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1956: Stanley Matthews is awarded the first Ballon d'Or for European Footballer of the Year

News Today in History

It happened today – this day in history – December 18

18/12/202117/12/2021 YA Reporter December 18, Education Act, First World War, George Hamilton-Gordon, George Harrison, George III, Hannibal, John Lennon, Jose Mourinho, Kirsty MacColl, Lord Roberts, Magherafelt, Michael Jackson, news, Piltdown Man, Second World War, Stanley Matthews, Tchaikovsky, Today in history, Trump, Verdun

218BC: Hannibal’s Carthaginian army heavily defeats Roman forces on Italian soil during the Second Punic War. 1621: Parliament unanimously accepts

The Beatles at work

Film Leisure Reviews

History stands corrected

27/11/202127/11/2021 Mick Ferris Beatles, Disney +, documentary, George Harrison, Get Back, John Lennon, leisure, Let It Be, Paul McCartney, Peter Jackson, Ringo Starr

The Beatles: Get Back (15, 450 minutes +) As a Beatles aficionado (OK, nerd) I have been eagerly awaiting the

1980: St Gotthard road tunnel

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It happened today – this day in history – September 5

05/09/202104/09/2021 YA Reporter Athletico Madrid, Beatles, Cassius Clay, Catherine Parr, Edward VII, First Opium War, First World War, Franklin D Roosevelt, Great Fire Of London, John Lennon, Mandela, news, Olympics, Rolling Stones, Sadat, Saddam Hussein, Sam Houston, Second World War, September 5, St Gotthard Tunnel, Theodore Roosevelt, Today in history, Tsar Nicholas II, Woodrow Wilson

1548: Death of Catherine Parr, sixth wife of Henry VIII. 1638: Birth of Louis XIV in Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France.

1988: The Piper Alpha oil rig disaster

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It happened today – this day in history – July 6

06/07/202105/07/2021 YA Reporter Battle of Sedgemoor, Beatles, Biafra, Boris Becker, David Bowie, dollar, Edward V, Edward VI, Francis Drake, Fred Perry, Henry II, Horlick's, Imran Khan, John Lennon, July 6, Lawrence of Arabia, news, oil rig, Olympics, Oscar Pistorius, Pasteur, Paul McCartney, Peary, Piper Alpha, Richard I, Richard III, Sir Thomas More, Today in history, William Kidd

1189: Richard I is crowned King of England upon the death of King Henry II. 1249: Death of Alexander II,

1946: Patents are filed in the US for the H-bomb

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It happened today – this day in history – May 26

26/05/202125/05/2021 YA Reporter Akihito, Anthony Eden, apartheid, Aston Villa, Beatles, Calvin, Cassidy, Churchill, Coolidge, Donald Trump, Garibaldi, Gary Lineker, H-Bomb, helicopter, Herbert Asquith, Java, John Lennon, Le Mans, Lenin, Leonid Brezhnev, Lisa Marie Presley, Manchester United, Michael Jackson, Napoleon, news, Real Madrid, Richard Nixon, SALT, Tara, Thomas Cook, Today in history, Tsar Nicholas II, Vauxhall Bridge, Yoko Ono

1538: Geneva expels protestant reformer John Calvin and his followers from the city. Calvin lives in exile in Strasbourg for

1936: Amy Johnson

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It happened today – this day in history – May 15

15/05/202114/05/2021 YA Reporter Amy Johnson, Anne Boleyn, British Legion, Christmas Island, Cologne Cathedral, Dillinger, General Galtieri, George Harrison, George III, George Wallace, IOC, Israel, John Lennon, Kepler, King John, LAs Vegas, May 15, news, Okinawa, Old Trafford, Palestine, Paris, Paul McCartney, Real Madrid, Richey Edwards, Rocky Marciano, Sputnik, Stanley Matthews, Today in history, Tottenham Hotspur, Zidane

1213: King John names Stephen Langton as Archbishop of Canterbury. 1248: Archbishop Konrad von Hochstaden lays the cornerstone for Cologne

1953: Winston Churchill is knighted by The Queen

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It happened today – this day in history – April 24

24/04/202124/04/2021 YA Reporter April 24, Athletics, Bishopsgate, Bowie, Churchill, Easter Rising, Exeter, Gambia, John Lennon, Mau Mau, news, Paul McCartney, Soyuz 1, Spain, Today in history, Truman, Vesuvius, Ypres

1731: Death of novelist Daniel Defoe. 1801: First performance of Joseph Haydn’s oratorio “Die Jahreszeiten”. 1872: Mt Vesuvius erupts in

1979: Blair Peach

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It happened today – this day in history – April 23

23/04/202123/04/2021 YA Reporter Alexander I, April 23, Beatles, Blair Peach, Charles II, Eritrea, Ethelred, Henry VI, HIV, John Lennon, news, Paul McCartney, Queen Anne, Queen Victoria, Robert E Lee, Shakespeare, Stanley Matthews, Today in history, Trump, Yeltsin

871: Death of Ethelred I, King of Wessex. 1014: King Brian Boru of Ireland defeats Viking forces at Battle of

2011: The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster

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It happened today – this day in history – March 12

12/03/202111/03/2021 YA Reporter Anne Frank, Bermuda, Bob Dylan, Borgia, Brexit, Charlie Parker, Dennis The Menace, Fukushima Daiichi, Gandhi, Japan, John Lennon, March 12, New Zealand, news, Nijinsky, Paul McCartney, Rolling Stones, Sex Pistols, Sid Vicious, Tim Berners-Lee, Today in history

1054: Pope Leo IX escapes captivity and returns to Rome. 1496: Jews are expelled from Syria. 1507: Death of Cesare

2009: Omar Hassan al-Bashir

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It happened today – on this day in history – March 4

04/03/202103/03/2021 YA Reporter Abraham Lincoln, Anne Boleyn, Charles II, Charlie Chaplin, Dollfuss, Forth Bridge, Harold Wilson, Hindenburg, Jimmy Hoffa, Joe Frazier, John Adams, John Lennon, Keith Flint, Krays, Kurt Cobain, Maguire Seven, March 4, Mugabe, news, Omar Hassan al-Bashir, Putin, Spanish flu, Today in history, Vivaldi

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

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