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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

2014: Clashes in Kiev

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

18/02/202117/02/2021 YA Reporter Beatles, Brian Wilson, Churchill, David Gilmour, Duke of Clarence, February 18, Freddie Mercury, Henry Tudor, Hernan Cortes, Hugh Gaitskell, hunting, Khartoum, Kiev, Kublai Khan, Margaret Thatcher, Mary Queen of Scots, McCarthy, Napoleon, Pluto, 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

1989: Soviet troops leave Afghanistan

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

15/02/202114/02/2021 YA Reporter Afghanistan, Caroline Flack, Chelyabinsk, decimal, Donald Trump, February 15, Franklin D Roosevelt, Gateshead, George Harrison, George VI, John Lennon, Louis XV, Marconi, Ray Charles, Sex Pistols, Singapore, Socrates, Ted Bundy, Today in history, Winter Olympics

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

1945: Dresden after the Allied firebombing campaign

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It happened today – on this day in history – February 14

14/02/202114/02/2021 YA Reporter Al Capone, Alexander Graham Bell, Beatles, David Bowie, Dracula, Dresden, James Cook, James Knox Polk, Oscar Pistorius, Oscar Wilde, Otis Redding, Prince, Richard II, Richard Nixon, Salman Rushdie, 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

2011: Colin Firth and Geoffrey Rush in The King's Speech

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It happened today – this day in history – February 13

13/02/202113/02/2021 YA Reporter Abraham Lincoln, Adele, Anna Ford, BAFTAS, Catherine Howard, Chernenko, cholera, Colin Firth, Dresden, February 13, Galileo, Geoffrey Rush, Glencoe, Harrison Ford, Jesse James, Marquis de Sade, Mata Hari, Solzhenitsyn, Take That, Today in history, Tycho Brahe, Winter Olympics

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

1988: Soviet frigate Bezzavetny (right) bumping USS Yorktown in the Black Sea

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It happened today – this day in history – February 12

12/02/202111/02/2021 YA Reporter Adele, Bill Clinton, Black Sea, Catalonia, Churchill, Dior, Einstein, February 12, Gershwin, James Bulger, Kaiser Wilhelm, Keith Richards, Lady Jane Grey, Mick Jagger, news, Oxfam, Pat Finucane, Today in history, USS Yorktown, 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

1990: Nelson Mandela is released from prison

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It happened today – this day in history – February 11

11/02/202110/02/2021 YA Reporter Ayatollah Khomeini, Beatles, Donald Maclean, Egypt, February 11, Guy Burgess, Japan, Margaret Thatcher, Napoleon, Nelson Mandela, news, Oscar Wilde, Pope Benedict XVI, Sylvia Plath, Tiberius, Today in history, Whitney Houston, 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

1964: The Beatles appear to a TV audience of 73million on the Ed Sullivan Show

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It happened today – this day in history – February 9

09/02/202108/02/2021 YA Reporter Adams, Apollo 14, Beatles, Boeing 747, Dounreay, February 9, Grover Cleveland, Guadacanal, Joe Louis, Michael Foale, Riverdance, Ron Greenwood, Shergar, Today in history, Ttrevor Francis, Verdi, Volleyball, Walpole, West Ham United, Wings, Winter Olympics

1540: The first recorded race meet in England at Roodee Fields, Chester. 1554: Sir Thomas Wyatt is is defeated and

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It happened today – this day in history – February 8

08/02/202107/02/2021 YA Reporter Abbas, Ariel Sharon, Bezos, February 8, James I, Kursk, Mary Queen of Scots, Napoleon, news, Oasis, Odessa, Stephen Milligan, Tahiti, Today in history, Vietnam, Winter Olympics

1587: Mary, Queen Of Scots is beheaded at Fotheringhay Castle aged 44. 1622: James I disbands the English parliament. 1690:

2005: Ellen MacArthur

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It happened today – this day in history – February 7

07/02/202107/02/2021 YA Reporter Beatles, Bert Hinkler, Bing Crosby, Bruce McCandless, Charlie Chaplin, Edward Heath, Ellen McArthur, EU, February 7, George Harrison, Gibraltar, Haiti, Lord Byron, Maastricht Treaty, Natal, Today in history, Winter Olympics

1238: The Mongols burn the Russian city of Vladimir. 1301: Edward of Caernarion (later Edward II) becomes the first English

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