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1964: John Lennon In His Own Write

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It happened today – this day in history – March 23

23/03/202222/03/2022 YA Reporter Agrippina, Beatles, Boer War, Churchill, elevator, Exxon Valdez, FA Cup, Gemini 3, Grand National, Hitler, Lennon, Lithuania, March 23, Mir, Mussolini, news, Okinawa, Oscars, Pakisstan, politburo, Reagan, Rheindahlen, Second World War, Shah of Iran, streetcar, Sudan, Today in history, Torvill and Dean, Woolwich Ferry, Wright Brothers

59AD: Death of Roman Empress Agrippina aged 43 – possibly murdered by her son Nero. 1743: Handel’s oratorio “Messiah” premieres

1935: Driving tests

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It happened today – this day in history – March 13

13/03/202212/03/2022 YA Reporter Andrew Johnson, Apollo 9, Beatles, Bill Gates, Boer War, driving tests, Dunblane, Eric Clapton, FA Cup, Grenada, Harvard, Herschel, Jefferson Davis, Khartoum, March 13, Mata Hari, Michael Jackson, Mongolia, news, Pluto, Pope francis, Second World War, Today in history, Torvill and Dean, Trotsky, Trump, Tsar Alexander II, Uranus

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

2011: A massive tsunami hits Japan

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It happened today – this day on history – March 11

11/03/202210/03/2022 YA Reporter Austria, Boer War, Daily Courant, FA Cup, First World War, Franklin D Roosevelt, Gorbachev, Harvey Weinstein, Indonesia, Japan, Jim Morrison, Lithuania, Madrid, March 11, Moscow, Mountjoy Prison, Mt Etna, news, Polanski, Pope Leo X, Queen Anne, Second World War, Somalia, Today in history, Torvill and Dean, tsunami, Verdi

537: Goths lay siege to Rome. 1513: Giovanni de’ Medici chosen as Pope Leo X. 1702: The first English daily

1867: Johann Strauss II

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It happened today – this day in history – February 15

15/02/202215/02/2022 YA Reporter Angel of the North, Boer War, Caroline Flack, Chelyabinsk, decimal currency, February 15, Franklin D Roosevelt, George Harrison, George VI, Great Ormond Street Hospital, Jeffrey Dahmer, Johann Strauss, Lennon, Maharishi, Marconi, news, Pope Pius VI, Ray Charles, Second World War, Sex Pistols, Socrates, Ted Bundy, Today in history, Trump, Wapping, Winter Olympics, YouTube

399BC: Philosopher Socrates is sentenced to death by the city of Athens for corrupting the minds of the youth of

1925: Miles Mander and Elizabeth Pappritz in Hitchcock's The Pleasure Garden

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It happened today – this day in history – January 24

24/01/202223/01/2022 YA Reporter Algeria, Baden-Powell, BArbican, Boer War, California Gold Rush, Charles II, Churchill, Claudius, Commonwealth Games, conscription, Edward III, English Civil War, First World War, Henry IV, Hitchcock, January 24, Larry Nasser, Leon Brittan, Mussorsky, news, Office of Homeland Security, Peter Mandelson, Saint-Saëns, Second World War, Stalingrad, Ted Bundy, Today in history, Trump

41: Claudius becomes Roman Emperor on the assassination of his nephew Caligula by the Praetorian Guard. 1121: Henry I marries

1959: Guggenheim Museum, New York

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It happened today – this day in history – October 21

21/10/202120/10/2021 YA Reporter Aberfan, Battle of Trafalgar, Beatles, Boer War, Buddy Holly, Catalonia, First World War, Florence Nightingale, Gorbachev, Guggenheim Museum, Horatio Nelson, Magellan, Malala Yousafzai, Natal, news, October 21, Offenbach, Olympics, Oscar Pistorius, Spanish Civil War, Tibet, Today in history, United Nations

1520: Explorer Ferdinand Magellan and his fleet reach Cape Virgenes and become the first Europeans to sail into the Pacific

1922: Alaska P Davidson

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It happened today – this day in history – October 11

11/10/202110/10/2021 Mick Ferris Abyssinia, Alaska Davidson, Aleppo, Battle of Camperdown, Beatles, Benjamin Franklin, Boer War, Dave Grohl, Einstein, First World War, Henry VIII, Madonna, Mikhail Gorbachev, news, October 11, Rod Stewart, Ronald Reagan, Today in history

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

1928: Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin

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It happened today – this day in history – September 15

15/09/202114/09/2021 YA Reporter Alexander Fleming, American Civil War, Astrid Proll, Battle of Britain, Battle of the Somme, Beatles, Boer War, Darwin, First World War, Lyndon B Johnson, Marco Polo, Napoleon, Neville Chamberlain, news, Olympics, Parsons Green, Pope Urban VII, Ryder Cup, Second World War, September 15, Stephenson's Rocket, The Sun, Thomas Wolsey, Today in history, US Revolutionary War, Yasser Arafat

921: Saint Ludmila is murdered at the command of her daughter-in-law at Tetin. 1254: Birth of explorer Marco Polo in

1971: Harvey Smith

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It happened today – this day in history – August 15

15/08/202114/08/2021 YA Reporter August 15, Bangladesh, Beatles, Boer War, Cologne, Edward VII, Elvis Presley, First World War, Fred Trueman, Gladstone, Harvey Smith, Ian Botham, India, Liberia, Mayflower, news, Obama, Olympics, Omagh, Premier League, Princess Anne, Richard Branson, Spitsbergen, Today in history, VJ Day, Wiley Post, Wizard Of Oz, Woodstock

1248: Construction of Cologne Cathedral begins. 1519: Panama City is founded by Spanish conquistador Pedro Arias Dávila. 1548: Mary, Queen

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

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