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1916: The Somme - thousands of British soldiers scrambled out of their trenches and were dead within minutes

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It happened today – this day in history – November 18

18/11/202028/01/2021 Mick Ferris Antarctica, Disney, history, Jim Jones, Khrushchev, King's Cross, Latvia, Morocco, November 18, Proust, Shaw, Somme, Terry Waite, William Tell

1307: William Tell reputedly shoots an apple off his son’s head with a crossbow in Switzerland. 1477: First English dated

1916: Mark I tanks on the day they were first used in warfare

It happened today – this day in history – September 15

15/09/202014/09/2020 Mick Ferris Astrid Proll, Brunel, Chamberlain, Churchill, Darwin, Fleming, history, Marco Polo, Muhammad Ali, Napoleon, Olympics, Parsons Green, Ramones, September 15, Somme, tanks, The Sun, Yasser Arafat

921: Saint Ludmila is murdered at the command of her daughter-in-law at Tetin. 1254: Birth of explorer Marco Polo in