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It happened today – this day in history – January 21

21/01/202220/01/2022 YA Reporter Agatha Christie, Battle of Khe Sanh, Concorde, Emiliano Sala, George Harrison, Irish War of Independence, January 21, Lenin, Lorena Bobbitt, Louis XVI, Lucens, Monte Carlo Ra;;y, Nehru, news, Second World War, Super Bowl, Tobruk, Today in history, Vietnam War

1542: The English Parliament passes the bill of attainder against Henry VIII’s wife Katherine Howard. 1549: The Act of Uniformity

1928: Walt Disney introduces Mickey Mouse in Steamboat Willie

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It happened today – this day in history – November 18

18/11/202117/11/2021 YA Reporter Antarctica, Battle of the Somme, First World War, George Bernard Shaw, Jacobites, Khruschev, Kings Cross, Latvia, Louis XIV, Mickey Mouse, Morocco, news, November 18, Piccadilly Circus, Second World War, Terry Waite, Tobruk, Today in history, Vasco da Gama, Walt Disney, William Caxton, William Tell

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

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

1994: Lorena Bobbitt (right) and husband John Wayne Bobbitt

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It happened today – this day in history – January 21

21/01/202128/01/2021 YA Reporter Agatha Christie, Colonel Tom Parker, Concorde, Emiliano Sala, Eyak, George Harrison, history, Jackie Wilson, January 21, Jimi Hendrix, John McEnroe, Khe Sanh, Lenin, Lorena Bobbitt, Louis XVI, Nehru, Norman Stronge, Peter Shilton, Sinn Fein, Terry Jones, Tobruk

1720: Sweden and Prussia sign a peace treaty ending hostilities during the Great Northern War. 1793: Louis XVI of France

1934: Baby Face Nelson

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It happened today – this day in history – November 27

27/11/202028/01/2021 Mick Ferris Baby Face Nelson, Christopher Columbus, common market, Damilola Taylor, Edward I, General Custer, Harvey Milk, history, John Major, Meghan Markle, Militant Tendency, November 27, Paderewaki, Pope Paul VI, Prince Harry, Ross McWhirter, Tobruk

8BC: Roman poet Horace dies aged 56. 1295: Edward I calls what later became known as “The Model Parliament” extending