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1881: Jacques Offenbach

News Today in History

It happened today – this day in history – February 10

10/02/202310/02/2023 YA Reporter Arthur Miller, Beatles, Bolivar, Bowie, Brahms, conscription, February 10, First World War, Glenn Miller, Halley, Haydn, HRH Prince Charles, Lithuania, Mandela, Mike Tyson, Muswell Hill, Napoleon, New Delhi, news, Offenbach, Oxford, Phil Spector, Powers, Queen Victoria, Tachen Islands, Tchaikovsky, Today in history, Vietnam, Winter Olympics, Zappa, Zululand

1098: Crusaders defeat Prince Redwan of Aleppo at Antioch. 1355: The St. Scholastica’s Day riot breaks out in Oxford, leaving

1904: The ice cream cone make its debut at the St Louis World Fair

News Today in History

It happened today – this day in history – July 23

23/07/202222/07/2022 YA Reporter Beatles, Bluebird, Bonham, Boris Johnson, British Open, Charles Edward Stuart, Commonwealth Games, Damascus, Dunlop, Hale-Bopp, HMS Beagle, ice cream cone, Italy, July 23, Kenya, news, Nixon, One Direction, Palestine, Petain, Richard Nixon, Sarajevo, Second World War, Serbia, Sharm al-Sheikh, Stormont, Today in history, Tour de France, Twilight Zone, whaling, World Cup, Zappa

636: Arabs gain control of most of Palestine from the Byzantine Empire. 1148: Crusaders attack Damascus. 1745: Charles Edward Stuart,

1993: Frank Zappa dies

News Today in History

It happened today – this day in history – December 4

04/12/202103/12/2021 YA Reporter Balfour, Bonnie Prince Charlie, December 4, Dungannon, Fatty Arbuckle, Gemini 7, Henry III, Hezbollah, James Knox Polk, James Monroe, Macron, news, Observer, Omar Khayyám, Pope Adrian IV, Second World War, smog, Today in history, Trump, Vatican, William of Orange, Zappa

1123: Death of Persian poet, astronomer, mathematician, and philosopher Omar Khayyám. 1154: Nicholas Breakspear is elected Pope Adrian IV, the

Frank. Not just any composer - an important one

Film Leisure Reviews

So much more than a moustache

04/12/202004/12/2020 Mick Ferris Alex Winter, documentary, leisure, Zappa

ZAPPA (15) 2 hours 7 minutes A few months before his death from cancer in 1993, Frank Zappa was asked

1921: Roscoe “Fatty Arbuckle” (left) and Virginia Rappe

News Today in History

It happened today – this day in history – December 4

04/12/202028/01/2021 Mick Ferris Balfour, Bonnie Prince Charlie, December 4, Dungannon, Elvis, Fatty Arbuckle, Gemini 7, history, Led Zeppelin, Omar Khayyám, Reagan, Sartre, smog, The Observer, Trump, Vatican, Zappa

1123: Death of Persian poet, astronomer, mathematician, and philosopher Omar Khayyám. 1154: Nicholas Breakspear is elected Pope Adrian IV, the

1934: John Dillinger

It happened today – this day in history – May 15

15/05/202014/05/2020 Mick Ferris Alabama, Boleyn, Dillinger, George III, Gretton, history, Kepler, May 15, Palestine, Paul McCartney, spurs, Wallace, Zappa

1213: King John names Stephen Langton as Archbishop of Canterbury. 1248: Archbishop Konrad von Hochstaden lays the cornerstone for Cologne

1942: Glenn Miller

It happened today – on this day in history – February 10

10/02/202009/02/2020 Mick Ferris Brahms, February 10, Halley, Haydn, history, Miller, Spector, Susann, Tchaikovsky, Trotsky, Zappa

1098: Crusaders defeat Prince Redwan of Aleppo at Antioch. 1355: The St. Scholastica’s Day riot breaks out in Oxford, leaving