Old Trafford, in the Greater Manchester area, is the home ground of Manchester United and was opened on 19 February 1910. The club had left its cramped earlier ground at Bank Street, and the new stadium was designed by the Scottish architect Archibald Leitch, who built many football grounds in Britain. It was damaged by German bombing in 1941, and the club played at Manchester City's ground until it was rebuilt in the late 1940s. Over the years it has been enlarged several times and now holds around seventy-five thousand spectators, the largest club football stadium in the United Kingdom. It has hosted international matches, FA Cup semi-finals and the 2003 Champions League final, and is nicknamed the Theatre of Dreams.
Before and after
- 1910Founding of Instituto Federal da Bahia
- c. 1910sRise of Dada
- from 1910 to 1917Battles of the Isonzo
- 12 January 1910Discovery of Great January comet of 1910
- 19 February 1910Construction of Old Trafford
- 23 March 1910Birth of Akira Kurosawa
- 21 April 1910Death of Mark Twain
- 11 May 1910Establishment of Glacier National Park
- 12 May 1910Birth of Dorothy Hodgkin
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The era
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