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1939: Germany invades Poland

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It happened today – this day in history – September 1

01/09/202131/08/2021 YA Reporter Albania, Beatles, Beslan, Betting shops, First World War, Gareth Bale, Hitchcock, Jacques Cartier, Kitchener, Libya, Liverpool, Louis XIV, news, Olympics, Second World War, September 1, spurs, Titanic, Today in history, William III

1482: Tatars plunder Kiev, Ukraine. 1535: French navigator Jacques Cartier reaches Hochelaga (Montreal). 1557: Death of Jacques Cartier aged 65.

1997: The Princess of Wales is killed in a car wreck in Paris

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It happened today – this day in history – August 31

31/08/202130/08/2021 YA Reporter August 31, Diana Princess of Wales, Dwight D Eisenhower, Elvis Presley, Franklin D Roosevelt, George Harrison, Harold Macmillan, Henry VI, Isle of Wight, Jack The Ripper, Kitchener, news, Olympics, Princess Anne, Second World War, Today in history, Uzbekistan, Wayne Rooney

12AD: Birth of Caligula, third emperor of Rome. 1422: Henry VI becomes King of England at the age of nine

1963: John Profumo

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It happened today – this day in history – June 5

05/06/202104/06/2021 YA Reporter ABBA, Aids, Boer War, Britten, Edward Snowden, Fred Trueman, Goodyear, Harvey Weinstein, Indira Gandhi, Isaac Newton, Israel, June 5, Kitchener, Lacoste, Marshall Plan, news, Noddy, Pink Floyd, Profumo, Ramsey MacDonald, Robert Kennedy, Serbia, Six Day War, Titus, Today in history

70AD: Titus and his Roman legions breach the middle wall of Jerusalem. 1625: Death of composer Orlando Gibbons. 1661: Isaac

1924: Rolls Royce Silver Ghost

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It happened today – on this day in history – December 19

19/12/202028/01/2021 Mick Ferris A Chocolate Orange, BBC, Carl Perkins, December 19, Dickens, Eisenhower, Elvis Presley, Henry II, history, Idi Amin, Indochina, Kitchener, Kubrick, Mick Jagger, Penlee lifeboat, Rio Ferdinand, Rolls Royce, William Hague, William Pitt the Younger, Yeltsin

1154: Henry II is crowned King of England. 1642: Four of explorer Abel Rasman’s crew are killed at Wharewharangi Bay

2001: Safe journey George

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It happened today – this day in history – November 29

29/11/202028/01/2021 Mick Ferris Bonnie Prince Charlie, Cardinal Wolsey, Concorde, Edison, Fishmongers Hall, Graham Hill, history, Kitchener, Napoleon, Natalie Wood, November 29, Schrödinger, Sex Pistols, Slobodan Praljak

1530: Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, advisor to Henry VIII, dies just before facing trial for treason. 1643: Composer Claudio Monteverdi dies

1970: Jimi Hendrix

It happened today – this day in history – September 18

18/09/202017/09/2020 Mick Ferris 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

1927: Isadora Duncan

It happened today – this day in history – September 14

14/09/202013/09/2020 Mick Ferris Caroline Aherne, Clement Attlee, Gilliam, Graf Zeppelin, Handel, history, Isadora Duncan, Khrushchev, Kitchener, Little Richard, Marcus Sarjeant, Princess Grace, Rembrandt, Roy Orbison, September 14

81AD: Dometian becomes Emperor of the Roman Empire upon the death of his brother Titus. 1662: The Netherlands and England

1954: James Stewart in Hitchcock's Rear Window. Photo: Universal Studios

It happened today – this day in history – September 1

01/09/202031/08/2020 Mick Ferris Bale, Beslan, Betting shops, Fischer, Gadaffi, history, Hitchcock, Kitchener, Louis XIV, Mossad, Mussolini, Olympics, Poland, Rear Window, September 1, Supergrass

1482: Tatars plunder Kiev, Ukraine. 1535: French navigator Jacques Cartier reaches Hochelaga (Montreal). 1557: Death of Jacques Cartier aged 65.

1997: The crumpled wreck of the Mercedes S280 in which Princess Diana was travelling

It happened today – this day in history – August 31

31/08/202030/08/2020 Mick Ferris August 31, Braque, Brecht, Caligula, George Harrison, Henry VI, history, Jack The Ripper, Kitchener, Laurence Olivier, Olympics, Princess Diana, Rocky Marciano, Solidarity, Vivien Leigh

12AD: Birth of Caligula, third emperor of Rome. 1422: Henry VI becomes King of England at the age of nine

1990: US troops in Saudi Arabia during Operation Desert Shield

It happened today – this day in history – August 7

07/08/202006/08/2020 Mick Ferris Arthur Miller, August 7, Bathory, Churchill, Desert Shield, Elvis, Guadacanal, history, Idi Amin, James Joyce, Kitchener, Lennon, Macbeth, Napoleon, Oliver Hardy, Olympics, Trump, Xi Jinping

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