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1959: Guggenheim Museum, New York

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It happened today – this day in history – October 21

21/10/202120/10/2021 YA Reporter 0 Comments Aberfan, Battle of Trafalgar, Beatles, Boer War, Buddy Holly, Catalonia, First World War, Florence Nightingale, Gorbachev, Guggenheim Museum, Horatio Nelson, Magellan, Malala Yousafzai, Natal, news, October 21, Offenbach, Olympics, Oscar Pistorius, Spanish Civil War, Tibet, Today in history, United Nations

1520: Explorer Ferdinand Magellan and his fleet reach Cape Virgenes and become the first Europeans to sail into the Pacific

1977: Aftermath of the plane crash that killed Lynyrd Skynyrd singer Ronnie Van Zant, guitarist Steve Gaines and backing singer Cassie Gaines

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It happened today – this day in history – October 20

20/10/202119/10/2021 YA Reporter 0 Comments Ayrton Senna, Dalai Lama, First Crusade, First World War, Gadaffi, George I, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Mandela, news, October 20, Olympics, RMS Olympic, Schubert, Second World War, thanksgiving, Today in history, Tolkien, Trump, Westphalia

1097: Crusaders arrive in Antioch during the First Crusade. 1632: Birth of architect Christopher Wren in Wilts. 1714: Georg Ludwig

2018: Canada legalises cannabis

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It happened today – this day in history – October 17

17/10/202116/10/2021 YA Reporter 0 Comments American Revolutionary War, Beatles, Bessemer, Brexit, cannabis, Charles II, Crimean War, Edison, Edward III, Einstein, First World War, Hatfield train crash, Jacinda Ardern, Listz, Marconi, Matisse, Mendelssohn, Mogadishu, Mother Teresa, news, Northern Ireland, October 17, Olympics, OPEC, Pompeii, Second World War, Sevastopol, The Queen, Today in history, Torquemada, Vesuvius, Yugoslavia

79: Mt. Vesuvius erupts, burying the cities of Pompeii, Herculaneum, Oplontis and Stabiae, killing thousands. 1346: King David II of

1979: Not The Nine o'Clock News

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It happened today – this day in history – October 16

16/10/202115/10/2021 YA Reporter 0 Comments Alonso, Beatles, Bengal, Bob Dylan, C S Lewis, Castro, Charlotte Bronte, Cuban Missile Crisis, Desmond Tutu, First World War, Harold Wilson, Jadwiga, Jean Batten, Joan Baez, Kissinger, Little Richard, Long Kesh, Mao Zedong, Marie Antoinette, Messi, Napoleon, news, Not The Nine o'Clock News, Nuremberg war trials, October 16, Olympics, Pinochet, Pope John Paul II, Today in history, Westminster

1384: Jadwiga is crowned King of Poland, despite being a woman. 1555: Hugh Latimer, bishop and royal chaplain, is burned

1922: Alaska P Davidson

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It happened today – this day in history – October 11

11/10/202110/10/2021 Mick Ferris 0 Comments Abyssinia, Alaska Davidson, Aleppo, Battle of Camperdown, Beatles, Benjamin Franklin, Boer War, Dave Grohl, Einstein, First World War, Henry VIII, Madonna, Mikhail Gorbachev, news, October 11, Rod Stewart, Ronald Reagan, Today in history

1138: An earthquake in Aleppo, Syria, kills an estimated 230,000. 1521: Pope Leo X titles Henry VIII “Defender of the

2012: Malala Yousafzai

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It happened today – this day in history – October 9

09/10/202108/10/2021 YA Reporter 0 Comments Alec Douglas-Home, Charlemagne, Churchill, Crimean War, Elvis Presley, First World War, Franklin D Roosevelt, Harold Macmillan., Harvey Weinstein, HMS Lutine, King Alexander I, Konrad Adenaur, Malala Yousafzai, Margot Fonteyn, news, October 9, Richard I, Second World War, Stalin, Stone Roses, Today in history, Tristan da Cunha, Yorktown

768: Charlemagne and his brother Carloman I are crowned Kings of The Franks. 1192: Richard I leaves Jerusalem in disguise.

1967: Che Guevara

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It happened today – this day in history – October 8

08/10/202107/10/2021 YA Reporter 0 Comments Beatles, Bill Clinton, Bob Marley, Bruno Hauptmann, Captain James Cook, Che Guevara, Emerson Fittipaldi, First World War, Great Fire of Chicago, Laurel and Hardy, Mahler, microwave, Montenegro, news, October 8, Office of Homeland Security, Post Office Tower, Rachmaninoff, Second Opium War, Second World War, Sepp Blatter, Sex Pistols, Solzhenitsyn, Today in history, Trotsky

1075: Dmitar Zvonimir is crowned king of Croatia. 1690: Ottoman troops capture Belgrade. 1769: Captain James Cook lands in Poverty

1979: Pope John Paul II meets US President Jimmy Carter

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It happened today – this day in history – October 6

06/10/202105/10/2021 YA Reporter Beatles, Beckham, Bobby Charlton, Broadwater Farm, First World War, Keith Blakelock, LSD, Moulin Rouge, news, October 6, Orange Free State, Passchendaele, Pope John Paul II, Sadat, Second World War, Stalin, The Mousetrap, Today in history

1762: British troops occupy Manila, Philippines. 1854: The Great Fire of Newcastle and Gateshead leads to 53 deaths. 1889: The

1962: Sean Connery debuts as James Bond in Dr No

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It happened today – this day in history – October 5

05/10/202104/10/2021 YA Reporter Banksy, Beatles, Bulgaria, Calcutta, Catalan, Cheiry, First World War, Guildford bombings, Harry Truman, James Bond, Jarrow march, Jimi Hendrix, Johnny Cash, Ladbroke Grove, Lech Walesa, Mary Queen of Scots, Monty Python, news, Niki Lauda, October 5, Second World War, Today in history, Tripoli, Troubles, Wright Brothers

1568: The trial of Mary, Queen of Scots begins at the Conference of York. 1796: Spain declares war on England.

2006: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange

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It happened today – this day in history – October 4

04/10/202103/10/2021 YA Reporter Abraham Lincoln, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Anne of Cleves, Assange, Austria, Beatles, Corsica, First World War, George Washington, Henry VIII, Janis Joplin, Lesotho, Mexico, Mt Rushmore, news, October 4, Orient Express, Pope Paul VI, Portugal, Schumacher, Second World War, Spencer Perceval, Sputnik, Tammy Wynette, Theresa May, Today in history, WikiLeaks

1539: Henry VIII marries Anne of Cleves. 1669: Death of Dutch painter Rembrandt van Rijn aged 66. 1777: General George

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