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1976: Pig on the wing over Battersea Power Station during photo shoot for the Pink Floyd album Animals

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It happened today – this day in history – December 3

03/12/202102/12/2021 YA Reporter Agatha Christie, Andrew Jackson, Ballarat, Bhopal, Celsius, Charistiaan Barnard, Cibber, cold war, December 3, Edwina Currie, Elgar, First World War, heart transplant, IRA, Judas Priest, Keith Richards, Laos, Leopoldville, Manchester, news, Pele, Pink Floyd, Ray Charles, Rolling Stones, Second World War, Tennessee Williams, The Who, Today in history

1676: The Swedish army of 8,000 defeats a much larger joint Danish/Dutch force of 13,000 at the Battle of Lund

1922: Andrew Bonar Law

News Today in History

It happened today – this day in history – October 23

23/10/202122/10/2021 YA Reporter Andrew Bonar Law, Bob Dylan, Brutus, Charles I, Chophouse Massacre, Foxy Brown, Grays, Hungary, IRA, John Dillinger, Katy Perry, London Bridge, Moscow, Napoleon, Netanyahu, news, Niki Lauda, October 23, Olympics, Pasternak, Richard Nixon, Robert Walpole, Second World War, Sid Vicious, Stevie Wonder, Today in history, War of Jenkins' Ear, Yasser Arafat

42BC: One of Julius Caesar’s assassins, Brutus commits suicide. 1091: A tornado hits London, destroying the wooden London Bridge. 1642:

1945: Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin at the Yalta Conference

News Today in History

It happened today – this day in history – February 4

04/02/202103/02/2021 YA Reporter Angola, Beatles, Churchill, Codex Sinaiticus, Facebook, February 4, Franklin D Roosevelt, George Washington, IRA, Jefferson Davis, Patty Hearst, Quito, Rolls Royce, Sri Lanka, Stalin, Studio 54, Today in history, Winter Olympics, Yalta, Yasser Arafat

211: Roman Emperor Septimus Severus dies, leaving the Roman Empire in the hands of his two quarrelsome sons, Caracalla and

1954: Marlon Brando

It happened today – this day in history – July 28

28/07/202027/07/2020 Mick Ferris Amy Winehouse, Bach, Brando, Challenger space shuttle, China, earthquake, Gene Vincent, history, Hoover, IRA, Jerry Lee Lewis, July 28, Olympics, Thomas Cromwell, Vietnam

1148: Crusaders abandon their siege of Damascus. 1540: Thomas Cromwell, chief minister for Henry VIII is executed for treason and

1964: The Beatles arrive in the US

It happened today – this day in history – February 7

07/02/202006/02/2020 Mick Ferris Beatles, Byron, Chaplin, February 7, history, IRA, Kennedy, Maastricht

1301: Edward of Caernarion (later Edward II) becomes the first English Prince of Wales. 1613: Michail Romanov, aged 16, becomes

1955: Clement Attlee resigns

It happened today – this day in history – November 25

25/11/201924/11/2019 Mick Ferris Attlee, Best, Castro, Hamilton, history, IRA, Iran-Contra, JFK, Lennon, November 25, Vettel, Walesa

1034: Death of Malcolm II, king of the Scots. 1120: William Adelin, son and heir of Henry I, dies trying

1974: Birmingham pub bombings

It happened today – this day in history – November 21

21/11/201920/11/2019 Mick Ferris Birmingham, Cassidy, Concorde, Elvis, Grant, Harrison, history, IRA, November 21

1620: The Pilgrim Fathers reach America, landing at Provincetown Harbor, Mass in The Mayflower. 1694: Birth of French writer and