* Darren Fletcher-( Manchester United and Scottish FA )

* FAI U19 player ) and Manchester United defender Sean McGinty's parents hail from Achill

* 1819 – Peterloo Massacre: Seventeen people die and over 600 are injured in cavalry charges at a public meeting at St. Peter's Field, Manchester, England, United Kingdom.

, Aon is the principal sponsor of the Premier League team Manchester United.

On June 3, 2009, it was reported that Aon had signed a four year shirt sponsorship deal with English football giant Manchester United.

A member of the England team who won the World Cup and Ballon d ' Or for European Footballer of the Year in 1966, he played almost all of his club football at Manchester United, where he became renowned for his attacking instincts and passing abilities from midfield and his ferocious long-range shot.

Born in Ashington, Northumberland, Charlton made his debut for the Manchester United first-team in 1956, and over the next two seasons gained a regular place in the team, during which time he survived the Munich air disaster of 1958 after being rescued by Harry Gregg.

In 1968, he captained the Manchester United team that won the European Cup, scoring two goals in the final to help his team be the first English side to win the competition.

Charlton held the record for most appearances for Manchester United ( 758 ), but this was surpassed by Ryan Giggs on 21 May 2008 ( the 2008 UEFA Champions League Final ).

In January 2011 Charlton was voted the 4th greatest Manchester United player of all time by the readers of Inside United and ManUtd. com, behind Ryan Giggs ( who topped the poll ), Eric Cantona and George Best.

He left Manchester United to become manager of Preston North End for the 1973 – 74 season.

He set goalscoring records for both the England team and Manchester United, with both records remaining intact some 35 years after the end of his playing career.

On 9 February 1953, Bedlington Grammar School pupil Charlton was spotted playing for East Northumberland schools by Manchester United chief scout Joe Armstrong.

Charlton began to settle back into his footballing life with Manchester United and England and enhanced his reputation as a scorer of great goals as well as a great goalscorer – rarely is a player regarded as both.

Further success with Manchester United came at last when they beat Leicester City 3 – 1 in the FA Cup final of 1963, with Charlton finally earning a winners ' medal in his third final.

A successful ( though trophyless ) season with Manchester United had seen him take the honours of Football Writers ' Association Footballer of the Year and European Footballer Of The Year into the competition.

In 1968, Manchester United reached the European Cup final, ten seasons after Munich.

During the early 1970s, Manchester United were no longer competing among the top teams in England, and at several stages were battling against relegation.

Charlton left Manchester United at the end of the 1972 – 73 season, having scored 249 goals and set a club record of 758 appearances, a record which Ryan Giggs broke in the 2008 UEFA Champions League Final.

* College of Cambridge, an unaccredited private college in Manchester, United Kingdom

Association football er David Beckham has won titles with Manchester United F. C.

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Courses in chemical engineering offered by Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( MIT ) in the United States, Owen's College in Manchester, England and University College London suffered under similar circumstances.

Fulham recorded four record attendances in the 2009 – 2010 season, in their 0 – 1 loss to Arsenal and their 3 – 1, 3 – 0 and 2 – 1 victories over Liverpool, Manchester United and Hamburg SV respectively, each of which drew full capacity crowds.

The area available at Heywood is approximately three times the size of the former Rochdale and Manchester locations.

Still existing on a `` Northern Union '' telegraph form is a typical peremptory message from Peru grocer J. J. Hapgood to Burton and Graves' store in Manchester -- `` Get and send by stage four pounds best Porterhouse or serloin stake, for Mrs. Hapgood send six sweet oranges ''.

After being located for some years in the Village at the Equinox Pharmacy under the supervision of Mrs. Harry Mercier, it is presently located in the Hill and Dale Shop, Manchester Center.

In 1918 the New England Telephone Company began erecting a building to house its operations on the corner of U. S. Rte. 7 and what is now Memorial Avenue at Manchester Center.

The general tone of articles appearing in such important newspapers as the Manchester Guardian and the Sunday Observer implies a kindly recognition that the Catholic Church is now at least of equal stature in England with the Protestant churches.

* 1830 – The Church of Christ, the original church of the Latter Day Saint movement, is organized by Joseph Smith, Jr. and others at Fayette or Manchester, New York.

It lies about east of Blackburn, west of Burnley, north of Manchester city centre and is situated on the mostly culverted River Hyndburn.

The town is served by junction seven of the M65 and is linked from the A680 and the A56 dual carriageway which briefly merge ; linking to the M66 motorway heading towards Manchester.

Gale Owen-Crocker ( Professor of Anglo-Saxon, University of Manchester ) in The Four Funerals in Beowulf ( 2000 ) argues that a passage in the poem, commonly known as “ The Lay of the Last Survivor ” ( lines 2247 – 66 ), is an additional funeral.

The board seem to have moved away from their grandiose ideas of making Fulham the " Manchester United of the south " as Al-Fayed has come to realise how expensive it is to subsidise a Premiership outfit.

Coronation Street is a British television soap opera set in Weatherfield, a fictional town in Greater Manchester based on Salford.

The Granada backlot is situated in an area between Quay Street and Liverpool Road in Manchester.

The current club ownership have stated that a larger stadium is necessary in order for Chelsea to stay competitive with rival clubs who have significantly larger stadia, such as Arsenal and Manchester United.

The Premier League have two teams in the top five UEFA rankings: Chelsea is 5th, and Manchester United is 3rd.

This group is composed of Arsenal, Aston Villa, Chelsea, Everton, Liverpool, Manchester United, and Tottenham Hotspur.

The J D Wetherspoon pub in Oxford Road, Manchester is named after Ford Madox Brown.

Probably the earliest surviving New Testament manuscript, Rylands Library Papyrus P52 is a Greek papyrus fragment discovered in Egypt in 1920 ( now at the John Rylands Library, Manchester ).

Bauxite is found in the central parishes of St. Elizabeth, Manchester, Clarendon, St. Catherine, St. Ann & Trelawny.

* 1858 – The first Hallé concert is given in Manchester, England, marking the official founding of the Hallé Orchestra as a full-time, professional orchestra.

Granada TV also featured the cab, which is now in its 4th vehicle and operates in Bolton, Greater Manchester as Clint's Karaoke Cab.

The song is about George Melly and in particular his story of spontaneously reciting Ursonate, in order to scare off a pair of robbers who confronted him one evening in Manchester.