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7 years

Phone call from Brian Sweeney, passenger on Flight 175, to his wife

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Amazing film of London in 1924.

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6 November 2012. Barack Obama was re-elected as US President, defeating Republican candidate Mitt Romney.

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The opening of Private Ryan recreates the American landing on Omaha Beach.

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PHOTO OF THE DAY. Children from London, hiding in a trench in Kent, watching German planes overhead, during the battle of Britain. 📷 John Topham (1940).

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My Twitter Person of the Year is @GaryLineker for his willingness to speak his mind on key issues. RT if you agree

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On 14 May 1938, England’s football team were pressured by the FA, the British Foreign Office and British ambassador to Germany, Nevile Henderson, to give the Nazi salute in Berlin’s Olympic Stadium, to assist the policy of appeasement. Stan Cullis refused, and was dropped.

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Emily Davison's grave. She died #OTD in 1913 after a life dedicated to gaining votes for women

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15 January 1797. The first top hat was worn in public by John Hetherington, a London haberdasher. His appearance on the street caused a huge commotion. He was charged with “breaching the peace and incitement to riot” and had to pay a bond promising future good behaviour.

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PHOTO OF THE DAY. Winston Churchill and Charlie Chaplin (1929).

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PHOTO OF THE DAY. Neil Armstrong’s wife Jan and two sons watch Apollo 11 launch. 📷 Vernon Merritt (1969).

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PHOTO OF THE DAY. Johnny Cash just before going on stage for his live concert at Folsom Prison (1969).

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10 months

John Lennon had to cope with many fans who suddenly turned up at his home.

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3 February 1959. Killed in the plane crash with Buddy Holly were fellow rock stars Ritchie Valens, and J. P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson.

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PHOTO OF THE DAY. A woman in London posting a letter during the Blitz (1940). 📷 Cecil Beaton

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General Dwight Eisenhower broke down while giving speech to D-Day veterans in 1952, while recalling those who died under his command on D-Day.

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14 September 2009. TV chef Keith Floyd died of a heart attack (aged 65). His eccentric style of TV presentation, usually drinking a glass or 3 of wine as he cooked, and talking and joking with his film crew, endeared him to millions of TV viewers worldwide.

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PHOTO OF THE DAY. Bob Dylan and Muhammad Ali (1975).

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PHOTO OF THE DAY. Coronation Street star, Ena Sharples (Violet Carson), looking out over Manchester (1968)📷 John Madden.

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14 July 1933. German Chancellor Adolf Hitler decreed that all political parties in Germany were banned, except for the Nazi Party (NSDAP). In less than 6 months after coming to power, Hitler had destroyed democracy in Germany.

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Footballers had some bad haircuts in the 1970s, but few could match Gordon Bolland of Millwall in 1973.

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5 years

Brilliant.

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8 years

A fox spotted by a security camera in the National Gallery.

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The plaque the Apollo 11 astronauts left on the moon.

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A very sad day for me. My brother Michael died today. He was the first member of my family to go to university, and a true inspiration to me. He was a true man of principle, witty, and with a kind heart.

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PHOTO OF THE DAY. Coronation Street star, Ena Sharples (Violet Carson), looking out over Manchester (1968)📷 John Madden.

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Footballers had some bad haircuts in the 1970s, but few could match Gordon Bolland of Millwall in 1973.

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22 August 1969. The Beatles completed their last photo shoot together in the grounds of John Lennon’s mansion in Tittenhurst Park, Ascot. All four would never meet up together again.

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10 June 1944. 642 men, women and children were killed by the German Waffen SS in the village of Oradour-sur-Glane, France. The village was never rebuilt and featured at the opening of the first episode of the classic documentary series World at War.

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11 July 1950. The puppets Andy Pandy and Teddy appeared on BBC TV for the 1st time. They were part of the For the Children strand, and each programme was narrated by Maria Bird.

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2 months

Can we ban that “It’s Coming Home” song now.

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13 September 1974. The 1st episode of Rockford Files was broadcast, on the US-NBC network. It starred James Garner as an LA private detective, Jim Rockford. There were 6 series.

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PHOTO OF THE DAY. Children from London, hiding in a trench in Kent, watching German planes overhead, during the battle of Britain. 📷 John Topham (1940).

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Celebrating VE Day in Gateshead on 8 May 1945.

