* Streatham Redskins ( ice hockey )

* October 26 – The first televised ice hockey match, Harringay Racers v Streatham Redskins, shown on the BBC.

The Fife Flyers, established in 1938, are one of the oldest ice hockey teams in the United Kingdom, being founded 6 years after Streatham Redskins.

* Streatham Redskins ( formerly Streatham Reds ) ( 82-89 )

* Streatham Redskins ( 89-90 ; 93-94 )

The UK's first supermarket under the new Premier Supermarkets brand opened in Streatham, South London, taking ten times as much per week as the average British general store of the time.

Jamie Wednesday were a British 1980s jangle pop band, formed in Streatham, South London in 1984, that released eight songs on two records between 1985 and 1986.

After the First World War Streatham developed as a location for entertainment, with Streatham Hill Theatre ( now a bingo hall ), three cinemas, the Locarno ballroom ( latterly Caesar's nightclub, which closed in 2010 ) and Streatham Ice Rink all adding to its reputation as " the West End of South London ".

The Streatham Hub project involves the demolition of Streatham Ice Arena, Streatham Leisure Centre and the former Streatham Bus Garage, and their replacement with a new leisure centre and a Tesco store with 250 flats above it.

Streatham Ice Arena closed on 18 December 2011, having celebrated eighty years of operation in February 2011.

That year, he decided to bring an end to The Divine David character, performing a farewell show at Streatham Ice Arena entitled The Divine David on Ice.

The 1940 Chicago Bears team holds the record for the biggest margin of victory in an NFL game ( playoff or regular season ) with a 73 – 0 victory over the Washington Redskins in the 1940 NFL Championship Game.

Oilman Clint Murchison Jr had been trying to get an NFL expansion team in Dallas ( also Lamar Hunt – who ended up with an AFL franchise ), but George Preston Marshall owner of the Washington Redskins had a monopoly in the south.

Other instances include the 2005 Monday Night game against the Washington Redskins when the team inducted Troy Aikman, Emmitt Smith, and Michael Irving into the Cowboys Ring of Honor, and the 2006 Christmas Day game against the Philadelphia Eagles.

The closest team to Baltimore was the Washington Redskins, but they were not in the same division, and they were not very competitive at that time.

The first team was the 1978 Washington Redskins.

They became the first NFL team to wear all-black uniforms in a week 5 road game against the Carolina Panthers, and again in weeks 16 and 17 in home games against the Washington Redskins and San Francisco 49ers ; the Saints were outscored 78-10 in the final two contests to end a 7-9 campaign.

On April 4, 2010, the team traded long-time starting quarterback Donovan McNabb to the Washington Redskins in exchange for draft picks.

For example, by ensuring that the team would be able to select Robert Griffin III of Baylor University in the 2012 draft, the Washington Redskins likely became more attractive for free agents who wished to play with the Heisman Trophy winner.

The Dolphins defeated the Redskins by the score of 14 – 7, and became the first and still the only team in NFL history to complete a perfect undefeated season.

However, Allen's strategy turned the Redskins around as the team improved to a 9 – 4 – 1 record in 1971, and finished the 1972 season with an NFC-best 11-3 record.

The Cowboys, who traditionally wear their white jerseys in home games and often only wear their blue jerseys against teams that have similar policies for themselves ( most notably against the Washington Redskins and occasionally the Philadelphia Eagles ), were forced to wear their blue jerseys as the " home " team in Super Bowl V, which the team lost to the Baltimore Colts and is widely believed where the " blue jersey jinx " started with America's Team.

The Cowboys would later repeat the option of wearing white jerseys as the " home " team in Super Bowl XXVII, while the Redskins would do so in Super Bowl XVII and, ironically, the Steelers ( who always wear their black jerseys in home games ) in Super Bowl XL due to the team's success on the road that season.

Another reason why the Redskins were the underdogs was because they had 26 players on their 45-man roster who had been signed by the team as free agents, including 14 who had never even been drafted by an NFL team.

As the favored team, the Redskins ' 38 – 9 defeat at the hands of the black-jerseyed Raiders led Super Bowl XVIII to be known as " Black Sunday ".

