The most successful period in Liverpool's history was the 1970s and ' 80s when Bill Shankly and Bob Paisley led the club to eleven league titles and seven European trophies.

Soon after Liverpool lost 2 – 1 to non-league Worcester City in the 1958 – 59 FA Cup, Bill Shankly was appointed manager.

Liverpool continued to wear red shirts and white shorts until 1964, when manager Bill Shankly decided to change to an all red strip.

The song's title adorns the top of the Shankly Gates, which were unveiled on 2 August 1982 in memory of former manager Bill Shankly.

* 1913 – Bill Shankly, Scottish footballer and manager ( d. 1981 )

* Bill Shankly

** Bill Shankly, Scottish football manager ( d. 1981 )

* September 29 – Bill Shankly, British football manager ( b. 1914 )

The character owes as much to the likes of Jock Stein and Bill Shankly as it does to a more obvious relation, Jim Taggart.

Notable former managers include Bill Shankly and Lawrie McMenemy.

William " Bill " Shankly OBE ( 2 September 1913 – 29 September 1981 ) was a Scottish footballer and manager who is best remembered for his management of Liverpool.

Bill Shankly was born in the small Ayrshire coal mining village of Glenbuck, close to the Ayrshire-Lanarkshire border.

Bill Shankly memorial at Glenbuck

In a summary of the 1933 – 34 season, a Preston correspondent, Walter Pilkington, wrote: " One of this season's discoveries, Bill Shankly, played with rare tenacity and uncommonly good ideas for a lad of twenty.

The statue of Bill Shankly outside Anfield

On the morning of 26 September 1981, Bill Shankly was admitted to Broadgreen Hospital following a heart attack.

When the former Spion Kop end was replaced by a new stand in 1998, it was named the Bill Shankly Kop and was designed with different coloured seats providing an image of Shankly's head and shoulders.

In 1971 he attracted the attention of Liverpool's head scout Geoff Twentyman, whose opinion was held in high regard by manager Bill Shankly.

Although originally signed as a midfielder, his ability soon prompted manager Bill Shankly to employ Keegan upfront as a partner for John Toshack.

Notable managers include Bill Shankly, who went on to guide Liverpool to three League titles, two FA Cups and a UEFA Cup triumph and Lawrie McMenemy who, after securing promotion to the then third division in 1972, moved to Southampton where he won the FA Cup in 1976.

From July 1951 to January 1953 they were managed by Bill Shankly, who would go on to win the Football League, FA Cup and UEFA Cup with Liverpool.

In 1949, the club became the first to appoint Bill Shankly as manager.

Bill Shankly, an FA Cup and League Championship winning manager by that time, branded Carlisle's climb to the top as “ the greatest feat in the history of the game .”

Hector Lopez, subbing for Berra, smashed a 3-run homer off Bill Henry during another 5-run explosion in the fourth.

Following the Glorious Revolution, the line of succession to the English throne was governed by the Bill of Rights 1689, which declared that the flight of James II from England to France during the revolution amounted to an abdication of the throne and that James ' son-in-law, ( and nephew ) William of Orange, and his wife, James ' daughter, Mary, were James ' successors, who ruled jointly as William III and Mary II.

In 1998, during debate on a Succession to the Crown Bill, Junior Home Office Minister Lord Williams of Mostyn informed the House of Lords that the Queen had " no objection to the Government's view that in determining the line of succession to the throne, daughters and sons should be treated in the same way ".

* Pecos Bill is an American cowboy, apocryphally immortalized in numerous tall tales of the Old West during American westward expansion into the Southwest of Texas, New Mexico, Southern California, and Arizona.

Col. Eugene Holmes, an Army officer who was involved in Clinton's case, issued a notarized statement during the 1992 presidential campaign: " I was informed by the draft board that it was of interest to Senator Fullbright's office that Bill Clinton, a Rhodes Scholar, should be admitted to the ROTC program ...

His first real efforts, however, did not come until 1832, during the great crisis over the Reform Bill, when he contributed to an anti-Whig pamphlet edited by John Wilson Croker and published by Murray entitled England and France: or a cure for Ministerial Gallomania.

Dr. Bill Streever describes a boat made by the native Inupiat people in Barrow, Alaska: " It is a skin boat, an umiaq, built from the stitched hides of bearded seals and used to hunt bowhead whales in the open-water leads during spring ...

