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1963: John Profumo

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It happened today – this day in history – June 5

05/06/202104/06/2021 YA Reporter ABBA, Aids, Boer War, Britten, Edward Snowden, Fred Trueman, Goodyear, Harvey Weinstein, Indira Gandhi, Isaac Newton, Israel, June 5, Kitchener, Lacoste, Marshall Plan, news, Noddy, Pink Floyd, Profumo, Ramsey MacDonald, Robert Kennedy, Serbia, Six Day War, Titus, Today in history

70AD: Titus and his Roman legions breach the middle wall of Jerusalem. 1625: Death of composer Orlando Gibbons. 1661: Isaac

1998: Geri Halliwell (second right) leaves The Spice Girls

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It happened today – this day in history – May 31

31/05/202130/05/2021 YA Reporter Arsenal, Arthur Miller, Beatles, Boer War, Churchill, Francis Bacon, Gangnam Style, Geri Halliwell, HMS Beagle, Jutland, Kellogg, Lennon, Liverpool, Luftwaffe, MAdison Square Garden, May 31, news, Oasis, Peppa Pig, Ramesses II, Samuel Pepys, Sex Pistols, South Africa, Spice Girls, The Monkees, The Who, Titanic, Today in history, Tulsa, Usain Bolt, Yoko

1279BC: Ramesses II becomes Pharaoh of Ancient Egypt. 1495: Cecily Neville, mother of Edward IV and Richard III, dies aged

1930: Astronomer Clyde Tombaugh

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It happened today – this day in history – March 13

13/03/202112/03/2021 YA Reporter Apollo 9, Beatles, Bill Gates, Boer War, Dunblane, Eric Clapton, FA Cup, Gacy, George Pell, Grenada, Harvard, Khartoum, March 13, Mata Hari, Michael Jackson, Mongolia, news, Pluto, President Andrew Johnson, Rex Tillerson, Today in history, Tombaugh, Torvill and Dean, Trotsky, Uranus

1639: Cambridge College, Massachusetts, is renamed Harvard. 1781: William Herschel sees what he thinks is a comet but is actually

1985: Sir Clive Sinclair with the Sinclair C5

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It happened today – this day in history – January 10

10/01/202128/01/2021 YA Reporter Bobbitt, Boer War, Charles I, David Bowie, Harold Macmillan, history, January 10, Julius Caesar, Lord Kitchener, Metropolis, Pancho Villa, penny post, Putney, RCA, Sinclair C5, Stalingrad, tea, Texas, Trotsky, Underground

49BC: Julius Caesar defies the Roman Senate and crosses the Rubicon, signaling the start of civil war which would lead

1995: Arise Sir Cliff Richard

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It happened today – this day in history – October 25

25/10/202028/01/2021 Mick Ferris Agincourt, Boer War, Cassini, Charge of the Light Brigade, Chaucer, Cliff Richard, Evander Holyfield, George III, Grenada, history, Steinbeck

1400: Author and poet Geoffrey Chaucer dies aged 54. 1415: Henry V’s forces defeat the larger French army at the

1986: US President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev meet at the Reykjavik Summit in Iceland

It happened today – this day in history – October 11

11/10/202010/10/2020 Mick Ferris Beatles, Benjamin Franklin, Boer War, Einstein, George Michael, Gorbachev, Hansie Cronje, history, Mary Rose, Muddy Waters, October 11, Reagan, Rod Stewart

October 11 1138: An earthquake in Aleppo, Syria, kills an estimated 230,000. 1521: Pope Leo X titles Henry VIII “Defender

1967: Stockholm descends into chaos as Sweden changes from driving on the left to the right

It happened today – this day in history – September 3

03/09/202002/09/2020 Mick Ferris Beatles, Beslan, Boer War, Bruckner, Canned Heat, Capra, Cromwell, Doherty, E E Cummings, Fair Isle, history, Malcolm Campbell, Munich, Olympics, Qatar, Ringo Starr, Robert Kennedy, Rolling Stones, Second World War, September 3, Spitz, Sweden, Unity Mitford, Verdun

301: San Marino, one of the smallest nations in the world and the world’s oldest republic still in existence, is