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1982: Joe Strummer

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It happened today – this day in history – April 21

21/04/202120/04/2021 YA Reporter Anne Boleyn, April 21, Beatles, Berlin, Greta Thunberg, Haile Selassie, Joe Strummer, London Marathon, Luis Suarez, Napoleon, news, Paul McCartney, Peter Buck, Prince, Red Baron, Rome, Sgt Pepper, South Vietnam, Texas, Thomas Cromwell, Timothy McVeigh, Today in history, William III

753BC: Traditional date for when Romulus and Remus founded Rome. 1536: Thomas Cromwell begins to plan Anne Boleyn’s downfall while

1923: Archaeologist Howard Carter at the sarcophagus of Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun

News Today in History

It happened today – on this day in history – February 16

16/02/202115/02/2021 YA Reporter Abraham Lincoln, Beeching, Bodyline, Castro, Charles I, Churchill, Clive Ponting, Earl of Shaftesbury, ELP, English Civil War, February 16, George Michael, Haile Selassie, Howard Carter, Kyoto Protocol, Lithuania, Today in history, Tutankhamun

600: Pope Gregory the Great decrees saying “God bless You” is the correct response to a sneeze. 1641: Charles I

1947: Test pilot Chuck Yeager

It happened today – this day in history – October 14

14/10/202013/10/2020 Mick Ferris Apollo 7, Battle of Hastings, Brezhnev, Cecil Parkinson, Christopher Columbus, Chuck Yeager, Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Haile Selassie, Harvey Weinstein, history, Khrushchev, Leonard Bernstein, Martin Luther King, Mary Queen of Scots, Mary Rand, October 14, Robert the Bruce, Sinatra, Sobibor, Winnie the Pooh, Winston Churchill

1066: The Battle of Hastings. William the Conqueror and his Norman army defeat the English forces of Harold II who

1935: Howard Hughes

It happened today – this day in history – September 12

12/09/202011/09/2020 Mick Ferris Biko, Casanova, Corbyn, Guadacanal, Haile Selassie, history, Howard Hughes, Johnny Cash, September 12, Switzerland

1217: French prince Louis and English King Henry III sign a peace treaty. 1624: The first submarine is publicly tested

1979: Lord Mountbatten is killed by the IRA

It happened today – this day in history – August 27

27/08/202026/08/2020 Mick Ferris Angelina Jolie, August 27, Barack Obama, Beatles, Brian Epstein, Ebola, Elvis, Guinness, Haile Selassie, history, Krakatoa, Miley Cyrus, Moldavia, Mountbatten, Myammar, Napoleon, Olympics, Spanish flu, Zanzibar

1549: John Dudley Earl of Warwick destroys Robert Kett’s army at the Battle of Dussindale, ending Kett’s rebellion in Norfolk.

1908: Downed Trees as a result of the Tunguska explosion

It happened today – this day in history – June 30

30/06/202029/06/2020 Mick Ferris Excelsior, Gandhi, Great Plaque, Haile Selassie, history, June 30, Muhammad Ali, Novichok, O J Simpson, Pearl Jam, Rolf Harris, Superman, transistors, Tunguska

1520: Spanish conquistadors are expelled from Tenochtitlan following an Aztec revolt against their rule under Hernan Cortes. Aztec emperor Montezuma