england last went to the world cup final in 1950.
when did england last go to the world cup final?
1950
the first hat-trick in an international game was by scottish player john mcdougall, against england on 2 march 1878. american player bert patenaude scored the first hat-trick in the fifa world cup, against paraguay in the inaugural event in 1930. two hat-tricks have been scored in a world cup final, by geoff hurst for england in the 1966 final during extra time against west germany, and carli lloyd for the usa against japan in the 2015 women's world cup final. lloyd's was the fastest hat-trick scored in a world cup final at 13 minutes from first to last goal, and at 16 minutes the fastest from kickoff in any world cup match for either sex. however, the fastest world cup hat-trick for either men or women, as measured by time between goals, belongs to fabienne humm of switzerland, who scored in the 47th, 49th and 52nd minutes against ecuador in the 2015 group stage.
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in may 2003, when nigeria airways had a boeing 737-200 as its sole serviceable aircraft, the government decided not to pump more money into the overstaffed carrier but to liquidate it. the decision was based on the declining performance of the airline's last 15 years of operations and on the carrier's debts. the number of carried passengers had fallen from 2,1 million in 1985 to just 10,000 in the first quarter of 2003, and it controlled just 6% and 1% of the domestic and the international markets, respectively. the carrier owed over  million, despite the government having injected  million into the company in its last decade of operations. the airline ceased operations in 2003 and was liquidated a year later. the nigerian government later came to an agreement with virgin atlantic airways to found virgin nigeria airways, intended as a replacement. even though virgin nigeria succeeded nigeria airways, the ground facilities of the folded nigeria airways were eventually taken over by the then-startup carrier arik air.
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