When that league folded a few years later, Williams found himself out of a job until Redskins coach Joe Gibbs asked him to join the team to be the backup for quarterback Jay Schroeder.

The Redskins defeated the Bills by the score of 37 – 24, becoming the fourth team after the Pittsburgh Steelers, the Oakland Raiders, and the San Francisco 49ers to win three Super Bowls.

" Redskins coach Joe Gibbs got his hands on some tapes of Dickerson and played them at a team meeting on the night before the game.

The Bills became the 9th team to go scoreless in the 1st half, after the Baltimore Colts in Super Bowl III ; the Minnesota Vikings in Super Bowls IV, VIII, IX, and XI ; the Redskins in Super Bowl VII, the Denver Broncos in Super Bowl XII ; and the Cincinnati Bengals in Super Bowl XVI.

San Diego suffered losing seasons in the 1980s until former Washington Redskins General Manager Bobby Beathard joined the team in 1990.

The Washington Redskins are a professional American football team based in the United States capital city Washington, D. C.

Being the second most valuable franchise, the Redskins remain the highest grossing team in the NFL with $ 345 million in revenue during the 2009 season.

The Redskins were the first team in the NFL with an official marching band and also the first team to have a fight song, " Hail to the Redskins "

* 1978 – James Roberts, British Ice Hockey Player

During the Ice Ages, the British Isles were another single peninsula extending from the body of the continent.

* February 11 – Burgess Ice Rise lying off the west coast of Alexander Island, Antarctica is first mapped by the British Antarctic Survey ( BAS ).

The Ellesmere Ice Shelf was documented by the British Arctic Expedition of 1875 – 76, in which Lieutenant Pelham Aldrich's party went from Cape Sheridan () west to Cape Alert (), including the Ward Hunt Ice Shelf.

Noggin has received an accolade achieved by very few Norse characters – he appeared with the Ice Dragon reading him a note from Nogbad, on a British commemorative postage stamp ( SG1804 ) in January 1994.

Coors has sponsored English rugby league side Workington Town from the 2007 season, as well as British Ice Hockey Team, The Belfast Giants.

The team would become the Kootenay Ice, who have become a major success in Cranbrook, British Columbia, despite being one of the smallest markets in the league.

The BBC program On Thin Ice covered the participation of two-time British Olympic gold medalist James Cracknell, television host Ben Fogle and Dr. Ed Coates in the first organised race to the South Pole since Amundsen beat Scott.

* Art Hodgins, Ice hockey player, inducted in the British Ice Hockey Hall of Fame

Kwäday Dän Ts ’ ìnchi ( meaning Long Ago Person Found in Southern Tutchone ), or Canadian Ice Man, is a naturally mummified body found in Tatshenshini-Alsek Provincial Park in British Columbia, by a group of hunters.

Halley Research Station, run by the British Antarctic Survey, is located on the Brunt Ice Shelf floating on the Weddell Sea in Antarctica.

* Jonathon O ' Dougherty – British National Ice Dance champion

In A Cage of Ice, a British doctor living in New York, receives a mystery package addressed to Professor Ed Ward.

Analysis of earth removed when tunnelling towards the station revealed that its site was on the edge of the glacier which covered Britain to the north throughout the last Ice Age, as illustrated in episode 3 ( Ice Age ) of the BBC series British Isles: A Natural History

* August 2010: Ice Cores: A Window into Climate History interview with Eric Wolff, British Antarctic Survey from Allianz Knowledge

Category: Ice hockey people from British Columbia

During the NHL lockout season of 2004 – 05, Boynton played for the Nottingham Panthers in the British Elite Ice Hockey League, memorably scoring the equalizing goal in the British Championship Grand Final.

Category: Ice hockey people from British Columbia

Drift Ice Station Zebra, a British meteorological station built on an ice floe in the Arctic Sea, has suffered a catastrophic oil fire ; men have died and shelter and supplies have been destroyed.

The newly formed Manchester Phoenix would be one of the founding members of the British Elite Ice Hockey League and played out of the MEN Arena for their inaugural season.