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1977: Mary Whitehouse

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It happened today – this day in history – July 11

11/07/202110/07/2021 YA Reporter Aaron Burr, Alexandria, Captain James Cook, Don Bradman, Greenland, Henry VIII, July 11, Lord Salisbury, Louis XVI, Lumière, Mary Whitehouse, Mongolia, news, Petain, poll tax, Prussia, Skylab, Srebrenica, Telstar, Today in history, Verdun, Waterloo Station, World Cup

1274: Birth of Robert the Bruce in Scotland. 1533: Pope Clement VII excommunicates Henry VIII. 1576: Martin Frobisher sights Greenland.

1974: Rick Wakeman quits Yes

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It happened today – this day in history – June 8

08/06/202107/06/2021 YA Reporter Aitken, Attila, Bjorn Borg, Black Prince, Brian Jones, Christine Keeler, Cochise, Falklands, George Michael, Henry IV, HMS Galahad, James Comey, James Earl Ray, June 8, Laki, Lindisfarne, Louis XVII, Nelson, news, Richard I, Rick Wakeman, Sepp Blatter, Stephen Ward, Tennessee, Thailand, Theresa May, Today in history, Verdun, Vietnam, Vikings

452: Attila the Hun invades Italy. 793: Vikings in long ships from modern-day Norway plunder St Cuthbert’s monastery on Lindisfarne

1940: British troops await evacuation at Dunkirk

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It happened today – this day in history – June 2

02/06/202101/06/2021 YA Reporter confederates, Coolidge, Dunkirk, Einstein, Ginsberg, June 2, Lester Piggott, Marconi, news, Palestine, Pope John Paul II, Queen Elizabeth II, Sebastopol, Sepp Blatter, Tiananmen Square, Today in history, Vandals, Verdun

455: King Gaiseric and the Vandals sack Rome. 575: Benedict I begins his reign as Pope. 1740: Birth of the

1958: Jerry Lee Lewis causes uproar when he arrives in Britain with his teenage wife

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It happened today – this day in history – May 22

22/05/202121/05/2021 YA Reporter Abraham Lincoln, AC Milan, Adam Ant, Alexander the Great, Apollo 10, Ariana Grande, Blackwall Tunnel, Copernicus, Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Lee Rigby, Loch Ness monster, Manchester Arena, May 22, Meg White, Mendelssohn, Michael Moore, news, Orient Express, Public Enemy, Richard Nixon, Robbie Williams, Saladin, Sri Lanka, Theodore Roosevelt, Today in history, Verdun, Wars of the Roses, Wright Brothers, Yemen, Yorkshire Ripper

334BC: The Macedonian army of Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia at the Battle of the Granicus. 1176:

1972: Richard Nixon meets Chairman Mao in Beijing

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It happened today – on this day in history – February 21

21/02/202120/02/2021 YA Reporter Britney Spears, Disraeli, Duncan Edwards, Egypt, February 21, Jimmy Swaggart, Joan of Arc, Karl Marx, Mahler, Malcolm X, Pink Floyd, Richard Nixon, Robbie Williams, Robin Cousins, Thomas Becket, Today in history, Verdun, Winter Olympics, Yorkshire Ripper

1173: Pope Alexander III canonises Thomas Becket Archbishop of Canterbury. 1431: Joan of Arc’s first day of interrogation during her

1963: Peter Sellers as Inspector Clouseau in The Pink Panther

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It happened today – on this day in history – December 18

18/12/202028/01/2021 Mick Ferris December 18, George Harrison, George III, Hannibal, history, John Lennon, Keith Richards, Kirsty MacColl, Lord Roberts, Michael Jackson, Peter Sellers, Piltdown Man, Pink Panther, prohibition, Stanley Matthews, Tchaikovsky, Verdun

218BC: Hannibal’s Carthaginian army heavily defeats Roman forces on Italian soil during the Second Punic War. 1621: Parliament unanimously accepts

1944: Glenn Miller disappears over the English Channel

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It happened today – on this day in history – December 15

15/12/202028/01/2021 YA Reporter Adolf Eichmann, Aleppo, Boy George, David Blunkett, December 15, Dvorák, Fats Waller, Gibraltar, Glenn Miller, Gone With The Wind, history, Jacques Chirac, James Brown, Lennon, Napoleon, Nero, Rossini, Sitting Bull, Verdun, Walt Disney

37: Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus is born in Antium. 1488: Explorer Bartolomeu Dias returns to Portugal after becoming the

1967: Stockholm descends into chaos as Sweden changes from driving on the left to the right

It happened today – this day in history – September 3

03/09/202002/09/2020 Mick Ferris Beatles, Beslan, Boer War, Bruckner, Canned Heat, Capra, Cromwell, Doherty, E E Cummings, Fair Isle, history, Malcolm Campbell, Munich, Olympics, Qatar, Ringo Starr, Robert Kennedy, Rolling Stones, Second World War, September 3, Spitz, Sweden, Unity Mitford, Verdun

301: San Marino, one of the smallest nations in the world and the world’s oldest republic still in existence, is

1977: Orient Express

It happened today – this day in history – May 22

22/05/202016/05/2021 Mick Ferris Elvis, history, HMS Beagle, Jerry Lee Lewis, Lee Rigby, Manchester Arena, May 22, Orient Express, Verdun, Watergate

334BC: The Macedonian army of Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia at the Battle of the Granicus. 1176:

It happened today – this day in history – December 18

18/12/201917/12/2019 Mick Ferris Browne, December 18, Farley, history, Jackson, Klein, MacColl, Mourinho, Richards, Verdun

1271: Kublai Khan renames his empire Yuan, beginning the Yuan dynasty of China. 1737: Antonio Stradivari, renowned violin-maker, dies in