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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

1990: Freddie Mercury (far left) and Queen at the Brits

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It happened today – this day in history – February 18

18/02/202217/02/2022 YA Reporter Beatles, Bonnie Prince Charlie, Brian Wilson, Bunyan, Churchill, Cortes, David Gilmour, Edward IV, February 18, First World War, Henry Tudor, Joe McCarthy, Khartoum, Kiev, Mark Twain, Mary Queen of Scots, Napoleon, Nepal, news, Pluto, Ray Charles, Second World War, Thatcher, Today in history, Winter Olympics

1294: Death of Mongol Emperor Kublai Khan. 1478: George, Duke of Clarence, is convicted of treason against his older brother

1969: The Beatles at Twickenham

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It happened today – this day in history – January 2

02/01/202201/01/2022 YA Reporter Beatles, Daguerre, Falklands, Gandhi, Hauptmann, Ibrox, Ivan the Terrible, January 2, John F Kennedy, Khartoum, Lord Byron, news, Ovid, Second World War, Sid Vicious, Theodore Roosevelt, Today in history, Wagner

17: Death of the Roman poet Ovid. 1570: Ivan the Terrible’s march to Novgorod begins. 1757: British troops occupy Calcutta.

1930: Astronomer Clyde Tombaugh

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It happened today – this day in history – March 13

13/03/202112/03/2021 YA Reporter Apollo 9, Beatles, Bill Gates, Boer War, Dunblane, Eric Clapton, FA Cup, Gacy, George Pell, Grenada, Harvard, Khartoum, March 13, Mata Hari, Michael Jackson, Mongolia, news, Pluto, President Andrew Johnson, Rex Tillerson, Today in history, Tombaugh, Torvill and Dean, Trotsky, Uranus

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

2014: Clashes in Kiev

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It happened today – on this day in history – February 18

18/02/202117/02/2021 YA Reporter Beatles, Brian Wilson, Churchill, David Gilmour, Duke of Clarence, February 18, Freddie Mercury, Henry Tudor, Hernan Cortes, Hugh Gaitskell, hunting, Khartoum, Kiev, Kublai Khan, Margaret Thatcher, Mary Queen of Scots, McCarthy, Napoleon, Pluto, Today in history, Winter Olympics

1294: Death of Mongol Emperor Kublai Khan. 1478: George, Duke of Clarence, is convicted of treason against his older brother

1974: Bad Company: (L to R) Boz Burrell, Paul Rodgers, Simon Kirke, Mick Ralphs

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It happened today – this day in history – January 18

18/01/202128/01/2021 YA Reporter Bad Company, Boston Strangler, Botany Bay, football, Gaitskell, Garfield Todd, history, January 18, Khartoum, Legionnaires' disease, Leningrad, Nagin, Noriega, Saracens, Tagish Lake, UFO

1126: Emperor Huizong abdicates the Chinese throne in favour of his son Qinzong. 1535: Francisco Pizarro founds the city of