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

News Today in History

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

News Today in History

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