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1985: Queen steal the show at Live Aid

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It happened today – this day in history – July 13

13/07/202112/07/2021 YA Reporter Buckingham Palace, Captain James Cook, Corday, Curtis Mayfield, Henry II, July 13, Kursk, Live Aid, Marat, Mississippi, news, Oliver Cromwell, Paul McCartney, Queen Victoria, Ruth Ellis, Theresa May, Today in history, William I, World Cup

1174: William I of Scotland, key rebel in the revolt of 1173-1174, is captured at Alnwick by forces loyal to

1914: Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie moments before being assassinated in Sarajevo

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It happened today – this day in history – June 28

28/06/202127/06/2021 YA Reporter Archduke Franz Ferdinand, Beatles, Belfast, Catherine the Great, Edward IV, Elton John, Fort Knox, Guadeloupe, Irish Civil War, Jonah Lomu, June 28, Kishinev, Lee Trevino, Louis Armstrong, Malcolm X, Margaret Thatcher, Mike Tyson, Montenegro, Muhammad Ali, Ned Kelly, news, OPEC, Queen Victoria, Rolling Stones, saxophone, Seoul, Today in history, Tomato, Treaty of Versailles

1461: Edward IV is crowned king of England. 1491: Birth of Henry VIII in London. 1577: Birth of Flemish Baroque

2019: David Gilmour and his iconic black Fender Stratocaster

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It happened today – this day in history – June 20

20/06/202119/06/2021 YA Reporter Alaska, Bugsy Siegel, David Bowie, David Gilmour, Jesse Owens, Joe Louis, John Major, Juan Peron, June 20, Lizzie Borden, Louis XVI, Muhammad Ali, news, O J Simpson, Oxford University, Queen Victoria, Roberto Durán, Samuel Morse, Tobruk, Today in history

451: Roman and Visigoth forces defeat Attila the Hun in north east France. 1214: The University of Oxford receives its

1997: Betty Shabazz

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It happened today – this day in history – May 30

30/05/202129/05/2021 YA Reporter Andrew Jackson, Bangladesh, Beatles, Betty Shabazz, Biafra, Charles I, Chelsea, Christopher Marlowe, Columbus, Elon Musk, Graham Hill, Henry VI, Henry VIII, Hissène Habré, Jane Seymour, Joan of Arc, Lincoln Memorial, Liverpool, Margaret of Anjou, May 30, Napoleon, news, Nottingham Forest, Queen Victoria, Real Madrid, Today in history, Tyson, Zatopek

1381: Peasant uprising begins in Essex. 1431: Joan of Arc, aged 19, is burned at the stake in Rouen. 1445:

1979: Blair Peach

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It happened today – this day in history – April 23

23/04/202123/04/2021 YA Reporter Alexander I, April 23, Beatles, Blair Peach, Charles II, Eritrea, Ethelred, Henry VI, HIV, John Lennon, news, Paul McCartney, Queen Anne, Queen Victoria, Robert E Lee, Shakespeare, Stanley Matthews, Today in history, Trump, Yeltsin

871: Death of Ethelred I, King of Wessex. 1014: King Brian Boru of Ireland defeats Viking forces at Battle of

1933: King Kong

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It happened today – on this day in history – March 2

02/03/202101/03/2021 YA Reporter Beatles, Casablanca, Charles I, Compact disc, Concorde, Elvis Presley, Jeff Sessions, Jesse James, Kelis, King Kong, Leeson, Napoleon, news, Queen Victoria, Red Cross, Rhodesia, Richard Nixon, Texas, Today in history

1316: Birth of King Robert II of Scotland, first monarch of the House of Stewart. 1629: Charles I dissolves parliament,

1967: Paul McCartney conducts the orchestra at the cavernous Studio 2 in EMI Studios, Abbey Road

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It happened today – this day in history – February 10

10/02/202109/02/2021 YA Reporter Arthur Miller, Beatles, Bolivar, Brahms, Eisenhower, February 10, Frank Zappa, Gary Powers, Glenn Miller, Halley, Haydn, Michael Jackson, Napoleon, Nelson Mandela, news, Offenbach, Phil Spector, Prince Charles, Queen Victoria, Tchaikovsky, Today in history, Tom & Jerry, Trotsky, Woodrow Wilson

1098: Crusaders defeat Prince Redwan of Aleppo at Antioch. 1355: The St. Scholastica’s Day riot breaks out in Oxford, leaving

1905: Tsarist troops wait for protestors outside the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg

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It happened today – this day in history – January 22

22/01/202128/01/2021 YA Reporter Azerbaijan, Beach Boys, Beatles, Buddy Holly, COVID-19, Darwin, David Bowie, Edward VII, Falkland Islands, George Foreman, George Weah, history, James Hanratty, January 22, Lord Byron, Melania Trump, Mike Hawthorn, Mike Tyson, Queen Victoria, Rourke's Drift, Sakharov, St Petersburg, Sumatra, Vatican

871: The Danish invasion army beats Saxon Ethelred of Wessex at the Battle of Basing. 1371: King Robert II of

1917: T E Lawrence

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It happened today – this day in history – January 1

01/01/202128/01/2021 YA Reporter ABBA, Abraham Lincoln, Albany, Australia, Beatles, Brahms, British Rail, Ceres, Claudius, Cuba, Don Bradman, EEC, Farenheit, Frankenstein, Fred West, Haiti, Hank Williams, history, January 1, Oslo, pension, Queen Victoria, Röntgen, Samuel Pepys, T E Lawrence, Top of the Pops

49: Roman emperor Claudius marries his niece Agrippina. 1502: Portuguese navigators discover Rio de Janeiro. 1515: Francis I succeeds Louis

1955: ITV launches with Alec Guinness, Harry Secombe and ads for toothpast, chocolate and petrol

It happened today – this day in history – September 22

22/09/202021/09/2020 Mick Ferris Abraham Lincoln, Anne of Cleeves, Boris Yeltsin, Bulgaria, Cat Stevens, Diana Ross, Gene Tunney, Gerald Ford, history, ITV, Jimmy Page, John Lennon, John Simpson, Kissinger, Mali, Queen Victoria, September 22, Switzerland, Wagner

1499: Switzerland becomes an independent state. 1515: Anne of Cleves, fourth wife of Henry VIII, is born in Dusseldorf. 1529:

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