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1919: Emile Cottin in custody (far right) after the attempted assassination of French prime minister Georges Clemenceau

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It happened today – this day in history – February 20

20/02/202219/02/2022 YA Reporter Anthony Eden, Austria, Edward VI, February 20, Handel, Jacobites, John Glen, Jon Venables, Kofi Annan, Mountbatten, Muhammad Ali, Napoleon, news, Orkney, Robert Thompson, Rossini, Second World War, shankhill Butchers, Shetland, Tern Hill, Today in history, Winter Olympics

1472: Orkney and Shetland are left by Norway to Scotland, due to a dowry payment. 1547: Edward VI is crowned

2010: Astrid Kirchherr (self portrait taken circa 1961)

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It happened today – this day in history – August 25

25/08/202124/08/2021 YA Reporter Aaliyah, Andrew Jackson, August 25, Beatles, Cantona, Captain James Cook, Charles de Gaulle, First World War, Galileo, Henry VI, Krenz, Matthew Webb, Mountbatten, Neptune, news, Olympics, Second World War, Today in history, Trump, Uruguay, Voyager 1, Wagner, zeppelin

1482: Death of Margaret of Anjou, wife of Henry VI aged 52. 1530: Birth of Ivan the Terrible, first tsar

1970: Brazil win the World Cup for the third time in the greatest ever final

News Today in History

It happened today – this day in history – June 21

21/06/202120/06/2021 YA Reporter Boris Johnson, Brazil, Catherine of Aragon, Charles II, commonwealth, Edward III, Evita, F W Woolworth, Henry VIII, Jacinda Arden, Jamestown, Johnny Rotten, June 21, Lennox Lewis, Lord Roseberry, Maureen Connolly, Medger Evers, Mountbatten, news, Okinawa, Pele, Pope Paul VI, Prince William, Scapa Flow, Sex Pistols, Today in history, Victoria Cross, World Cup

1377: Death of Edward III aged 64. 1529: Catherine of Aragon speaks against her marriage’s annulment to Henry VIII at

1968: Artist Andy Warhol is shot three times by feminist Valerie Solanas

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It happened today – this day in history – June 3

03/06/202103/06/2021 YA Reporter Andy Warhol, Beatlles, bikini, Chauvin, Crusaders, David Bowie, David Crosby, Dunkirk, Elvis, Florida, Gemini 4, Gemini 9, George V, Graham Nash, Imran Khan, Jay Z, Jesse James, Jim Gordon, jubilee, June 3, Kennedy, Kruschev, Lacrosse, London Bridge, Mountbatten, Muhammad Ali, news, Pope John XXIII, Ray Davies, Real Madrid, Ringo, Stephen Stills, Tiananmen Square, Today in history, Valerie Solanas, W G Grace, Wallis Simpson

1098: After a five-month siege in the First Crusade, Crusaders seize Antioch (in modern day Turkey). 1539: Explorer Hernando de

1979: Lord Mountbatten is killed by the IRA

It happened today – this day in history – August 27

27/08/202026/08/2020 Mick Ferris Angelina Jolie, August 27, Barack Obama, Beatles, Brian Epstein, Ebola, Elvis, Guinness, Haile Selassie, history, Krakatoa, Miley Cyrus, Moldavia, Mountbatten, Myammar, Napoleon, Olympics, Spanish flu, Zanzibar

1549: John Dudley Earl of Warwick destroys Robert Kett’s army at the Battle of Dussindale, ending Kett’s rebellion in Norfolk.

1944: Parisians line the Champs Elysees to celebrate liberation from the Nazis

It happened today – this day in history – August 25

25/08/202019/08/2021 Mick Ferris Aaliyah, August 25, Captain Cook, Fitt, Galileo, history, Mountbatten, Olympics, Paris, Rockwell, Trump, Wagner

1482: Death of Margaret of Anjou, wife of Henry VI aged 52. 1530: Birth of Ivan the Terrible, first tsar

1989: A protester stands in front of a line of tanks in Tiananmen Square

It happened today – this day in history – June 3

03/06/202001/06/2021 Mick Ferris bikini, Duke of Windsor, history, Jesse James, June 3, Kafka, Kennedy, Krushchev, Mountbatten, Muhammad Ali, Pope John, Ringo, Tiananmen Square, Wallis Simpson

June 3 1098: After a five-month siege in the First Crusade, Crusaders seize Antioch (in modern day Turkey). 1539: Explorer

1962: John Glenn climbs aboard Friendship 7

It happened today – on this day in history – February 20

20/02/202020/02/2020 Mick Ferris Eden, February 20, Glenn, Hendrix, history, Mountbatten, Rossini, Shankhill, Ternhill, Thompson

1472: Orkney and Shetland are left by Norway to Scotland, due to a dowry payment. 1547: Edward VI is crowned

1967: Brian Epstein found dead at his home in Belgravia. Photo courtesy Dutch National Archive

It happened today – this day in history – August 27

27/08/201911/09/2019 Press Association Aigist 27, Epstein, history, Krakatoa, Mountbatten, nostaligia, Selassie, Tarzan, yellow advertiser

1859: The world’s first oil well was drilled in Titusville, Pennsylvania, by Edwin Drake. 1883: Krakatoa, a volcanic island in