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1978: Ricky Villa (left) and Ossie Ardiles with Spurs manager Keith Burkinshaw

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It happened today – this day in history – July 10

10/07/202109/07/2021 YA Reporter Alexandra Palace, Bahamas, Battle of Britain, Beatles, Bonnie Prince Charlie, Boris Yeltsin, Cher, Chuck Berry, Cliff Richard, Cream, Darroch, Dublin, Franklin D Roosevelt, George II, Greenland, Greenpeace, Hadrian, Henry VI, Henry VIII, Howard Hughes, John Paul Getty III, Josie Russell, Julius Ceasar, July 10, Lady Godiva, Lady Jane Grey, Louise Woodward, Martin Luther King, Millard Fillmour, news, News of the World, Oliver Cromwell, Ossie Ardiles, Parking meters, Richard of York, Ricky Villa, Rimbaud, Sicily, Today in history, Tottenham Hotspur, War of the Roses, William of Orange, William Whitelaw, Wyoming

48BC: Julius Ceasar barely avoids a catastrophic defeat to Pompey near the city of Dyrrachium (in what is now Albania).

1999: Author Stephen King is almost killed when he is run down by a van

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It happened today – this day in history – June 19

19/06/202118/06/2021 YA Reporter Dean Martin, Ethel Rosenberg, Evander Holyfield, George V, Ian Botham, Italy, Jerry Lewis, Julius Rosenberg, June 19, Kuwait, Lord Lucan, Louis IV, Marilyn Monroe, Maximillian I, Metropolitan Police, news, Nurmi, Paul McCartney, Pele, Robert the Bruce, Schmelling, Sir Robert Peel, Stephen King, Today in history, UFO, William Whitelaw, Windsor, World Cup

987: Louis IV is crowned king of France. 1306: The Earl of Pembroke’s army defeats Robert Bruce’s Scottish army at