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1900: Colonel Robert Baden-Powell and military staff at Mafeking

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It happened today – this day in history – May 17

17/05/202216/05/2022 YA Reporter 0 Comments Alaska, Arsenal, Asquith, Barcelona, Beatles, Bob Dylan, Castro, Chaplin, Chiang Kai-shek, FA Cup, Howard Hughes, Lord Byron, Mafeking, May 17, Molasses Act, New York Stock Exchange, news, Portsmouth, Prince Charles, Second World War, Seven Years War, Today in history, W G Grace, Watergate

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

2001: John Prescott

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It happened today – this day in history – May 16

16/05/202215/05/2022 YA Reporter 0 Comments Abraham Lincoln, AC Milan, Academy Awards, Andrew Johnson, Asahara, Dambusters, Edgar Allen Poe, Eliot Ness, FA Cup, Florence, George Michael, Gorbachev, Gordon Cooper, Israel, Joan of Arc, John Prescott, Keith Richards, Laker, Marie Antoinette, Mary Queen of Scots, May 16, Muhammad Ali, news, Pact of Cartegena, Rocky Marciano, Ronan Point, Sadio Mané, Second World War, Sir Thomas More, Today in history, Trump

1527: Florence becomes a republic. 1532: Sir Thomas More resigns as Lord Chancellor. 1568: Mary, Queen of Scots flees to

1976: Keith Relf

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It happened today – this day in history – May 14

14/05/202213/05/2022 YA Reporter 0 Comments Anne Frank, Aswan High Dam, Ballymurphy, Barcelona, Battle of Cape Finisterre, Beatles, Bobby Moore, Cape Canaveral, Edward Jenner, Elvis Presley, FA Cup, Fairport Convention, Henry III, Illustrated London News, Israel, Jamestown, Keith Relf, Kuwait, Louis XIII, Louis XIV, Manchester City, Manchester United, May 14, Mendelssohn, news, NSPCC, Paraguay, Phil Spector, Second World War, Skylab, Stirling Moss, Tiananmen Square, Today in history, Vaseline, Warsaw Pact, Winnie Mandela

1264: Simon de Montfort the younger, Earl of Leicester, defeats Henry III at the Battle of Lewes in the 2nd

1937: Coronation of George VI

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It happened today – this day in history – May 12

12/05/202211/05/2022 YA Reporter Armenia, Bayern Munich, blitzkrieg, Bob Dylan, Bormann, Chechnya, cricket, Dagenham, Easter Rising, FA Cup, First World War, George VI, King John, Kirgizistan, Lindbergh, Manitoba, May 12, Napoleon, news, Richard I, Rolling Stones, Second World War, Shostakovich, Stansted, Today in history, Uzbekistan, William Wilberforce, Wilson Pickett

1191: Richard I (the Lionheart) marries Berengaria of Navarre in Cyprus. 1215: English barons serve an ultimatum on King John

1928: Dixie Dean

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It happened today – this day in history – May 5

05/05/202204/05/2022 YA Reporter Abyssinia, Alan Shepard, Amy Johnson, Bert Trautmann, Carnegie Hall, Charles I, Chirac, Columbus, Dixie Dean, Dönitz, FA Cup, Gandhi, Jesse Owens, Kublai Khan, May 5, Napoleon, news, Rolling Stones, Second World War, Sitting Bull, Today in history, Tony Blair, Wouk

1260: Kublai Khan, grandson of Genghis Khan, becomes ruler of the Mongol Empire. 1494: Christopher Columbus sights Jamaica, landing at

1956: Gene Vincent

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It happened today – this day in history – May 4

04/05/202203/05/2022 YA Reporter AC Torino, Al Capone, Daily Mail, Duke of Edinburgh, Edison, Edward IV, Epsom Derby, FA Cup, Falklands, First World War, Gene Vincent, Handel, HArper Lee, HMS Sheffield, Kent State, Latvia, Mary Hopkin, May 4, NASA, Natal, news, Ohio, Olympics, Panama Canal, Second World War, Shilton, SNP, Stuart Bingham, Thatcher, Today in history

1471: The Battle of Tewkesbury, the final battle between the Houses of Lancaster and York: Prince of Wales, Edward of

1993: Tennis star Monica Seles is stabbed on court

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It happened today – this day in history – April 30

30/04/202229/04/2022 YA Reporter Akihito, Ann Frank, April 30, Cambodia, Capt Tom Moore, Columbus, Debussy, Dickens, electron, FA Cup, George Washington, Henry VIII, Louisiana Purchase, mendelevium, Michael Jackson, Monica Seles, Muhammad Ali, news, Nixon, Sajid Javid, Second World War, Soho, Tim Berners-Lee, Today in history, Wilko Johnson

1492: Christopher Columbus is given royal commission by Spanish monarchs Isabella I and Ferdinand II to equip his fleet to

1965: Luciano Pavarotti

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It happened today – this day in history – April 28

28/04/202227/04/2022 YA Reporter April 28, Billy the Kid, Captain James Cook, Charles de Gaulle, Eisenhower, FA Cup, Glenn Miller, HMS Bounty, iTunes, King John, Muhammad Ali, Mussolini, news, Pavarotti, Sound of Music, Tasmania, Today in history

1202: King Philip II expels King John of England from France. 1770: Captain James Cook lands at Botany Bay, Australia.

1862: Louis Pasteur

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It happened today – this day in history – April 20

20/04/202219/04/2022 YA Reporter Apollo 16, April 20, Beatles, Columbine, Deepwater Horizon, Derek Chauvin, Enoch Powell, FA Cup, French Revolutionary Wars, Louis Pasteur, Marie Curie, Napoleon, news, Palestine, Pierre Curie, Second World War, Shakespeare, Thomas Warton, Today in history

1611: First known performance of Shakespeare’s “Macbeth” at the Globe Theatre, London. 1657: Battle in Santa Cruz Bay, Tenerife: The

2019: Journalist Lyra McKee

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It happened today – this day in history – April 18

18/04/202218/04/2022 YA Reporter April 18, FA Cup, Grace Kelly, Lord Melbourne, Lyra McKee, Michael Jackson, news, Paul Revere, Rwanda, San Francisco, Second World War, St Peter's Basillica, Theresa May, Today in history, Widgery Report, Zimbabwe

1480: Birth of Lucretia Borgia, daughter of Pope Alexander VI. 1506: The cornerstone of the current St. Peter’s Basilica is

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