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An exposé lacking in exposure

11/07/202311/07/2023 Edward Case BBC, columnist, Edward Case, Mhairi Black, The Sun

It’s ironic that so much has been said this past week about a run of newspaper articles that actually reveal

1980: Bjorn Borg

News Today in History

It happened today – this day in history – July 5

05/07/202304/07/2023 YA Reporter Algeria, Arsenal, Attlee, BBC, Belfast, Bezos, Cadiz, clone, cricket, Elvis Presley, FIFA Women's World Cup, First World War, golf, Hendrix, Isaac Newton, July 5, news, NHS, Oliver North, Raffles, Rolling Stones, Rwanda, SARS, secret service, Shard, Spam, tennis, Thomas Cook, Today in history, Toxteth, Tynwald

1295: Scotland and France form an alliance against England. 1596: The English fleet captures Cadiz. 1687: Isaac Newton’s great work

1956: Grace Kelly

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It happened today – this day in history – April 18

18/04/202317/04/2023 YA Reporter Aldermaston, American Civil War, American Revolution, BBC, boxing, Demjanjuk, Donbas, Egypt, Ezra Pound, FA Cup, Grace Kelly, Lithuania, Lord Melbourne, Lyra McKee, Martin Luther, Michael Jackson, Newmarket, news, Paul Revere, Red Brigade, Rwanda, San Francisco, Second World War, St Peter's Basilica, Theresa May, Today in history, Widgery Report, Zimbabwe

1480: Birth of Lucretia Borgia, daughter of Pope Alexander VI. 1506: The cornerstone of the current St. Peter’s Basilica is

1900: Empress Cixi of China

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It happened today – this day in history – December 24

24/12/202223/12/2022 YA Reporter Albania, BBC, Captain James Cook, December 24, Edison, Empress Cixi, First World War, George Best, Hagia Sophia, Huxley, Klu Klux Klan, LadBaby, Laos, Libya, Napoleon, news, Platini, Second World War, Silent Night, Stonehouse, Thomas Wolsey, Today in history, Verdi, War of 1812, Weinberger

563: The Byzantine church Hagia Sophia in Constantinople is dedicated for the second time after being destroyed by earthquakes. 1167:

1948: Hideki Tojo

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It happened today – this day in hitory – December 23

23/12/202222/12/2022 YA Reporter Apollo 8, BBC, Boycott, Brian Wilson, Cassini, Castro, December 23, First World War, George Washington, James II, Jane Austen, kidney, Lord Roberts, news, Saudi Arabia, Second World War, Today in history, Tojo, transistor, Uranus, Vincent van Gogh

1620: French huguenots declare war on King Louis XIII. 1672: Giovanni Cassini discovers Rhea, a satellite of Saturn. 1688: James

1972: Idi Amin

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It happened today – this day in hitory – December 19

19/12/202219/12/2022 YA Reporter BBC, December 19, Dickens, Eisenhower, Elvis Presley, Gatwick, Hawaii, Henry II, Hitler, Ho Chi Minh, Hong Kong, Idi Amin, Kitchener, Kubrick, Libya, news, Penlee, Rayon, Today in history, William Pitt the Younger, World Cup, Yeltsin

1154: Henry II is crowned King of England. 1642: Four of explorer Abel Rasman’s crew are killed at Wharewharangi Bay

1922: The BBC's first radio announcer Arthur Burrows

News Today in History

It happened today – this day in history – November 14

14/11/202214/11/2022 YA Reporter Anne Boleyn, Apollo 12, Arthur Burrows, BBC, Egypt, Einstein, Greenham Common, Henry VIII, Heseltine, Michael Jackson, Moby Dick, Muhammad Ali, Nell Gwyn, news, November 14, Pizarro, Princess Anne, Samuel Pepys, Sebastopol, Second World War, Today in history, Treasure Island, Vettel, William III

1380: King Charles VI of France is crowned at age 12. 1524: Francisco Pizarro begins his first great expedition, near

1954: Hancock's Half Hour

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It happened today – this day in history – November 2

02/11/202201/11/2022 YA Reporter BBC, Beatles, Beckham, Blackadder, Breedlove, Channel 4, Daily Mirror, Edward V, First World War, Franklin Pierce, George W Bush, Haile Selassie, Harper's Bazaar, Howard Hughes, Hungary, James Garfield, Jimmy Carter, John Brown, Lady Chatterley's Lover, Ladysmith, Led Zeppelin, Lewis Hamilton, M1, news, North Dakota, Northern Ireland, November 2, Pakistan, Second World War, South Vietnam, Suez Canal, Today in history, Tony Hancock, Truman, Warren G Harding

1470: Edward V is born in Westminster. 1734: Birth of American frontiersman Daniel Boone in Pennsylvania. 1755: Birth of Marie

1954: Transistor radio by Texas Instruments

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It happened today – this day in history – October 18

18/10/202217/10/2022 YA Reporter Al Capone, Al Green, Alaska, Basel, BBC, Beamon, Beatles, Copeland, Czechoslovakia, DNA, E M Forster, Edison, Elvis Presley, First Balkan War, Jerusalem, John F Kennedy, Listz, Louis XIV, Mahler, McCartney, NASA, news, October 18, Olympics, Second Opium War, Second World War, Today in history, transistor radio, Vietnam, War of Austrian Succession

1009: The Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem is destroyed by the Fatimid caliph Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, who hacks

1979: Lord Mountbatten is assassinated in an IRA bomb blast while on his boat

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It happened today – this day in history – August 27

27/08/202226/08/2022 YA Reporter August 27, Battle of Castlebar, Battle of Long Island, BBC, Beatles, Brian Epstein, Elvis Presley, First World War, Haiphong, John Dudley, Krakatoa, Lennon, Metropolitan Opera House, Moldavia, Mountbatten, Myanmar, Napoleon, news, Obama, Olympics, Ostankino Tower, Second World War, Spanish flu, Today in history, Zanzibar, Zatopek

1549: John Dudley Earl of Warwick destroys Robert Kett’s army at the Battle of Dussindale, ending Kett’s rebellion in Norfolk.

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