FK Zalgiris is a Lithuanian football club from Vilnius, which began in the Soviet era, with a name referring to the 1410 Battle of Grunwald, known in Lithuanian as Zalgiris, in which Polish and Lithuanian forces defeated the Teutonic Knights. In the Soviet period, the club played in the Soviet leagues, and after Lithuania regained independence in 1990 it joined the Lithuanian competition and has won the national championship many times. It has played in European competitions, qualifying for the Champions League and the Europa League. The club's history is closely linked with Lithuanian national identity, and it has shared the name with a famous basketball club from Kaunas, with which it is not the same.
Before and after
- from 19 December 1946 to 1 August 1954First Indochina War
- from 26 December 1946 to 27 January 1995Rise of Italian Social Movement - National Right
- 1947Rise of Ba'athism
- 1947Publication of The Plague
- 1947Founding of FK Žalgiris
- 1947Discovery of the Sikhote-Alin meteorite
- 1947Construction of John F. Kennedy International Airport
- 1947The Dead Sea Scrolls are found
- 8 January 1947Birth of David Bowie
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