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1863: Gen Stonewall Jackson

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It happened today – this day in history – May 2

02/05/202201/05/2022 YA Reporter Anne Boleyn, Arthur Miller, Beatles, Belfast, Charles II, Eta, Falklands, Herschel, John Cabot, Leicester City, May 2, news, Nirvana, Oklahoma, Osama bin Laden, Prokofiev, Richard I, Rossini, Second World War, Springsteen, Stanley Matthews, Stonewall Jackson, Tennessee Williams, Today in history, Tony Blair, Tsar Nicholas II

1194: Richard I gives Portsmouth its first Royal Charter. 1497: John Cabot’s expedition departs Bristol searching for new lands across

1935: Driving tests

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It happened today – this day in history – March 13

13/03/202212/03/2022 YA Reporter Andrew Johnson, Apollo 9, Beatles, Bill Gates, Boer War, driving tests, Dunblane, Eric Clapton, FA Cup, Grenada, Harvard, Herschel, Jefferson Davis, Khartoum, March 13, Mata Hari, Michael Jackson, Mongolia, news, Pluto, Pope francis, Second World War, Today in history, Torvill and Dean, Trotsky, Trump, Tsar Alexander II, Uranus

1639: Cambridge College, Massachusetts, is renamed Harvard. 1781: William Herschel sees what he thinks is a comet but is actually

1922: Max Schreck in Nosferatu

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It happened today – this day in history – March 4

04/03/202203/03/2022 Mick Ferris Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Jackson, Anne Boleyn, Benjamin Harrison, Charles II, Charlie Chaplin, Coolidge, David Attenborough, Dollfuss, Flamsteed, Franklin D Roosevelt, Grover Cleveland, Harold Wilson, Herbert Hoover, Herschel, Hoffa, James A Garfield, John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Krays, Kurt Cobain, Lennon, Maddison, Maguire Seven, Mahler, March 4, Martin van Buren, McKinley, Monroe, Mugabe, news, Nosferatu, Polk, Purley, Putin, Rudolph Valentino, Second World War, Spanish flu, Taft, Thomas Jefferson, Today in history, Ulysses S Grant, Warren G Harding, Woodrow Wilson

1193: Death of Saladin, first Sultan of Egypt and Syria and the founder of the Ayyubid dynasty. 1522: Anne Boleyn

1864: Charing Cross station opens

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It happened today – this day in history – January 11

11/01/202210/01/2022 YA Reporter Alabama, Amelia Earhart, American Civil War, Beatles, Charing Cross, Elvis Presley, Greece, Herschel, insulin, January 11, Jimi Hendrix, Logan Paul, Messi, news, Open University, Prokofiev, Ranulph Fiennes, Second World War, Sicily, Today in history, Transylvania, Trump, Zulu War

1693: The most powerful earthquake in Italian recorded history strikes Sicily and Southern Italy. 1787: Titania and Oberon, moons of

1989: Ted Danson and Woody Harrelson in Cheers

It happened today – this day in history – September 17

17/09/202116/09/2021 YA Reporter Australia, Barbados, Beatles, Bjork, Cheers, Emmy Awards, Frederick Barbarossa, Herschel, Jaobites, Mauritius, news, Olympics, Paul McCartney, Queen, Second World War, September 17, Sex Pistols, Today in history, William Golding

1156: Emperor Frederick Barbarossa issues the ‘Privilegium Minus’ decree, which elevates Austria to a duchy. 1394: Jews are expelled from

1997: Tony Blair

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It happened today – this day in history – May 2

02/05/202128/04/2022 YA Reporter Anne Boleyn, Beatles, Billie Holiday, Bruce Springsteen, Cabot, Charles II, Eta, Falklands, General Belgrano, Herschel, Joy Division, Leicester City, May 2, Michael Jackson, Motown, news, Osama bin Laden, Portsmouth, Rossini, Stanley Matthews, Stonewall Jackson, Today in history, Tony Blair

1194: Richard I gives Portsmouth its first Royal Charter. 1497: John Cabot’s expedition departs Bristol searching for new lands across

1963: Civil rights leaders (Martin Luther King second left) link arms in front of marchers on Constitution Avenue

It happened today – this day in history – August 28

28/08/202027/08/2020 Mick Ferris August 28, Beatles, Bob Dylan, Boris Johnson, Herschel, history, Isaac Hayes, Kirby, Martin Luther King, Oasis, Olympics, Rolling Stones, Sebastian Coe, Tony Blair, Wagner

1189: Crusaders begin the Siege of Acre under Guy of Lusignan. 1521: Belgrade is captured by troops of Turkish Sultan