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1991: Operation Desert Storm. Photo: Air Force Tech. Sgt. H. H. Deffner

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It happened today – this day in history – January 17

17/01/202128/01/2021 YA Reporter Auschwitz, BBC Breakfast Time, Beatles, Borgia, Captain Cook, Chekhov, Chelsea Manning, Duke of Wellington, Gary Gilmour, Gulf War, Hawaii, history, January 17, Japan, Modoc, Obama, Operation Desert Storm, prohobition, Ronald Reagan, South Pole, Transvaal

1377: Pope Gregory XI moves the Papacy back to Rome from Avignon. 1501: Cesare Borgia returns in triumph to Rome

1944: Parisians line the Champs Elysees to celebrate liberation from the Nazis

It happened today – this day in history – August 25

25/08/202019/08/2021 Mick Ferris Aaliyah, August 25, Captain Cook, Fitt, Galileo, history, Mountbatten, Olympics, Paris, Rockwell, Trump, Wagner

1482: Death of Margaret of Anjou, wife of Henry VI aged 52. 1530: Birth of Ivan the Terrible, first tsar