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1993: Damage beneath the World Trade Centre

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It happened today – this day in history – February 26

26/02/202225/02/2022 YA Reporter Abraham Lincoln, Australia, Bank of England, Beirut, Charlie Chaplin, Churchill, David Shayler, February 26, Galileo, General Synod, Golden Gate Bridge, Grand National, Gulf War, Ibsen, Luftwaffe, Napoleon, news, Schubert, Stephen Tribble, Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes, Today in history, Tsar Nicholas II, World Trade Centre

1564: Birth of dramatist Christopher Marlowe in Canterbury. 1606: First known European landing in Australia by Dutch navigator Willem Jansz.

1996: The four remaining members of Take That announce they are splitting up

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It happened today – this day in history – February 13

13/02/202212/02/2022 YA Reporter Abraham Lincoln, Adele, Brit Awards, Bruno Hauptmann, Catherine Howard, Chernenko, cholera, Dead Sea Scrolls, Dresden, February 13, Galileo, Glencoe, Henry VIII, Jesse James, Marquis de Sade, Mata Hari, Mongols, news, Second World War, Solzhenitsyn, Take That, Today in history, Trump, Tycho Brahe, Vietnam, Viola Beach, Winter Olympics

1258: Baghdad falls to the Mongols as the Abbasid Caliphate is destroyed and tens of thousands are slaughtered. 1542: Catherine

2004: Dr Harold Shipman

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It happened today – this day in history – January 13

13/01/202212/01/2022 YA Reporter Ballymurphy, Bartok, Bill Gates, Bob Dylan, Churchill, Costa Concordia, Donny Hathaway, Dr Harold Shipman, Emile Zola, Galileo, Iraq, January 13, Jeffrey Dahmer, Johnny Cash, Jonathan Swift, Kier Hardie, Lima, news, Oscar Wilde, Prokofiev, Tito, Today in history, USS Lexington, Wagner, Wyatt Earp

1099: Crusaders set fire to Mara, Syria. 1404: The Act of Multipliers is passed by Parliament forbidding alchemists to use

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It happened today – this day in history – January 7

07/01/202206/01/2022 YA Reporter Akihito, Bahamas, Bill Clinton, Boris Godunov, Calais, Cambodia, Charlie Hebdo, Elizabeth I, First World War, Francis Bacon, Fred Ott, Galileo, Harry Truman, Indira Gandhi, January 7, Kaiser Wilhelm, Marshall Plan, Monica Lewinsky, news, Oasis, Rossini, Second World War, Today in history

1536:Catherine of Aragon dies aged 50. 1558: Calais, the last English possession in France, is retaken by the French. 1566:

2015: Lemmy (Photo: Mark Marek)

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It happened today – this day in history – December 28

28/12/202127/12/2021 YA Reporter Bormann, conscription, Denis Wilson, foot and mouth, Galileo, George Bernard Shaw, Iowa, Lemmy, Lumiere, Mexico, news, Rangoon, Rob Roy McGregor, Ted Hughes, Today in history, Westminster Abbey

1065: Westminster Abbey is consecrated. 1612: Galileo Galilei observes and records a “fixed star” without realising it is the undiscovered

2010: Astrid Kirchherr (self portrait taken circa 1961)

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It happened today – this day in history – August 25

25/08/202124/08/2021 YA Reporter Aaliyah, Andrew Jackson, August 25, Beatles, Cantona, Captain James Cook, Charles de Gaulle, First World War, Galileo, Henry VI, Krenz, Matthew Webb, Mountbatten, Neptune, news, Olympics, Second World War, Today in history, Trump, Uruguay, Voyager 1, Wagner, zeppelin

1482: Death of Margaret of Anjou, wife of Henry VI aged 52. 1530: Birth of Ivan the Terrible, first tsar

1991: John McCarthy

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It happened today – this day in history – August 8

08/08/202107/08/2021 YA Reporter Alaska, August 8, Battle of Amiens, Beatles, Bhutan, Castro, dollar, Ebola, French Revolution, Galileo, Great Train Robbery, John McCarthy, Ku Klux Klan, Montenegro, Natal, news, Olympics, Princess Beatrice, Richard Nixon, Saddam, Simon Cowell, Spiro Agnew, Today in history

1549: Henry II of France declares war on England and orders the siege of Boulogne. 1609: The Venetian senate examines

1971: Terry Reid at the Glastonbury Festival

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It happened today – this day in history – June 22

22/06/202121/06/2021 YA Reporter Arkansas, Beatles, Bonnie Prince Charlie, Galileo, George V, Glastonbury, Henry Hudson, Henry VIII, Jeremy Thorpe, Joe Louis, John Dillinger, John McEnrow, Judy Garland, June 22, Maradona, Marc Dutroux, Napoleon, Nelson Mandela, news, Richard II, tennis, Today in history, W G Grace, Whitey Bulger

168BC: Romans under Lucius Aemilius Paullus defeat and capture Macedonian King Perseus, ending the Third Macedonian War. 1377: Richard II

1991: So-called Highway of Death in Iraq after coalition planes repeatedly bombed it during Operation Desert Storm

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It happened today – on this day in history – February 26

26/02/202125/02/2021 YA Reporter Abraham Lincoln, Beirut, Charlie Chaplin, Christopher Marlowe, Churchill, February 26, Galileo, Golden Gate Bridge, Grand National, Gulf War, Ibsen, Kuwait, Luftwaffe, Napoleon, news, Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes, Today in history, World Trade Centre

1564: Birth of dramatist Christopher Marlowe in Canterbury. 1606: First known European landing in Australia by Dutch navigator Willem Jansz.

2011: Colin Firth and Geoffrey Rush in The King's Speech

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It happened today – this day in history – February 13

13/02/202113/02/2021 YA Reporter Abraham Lincoln, Adele, Anna Ford, BAFTAS, Catherine Howard, Chernenko, cholera, Colin Firth, Dresden, February 13, Galileo, Geoffrey Rush, Glencoe, Harrison Ford, Jesse James, Marquis de Sade, Mata Hari, Solzhenitsyn, Take That, Today in history, Tycho Brahe, Winter Olympics

1258: Baghdad falls to the Mongols as the Abbasid Caliphate is destroyed and tens of thousands are slaughtered. 1542: Catherine

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