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04/08/202103/08/2021 YA Reporter 0 Comments Anne Frank, August 4, Boxer Rebellion, Churchill, Commonwealth Games, Duggan, Fangio, First World War, Gibraltar, Ian Brady, Idi Amin, Krajina, Lennon, Lizzie Borden, Lord Kitchener, Maduro, Mozart, Nelson Mandela, news, Olympics, Pistorius, Robert Plant, Today in history, Upper Volta

1265: Prince Edward beats Simon de Montfort the younger at the Battle of Evesham. 1306: Wenceslaus III of Bohemia is

1999: Thierry Henry and Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger

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It happened today – this day in history – August 3

03/08/202102/08/2021 YA Reporter 0 Comments August 3, Beatles, Columbus, Commonwealth Games, Formula 1, Holly Wells, Horatio Nelson, Jessica Chapman, La Scala, news, Neymar, Olympics, Panama Canal, Paul McCartney, Ronald Reagan, Rossini, Thierry Henry, Today in history, traffic lights

1460: Death of King James II of Scotland aged 29. 1492: Christopher Columbus sets sail on his first voyage with

1876: Wild Bill Hickok

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It happened today – this day in history – August 2

02/08/202101/08/2021 YA Reporter 0 Comments August 2, Barbed wire, Bologna, Charles de Gaulle, Duke of Edinburgh, GMT, Gower, Hannibal, Hudson, Iraq, John F Kennedy, Kuwait, Lewis Carroll, Napoleon, NASA, news, Olympics, Today in history, Treblinka, USS Indianapolis, Vietnam, Wild Bill Hickok, William II

216BC: The Carthaginian army lead by Hannibal defeats numerically superior Roman army at the Battle of Cannae during the Second

1976: Niki Lauda crashes during the German Grand Prix

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It happened today – this day in history – August 1

01/08/202131/07/2021 YA Reporter 0 Comments Admiral Nelson, Benin, Claudius, Columbus, Game of Thrones, George Harrison, George I, Grand Prix, Linford Christie, London Bridge, Marc Antony, news, Niki Lauda, Olympics, oxygen, slavery, Today in history, Tour de France, Watergate, Yorktown

30BC: Marc Antony (Marcus Antonius) commits suicide aged 53. 10BC: Birth of Emperor Claudius (Tberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus). 527: Justinian I

1965: Cigarette advertising is banned on TV

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It happened today – this day in history – July 31

31/07/202130/07/2021 YA Reporter 0 Comments Battle of Passchendaele, Bobby Robson, Castro, Christchurch, Christopher Columbus, cigarettes, Daniel Defoe, Elvis Presley, Jim Reeves, July 31, K2, Keith Richards, Marc Antony, Michael Phelps, Mick Jagger, news, Olympics, Scaramucci, Spycatcher, Tibet, Today in history, Tour de France, Zara Phillips

54BC: Aurelia Cotta, mother of Julius Caesar, dies at 66. 30BC: Marc Antony achieves a minor victory over Octavian at

2003: Sam Phillips

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It happened today – this day in history – July 30

30/07/202129/07/2021 YA Reporter 0 Comments Abraham Lincoln, Apollo 15, Baghdad, Baltimore, Beatles, Captain James Cook, Chelsea Manning, Commonwealth Games, Fred Perry, Jeremy Hunt, July 30, Metaxas, NASA, news, Olympics, Sam Phillips, Second Balkan War, Suzy Lamplugh, thalidomide, Today in history, Tour de France, USS Indianapolis, Watergate, World Cup, Zatopek

762: The city of Baghdad is founded by Abbasid caliph Al-Mansur, just north of ancient Baghdad. 1678: English troops land

1965: Premier of the Beatles film Help!

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It happened today – this day in history – July 29

29/07/202128/07/2021 YA Reporter 0 Comments Arc de Triomphe, Baden-Powell, Beatles, Bob Dylan, Demjanjuk, Einstein, James VI, July 29, Lady Diana Spencer, Louis XIV, Mary Queen of Scots, news, Prince Charles, Samuel de Champlain, Southend Pier, Spanish Armada, Today in history, Tolkien, Tour de France, Umberto I

904: Thessalonica is sacked by Saracen pirates led by renegade Leo of Tripoli. 1221: Emperor Go-Horikawa, aged only 10 years

1977: Ian Botham

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It happened today – this day in history – July 28

28/07/202127/07/2021 YA Reporter 0 Comments Amy Winehouse, Bonus Army, Catherine Howard, Churchill, Damascus, fingerprints, foxtrot, Gene Vincent, hamburger, Henry VIII, Ian Botham, Jerry Lee Lewis, Maze Prison, news, Olympics, Paddy Ashdown, Robespierre, Silent Parade, Thomas Cromwell, Today in history, Tour de France, Vietnam

1148: Crusaders abandon their siege of Damascus. 1540: Thomas Cromwell, chief minister for Henry VIII is executed for treason and

2012: The Olympic Games open in London

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It happened today – this day in history – July 27

27/07/202126/07/2021 YA Reporter 0 Comments Atlanta, Bank of England, Bezos, Bugs Bunny, Edward Heath, Gooch, insulin, Jim Laker, July 27, King John, Lennon, news, Nixon, Olympics, Queen Anne, Robespierre, Shearer, Today in history, Vincent van Gogh, Walter Raleigh

1214: King John of England loses Normandy and his other possessions in France to Philip II of France (hence his

1971: The crew of Apollo 15, David Scott, Alfred Worden and James Irwin

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It happened today – this day in history – July 26

26/07/202125/07/2021 YA Reporter 0 Comments Apollo 15, Bobby Charlton, Casanova, Clement Attlee, Edward IV, Eva Peron, Facebook, Fidel Castro, Francis Drake, Harry Truman, J Edgar Hoover, James V, July 26, Kevin Keegan, Liberia, Nagasaki, New Zealand, news, Perkin Warbeck, Robert Plant, Skopje, Suez Canal, Today in history, Top of the Pops, Tour de France, Victoria Gillick, Wagner, World Cup

1267: The Inquisition forms in Rome under Pope Clement IV. 1469: The forces of Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick

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