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1948: Fanny Blankers-Koen

It happened today – this day in history – August 7

07/08/202106/08/2021 YA Reporter Adam Peaty, Apollo 15, Arthur Miller, August 7, Bali, Churchill, Explorer 6, Fanny Blankers-Koen, First World War, Francis Drake, Guadacanal, Idi Amin, James Joyce, Kenya, Lord Kitchener, Macbeth, Napoleon, news, Oliver Hardy, Olympics, Operation Desert Shield, Second World War, Shakespeare, Tanzania, Thor Heyerdahl, Today in history, Tour de France, Trump, Ulysses, Viking 2

1560: Birth of Elizabeth Bathory, Hungarian countess and most prolific female serial killer in history, in Nyírbátor. 1573: Francis Drake’s

1976: Niki Lauda crashes during the German Grand Prix

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It happened today – this day in history – August 1

01/08/202131/07/2021 YA Reporter Admiral Nelson, Benin, Claudius, Columbus, Game of Thrones, George Harrison, George I, Grand Prix, Linford Christie, London Bridge, Marc Antony, news, Niki Lauda, Olympics, oxygen, slavery, Today in history, Tour de France, Watergate, Yorktown

30BC: Marc Antony (Marcus Antonius) commits suicide aged 53. 10BC: Birth of Emperor Claudius (Tberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus). 527: Justinian I

1965: Cigarette advertising is banned on TV

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It happened today – this day in history – July 31

31/07/202130/07/2021 YA Reporter Battle of Passchendaele, Bobby Robson, Castro, Christchurch, Christopher Columbus, cigarettes, Daniel Defoe, Elvis Presley, Jim Reeves, July 31, K2, Keith Richards, Marc Antony, Michael Phelps, Mick Jagger, news, Olympics, Scaramucci, Spycatcher, Tibet, Today in history, Tour de France, Zara Phillips

54BC: Aurelia Cotta, mother of Julius Caesar, dies at 66. 30BC: Marc Antony achieves a minor victory over Octavian at

2003: Sam Phillips

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It happened today – this day in history – July 30

30/07/202129/07/2021 YA Reporter Abraham Lincoln, Apollo 15, Baghdad, Baltimore, Beatles, Captain James Cook, Chelsea Manning, Commonwealth Games, Fred Perry, Jeremy Hunt, July 30, Metaxas, NASA, news, Olympics, Sam Phillips, Second Balkan War, Suzy Lamplugh, thalidomide, Today in history, Tour de France, USS Indianapolis, Watergate, World Cup, Zatopek

762: The city of Baghdad is founded by Abbasid caliph Al-Mansur, just north of ancient Baghdad. 1678: English troops land

1965: Premier of the Beatles film Help!

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It happened today – this day in history – July 29

29/07/202128/07/2021 YA Reporter Arc de Triomphe, Baden-Powell, Beatles, Bob Dylan, Demjanjuk, Einstein, James VI, July 29, Lady Diana Spencer, Louis XIV, Mary Queen of Scots, news, Prince Charles, Samuel de Champlain, Southend Pier, Spanish Armada, Today in history, Tolkien, Tour de France, Umberto I

904: Thessalonica is sacked by Saracen pirates led by renegade Leo of Tripoli. 1221: Emperor Go-Horikawa, aged only 10 years

1977: Ian Botham

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It happened today – this day in history – July 28

28/07/202127/07/2021 YA Reporter Amy Winehouse, Bonus Army, Catherine Howard, Churchill, Damascus, fingerprints, foxtrot, Gene Vincent, hamburger, Henry VIII, Ian Botham, Jerry Lee Lewis, Maze Prison, news, Olympics, Paddy Ashdown, Robespierre, Silent Parade, Thomas Cromwell, Today in history, Tour de France, Vietnam

1148: Crusaders abandon their siege of Damascus. 1540: Thomas Cromwell, chief minister for Henry VIII is executed for treason and

1971: The crew of Apollo 15, David Scott, Alfred Worden and James Irwin

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It happened today – this day in history – July 26

26/07/202125/07/2021 YA Reporter Apollo 15, Bobby Charlton, Casanova, Clement Attlee, Edward IV, Eva Peron, Facebook, Fidel Castro, Francis Drake, Harry Truman, J Edgar Hoover, James V, July 26, Kevin Keegan, Liberia, Nagasaki, New Zealand, news, Perkin Warbeck, Robert Plant, Skopje, Suez Canal, Today in history, Top of the Pops, Tour de France, Victoria Gillick, Wagner, World Cup

1267: The Inquisition forms in Rome under Pope Clement IV. 1469: The forces of Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick

1911: Machu Picchu

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It happened today – this day in history – July 24

24/07/202123/07/2021 YA Reporter Armani, Beatles, Brendan Behan, Brigham Young, Cartier, Commonwealth Games, George Washington, Gibraltar, Grodz, Harlaw, Jared Kushner, Jeffrey Archer, July 24, Kaiser Wilhelm II, Khrushchev, Machu Picchu, Mary, Mata Hari, Menin Gate, news, Nixon, Olympics, Queen of Scots, Rolling Stones, Today in history, Tour de France, Trump, Tsar Nicholas II, William III

1411: The Battle of Harlaw, one of the bloodiest battles in Scotland, takes place. 1534: Jacques Cartier lands in Canada

1984: Sellafield

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It happened today – this day in history – July 23

23/07/202122/07/2021 YA Reporter Amy Winehouse, Beatles, Bill Cosby, Boris Johnson, Chris Froome, Donald Campbell, Dunlop, Greece, Hale-Bopp, HMS Beagle, ice cream, John Bonham, July 23, Kenya, Napoleon, news, Nixon, One Direction, Palestine, Petain, Prince Andrew, Sarajevo, Sellafield, Sharm al-Sheikh, Stalingrad, Tiger Woods, Today in history, Tour de France, Vic Morrow, World Cup

636: Arabs gain control of most of Palestine from the Byzantine Empire. 1148: Crusaders attack Damascus. 1745: Charles Edward Stuart,

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