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1969: The Rolling Stones at Altamont (Photo: Gimme Shelter)

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It happened today – this day in history – December 6

06/12/202105/12/2021 YA Reporter 0 Comments Balcombe Street seige, Beatles, Calvin Coolidge, David Cameron, December 6, Dylan, Edison, Encyclopedia Brittanica, First World War, Gerald Ford, Henry VI, Jacobites, Mandela, Mongols, NASA, news, Northern Ireland, Quito, Rolling Stones, Schumann, Second World War, Sid Vicious, taxicabs, Today in history, Trump

343: Greek Bishop St Nicholas, model for the modern day Father Christmas, dies aged 73. 1240: Mongols under Batu Khan

1992: The Hubble telescope

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It happened today – this day in history – December 5

05/12/202104/12/2021 YA Reporter 0 Comments Andrew Jackson, Beatles, Berlioz, Blackbeard, California Gold Rush, Charlemagne, Civil Partnership Act, Columbus, December 5, Einstein, Fiji, First World War, George Washington, Hubble Telescope, Jim Bakker, Mandela, Margaret Thatcher, Mary Celeste, MAxwell, Monty Python's Flying Circus, news, O J Simpson, Olympics, Omaha, Paul McCartney, prohibition, Pyongyang, Second World War, Thomas Jefferson, Today in history, Tsar Nicholas II, Weimar

771: Charlemagne becomes the sole King of the Franks after the death of his brother Carloman. 1456: An earthquake strikes

1993: Frank Zappa dies

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It happened today – this day in history – December 4

04/12/202103/12/2021 YA Reporter 0 Comments Balfour, Bonnie Prince Charlie, December 4, Dungannon, Fatty Arbuckle, Gemini 7, Henry III, Hezbollah, James Knox Polk, James Monroe, Macron, news, Observer, Omar Khayyám, Pope Adrian IV, Second World War, smog, Today in history, Trump, Vatican, William of Orange, Zappa

1123: Death of Persian poet, astronomer, mathematician, and philosopher Omar Khayyám. 1154: Nicholas Breakspear is elected Pope Adrian IV, the

1976: Pig on the wing over Battersea Power Station during photo shoot for the Pink Floyd album Animals

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It happened today – this day in history – December 3

03/12/202102/12/2021 YA Reporter 0 Comments Agatha Christie, Andrew Jackson, Ballarat, Bhopal, Celsius, Charistiaan Barnard, Cibber, cold war, December 3, Edwina Currie, Elgar, First World War, heart transplant, IRA, Judas Priest, Keith Richards, Laos, Leopoldville, Manchester, news, Pele, Pink Floyd, Ray Charles, Rolling Stones, Second World War, Tennessee Williams, The Who, Today in history

1676: The Swedish army of 8,000 defeats a much larger joint Danish/Dutch force of 13,000 at the Battle of Lund

1954: Senator Joe McCarthy

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It happened today – this day in history – December 2

02/12/202101/12/2021 YA Reporter 0 Comments Biko, Brahms, Castro, Cortes, December 2, Disraeli, Eddystone Lighthouse, Fermi, Hong Komg, John Brown, Napoleon, news, Nick Leeson, Pablo Escobar, Senator Joseph McCarthy, Sir Christopher Wren, St Paul's Cathedral, Today in history

1547: Spanish conquistador Hernan Cortes, who defeated the Aztec Empire and colonized large parts of Mexico, dies of pleurisy. 1697:

1929: Bingo is invented

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It happened today – this day in history – December 1

01/12/202130/11/2021 YA Reporter 0 Comments Beveridge Report, Bhutto, bingo, Channel Tunnel, Charlemagne, Churchill, COVID-19, December 1, First World War, Ford, Franklin D Roosevelt, Guinness, Henry V, Jay-Z, Messi, news, Olympics, Paul McCartney, Playboy, Rosa Parks, Second World War, Sex Pistols, Sherlock Holmes, Stalin, Today in history

800: Charlemagne judges accusations against Pope Leo III in the Vatican. 1420: Henry V of England enters Paris. 1640: Portugal

1886: The Folies Bergère

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It happened today – this day in history – November 30

30/11/202129/11/2021 YA Reporter 0 Comments Achille Lauro, Barbados, Benin, Bradman, Canute, Captain James Cook, Charles I, Clinton, Crystal Palace, EMI, Floyd Patterson, Folies Bergère, George Harrison, Louisiana, Mask of Agamemnon, news, November 30, Paul Walker, Second World War, Today in history, U Thant

1016: Canute, King of Denmark, claims the English throne after the death of Edmund ‘Ironside’. 1523: Amsterdam bans the assembly

2001: George Harrison

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It happened today – this day in history – November 29

29/11/202128/11/2021 YA Reporter 0 Comments Aden, Albania, Beatles, Cardinal Wolsey, Edison, Fishmongers Hall, George Harrison, Graham Hill, Jacobites, Kitchener, Montenegro, Napoleon, Natalie Wood, news, Northern Ireland, Olympics, Palestine, Sand Creek Massacre, Schrödinger, Second World War, Sex Pistols, Today in history, Warren Commission

1530: Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, advisor to Henry VIII, dies just before facing trial for treason. 1643: Composer Claudio Monteverdi dies

1919: Nancy Astor

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It happened today – this day in history – November 28

28/11/202127/11/2021 YA Reporter 0 Comments Albania, Blackbeard, Burundi, Croydon, Dahmer, East Timor, Edward I, Hawaii, Kaiser Wilhelm II, Lennon, Magellan, Mahler, Nancy Astor, news, November 28, Olympics, Panama, Rachmaninoff, Second World War, Shakespeare, Sinn Féin, The Times, Today in history, Tyson Fury

1291: Eleanor of Castile, wife of Edward I, dies in Northants. 1499: Edward Plantagenet, 17th Count of Warwick and Plantagenet

2017: The engagement of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle (Photo: BBC)

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It happened today – this day in history – November 27

27/11/202126/11/2021 YA Reporter 0 Comments Columbus, Custer, Damilola Taylor, Edward I, Gary Speed, Harvey Milk, John Major, Korea, Meghan Markle, Napoleon, news, Northern Ireland, November 27, Olympics, Perkin Warbeck, Pope Paul VI, Prince Marry, Richard Strauss, Ross McWhirter, Second World War, Today in history, Vietnam

8BC: Roman poet Horace dies aged 56. 1295: Edward I calls what later became known as “The Model Parliament” extending

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