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2000: Zach de la Rocha

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It happened today – this day in history – October 18

18/10/202117/10/2021 YA Reporter 0 Comments Aaron Copeland, Al Capone, Al Green, Alaska, Alec Douglas Home, Andreas Baader, BBC, Beatles, Bob Beamon, Congo Free State, Czechoslovakia, E M Forster, Edison, Elvis Presley, Erich Honecker, First Balkan War, Jenson Button, Lennon, Listz, Louis XIV, Mahler, NASA, news, October 18, Olympics, Paul McCartney, Ronettes, Second Opium War, Second World War, Stanley Matthews, Today in history

1009: The Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem is destroyed by the Fatimid caliph Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, who hacks

2018: Canada legalises cannabis

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It happened today – this day in history – October 17

17/10/202116/10/2021 YA Reporter 0 Comments American Revolutionary War, Beatles, Bessemer, Brexit, cannabis, Charles II, Crimean War, Edison, Edward III, Einstein, First World War, Hatfield train crash, Jacinda Ardern, Listz, Marconi, Matisse, Mendelssohn, Mogadishu, Mother Teresa, news, Northern Ireland, October 17, Olympics, OPEC, Pompeii, Second World War, Sevastopol, The Queen, Today in history, Torquemada, Vesuvius, Yugoslavia

79: Mt. Vesuvius erupts, burying the cities of Pompeii, Herculaneum, Oplontis and Stabiae, killing thousands. 1346: King David II of

1979: Not The Nine o'Clock News

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It happened today – this day in history – October 16

16/10/202115/10/2021 YA Reporter 0 Comments Alonso, Beatles, Bengal, Bob Dylan, C S Lewis, Castro, Charlotte Bronte, Cuban Missile Crisis, Desmond Tutu, First World War, Harold Wilson, Jadwiga, Jean Batten, Joan Baez, Kissinger, Little Richard, Long Kesh, Mao Zedong, Marie Antoinette, Messi, Napoleon, news, Not The Nine o'Clock News, Nuremberg war trials, October 16, Olympics, Pinochet, Pope John Paul II, Today in history, Westminster

1384: Jadwiga is crowned King of Poland, despite being a woman. 1555: Hugh Latimer, bishop and royal chaplain, is burned

1917: Mata Hari

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It happened today – this day in history – October 15

15/10/202115/10/2021 YA Reporter 0 Comments Breton, Buddy Holly, Chris Evert, Cologne Cathedral, Cortes, Debussy, Goering, Hemingway, Henry VIII, Karl Marx, Keith Richards, La Guardia, Leopold II, Little Richard, Mata Hari, Mussorsky, Napoleon, news, October 15, Olympics, Quebec, Second World War, Today in history, Walter Sisulu, Winston Silcott

70BC: Birth of Roman poet Virgil. 1501: Heir to the throne and older brother of Henry VIII, Prince Arthur, marries

1968: Donn Eisele and Wally Schirra transmit from Apollo 7

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It happened today – this day in history – October 14

14/10/202113/10/2021 YA Reporter 0 Comments Apollo 7, Arafat, Aung San Suu Kyi, Battle of Hastings, Cecil Parkinson, Churchill, Columbus, Edward II, Haile Selassie, Harvey Weinstein, Martin Luther King, Mary Queen of Scots, news, October 14, Olympics, Peres, rabin, Robert the Bruce, Second World War, Senghenydd Colliery, Sinatra, Today in history, Winnie the Pooh, Yeager

1066: The Battle of Hastings. William the Conqueror and his Norman army defeat the English forces of Harold II who

1996: Damon Hill

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It happened today – this day in history – October 13

13/10/202112/10/2021 YA Reporter 0 Comments American Civil War, Ankara, Beatles, Copiapó, Damon Hill, Dylan, Harpers Ferry, Henry IV, Mahler, Mubarak, Nero, news, October 13, Olympics, Second World War, Simone Biles, Today in history, Vietnam

54AD: Nero succeeds Claudius as Roman Emperor 1399: Henry of Bolingbroke is crowned King Henry IV of England at Westminster

1915: Edith Cavell

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It happened today – this day in history – October 12

12/10/202111/10/2021 YA Reporter 0 Comments Bali, Beatles, Brighton, Christ The Redeemer, Columbus, Dillinger, Edith Cavell, Gorbachev, Grand Hotel, Inejiro Asanuma, Kabul, King John, Little Richard, Louis XVI, Martin Luther, news, October 12, Olympics, Pope John Paul II, Princess Eugenie, Reagan, Second World War, Sid Vicious, Today in history, USS Cole, Ypres

1216: King John loses his crown jewels in The Wash as the flood tide swamps his wagons. 1459: Richard of

1922: Alaska P Davidson

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It happened today – this day in history – October 11

11/10/202110/10/2021 Mick Ferris 0 Comments Abyssinia, Alaska Davidson, Aleppo, Battle of Camperdown, Beatles, Benjamin Franklin, Boer War, Dave Grohl, Einstein, First World War, Henry VIII, Madonna, Mikhail Gorbachev, news, October 11, Rod Stewart, Ronald Reagan, Today in history

1138: An earthquake in Aleppo, Syria, kills an estimated 230,000. 1521: Pope Leo X titles Henry VIII “Defender of the

1975: Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton

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It happened today – this day in history – October 10

10/10/202109/10/2021 YA Reporter 0 Comments billiard ball, Boxer Rebellion, Cuba, Dreft, Elizabeth Taylor, Fiji, Gershwin, Gibson, Hanoi, Harold Wilson, James Bond, London Eye, Malala Yousafzai, Margaret Thatcher, news, October 10, Olympics, Pan Am, Pankhurst, Richard Burton, Schumacher, Second World War, Spiro Agnew, Today in history, tuxedo, Willem III

1375: The Westfriese sea wall breaks flooding northern Netherlands. 1549: The Duke of Somerset is dismissed as Lord Protector and

2012: Malala Yousafzai

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It happened today – this day in history – October 9

09/10/202108/10/2021 YA Reporter 0 Comments Alec Douglas-Home, Charlemagne, Churchill, Crimean War, Elvis Presley, First World War, Franklin D Roosevelt, Harold Macmillan., Harvey Weinstein, HMS Lutine, King Alexander I, Konrad Adenaur, Malala Yousafzai, Margot Fonteyn, news, October 9, Richard I, Second World War, Stalin, Stone Roses, Today in history, Tristan da Cunha, Yorktown

768: Charlemagne and his brother Carloman I are crowned Kings of The Franks. 1192: Richard I leaves Jerusalem in disguise.

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