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1950: End of petrol rationing in the UK

News Today in History

It happened today – this day in history – May 26

26/05/202325/05/2023 YA Reporter Akihito, Asquith, Aston Villa, Beatles, Boer War, Calvin, Cannes, Churchill, Coolidge, Cummings, Eden, football, Garibaldi, H Bomb, helicopter, Java, Le Mans, Lenin, Lennon, Lineker, Manchester United, May 26, Napoleon, news, Nixon, petrol rationing, South Africa, Today in history, Tsar Nicolas II, Vauxhall Bridge

1538: Geneva expels protestant reformer John Calvin and his followers from the city. Calvin lives in exile in Strasbourg for

1984: National Gallery

News Today in History

It happened today – this day in history – May 17

17/05/202316/05/2023 YA Reporter Alaska, Anne Boleyn, Asquith, Belfast, Bob Dylan, Byron, Castro, Chaplin, Chiang Kai-shek, cricket, Eden, FA Cup, Howard Hughes, Mafeking, May 17, National Gallery, news, Second World War, Seven Years War, submarine, Today in history, Watergate

1510: Death of painter Sandro Botticelli. 1536: Anne Boleyn’s supposed “four lovers” are executed shortly before her own beheading two

1998: Dana International

News Today in History

It happened today – this day in history – May 9

09/05/202309/05/2023 YA Reporter American Civil War, Andrew Johnson, Beatles, Blood, Bruckner, Canberra, Columbus, Dana International, Eden, Eurovision, football, Italy, Lady Caroline Lamb, Lincoln Cathedral, Louis XV, Masefield, May 9, Moro, Moyes, NATO, news, Nigeria, Second World War, Today in history, Turing, Victoria Embankment, William III

1092: Lincoln Cathedral is consecrated. 1502: Christopher Columbus leaves Spain on his fourth and final trip to the New World.

1969: John and Yoko record Give Peace A Chance from their bed in the Queen Elizabeth Hotel, Montreal Photo: Roy Kerwood

It happened today – this day in history – May 26

26/05/202020/05/2021 Mick Ferris Aston Villa, Beatles, Brezhnev, Churchill, Eden, Garibaldi, history, John Lennon, Lenin, May 26, Michael Jackson, Nixon, Pepys, Yoko Ono

1538: Geneva expels protestant reformer John Calvin and his followers from the city. Calvin lives in exile in Strasbourg for

1994: Kurt Cobain commits suicide at home in Seattle

It happened today – this day in history – April 5

05/04/202005/04/2020 Mick Ferris April 5, Beatles, Beethoven, Callaghan, Cobain, Eden, Elvis, Etna, history, Mayflower, Sarajevo, Wilde, Wilson

456AD: Saint Patrick returns to Ireland as a missionary bishop. 1424: Scottish king James I returns to Scotland after 18

1962: John Glenn climbs aboard Friendship 7

It happened today – on this day in history – February 20

20/02/202020/02/2020 Mick Ferris Eden, February 20, Glenn, Hendrix, history, Mountbatten, Rossini, Shankhill, Ternhill, Thompson

1472: Orkney and Shetland are left by Norway to Scotland, due to a dowry payment. 1547: Edward VI is crowned

1957: Humphrey Bogart

It happened today – this day in history – January 14

14/01/202013/01/2020 Mick Ferris Bogart, Dimaggio, Eden, history, January 14, Rickman, Sex Pistols, Whittle

1236: Henry III marries Eleonora of Provence. 1690: The clarinet is invented in Germany. 1724: King Philip V of Spain