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1948: Fanny Blankers-Koen

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It happened today – this day in history – August 7

07/08/202106/08/2021 YA Reporter Adam Peaty, Apollo 15, Arthur Miller, August 7, Bali, Churchill, Explorer 6, Fanny Blankers-Koen, First World War, Francis Drake, Guadacanal, Idi Amin, James Joyce, Kenya, Lord Kitchener, Macbeth, Napoleon, news, Oliver Hardy, Olympics, Operation Desert Shield, Second World War, Shakespeare, Tanzania, Thor Heyerdahl, Today in history, Tour de France, Trump, Ulysses, Viking 2

1560: Birth of Elizabeth Bathory, Hungarian countess and most prolific female serial killer in history, in Nyírbátor. 1573: Francis Drake’s

1984: Sellafield

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It happened today – this day in history – July 23

23/07/202122/07/2021 YA Reporter Amy Winehouse, Beatles, Bill Cosby, Boris Johnson, Chris Froome, Donald Campbell, Dunlop, Greece, Hale-Bopp, HMS Beagle, ice cream, John Bonham, July 23, Kenya, Napoleon, news, Nixon, One Direction, Palestine, Petain, Prince Andrew, Sarajevo, Sellafield, Sharm al-Sheikh, Stalingrad, Tiger Woods, Today in history, Tour de France, Vic Morrow, World Cup

636: Arabs gain control of most of Palestine from the Byzantine Empire. 1148: Crusaders attack Damascus. 1745: Charles Edward Stuart,

1961: Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann in the dock at his trial in Jerusalem

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It happened today – on this day in history – December 12

12/12/202028/01/2021 Mick Ferris Beethoven, Boris Johnson, Brian Jones, Carlos the Jackal, China, Clapham, december 12, Eichmann, history, hovercraft, Ian Stewart, Ike Turner, Japan, Jerry Lee Lewis, Kenya, Marconi, Mick Jagger, Mussert, Pennsylvania, Princess Anne, Rolling Stones, Star Trek, Yeager

1694: The Royal Society censures astronomer Edmond Halley for suggesting in a paper titled ‘Some considerations about the cause of