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1976: A brief cover-up by the cast of "Oh! Calcutta!"

It happened today – this day in history – September 24

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1493: Christopher Columbus embarks on his second expedition to the New World. 1529: Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent and his Ottoman

1969: Robert Redford and Paul Newman in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

It happened today – this day in history – September 23

23/09/202022/09/2020 Mick Ferris 0 Comments Bob Marley, Butch Cassidy, Freud, George VI, history, Kublai Khan, Neville Chamberlain, Peron, Redgrave, Roland Garros, September 23, Spycatcher, Thomas Cook

63BC: Birth of first Roman emperor Augustus Ceasar in Rome. 1215: Birth of Mongol emperor and founder of the Yuan

1955: ITV launches with Alec Guinness, Harry Secombe and ads for toothpast, chocolate and petrol

It happened today – this day in history – September 22

22/09/202021/09/2020 Mick Ferris 0 Comments Abraham Lincoln, Anne of Cleeves, Boris Yeltsin, Bulgaria, Cat Stevens, Diana Ross, Gene Tunney, Gerald Ford, history, ITV, Jimmy Page, John Lennon, John Simpson, Kissinger, Mali, Queen Victoria, September 22, Switzerland, Wagner

1499: Switzerland becomes an independent state. 1515: Anne of Cleves, fourth wife of Henry VIII, is born in Dusseldorf. 1529:

1915: Stonehenge

It happened today – this day in history – September 21

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19BC: Death of Roman poet Virgil aged 50. 1192: Richard I is captured by Leopold V, Duke of Austria. 1327:

It happened today – this day in history – September 20

20/09/202019/09/2020 Mick Ferris 0 Comments Al Capone, Alain Prost, Brian Clough, Carl Bridgewater, Charles I, history, Jim Croce, Jim Morrison, Joe Louis, Kennedy, Led Zeppelin, Mauretania, MI6, Olympics, Paul McCartney, QE2, Sallisbury Cathedral, September 20, Wright Brothers

1187: Saladin begins the Siege of Jerusalem. 1258: Salisbury Cathedral is inaugurated. 1486: Arthur, Prince of Wales, son of Henry

1975: Fawlty Towers

It happened today – this day in history – September 19

19/09/202018/09/2020 Mick Ferris 0 Comments Chaplin, Fawlty Towers, George Michael, George Washington, Goodfellas, Gram Parsons, history, James Garfield, Khrushchev, Mahler, Olympics, Peron, September 19, Southall

1356: English forces under Edward The Black Prince defeat the French at theBattle of Poitiers and capture the French King

1970: Jimi Hendrix

It happened today – this day in history – September 18

18/09/202017/09/2020 Mick Ferris 0 Comments Britney Spears, Che Guevara, Chile, CIA, Dag Hammarskjold, Gary Numan, Henry VIII, history, Jimi Hendrix, Joe Louis, Kitchener, Megiddo, Patti Hearst, September 18

1180: Death of Louis VII, King of France. 1544: Henry VIII’s troops occupy Boulogne. 1709: Birth of lexicographer Samuel Johnson

1949: Orson Welles as Harry Lime in The Third Man

It happened today – this day in history – September 17

17/09/202016/09/2020 Mick Ferris 0 Comments Australia, Bjork, Chelmsford Prison, Golding, history, Laura Ashley, Olympics, Orson Welles, Paul McCartney, Queen, September 17, Solidarity, Sophia Loren, Third Man

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

1920: Aftermath of the explosion on Wall Street

It happened today – this day in history – September 16

16/09/202015/09/2020 Mick Ferris 0 Comments Afghanistan, Bolan, history, Malaysia, Marillion, September 16, Torquemada

1498: Tomas de Torquemada, Castilian Grand Inquisitor during Spanish Inquisition, dies aged 77. 1630: The Massachusetts village of Shawmut changes

1916: Mark I tanks on the day they were first used in warfare

It happened today – this day in history – September 15

15/09/202014/09/2020 Mick Ferris 0 Comments Astrid Proll, Brunel, Chamberlain, Churchill, Darwin, Fleming, history, Marco Polo, Muhammad Ali, Napoleon, Olympics, Parsons Green, Ramones, September 15, Somme, tanks, The Sun, Yasser Arafat

921: Saint Ludmila is murdered at the command of her daughter-in-law at Tetin. 1254: Birth of explorer Marco Polo in

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