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1964: Sidney Poitier. Photo: Metro Goldwyn Mayer

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It happened today – this day in history – April 13

13/04/202112/04/2021 YA Reporter Amritsar, Apollo 13, April 13, Beatles, Charles I, cortisone, Dryden, Handel, Kinnock, Louis IX, Napoleon, news, Oppenheimer, Phil Spector, Rhodesia, Rwanda, Sidney Poitier, Today in history, Vienna

1250: The Seventh Crusade is defeated in Egypt and Louis IX of France is captured. 1517: The Ottoman army occupies

1960: Eddie Cochran

It happened today – this day in history – April 17

17/04/202016/04/2020 Mick Ferris Apollo 13, April 17, Bay of Pigs, Eddie Cochran, Federici, history, McCartney, Morrissey, Pappalardi, Premium Bonds, Yvonne Fletcher

1397: Geoffrey Chaucer tells the “Canterbury Tales” for the first time at the court of Richard II. 1492: Christopher Columbus

2009: Phil Spector

It happened today – this day in history – April 13

13/04/202013/04/2020 Mick Ferris Apollo 13, April 13, Beatles, Handel, history, Oppenheimer, Rhodesia, Spector

1570: Birth of Guy Fawkes. 1668: John Dryden is appointed the first Poet Laureate by Charles I. 1742: Handel’s oratorio

1961: Adolf Eichmann sits in the dock

It happened today – this day in history – April 11

11/04/202010/04/2020 Mick Ferris Amin, Apollo 13, April 11, Assange, Ballesteros, Eichmann, history, Napoleon, Nicklaus

1471: In the Wars of the Roses King Edward IV of England seizes London from Henry VI. 1814: Napoleon abdicates