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1959: Billy Wright

News Today in History

It happened today – this day in history – April 11

11/04/202110/04/2021 YA Reporter April 11, Assange, Ballesteros, Beatles, Billy Wright, Blitz, Coventry, Eichmann, Elvis Presley, Fleetwood Mac, Gandhi, Hansie Cronje, Henry VI, Idi Amin, Monaco, Napoleon, news, Singapore, Today in history

1471: In the Wars of the Roses King Edward IV of England seizes London from Henry VI. 1814: Napoleon abdicates

1940: Coventry is almost destroyed by the Luftwaffe

News Today in History

It happened today – this day in history – November 15

15/11/202028/01/2021 Mick Ferris Anne Boleyn, Beatles, Christopher Columbus, Coventry, Henry VIII, history, Hockney, Janis Joplin, Milli Vanilli, Mugabe, November 15, Pitman, Princess Anne, Sir Anthony Blunt, Thomas Wolsey, Winston Churchill

1492: Christopher Columbus makes the first recorded reference to tobacco. 1515: Thomas Wolsey is invested as a cardinal. 1532: Pope

1908: Albert Einstein

It happened today – this day in history – November 14

14/11/201913/11/2019 Mick Ferris Ali, BBC, Copeland, Coventry, Einstein, Greenham, Gwyn, history, Jackson, Melville, November 14, Pepys

1380: King Charles VI of France crowned aged 12. 1650: Birth of William III. 1666: Samuel Pepys writes about the

Colchester out of FA Cup at first hurdle

09/11/201909/11/2019 Rowland Lyons Colchester United, Coventry, FA Cup, football, sport

Colchester United 0-2 Coventry City Emirates FA Cup, 1st Round John McGreal’s U’s were comprehensively knocked out of the world’s