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1958: Duncan Edwards

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It happened today – this day in history – February 21

21/02/202220/02/2022 YA Reporter Alka Seltzer, Britney Spears, Disraeli, Duncan Edwards, Engels, February 21, First World War, James I, Joan of Arc, Mahler, Malcolm X, Marx, news, Nixon, Pink Floyd, Thomas Becket, Today in history, Verdun, Watergate, 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

1919: Emile Cottin in custody (far right) after the attempted assassination of French prime minister Georges Clemenceau

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It happened today – this day in history – February 20

20/02/202219/02/2022 YA Reporter Anthony Eden, Austria, Edward VI, February 20, Handel, Jacobites, John Glen, Jon Venables, Kofi Annan, Mountbatten, Muhammad Ali, Napoleon, news, Orkney, Robert Thompson, Rossini, Second World War, shankhill Butchers, Shetland, Tern Hill, Today in history, Winter Olympics

1472: Orkney and Shetland are left by Norway to Scotland, due to a dowry payment. 1547: Edward VI is crowned

1990: Freddie Mercury (far left) and Queen at the Brits

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It happened today – this day in history – February 18

18/02/202217/02/2022 YA Reporter Beatles, Bonnie Prince Charlie, Brian Wilson, Bunyan, Churchill, Cortes, David Gilmour, Edward IV, February 18, First World War, Henry Tudor, Joe McCarthy, Khartoum, Kiev, Mark Twain, Mary Queen of Scots, Napoleon, Nepal, news, Pluto, Ray Charles, Second World War, Thatcher, Today in history, Winter Olympics

1294: Death of Mongol Emperor Kublai Khan. 1478: George, Duke of Clarence, is convicted of treason against his older brother

1936: The Phantom

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It happened today – this day in history – February 17

17/02/202216/02/2022 YA Reporter Alexander II, American Civil War, Beatles, Boris Godunov, common market, congestion charge, Dylan, February 17;, Golda Meir, Henry VI, Joe Louis, Myles Standish, NASA, news, Nixon, Orange Free State, prohibition, Puccini, Second World War, The Phantom, Thomas Jefferson, Today in history, Verdi, Wars of the Roses, Winter Olympics

1461: Wars of the Roses: Second Battle of St Albans – Lancastrian army defeats Yorkists and recaptures King Henry VI

1957: Lonnie Donegan (centre) with presenters Pete Murray and jo Douglas on BBC TV's Six-Five Special

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It happened today – this day in history – February 16

16/02/202215/02/2022 YA Reporter Abraham Lincoln, Beeching, Bodyline, Charles I, Churchill, Clive Ponting, Earl of Shaftesbury, English Civil War, February 16, Fidel Castro, First World War, George Michael, Haile Selassie, Joe Frazier, Kosovo, Kyoto Protocol, Liszt, Lithuania, news, Second World War, Six Five Special, Spencer Compton, Today in history, Tutankhamun, Winter Olympics

600: Pope Gregory the Great decrees saying “God bless You” is the correct response to a sneeze. 1641: Charles I

1867: Johann Strauss II

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It happened today – this day in history – February 15

15/02/202215/02/2022 YA Reporter Angel of the North, Boer War, Caroline Flack, Chelyabinsk, decimal currency, February 15, Franklin D Roosevelt, George Harrison, George VI, Great Ormond Street Hospital, Jeffrey Dahmer, Johann Strauss, Lennon, Maharishi, Marconi, news, Pope Pius VI, Ray Charles, Second World War, Sex Pistols, Socrates, Ted Bundy, Today in history, Trump, Wapping, Winter Olympics, YouTube

399BC: Philosopher Socrates is sentenced to death by the city of Athens for corrupting the minds of the youth of

2014: Lizzy Yarnold

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It happened today – this day in history – February 14

14/02/202213/02/2022 YA Reporter Alexander Graham Bell, Arizona, Beatles, Bela Lugosi, David Bowie, February 14, Finland, Gone With The Wind, James Cook, Moscow, Muhammad Ali, news, Nixon, Oregon, Oscar Pistorius, Oscar Wilde, Poland, Richard II, Salman Rushdie, Second World War, St Valentine's Day Massacre, Stephen Lawrence, Thomas Cranmer, Today in history, Torvill and Dean, William III, Winter Olympics

1400: Richard II is murdered at Pontefract Castle. 1556: Archbishop Thomas Cranmer is declared a heretic. 1689: Parliament places Mary

1996: The four remaining members of Take That announce they are splitting up

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It happened today – this day in history – February 13

13/02/202212/02/2022 YA Reporter Abraham Lincoln, Adele, Brit Awards, Bruno Hauptmann, Catherine Howard, Chernenko, cholera, Dead Sea Scrolls, Dresden, February 13, Galileo, Glencoe, Henry VIII, Jesse James, Marquis de Sade, Mata Hari, Mongols, news, Second World War, Solzhenitsyn, Take That, Today in history, Trump, Tycho Brahe, Vietnam, Viola Beach, Winter Olympics

1258: Baghdad falls to the Mongols as the Abbasid Caliphate is destroyed and tens of thousands are slaughtered. 1542: Catherine

1924: George Gershwin

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It happened today – this day in history – February 12

12/02/202211/02/2022 YA Reporter Adele, Austria, Catalonia, Chile, Churchill, Clinton, Cyprus, Dior, February 12, First World War, Galapagos Islands, Gershwin, James Bulger, Keith Richards, Lady Jane Grey, Lord Salisbury, Milosevic, news, Pat Finucane, Today in history, Vasco da Gama, Winter Olympics

1502: Vasco da Gama sets sail from Lisbon on his second voyage to India. 1554: Queen of England for nine

1987: Cynthia Payne

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It happened today – this day in history – February 11

11/02/202210/02/2022 YA Reporter Ayatollah Khomeini, Beatles, Bruckner, Churchill, Cynthia Payne, Donald Maclean, February 11, First World War, Franklin D Roosevelt, Guy Burgess, Henry VII, Hosni Mubarak, Japan, John Curry, Margaret Thatcher, Napoleon, Nelson Mandela, news, Oscar Wilde, Pope Benedict XVI, Second World War, Stalin, Sylvia Plath, Tiberius, Today in history, William Grenville, Winter Olympics, Yalta

660BC: The traditional date for the foundation of Japan by Emperor Jimmu. 55: Tiberius Claudius Caesar Britannicus, heir to the

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