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1963: Lee Harvey Oswald is shot by Jack Ruby in the basement of Dallas Police HQ

News Today in History

It happened today – this day in history – November 24

24/11/202123/11/2021 YA Reporter Abel Tasman, Apollo 12, Beatles, Brezhnev, Darwin, Freddie Mercury, Gerald Ford, Jack Ruby, Lee Harvey Oswald, Mt Vesuvius, news, November 24, Oliver Cromwell, River Thames, Second World War, Today in history

1434: The River Thames freezes over in London. 1542: The English beat Scottish King James V at the Battle of

1967: Otis Redding at the Monterey Festival

News Today in History

It happened today – this day in history – June 16

16/06/202116/06/2021 YA Reporter Abraham Lincoln, Andropov, Beatles, Bjorn Borg, Blues Brothers, Bob Dylan, Brezhnev, George Reeves, George VI, Henry VII, Jo Cox, Juan Peron, June 16, Mary Queen of Scots, Monterey, Napoleon, news, Princess of Wales, Rolling Stones, Rudolf Nureyev, Salvation Army, Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes, Tiger Woods, Today in history, Trump, Tsar Nicholas II, Valentina Tereshkova, VAR, Virginia

1487: Henry VII beats John de la Pole & Lord Lovell at the Battle of Stoke Field – the last

2018: Mark Williams does his press conference naked after winning the World Snooker Championship

News Today in History

It happened today – this day in history – May 7

07/05/202106/05/2021 YA Reporter Alfred Jodl, Alfred Nobel, Beethoven, Brezhnev, David Cameron, Elton John, Eurovision, Glenn Miller, Hagia Sophia, HMS Victory, Joan of Arc, Louis XIV, Macron, Mark Williams, May 7, New Orleans, news, Otto von Bismarck, Pope John Paul II, Rhodesia, RMS Lusitania, South Africa, Theatre Royal, Today in history

558: The dome of the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul collapses. 1429: The siege of Orleans is broken by Joan of

1947: Test pilot Chuck Yeager

It happened today – this day in history – October 14

14/10/202013/10/2020 Mick Ferris Apollo 7, Battle of Hastings, Brezhnev, Cecil Parkinson, Christopher Columbus, Chuck Yeager, Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Haile Selassie, Harvey Weinstein, history, Khrushchev, Leonard Bernstein, Martin Luther King, Mary Queen of Scots, Mary Rand, October 14, Robert the Bruce, Sinatra, Sobibor, Winnie the Pooh, Winston Churchill

1066: The Battle of Hastings. William the Conqueror and his Norman army defeat the English forces of Harold II who

1980: Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi - The Blues Brothers

It happened today – this day in history – June 16

16/06/202008/06/2021 Mick Ferris Andropov, Blues Brothers, Brezhnev, Dylan, George Reeves, Geronimo, history, Hughes, Jo Cox, June 16, Mary Queen of Scots, Nureyev, Pepsi, Plath, Stan Laurel, Sutch

1487: Henry VII beats John de la Pole & Lord Lovell at the Battle of Stoke Field – the last

1969: John and Yoko record Give Peace A Chance from their bed in the Queen Elizabeth Hotel, Montreal Photo: Roy Kerwood

It happened today – this day in history – May 26

26/05/202020/05/2021 Mick Ferris Aston Villa, Beatles, Brezhnev, Churchill, Eden, Garibaldi, history, John Lennon, Lenin, May 26, Michael Jackson, Nixon, Pepys, Yoko Ono

1538: Geneva expels protestant reformer John Calvin and his followers from the city. Calvin lives in exile in Strasbourg for

1960: Alfredo Di Stefano scores for Real Madrid in the European Cup Final at Hampden Park, Glasgow

It happened today – this day in history – May 18

18/05/202017/05/2020 Mick Ferris Brezhnev, Cornell, Dracula, hisstory, Ian Curtis, India, Lennon, May 18, Microsoft, Mt St Helens, Napoleon, Pink Floyd, Real Madrid

1048: Birth of Persian mathematician, poet and philosopher Omar Khayam. 1152: Eleanor of Aquitaine marries Henri of Anjou, handing the

1941: Glenn Miller

It happened today – this day in history – May 7

07/05/202006/05/2020 Mick Ferris Beethoven, Brezhnev, Glenn Miller, history, Lusitania, May 7, Munch, New Orleans, Putin

558: The dome of the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul collapses. 1429: The seige of Orleans is broken by Joan of

1969: Sesame Street

It happened today – this day in history – November 10

10/11/201910/11/2019 Mick Ferris Arafat, Berlin Wall, Brezhnev, Daimler, Disney, Hagler, history, Mailer, November 10, Sesame Street

1483: Birth of German theologian Martin Luther. 1619: Rene Descartes has the dream that inspires his “Meditations on First Philosophy”.