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1988: Soviet frigate Bezzavetny (right) bumping USS Yorktown in the Black Sea

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It happened today – this day in history – February 12

12/02/202111/02/2021 YA Reporter Adele, Bill Clinton, Black Sea, Catalonia, Churchill, Dior, Einstein, February 12, Gershwin, James Bulger, Kaiser Wilhelm, Keith Richards, Lady Jane Grey, Mick Jagger, news, Oxfam, Pat Finucane, Today in history, USS Yorktown, Vasco da Gama, Winter Olympics

1502: Vasco da Gama sets sail from Lisbon on his second voyage to India. 1554: Queen of England for nine

2003: Lauryn Hill

News Today in History

It happened today – on this day in history – December 13

13/12/202028/01/2021 YA Reporter Abel Tasman, Brixton, December 13, Diana Ross, Dizzee Rascal, Donatello, Gershwin, Graf Spee, history, James Dean, Kofi Annan, Lauryn Hill, Saddam Hussein, Sir Francis Drake, Solidarity, Theresa May

1294: Saint Celestine V abdicates the papacy after only five months. 1466: Death of artist Donatello aged 80. 1577: Sir

1999: The London Eye

It happened today – this day in history – October 10

10/10/202011/10/2020 Mick Ferris Elizabeth Taylor, Emmeline Pankhurst, Gershwin, Harold Wilson, history, Imran Khan, James Bond, London Eye, Malala Yousafzai, Margaret Thatcher, October 10, Richard Burton, Schumacher, Spiro Agnew, Triton, tuxedo

1375: The Westfriese sea wall breaks flooding northern Netherlands. 1549: The Duke of Somerset is dismissed as Lord Protector and

1967: Tony Blackburn is the first DJ on the new Radio 1. Photo by Dezo Hoffman

It happened today – this day in history – September 30

30/09/202029/09/2020 Mick Ferris Commonwealth Games, Gershwin, history, Jack The Ripper, James Dean, Mozart, Napoleon, Nuremberg, Pinewood Studios, Radio 1, Richard II, September 30, Vanunu, VH1

1399: Richard II abdicates. 1520: Suleiman the Magnificent succeeds his father Selam I as Ottoman Sultan. 1544: Henry VIII pulls

1967: Mick Jagger and Keith Richards. Photo: PA

It happened today – on this day in history – February 12

12/02/202012/02/2020 Mick Ferris Bulger, Clinton, Dior, February 12, Finucane, Gershwin, history, Jagger, Lady Jane Grey, Milosevic

1130: Pope Innocent II elected. 1502: Vasco da Gama sets sail from Lisbon on his second voyage to India. 1554:

1963: Sean Connery – From Russia With Love. Photo: Metro Goldwyn Mayer

It happened today – this day in history – October 10

10/10/201909/10/2019 Mick Ferris Beach Boys, bond, Bonham, Connery, Fiji, Gershwin, history, King Crimson, October 10, Pankhurst, Verdi

1549: The Duke of Somerset is fired as Lord Protector and imprisoned. 1631: The Saxon army occupies Prague. 1659: Death