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1971: Terry Reid at the Glastonbury Festival

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It happened today – this day in history – June 22

22/06/202121/06/2021 YA Reporter Arkansas, Beatles, Bonnie Prince Charlie, Galileo, George V, Glastonbury, Henry Hudson, Henry VIII, Jeremy Thorpe, Joe Louis, John Dillinger, John McEnrow, Judy Garland, June 22, Maradona, Marc Dutroux, Napoleon, Nelson Mandela, news, Richard II, tennis, Today in history, W G Grace, Whitey Bulger

168BC: Romans under Lucius Aemilius Paullus defeat and capture Macedonian King Perseus, ending the Third Macedonian War. 1377: Richard II

1982: Argentinian prisoners of war are marched in Port Stanley after they surrendered in the Falklands War

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It happened today – this day in history – June 14

14/06/202113/06/2021 YA Reporter Babbage, Boston Strangler, Chaco War, Falklands, Grenfell, HMS Bounty, June 14, Lennon, Mandela, Mick Jagger, New Model Army, news, Oliver Cromwell, Paris, Reagan, Richard II, Today in history, Vietnam, World Cup

1381: Richard II meets leaders of the Peasants’ Revolt on Blackheath. 1645: The Tower of London is stormed The “New

1945: Dresden after the Allied firebombing campaign

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It happened today – on this day in history – February 14

14/02/202114/02/2021 YA Reporter Al Capone, Alexander Graham Bell, Beatles, David Bowie, Dracula, Dresden, James Cook, James Knox Polk, Oscar Pistorius, Oscar Wilde, Otis Redding, Prince, Richard II, Richard Nixon, Salman Rushdie, Thomas Cranmer, Today in history, Torvill and Dean, William III, Winter Olympics

1400: Richard II is murdered at Pontefract Castle. 1556: Archbishop Thomas Cranmer is declared a heretic. 1689: Parliament places Mary

1961: The inauguration of John F Kennedy

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It happened today – this day in history – January 20

20/01/202128/01/2021 YA Reporter Azerbaijan, Edward VIII, Franklin D Roosevelt, George V, history, January 20, John F Kennedy, Obama, Richard II, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, San Francisco 49ers, Suez, Terry Waite, The Monkees, Trump

1265: The first English Parliament summoned other than by royal command (by Simon de Montfort, Earl of Leicester) meets in

1918: Spanish flu: It could be today, including the woman in the middle wearing her mask under her nose

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It happened today – this day in history – October 31

31/10/202028/01/2021 Mick Ferris Beatles, Casanova, history, Indira Gandhi, Kim Kardashian, Lennon, Louise Woodward, Martin Lluther, Michelangelo, Mount Rushmore, Mussolini, October 31, Princess Margaret, Ray Charles, Richard II, River Phoenix, Spanish flu

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

1967: Tony Blackburn is the first DJ on the new Radio 1. Photo by Dezo Hoffman

It happened today – this day in history – September 30

30/09/202029/09/2020 Mick Ferris Commonwealth Games, Gershwin, history, Jack The Ripper, James Dean, Mozart, Napoleon, Nuremberg, Pinewood Studios, Radio 1, Richard II, September 30, Vanunu, VH1

1399: Richard II abdicates. 1520: Suleiman the Magnificent succeeds his father Selam I as Ottoman Sultan. 1544: Henry VIII pulls

1977: Groucho Marx

It happened today – this day in history – August 19

19/08/202018/08/2020 Mick Ferris August 19, Chris Hoy, Desmond Tutu, Edward I, Gorbachev, Groucho Marx, history, Hungerford, John Wesley Harding, Mary Queen of Scots, Michael Ryan, Mowlam, Richard II, Salem, Schumacher, Sex Pistols, Tony Scott, Victoria Pendleton

14AD: Death of first Roman Emperor Augustus aged 75. 1274: Edward I is crowned King of England at Westminster Abbey

1849: President James Knox Polk

It happened today – on this day in history – February 14

14/02/202013/02/2020 Mick Ferris Bell, Capone, Dracula, Elton, February 14, history, James Cook, Nixon, Pistorius, Polk, Richard II, Rushdie, Wilde, Wodehouse

1400: Richard II is murdered at Pontefract Castle. 1556: Archbishop Thomas Cranmer declared a heretic. 1689: Parliament places Mary Stuart