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1942: Bambi (Photo: Walt Disney)

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It happened today – this day in history – August 21

21/08/202120/08/2021 YA Reporter August 21, Bambi, Benigno Aquino, Catherine the Great, Czechoslovakia, First World War, Hawaii, Jomo Kenyatta, Kublai Khan, Lake Nyos, Mona Lisa, news, Penninsular War, Today in history, Trotsky, William IV, William of Orange, Yeltsin

1192: Minamoto Yoritomo becomes Seii Tai Shōgun and de facto ruler of Japan. 1264: Kublai Khan accepts the surrender of

1918 and 1998: Tsar Nicholas II and his family

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It happened today – this day in history – July 17

17/07/202116/07/2021 YA Reporter Apollo 18, Babington, Billie Holiday, Catherine the Great, Cecil Rhodes, Coltrane, Constantinople, Corday, Disneyland, Elizabeth I, George V, Handel, HMS Lutine, Jakarta, July 17, news, Olympics, Peenemunde, punch, Rolling Stones, Romanov, Sandinistas, Sir Walter Raleigh, Today in history, Tour de France, Tower of London, Tsar Nicholas II, Windsor, World Cup

1203: The siege of Constantinople begins during the fourth crusade. 1585: English secret service discovers Anthony Babington’s murder plot against

1914: Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie moments before being assassinated in Sarajevo

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It happened today – this day in history – June 28

28/06/202127/06/2021 YA Reporter Archduke Franz Ferdinand, Beatles, Belfast, Catherine the Great, Edward IV, Elton John, Fort Knox, Guadeloupe, Irish Civil War, Jonah Lomu, June 28, Kishinev, Lee Trevino, Louis Armstrong, Malcolm X, Margaret Thatcher, Mike Tyson, Montenegro, Muhammad Ali, Ned Kelly, news, OPEC, Queen Victoria, Rolling Stones, saxophone, Seoul, Today in history, Tomato, Treaty of Versailles

1461: Edward IV is crowned king of England. 1491: Birth of Henry VIII in London. 1577: Birth of Flemish Baroque

1983: Lech Walesa and Pope John Paul II

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It happened today – this day in history – June 23

23/06/202122/06/2021 YA Reporter Anthony Barber, Bob Dylan, Brexit, Catherine the Great, contraceptive, Desmond Tutu, Donald Maclean, Gotti, Guy Burgess, IOC, Joe Frazier, June 23, Klaus Fuchs, Le Mans, Lech Walesa, Lorena Bobbitt, Louis XVI, Monet, news, Peenemunde, Pope John Paul II, RMS Queen Elizabeth, Robert Clive, Seven Years War, Today in history, Watergate, Wiley Post

930: The Icelandic Parliament, the Alþingi, the world’s oldest parliament, is established. 1547: Champion of the Protestant Reformation, Philip I,

1958: Emotional teenager Pele celebrates Brazil winning the World Cup in Sweden

It happened today – this day in history – June 28

28/06/202027/06/2020 Mick Ferris Brazil, Catherine the Great, Elton John, Franz Ferdinand, Henry VIII, history, Irish Civil War, June 28, Led Zeppelin, Lee Trevino, Muhammad Ali, Pele, Queen Victoria, Tyson

1461: Edward IV is crowned king of England. 1491: Birth of Henry VIII in London. 1577: Birth of Flemish Baroque

1943: V1 rocket at Peenemunde

It happened today – this day in history – June 23

23/06/202015/06/2021 Mick Ferris Bobbitt, Brexit, Catherine the Great, Desmond Tutu, Donald Maclean, Dylan, Frazier, Guy Burgess, history, June 23, Louis XVI, Nixon, Peenemunde, Watergate

930: The Icelandic Parliament, the Alþingi, the world’s oldest parliament, is established. 1547: Champion of the Protestant Reformation, Philip I,