William Ernest " Bill " Walsh ( November 30, 1931 – July 30, 2007 ) was the head coach of the San Francisco 49ers and the Stanford Cardinal football team, during which time he popularized the West Coast offense.

However, the team's history during that period was hardly one of futility, but was rather punctuated with some of the most memorable moments in World Series history, including Enos Slaughter's " mad dash " in, the " Impossible Dream " of, Carlton Fisk's home run in, and Bill Buckner's error in.

For years many sources have listed " Pilgrims " as the early Boston AL team's official nickname, but researcher Bill Nowlin has demonstrated that the name was barely used, if at all, during the team's early years.

Bill Haley and the Comets performing during 1974

Bill Haley recorded prolifically during the 1940s, often at the radio stations where he worked, or in formal studio settings.

An inspiration for Bill Watterson and other cartoonists, Krazy Kat gained a considerable following among intellectuals during the 1920s and 1930s.

Young ( far left ) with ( L to R ) Jake Stahl, Bill Carrigan and Michael T. McGreevy during spring training in 1912.

Prime Minister Keith Mitchell joined President Bill Clinton, in May 1997, for a meeting with 14 other Caribbean leaders during the first-ever U. S .- regional summit in Bridgetown, Barbados.

* In 1998, the House Government Reform and Oversight Committee voted to cite Reno for contempt of Congress for not turning over documents during the impeachment of President Bill Clinton.

After the 23 July show at the Days on the Green festival at the Oakland Coliseum in Oakland, California, Bonham and members of the band's support staff were arrested after a member of promoter Bill Graham's staff had been badly beaten during the band's performance.

Other defining recordings include " Sugar Town ", the 1967 number one " Somethin ' Stupid " ( a duet with her father ), the title song from the James Bond film You Only Live Twice, several collaborations with Lee Hazlewood such as " Jackson ", and her cover of Cher's " Bang Bang ( My Baby Shot Me Down )", which features during the opening sequence of Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill.

In addition to Phil Simms and Lawrence Taylor, the team was led during this period by head coach Bill Parcells, tight end Mark Bavaro, running back Joe Morris, and Hall of Fame linebacker Harry Carson.

The Pirates have had many ups and downs during their long history, most famously winning the 1960 World Series on a game winning homerun by Bill Mazeroski, the only time that Game 7 of the World Series has ever ended with a home run.

Bill Clinton presented Kurzweil with the National Medal of Technology during a White House ceremony in recognition of Kurzweil's development of computer-based technologies to help the disabled.

In May 1997, Prime Minister Mitchell joined 14 other Caribbean leaders and U. S. President Bill Clinton during the first-ever U. S .- regional summit in Bridgetown, Barbados.

However, the parties were unable to come to an agreement due to President Bill Clinton's failure to consult with the Syrian President, Hafez al-Assad during the negotiating process, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak's backtracking on the issue of the northeastern shore of Lake Tiberias and Syria's nonnegotiable demand that Israel withdraw to the positions it held on 4 June 1967.

In addition to Bobby Thomson and Willie Mays, other memorable members of the Giants teams during the 1950s include: Hall of Fame manager Leo Durocher, coach Herman Franks, Hall of Fame outfielder Monte Irvin, outfielder and runnerup for the 1954 NL batting championship ( won by Willie Mays ) Don Mueller, Hall of Fame knuckleball relief pitcher Hoyt Wilhelm, starting pitchers Larry Jansen, Sal Maglie, Jim Hearn, Marv Grissom, Dave Koslo, Don Liddle, Max Lanier, Rubén Gómez, and Johnny Antonelli, catcher Wes Westrum, catchers Ray Katt and Sal Yvars, shortstop Alvin Dark, third baseman Hank Thompson, first baseman Whitey Lockman, second basemen Davey Williams and Eddie Stanky, outfielder, pitcher Clint Hartung, Hall of Fame second baseman Red Schoendienst and utility players: Bill Rigney, Daryl Spencer, Bobby Hofman, and Dusty Rhodes among others.

Also during the 1990s, President Bill Clinton maintained sanctions and ordered air strikes in the " Iraqi no-fly zones " ( Operation Desert Fox ), in the hope that Saddam would be overthrown by political enemies inside Iraq.