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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

1952: Charlie Chaplin

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It happened today – this day in history – September 19

19/09/202118/09/2021 YA Reporter Adrian Moorehouse, Bangkok, Betty and Barney Hill, Blackpool, Bobby Robson, Bombay plague, Bruno Hauptmann, Charlie Chaplin, Cliff Richard, Colwich Junction, Fawlty Towers, George Michael, George Washington, Glastonbury, Goodfellas, Gram Parsons, Hundred Years War, James Garfield, Juan Peron, Khrushchev, Mahler, news, Olympics, Second World War, September 19, Simon and Garfunkel, Solzhenitsyn, Southall, Today in history

1356: English forces under Edward The Black Prince defeat the French at the Battle of Poitiers and capture the French

1911: Machu Picchu

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It happened today – this day in history – July 24

24/07/202123/07/2021 YA Reporter Armani, Beatles, Brendan Behan, Brigham Young, Cartier, Commonwealth Games, George Washington, Gibraltar, Grodz, Harlaw, Jared Kushner, Jeffrey Archer, July 24, Kaiser Wilhelm II, Khrushchev, Machu Picchu, Mary, Mata Hari, Menin Gate, news, Nixon, Olympics, Queen of Scots, Rolling Stones, Today in history, Tour de France, Trump, Tsar Nicholas II, William III

1411: The Battle of Harlaw, one of the bloodiest battles in Scotland, takes place. 1534: Jacques Cartier lands in Canada

1996: Central Manchester in ruins after a massive IRA bomb attack. Photo: Manchester Fire and Rescue

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It happened today – this day in history – June 15

15/06/202114/06/2021 YA Reporter Alcock and Brown, American Civil War, Arndale Centre, Charles I, Eichmann, George Washington, Goodyear, Hawaii, J Edgar Hoover, June 15, Magna Carta, Manchester, Mt Pinatubo, news, Niagara Falls, Paul Gascoigne, Prof Stephen Hawking, Rebel Wilson, Today in history, Typhoid Mary, Ulrike Meinhof, Wat Tyler, Wilhelm II

763BC: Assyrians record a solar eclipse that will be used to fix the chronology of Mesopotamian history. 1215: King John

1945: Red Army soldiers raise the Soviet Union flag on the roof of the Reichstag building in Berlin

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It happened today – this day in history – April 30

30/04/202130/04/2021 YA Reporter Akihito, April 30, Capt Tom Moore, Casey Jones, Celine Dion, Columbus, Debussy, Dickens, Eurovision, FA Cup, George Washington, Henry VIII, Imola, Keith Moon, Louisiana, Manet, Michael Jackson, news, Reichstag, Richard Nixon, Saigon, Sajid Javid, Seles, Shilton, Soho, Spandau Ballet, 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

1945: Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin at the Yalta Conference

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It happened today – this day in history – February 4

04/02/202103/02/2021 YA Reporter Angola, Beatles, Churchill, Codex Sinaiticus, Facebook, February 4, Franklin D Roosevelt, George Washington, IRA, Jefferson Davis, Patty Hearst, Quito, Rolls Royce, Sri Lanka, Stalin, Studio 54, Today in history, Winter Olympics, Yalta, Yasser Arafat

211: Roman Emperor Septimus Severus dies, leaving the Roman Empire in the hands of his two quarrelsome sons, Caracalla and

1989: Kegworth air disaster

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It happened today – this day in history – January 8

08/01/202128/01/2021 YA Reporter Algeria, Bonnie Prince Charlie, Charles de Gaulle, El Chapo, George Bush, George Washington, history, January 8, Kegworth, Monaco, rationing, Sirica, Watergate

871: Ethelred I of Wessex and his brother Alfred the Great defeat the invading Danish army at the Battle of

1987: Aretha Franklin

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It happened today – this day in history – January 3

03/01/202128/01/2021 YA Reporter Alaska, Apple, Aretha, Beatles, Charles Dickens, George Bush, George Washington, history, Jack Ruby, January 3, Joan of Arc, Leonardo da Vinci, Martin Luther, Mussolini, Nietzsche, Pelosi, Thatcher, Yeltsin

1431: Joan of Arc is handed over to Bishop Pierre Cauchon. 1496: Leonardo da Vinci unsuccessfully tests a flying machine.

2004: The tsunami hits Ao Nang, Thailand

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

26/12/202028/01/2021 YA Reporter Beatles, Beckenbauer, Churchill, Curtis Mayfield, December 26, Dian Fossey, Elizabeth Bathory, George Washington, Gilbert and Sullivan, history, Jimi Hendrix, Lillian Board, Magical Mystery Tour, Michael Jackson, Sex Pistols, Shakespeare, tsunami

1492: The first Spanish settlement La Navidad in the New World is founded in modern day Haiti by Christopher Columbus.

1975: Fawlty Towers

It happened today – this day in history – September 19

19/09/202018/09/2020 Mick Ferris Chaplin, Fawlty Towers, George Michael, George Washington, Goodfellas, Gram Parsons, history, James Garfield, Khrushchev, Mahler, Olympics, Peron, September 19, Southall

1356: English forces under Edward The Black Prince defeat the French at theBattle of Poitiers and capture the French King