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1865: Abraham Lincoln

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It happened today – this day in history – April 14

14/04/202213/04/2022 YA Reporter Abraham Lincoln, Afghanistan, April 14, Beatles, Biden, Desmond Tutu, Edgar Allen Poe, Edison, Eyjafjallajökull, Grand National, Henry VIII, Hungary, Laika, Marc Antony, Motown, news, Noah Webster, Noye, Second World War, Space shuttle, Today in history, Trump, Turkey, Wars of the Roses, Watergate

43BC: The Battle of Forum Gallorum: Marc Antony besieging Julius Caesar’s assassin Decimus Junius Brutus in Mutina, defeats the forces

1959: Founding of Motown Records

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It happened today – this day in history – January 12

12/01/202211/01/2022 YA Reporter Angry Brigade, Haiti, Handel, Idi Amin, January 12, Martin Luther King, Motown, Muhammad Ali, National Trust, news, O J Simpson, Prince Edward, Second World War, Sergio Aguero, South Vietnam, Stalin, supermarket, Sven Goran Eriksson, Today in history, Zanzibar

1528: Gustav I is crowned King of Sweden. 1723: George Frideric Handel’s opera “Ottone” premieres at the King’s Theatre, London.

1997: Tony Blair

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It happened today – this day in history – May 2

02/05/202128/04/2022 YA Reporter Anne Boleyn, Beatles, Billie Holiday, Bruce Springsteen, Cabot, Charles II, Eta, Falklands, General Belgrano, Herschel, Joy Division, Leicester City, May 2, Michael Jackson, Motown, news, Osama bin Laden, Portsmouth, Rossini, Stanley Matthews, Stonewall Jackson, Today in history, Tony Blair

1194: Richard I gives Portsmouth its first Royal Charter. 1497: John Cabot’s expedition departs Bristol searching for new lands across

1986: Desmond Tutu

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It happened today – this day in history – April 14

14/04/202113/04/2021 YA Reporter Abraham Lincoln, April 14, Beatles, Eyjafjallajökull, Handel, Henry VIII, Hungary, Laika, Mailer, Motown, news, Noye, Piaf, Poe, Pompidou, Steinbeck, Today in history, Wars of the Roses

43BC: The Battle of Forum Gallorum: Marc Antony besieging Julius Caesar’s assassin Decimus Junius Brutus in Mutina, defeats the forces

1962: Agent Orange is sprayed on a dense Vietnamese jungle

News Today in History

It happened today – this day in history – January 12

12/01/202128/01/2021 Mick Ferris Agatha Christie, Agent Orange, Aguero, Angry Brigade, Biden, Handel, history, January 12, Motown, Muhammad Ali, National Trust, O J Simpson, Stalin, supermarket, Sven Goran Eriksson, The Police, Victoria Climbie, Vietnam

1528: Gustav I is crowned King of Sweden. 1723: George Frideric Handel’s opera “Ottone” premieres at the King’s Theatre, London.

1983: Motown bass player James Jamerson

It happened today – this day in history – August 2

02/08/202001/08/2020 Mick Ferris Apple, August 2, Fanny Blankers-Koen, Gulf War, history, Iraq, James Jamerson, King William II, Kuwait, Lewis Carroll, Motown, Mussolini, Napoleon, Olympics, Warren G Harding, Wild Bill Hickok

216BC: The Carthaginian army lead by Hannibal defeats numerically superior Roman army at the Battle of Cannae during the Second

1865: Abraham Lincoln

It happened today – this day in history – April 14

14/04/202013/04/2020 Mick Ferris April 14, Beatles, Desmond Tutu, Eyjafjallajökull, Faldo, history, Laika, Lincoln, Mailer, Motown, shuttle, Steinbeck, Watergate

43BC: The Battle of Forum Gallorum: Marc Antony besieging Julius Caesar’s assassin Decimus Junius Brutus in Mutina, defeats the forces