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2012: Bradley Wiggins wins the Tour de France

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It happened today – this day in history – July 22

22/07/202221/07/2022 YA Reporter Alec Douglas-Home, Alexander Mackenzie, Anders Breivik, Battle of Falkirk, Battle of Lochmaben Fair, Belfast, British Open, Britten, Chmielnick Massacre, Cuba, Dahmer, Deng Xiaoping, Dillinger, Escobar, First World War, Jean Charles de Menezes, Jerusalem, John Major, July 22, Kim Kardashian, Mehmet Ali Agca, news, O J Simpson, Olympics, Pope John Paul II, Rolling Stones, Second World War, Sonny Liston, Today in history, Tour de France, Treblinka, Trump, Venera 8, Wiggins, Ypres

1099: Godfrey of Bouillon is elected the first Defender of the Holy Sepulchre of The Kingdom of Jerusalem during the

1990: Boris Yeltsin

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It happened today – this day in history – July 12

12/07/202211/07/2022 YA Reporter Arthur Balfour, Battle of the Boyne, Bill Shankly, British Open, Britten, Catherine Parr, Chad, Charles II, Congo, Drumcree, Elvis Presley, Henry VIII, James II, July 12, Lithuania, Malala Yousafzai, news, Reagan, Richard the Lionheart, Rolling Stones, Second World War, Syria, Thor Heyerdahl, Today in history, Trump, US Open, Wild Bill Hickok, William III, World Cup, Yeltsin

1109: Crusaders capture Tripoli. 1191: Richard the Lionheart and crusaders defeat Saracens in Palestine. 1542: French troops occupy Flanders. 1543:

1895: Sir Henry Irving

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It happened today – this day in history – May 24

24/05/202223/05/2022 YA Reporter Alexandra Palace, Amy Johnson, Apocalypse Now, Britten, Charles de Gaulle, Charles II, Dartmoor Prison, Eritrea, Eurovision Song Contest, First World War, Henry Irving, Iceland, John Wesley, Malcolm IV, Manchester United, May 24, Muhammad Ali, news, North Korea, Paul McCartney, Rangers, Real Madrid, Samuel Morse, Second World War, Section 28, Sonia Sutcliffe, Stanley Baldwin, Thatcher, Today in history, Westminster Bridge

15BC: Birth of Julius Caesar Germanicus. 1153: Malcolm IV becomes King of Scots. 1543: Death of astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus aged

1948: Mahatma Gandhi is assassinated

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It happened today – this day in history – January 30

30/01/202230/01/2022 YA Reporter Andrew Jackson, Beatles, Boko Haram, Britten, Charles I, Churchill, COVID-19, Gandhi, Halle Orchestra, January 30, Jules Verne, Keats, Landru, Luxor, Menai Suspension Bridge, Mungo Park, news, Oliver Cromwell, Richard Reid, Rubik, San Francisco, Stone Roses, Super Bowl, Tet Offensive, Thirty Years War, Today in history, Watergare

1505: English composer Thomas Tallis is born in Kent. 1607: Massive flooding in England destroys around 200 square miles of

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