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It happened today – this day in history – August 7

07/08/202106/08/2021 YA Reporter Adam Peaty, Apollo 15, Arthur Miller, August 7, Bali, Churchill, Explorer 6, Fanny Blankers-Koen, First World War, Francis Drake, Guadacanal, Idi Amin, James Joyce, Kenya, Lord Kitchener, Macbeth, Napoleon, news, Oliver Hardy, Olympics, Operation Desert Shield, Second World War, Shakespeare, Tanzania, Thor Heyerdahl, Today in history, Tour de France, Trump, Ulysses, Viking 2

1560: Birth of Elizabeth Bathory, Hungarian countess and most prolific female serial killer in history, in Nyírbátor. 1573: Francis Drake’s

2000: HRH The Queen Mother

It happened today – this day in history – August 4

04/08/202003/08/2020 Mick Ferris Anne Frank, August 4, Churchill, Fanny Blankers-Koen, history, Holly Wells, Jesse Owens, Jessica Chapman, Lizzie Borden, Mandela, Mark Duggan, Mozart, Oscar Pistorius, Queen Mother, Robert Plant

1265: Prince Edward beats Simon de Montfort the younger at the Battle of Evesham. 1306: Wenceslaus III of Bohemia is

1983: Motown bass player James Jamerson

It happened today – this day in history – August 2

02/08/202001/08/2020 Mick Ferris Apple, August 2, Fanny Blankers-Koen, Gulf War, history, Iraq, James Jamerson, King William II, Kuwait, Lewis Carroll, Motown, Mussolini, Napoleon, Olympics, Warren G Harding, Wild Bill Hickok

216BC: The Carthaginian army lead by Hannibal defeats numerically superior Roman army at the Battle of Cannae during the Second