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1936: Adele Dixon on the opening of BBC television broadcasts

News Today in History

It happened today – this day in history – November 2

02/11/202028/01/2021 Mick Ferris BBC, Beatles, Blackadder, Channel 4, Cyprus, D H Lawrence, Daily Mirror, Edward V, Eva Cassidy, Hancock, history, Howard Hughes, Hungary, Ladysmith, Lewis Hamilton, M1, Michael Jackson, November 2, Suez, UFO

1470: Edward V is born in Westminster. 1734: Birth of American frontiersman Daniel Boone in Pennsylvania. 1755: Birth of Marie

2005: Suicide bombers strike in London

It happened today – this day in history – July 7

07/07/202006/07/2020 Mick Ferris 7/7, Beatles, Becker, Botham, Cortes, Edward I, Haiti, Hancock, history, July 7, Kovono, Led Zeppelin, London bombings, Navratilova, Newton, Ringo, Roswell, Surratt

1307: Edward I dies aged 68. 1456: A retrial verdict acquits Joan of Arc of heresy 25 years after she

1876: General George Custer, Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse

It happened today – this day in history – June 25

25/06/202024/06/2020 Mick Ferris Custer, Hancock, history, Joe Louis, June 25, Mandela, Michael Jackson, North Korea, Orwell, Soweto, Stravinsky, The Beatles

1483: Parliament declares Edward V as illegitimate based on his parent’s alleged bigamous marriage. 1646: Thomas Fairfax’s New Model Army