SJP; bailing out at the last minute as Craig Bellamy had some months earlier.

2006 Michael Owen again failed to shine but neither did his colleagues as Trinidad & Tobago held England for 80 minutes of their World Cup group game in Nuremburg.

Peter Crouch and Steven Gerrard scored late goals to the relief of the nation. The 2-0 win put them into the knockout stages.

2007 Confirmation came that Mike Ashley in the guise of St. James' Holdings had acquired just over 77% of the shares in the club.

That provided Ashley with the platform to de-list the company from the Stock Exchange. 

Meanwhile, the Stevens report into football transfers mentioned Newcastle staff past and present in its findings.

Statements from ex-Manager Graeme Souness were found to be inconsistent with those made by Kenneth Shepherd over the Emre's move from Inter Milan.

Deals involving Albert Luque, Amdy Faye and Jean-Alain Boumsong remained uncleared by the enquiry and the name of their agent Willie McKay featured in the report.

2008 Although expected to convert his season-long loan at Bolton Wanderers into a permanent transfer, several sources linked Liverpool midfielder Danny Guthrie with a move to Tyneside instead.

2014 France got their World Cup Final campaign off to a winning start in Porto Alegre, beating Honduras 3-0.

Mathieu Debuchy started while fellow Magpie Moussa Sissoko came off the bench. SJP old boy Yohan Cabaye played but former loanee Loic Remy was benched.

2024 Fabian Schar started for the Swiss in their Euro 2024 group stage opener - a 3-1 win over Hungary in Cologne.

2025 Will Osula scored twice for Denmark U21s in a 2-1 Euro Championship win over the Netherlands in Presov - ensuring qualification to the knockout stages for the Danes with a game to spare.

Tino Livramento put in another 90 minute shift at left back for England U21s in Nitra as they drew 0-0 with Slovenia in the same competition.