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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

1998: The Little Mermaid, Copenhagen

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It happened today – this day in history – January 5

05/01/202128/01/2021 YA Reporter Amelia Earhart, Bonnie and Clyde, Golden Gate Bridge, history, January 5, Jimi Hendrix, Louis XV, Mingus, Ray Davies, Robert Louis Stevenson, Shipman, Sonny Bono, Yorkshire Ripper

1066: Death of Edward the Confessor. 1463: French poet Francois Villon is banished from Paris. 1500: Duke Ludovico Sforza reconquers

1945: Japanese Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu signs the Instrument of Surrender, formally ending the Second World War

It happened today – this day in history – September 2

02/09/202001/09/2020 Mick Ferris Anne Frank, Belushi, Bing Crosby, Bjork, Frank Bruno, George Harrison, Great Fire Of London, history, Japan, Nehru, Olympics, Ozzy Osbourne, Richard I, Schumacher, September 2, Sherman, Stalingrad, Verwoerd, Vietnam, Yorkshire Ripper

44BC: Cleopatra VII of Egypt declares her son co-ruler as Ptolemy XV Caesarion. 1192: Sultan Saladin and Richard I of