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1975: Moorgate Tube disaster

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It happened today – this day in history – February 28

28/02/202227/02/2022 YA Reporter Bowie, Boy George, Crimea, DNA, February 28, General Election, Grand National, Gulf War, Handel, Kim Jong-un, Kissinger, Kosovo, M*A*S*H, methodist, Michael Jackson, Moorgate, news, Olaf Palme, Ray Charles, Schubert, Second World War, Selby, Spitting Image, Taiwan, Today in history, Trump

1728: Handel’s opera “Siroe, re di Persia” premieres in London. 1749: Henry Fieldings’ novel “Tom Jones” published. 1784: John Wesley

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.

1961: Inauguration of President John F Kennedy

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It happened today – this day in history – January 20

20/01/202220/01/2022 YA Reporter Biden, Buddy Holly, Burma, Clinton, Edward Balliol, Edward VIII, Franklin D Roosevelt, George H W Bush, George V, Gulf War, Hong Kong, January 20, JFK, Monkees, news, Nixon, Obama, Ozzy Osbourne, Reagan, Richard II, Second World War, Terry Waite, Today in history, Trump

1265: The first English Parliament summoned other than by royal command (by Simon de Montfort, Earl of Leicester) meets in

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.

1991: Operation Desert Storm. Photo: Air Force Tech. Sgt. H. H. Deffner

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It happened today – this day in history – January 17

17/01/202128/01/2021 YA Reporter Auschwitz, BBC Breakfast Time, Beatles, Borgia, Captain Cook, Chekhov, Chelsea Manning, Duke of Wellington, Gary Gilmour, Gulf War, Hawaii, history, January 17, Japan, Modoc, Obama, Operation Desert Storm, prohobition, Ronald Reagan, South Pole, Transvaal

1377: Pope Gregory XI moves the Papacy back to Rome from Avignon. 1501: Cesare Borgia returns in triumph to Rome

1983: Motown bass player James Jamerson

It happened today – this day in history – August 2

02/08/202001/08/2020 Mick Ferris Apple, August 2, Fanny Blankers-Koen, Gulf War, history, Iraq, James Jamerson, King William II, Kuwait, Lewis Carroll, Motown, Mussolini, Napoleon, Olympics, Warren G Harding, Wild Bill Hickok

216BC: The Carthaginian army lead by Hannibal defeats numerically superior Roman army at the Battle of Cannae during the Second