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1948: Fanny Blankers-Koen

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It happened today – this day in history – August 7

07/08/202106/08/2021 YA Reporter Adam Peaty, Apollo 15, Arthur Miller, August 7, Bali, Churchill, Explorer 6, Fanny Blankers-Koen, First World War, Francis Drake, Guadacanal, Idi Amin, James Joyce, Kenya, Lord Kitchener, Macbeth, Napoleon, news, Oliver Hardy, Olympics, Operation Desert Shield, Second World War, Shakespeare, Tanzania, Thor Heyerdahl, Today in history, Tour de France, Trump, Ulysses, Viking 2

1560: Birth of Elizabeth Bathory, Hungarian countess and most prolific female serial killer in history, in Nyírbátor. 1573: Francis Drake’s

1969: George Harrison shows Ringo Starr his new modular Moog synthesiser at EMI Studios, Abbey Road

It happened today – this day in history – August 5

05/08/202005/08/2020 Mick Ferris Adam Peaty, Aerosmith, Andy Capp, August 5, Beatles, David Bowie, First World War, George Harrison, Henry I, history, James Brown, Jeff Porcaro, Jesse Owens, Marilyn Monroe, Moog, Olympics, Richard Nixon, William Wallace

910: The last major Viking army to raid England is defeated at the Battle of Tettenhall by the allied forces