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1967: Highgate United defender Tony Allden

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It happened today – this day in history – February 25

25/02/202224/02/2022 YA Reporter Buddy Holly, Cassius Clay, Dalai Lama, Elizabeth I, February 25, Franco, Frank Sinatra, Galliano, George Bernard Shaw, Hadrian, Mike Tyson, Nasser, news, Second World War, Today in history, Tony Allden, Victor Hugo

138: Emperor Hadrian adopts Antoninus Pius, effectively making him his successor. 1570: Pius V excommunicates Queen Elizabeth I for heresy

1940: Woody Guthrie

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It happened today – this day in history – February 23

23/02/202222/02/2022 YA Reporter Abbey Road, Alamo, Beatles, Fangio, February 23, George Bernard Shaw, Haydn, Iwo Jima, Mississippi, My Lai massacre, news, Oasis, Panama Canal, Pavarotti, plutonium, Priscilla Presley, Salk, Tchaikovsky, Today in history, William III, Woody Guthrie

1633: Birth of diarist Samuel Pepys. 1685: Birth of composer George Frideric Handel in Halle, Germany. 1689: William III is

1986: Phil Lynott

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It happened today – this day in history – January 4

04/01/202203/01/2022 YA Reporter Brahms, Britney Spears, Burma, Charles 1, Donald Campbell, Edmund Hilary, Elvis Presley, Fender, Gandhi, George Bernard Shaw, January 4, Julius Ceasar, Nehru, news, Phil Lynott, Second World War, Seoul, Today in history, vaccine, Watergate, Yorkshire Ripper

46BC: Julius Ceasar defeats Titus Labienus in the Battle of Ruspina. 87: Ethelred of Wessex is defeated by the Danish

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

2007: Led Zeppelin make a triumphant return at the O2 (Photo: Celebration Day)

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It happened today – this day in history – December 10

10/12/202109/12/2021 YA Reporter December 10, Desmond Tutu, Eddie Kidd, Edward VIII, Frank Zappa, George Bernard Shaw, George VI, Jacobites, Led Zeppelin, Marie Curie, Mark Twain, Martin Luther, Martin Luther King, Mississippi, news, Niels Bohr, Nobel Peace Prize, Obama, Rudyard Kipling, Second World War, Sumatra, Theodore Roosevelt, Theresa May, Today in history, Woodrow Wilson, Zanzibar

1394: James I of Scotland is born in Dunfermline Palace. 1510: Muslim ruler of Goa, Yusuf Adil Shah and his

1928: Walt Disney introduces Mickey Mouse in Steamboat Willie

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It happened today – this day in history – November 18

18/11/202117/11/2021 YA Reporter Antarctica, Battle of the Somme, First World War, George Bernard Shaw, Jacobites, Khruschev, Kings Cross, Latvia, Louis XIV, Mickey Mouse, Morocco, news, November 18, Piccadilly Circus, Second World War, Terry Waite, Tobruk, Today in history, Vasco da Gama, Walt Disney, William Caxton, William Tell

1307: William Tell reputedly shoots an apple off his son’s head with a crossbow in Switzerland. 1477: First English dated

1962: Reconnaissance photo of Soviet missiles in Cuba shown to John F. Kennedy on this day

It happened today – this day in history – October 16

16/10/202015/10/2020 Mick Ferris Beatles, Castro, Cuban Missile Crisis, Desmond Tutu, George Bernard Shaw, Harold Wilson, history, Kissenger, Little Richard, Mao, Marie Antoinette, Messi, Napoleon, Nuremberg, October 16, Pinochet, Pope John Paul II

1384: Jadwiga is crowned King of Poland, despite being a woman. 1710: British troops occupies Port Royal, Nova Scotia. 1757: