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Richard Girulatis

Richard Girulatis, German footballer and manager (d. 1963)
Richard Girulatis (21 August 1878 – 12 May 1963) was a German football manager.

Girulatis, having played for BTuFC Union 1892 in the 1905 Brandenburg football championship, went to live in the United States for some years. After coming back to Germany, he took over his old club and in 1912 became the first manager of Tennis Borussia Berlin. He was later manager of Hamburger SV and Hertha BSC.

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    Lincoln County War

    John Tunstall is murdered by outlaw Jesse Evans, sparking the Lincoln County War in Lincoln County, New Mexico.
  • 3Mar

    Treaty of San Stefano

    The Russo-Turkish War ends with Bulgaria regaining its independence from the Ottoman Empire according to the Treaty of San Stefano; a few months afterwards the Congress of Berlin stripped its status to a vassal principality of the Ottoman Empire.
  • 25May

    Comic opera

    Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera H.M.S. Pinafore opens at the Opera Comique in London.
  • 15Jun

    Sallie Gardner at a Gallop

    Eadweard Muybridge takes a series of photographs to prove that all four feet of a horse leave the ground when it runs; the study becomes the basis of motion pictures.
  • 22Oct

    Salford, Greater Manchester

    The first rugby match under floodlights takes place in Salford, between Broughton and Swinton.