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2010: Astrid Kirchherr (self portrait taken circa 1961)

News Today in History

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

1950: The Peak District

News Today in History

It happened today – on this day in history – December 28

28/12/202028/01/2021 Mick Ferris Debbie Reynolds, December 28, Denis Wilson, history, Lemmy, Lumiere, Neptune, Ted Hughes, Westminster Abbey

1065: Westminster Abbey is consecrated. 1612: Gallileo observes and records a “fixed star” without realising it is the undiscovered planet