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1981: Pope John Paul II is shot

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It happened today – this day in history – May 13

13/05/202212/05/2022 YA Reporter Battle of Grantham, Beatles, Berlusconi, Botany Bay, Chelsea, Churchill, cricket, Ecuador, Farina, Liverpool, Lord Salisbury, Manchester City, Mary Queen of Scots, May 13, Michael Jackson, Mozart, Nehru, news, Pope John Paul II, Royal Flying Corps, Rudolph Valentino, Second World War, Stevie Wonder, Today in history, Velcro

609: Pope Boniface I turns the Pantheon in Rome into a Catholic church 1110: Crusaders march into Beirut causing a

1945: Gen Alfred Jodl signs the German surrender

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It happened today – this day in history – May 7

07/05/202206/05/2022 YA Reporter Alfred Jodl, Alfred Nobel, Beethoven, Chirac, dynamite, Elton John, European Cup, Eurovision Song Contest, First World War, Glenn Miller, Greece, Hagia Sophia, HMS Victory, Joan of Arc, Leonid Brezhnev, Louis XIV, Maastricht, May 7, NATO, New Orleans, news, Old Trafford, Otto von Bismarck, Pope John Paul II, Putin, RMS Lusitania, Second World War, South Africa, Theatre Royal, Today in history

558: The dome of the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul collapses. 1429: The siege of Orleans is broken by Joan of

1941: Mt Rushmore

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It happened today – this day in history – October 31

31/10/202130/10/2021 YA Reporter Casanova, Davy, First World War, Handel, Houdini, Indira Gandhi, J Edgar Hoover, Kim Kardashian, Lennon, Louise Woodward, Maori Wars, Martin Luther, Michelangelo, Mika Häkkinen, Mt Rushmore, news, October 31, Pope John Paul II, Post Office Tower, Princess Margaret, Ray Charles, Richard II, Rimsky-Korsakov, River Phoenix, Second World War, Spanish flu, Today in history, Trump

1396: 31-year old Richard II weds Isabella of Valois, aged six – yes 6 – in a dynastic marriage. 1517:

1966: George Blake

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It happened today – this day in history – October 22

22/10/202121/10/2021 YA Reporter American Civil War, Apollo 7, Crippen, Cuban Missile Crisis, Cumberland Gap, Duke of Wellington, Edison, Goldman Sachs, Gordon Banks, Houdini, Laos, Metropolitan Opera House, news, October 22, Offenbach, Peter the Great, Pope John Paul II, Sam Houston, Today in history, Venera 9

362: The temple of Apollo at Daphne, outside of Antioch, is destroyed in a mysterious fire. 1383: A two-year period

1979: Not The Nine o'Clock News

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It happened today – this day in history – October 16

16/10/202115/10/2021 YA Reporter Alonso, Beatles, Bengal, Bob Dylan, C S Lewis, Castro, Charlotte Bronte, Cuban Missile Crisis, Desmond Tutu, First World War, Harold Wilson, Jadwiga, Jean Batten, Joan Baez, Kissinger, Little Richard, Long Kesh, Mao Zedong, Marie Antoinette, Messi, Napoleon, news, Not The Nine o'Clock News, Nuremberg war trials, October 16, Olympics, Pinochet, Pope John Paul II, Today in history, Westminster

1384: Jadwiga is crowned King of Poland, despite being a woman. 1555: Hugh Latimer, bishop and royal chaplain, is burned

1915: Edith Cavell

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It happened today – this day in history – October 12

12/10/202111/10/2021 YA Reporter Bali, Beatles, Brighton, Christ The Redeemer, Columbus, Dillinger, Edith Cavell, Gorbachev, Grand Hotel, Inejiro Asanuma, Kabul, King John, Little Richard, Louis XVI, Martin Luther, news, October 12, Olympics, Pope John Paul II, Princess Eugenie, Reagan, Second World War, Sid Vicious, Today in history, USS Cole, Ypres

1216: King John loses his crown jewels in The Wash as the flood tide swamps his wagons. 1459: Richard of

1979: Pope John Paul II meets US President Jimmy Carter

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It happened today – this day in history – October 6

06/10/202105/10/2021 YA Reporter Beatles, Beckham, Bobby Charlton, Broadwater Farm, First World War, Keith Blakelock, LSD, Moulin Rouge, news, October 6, Orange Free State, Passchendaele, Pope John Paul II, Sadat, Second World War, Stalin, The Mousetrap, Today in history

1762: British troops occupy Manila, Philippines. 1854: The Great Fire of Newcastle and Gateshead leads to 53 deaths. 1889: The

1960: Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev vents his anger at the UN

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It happened today – this day in history – September 29

29/09/202128/09/2021 Mick Ferris Armistice, Arthur Miller, Beatles, Bizet, Blackpool, Botswana, Diesel, Eisenhower, First World War, Italy, Jerry Lee Lewis, Joe Louis, John Cobb, John D Rockefeller, John F Kennedy, Khrushchev, Metropolitan Police, Muhammad Ali, NASA, news, Olympics, Pope John Paul II, Ryder Cup, Second World War, September 29, Today in history, Treaty of Constantinople, vCJD

1547: Birth of author Miguel de Cervantes. 1571: Birth of artist Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio) in Milan. 1650: Henry

1958: Julia Lennon is killed by a drunk driver

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It happened today – this day in history – July 15

15/07/202114/07/2021 YA Reporter Alcoholics Anonymous, Algeria, Apollo 18, Archbishop Makarios, Ashleu Cole, Charles II, Greenwich Observatory, Jerusalem, Julia Lennon, July 15, King John, Manny Pacquaio, Margarine, Marne, Napoleon, news, Paul McCartney, Peasants' Revolt, Pope John Paul II, Ray Davies, Rosetta Stone, Soyuz 19, Srebrenica, Today in history, Tour de France, Versace, Wiley Post

1099: Jerusalem is captured and plundered by Christian forces during the First Crusade. 1207: King John expels Canterbury monks for

1983: Lech Walesa and Pope John Paul II

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It happened today – this day in history – June 23

23/06/202122/06/2021 YA Reporter Anthony Barber, Bob Dylan, Brexit, Catherine the Great, contraceptive, Desmond Tutu, Donald Maclean, Gotti, Guy Burgess, IOC, Joe Frazier, June 23, Klaus Fuchs, Le Mans, Lech Walesa, Lorena Bobbitt, Louis XVI, Monet, news, Peenemunde, Pope John Paul II, RMS Queen Elizabeth, Robert Clive, Seven Years War, Today in history, Watergate, Wiley Post

930: The Icelandic Parliament, the Alþingi, the world’s oldest parliament, is established. 1547: Champion of the Protestant Reformation, Philip I,

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