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1936: Amy Johnson

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It happened today – this day in history – May 15

15/05/202114/05/2021 YA Reporter Amy Johnson, Anne Boleyn, British Legion, Christmas Island, Cologne Cathedral, Dillinger, General Galtieri, George Harrison, George III, George Wallace, IOC, Israel, John Lennon, Kepler, King John, LAs Vegas, May 15, news, Okinawa, Old Trafford, Palestine, Paris, Paul McCartney, Real Madrid, Richey Edwards, Rocky Marciano, Sputnik, Stanley Matthews, Today in history, Tottenham Hotspur, Zidane

1213: King John names Stephen Langton as Archbishop of Canterbury. 1248: Archbishop Konrad von Hochstaden lays the cornerstone for Cologne

1986: Pripyat is evacuated after the nuclear accident at Chernobyl

News Today in History

It happened today – this day in history – April 27

27/04/202127/04/2021 YA Reporter Abraham Lincoln, Apollo 16, April 27, Beatles, Beethoven, Betty Boothroyd, Castro, Charles I, COVID-19, David Bowie, Denis Law, Edward I, habeas corpus, Handel, Hinckley, Kim Jong-un, Magellan, Mao, Milton, Mussolini, news, Olympics, Pope francis, Pripyat, Rocky Marciano, Sierra Leone, Tiananmen Square, Today in history, Togo, Westminster

1124: David I becomes king of Scots. 1296: The Scots are defeated by Edward I of England at The Battle

1976: A brief cover-up by the cast of "Oh! Calcutta!"

It happened today – this day in history – September 24

24/09/202023/09/2020 Mick Ferris Aung San Suu Kyi, Beatles, Ben Johnson, David Mellor, Doug Scott, Dougal Haston, Eisenhower, history, Jimi Hendrix, Mount Everest, Noel Coward, Olympics, Rocky Marciano, September 24, St Leger

1493: Christopher Columbus embarks on his second expedition to the New World. 1529: Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent and his Ottoman

1997: The crumpled wreck of the Mercedes S280 in which Princess Diana was travelling

It happened today – this day in history – August 31

31/08/202030/08/2020 Mick Ferris August 31, Braque, Brecht, Caligula, George Harrison, Henry VI, history, Jack The Ripper, Kitchener, Laurence Olivier, Olympics, Princess Diana, Rocky Marciano, Solidarity, Vivien Leigh

12AD: Birth of Caligula, third emperor of Rome. 1422: Henry VI becomes King of England at the age of nine