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1945: United States Marines raise the U.S. flag atop Mount Suribachi, during the Battle of Iwo Jima

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It happened today – on this day in history – February 23

23/02/202122/02/2021 YA Reporter Alamo, Beatles, Fangio, February 23, Handel, Iwo Jima, Mussolini, Oasis, Panama Canal, Pavarotti, plutonium, Roy Hodgson, Samuel Pepys, Spain, Today in history, William III, Woody Guthrie

1633: Birth of diarist Samuel Pepys. 1685: Birth of composer George Frideric Handel in Halle, Germany. 1689: William III is

1979: Student Brenda Spencer in custody

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It happened today – this day in history – January 29

29/01/202128/01/2021 YA Reporter Arthur Miller, Beatles, Bob Dylan, Brenda Spencer, Bruce McArthur, Coca Cola, Elizabeth Taylor, George III, history, January 29, Jim Morrison, Jussie Smollett, Lloyd George, Margaret Thatcher, Mozart, Napier, Paris, Sally Clark, Victoria Cross, Woody Guthrie, zeppelins

1594: Mathematician John Napier predicts end of the world in 1688 or 1700. 1728: John Gay’s “The Beggar’s Opera” premieres

1995: O. J. Simpson is acquitted of murder

It happened today – this day in history – October 3

03/10/202002/10/2020 Mick Ferris Beatles, Cassius, Elvis Presley, Ginsberg, history, Jackie Stewart, Lennon, O J Simpson, October 3, Poe, Rob Roy, Woody Guthrie, Yeltsin

52BC: Vercingetorix, leader of the Gauls, surrenders to the Romans under Julius Caesar. 42BC: Gaius Cassius, Roman senator and conspirator