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1966: George Blake

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It happened today – this day in history – October 22

22/10/202121/10/2021 YA Reporter 0 Comments American Civil War, Apollo 7, Crippen, Cuban Missile Crisis, Cumberland Gap, Duke of Wellington, Edison, Goldman Sachs, Gordon Banks, Houdini, Laos, Metropolitan Opera House, news, October 22, Offenbach, Peter the Great, Pope John Paul II, Sam Houston, Today in history, Venera 9

362: The temple of Apollo at Daphne, outside of Antioch, is destroyed in a mysterious fire. 1383: A two-year period

1960: Drummer Pete Best (front) joins The Beatles

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It happened today – this day in history – August 12

12/08/202111/08/2021 YA Reporter accordion, August 12, Battle of Amiens, Beatles, Birdseye, Chicago, Churchill, Cleopatra, Columbus, Duke of Wellington, Edison, First World War, Ford, Fulham, George IV, Hirohito, IBM, Kursk, Led Zeppelin, Lennon, Lister, news, Olympics, Pete Best, quagga, Today in history

30BC: Cleopatra commits suicide. 1323: The Treaty of Nöteborg between Sweden and Novgorod (Russia) regulates the border for the first

1991: Jeffrey Dahmer

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It happened today – this day in history – July 22

22/07/202121/07/2021 YA Reporter Alec Douglas-Home, Alexander Mackenzie, Anders Breivik, Benjamin Britten, Cossacks, Dillinger, Duke of Wellington, Falkirk, Jean Charles de Menezes, Jeffrey Dahmer, July 22, Mariner 1, news, Olympics, Pablo Escobar, Today in history, Tour de France, Treblinka, Wiley Post, Ypres

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

2017: Mexican drug lord Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán in American custody after being extradited to the US

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It happened today – this day in history – January 19

19/01/202128/01/2021 Mick Ferris Alanis Morissette, Beatles, Duke of Wellington, Edison, El Chapo, Fleetwood Mac, Glencoe, Guzman, Henry V, Hindu Kumbh Mela, history, Howard Hughes, January 19, Lance Armstrong, Louis XIV, Scrabble, Yasser Arafat, zeppelin

1419: Rouen surrenders to Henry V in the Hundred Years’ War. 1547: Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, is executed in

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

1895: Train derailment at Gare Montparnasse in Paris

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It happened today – this day in history – October 22

22/10/202028/01/2021 Mick Ferris Chelsea FC, Crippen, Cuban Missile Crisis, Duke of Wellington, Edison, Eva Peron, Gare Montparnasse, George Blake, George Michael, GMT, history, Houdini, Jean-Paul Sartre, October 22, Pablo Casals, Paul McCartney, Peter the Great

362: The temple of Apollo at Daphne, outside of Antioch, is destroyed in a mysterious fire. 1383: A two-year period

1934: Public Enemy No 1 John Dillinger

It happened today – this day in history – July 22

22/07/202021/07/2020 Mick Ferris Aretha, Dahmer, Dillinger, Duke of Wellington, Escobar, history, Jagger, Jean Charles de Menezes, July 22, Lennon, Qusay, Uday

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