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4 months

BBC Radio newsreader John Snagge gives the first news of the D-Day landing at 9.32 AM to the British public.

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7 years

Brilliant: Brexit: The Movie

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PHOTO OF THE DAY. Christopher Lee (born 27 May 1922), Vincent Price (born 27 May 1911) and Peter Cushing (born 26 May 1913). Photo was taken in 1983.

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14 November 1889. Investigative journalist, Nellie Bly, began an attempt to travel around the world in less than 80 days, in emulation of Jules Verne’s fictional character, Phileas Fogg, in Around The World in Eighty Days. She completed the journey in 72 days.

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Shoes On The Danube, Holocaust Memorial, Budapest, Hungary. It honours Jews massacred by the Fascist Hungarian militia during WW2. The victims were ordered to take off their shoes, and were then shot at the edge of the river so that their bodies fell in. (2012). 📷 Getty images

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1 July 1916. On the first day of the bloody Battle of the Somme, 19,240 soldiers of the British armed forces were killed. It was the worst ever daily death toll for the British Army in military history.

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9 January 2007. Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple, introduced the first touch screen iphone at a Macworld convention in San Fransisco

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4 November 1918. Wilfred Owen (aged 25), was killed in WW1, a week before the conflict ended. He was one of the leading poets of the First World War. His war poetry on the horrors of the trenches included Dulce et Decorum est, Insensibility, Anthem for Doomed Youth, and Futility.

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PHOTO OF THE DAY. John Lennon photographed in the Dakota Building by Annie Leibovitz on 8 December 1980.

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5 years

The six photos taken by Iain Macmillan for the Abbey Road cover.

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6 July 1960. Aneurin Bevan died (aged 62). He led the creation of the NHS in 1948 as Labour Health Minister. It offered treatment free at the point of delivery to all citizens irrespective of income. It’s one of the key social reforms in British history.

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PHOTO OF THE DAY. The jacket Archduke Franz Ferdinand wore on the day of his assassination in 1914. 📷google images

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5 years

What people in London died from in this week in 1721.

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PHOTO OF THE DAY. The jacket Archduke Franz Ferdinand wore on the day of his assassination in 1914. 📷 Austrian Military Museum

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22 February 1943. Sophie Scholl (aged 21), was executed by guillotine by a Nazi Special Court in Munich for “high treason”. Her crime was distributing anti Nazi leaflets as part of the White Rose Resistance Group, which was based at Munich University.

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Best ending to a TV documentary EVER- from the BBC presenter, James Burke, in his groundbreaking series, Connections.

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31 October 1973. The first episode of the 26-part classic ITV documentary series, World at War, was broadcast. It was narrated by Laurence Oliver, with music by Carl Davies. It cost £900,000 (worth £11 million today).

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1 year

DAWN BREAKS ON D-DAY: 6 JUNE 1944.

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22 November 1963. 1:38 PM. Newsreader, Walter Cronkite, holding back tears, announced the death of JFK live on CBS News to the American people.

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Charlie Chaplin’s Great Dictator was released in the USA #OTD in 1940. It included this inspiring speech against totalitarianism.

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9 May 1921. Sophie Scholl was born in Forchtenberg, Germany. She was a member of the anti Nazi resistance group The White Rose. She was convicted of treason on 22 February 1943 after distributing leaflets at the University of Munich. As a result, she was executed by guillotine.

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9 July 2001. The first episode of the spoof fly on the wall documentary comedy series, The Office, starring Ricky Gervais as David Brent, was broadcast on BBC2. It follows the day-to-day lives of office employees of the Slough branch of the paper company Wernham Hogg.

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PHOTO OF THE DAY. Al Pacino and Marlon Brando on the set of The Godfather (Part 1,1972). 📷google images

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4 years

PHOTO OF THE DAY: Iggy Pop shaking hands with David Bowie in Red Square, Moscow (1976).

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19 August 1980. Otto Frank died (aged 91). He was the father of Anne Frank and arranged for the publication of her famous diary, which became a world-wide best seller. He was the only one of his family to survive the Holocaust.

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12 June 1942. Anne Frank received a diary as a present for her 13th birthday. It's the most famous diary in history.

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My son in law, James West (1975-2022). ❤️❤️❤️

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4 years

PHOTO OF THE DAY. Mount Rushmore from the Canadian side. 😂

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27 May 1942. SS official and a key figure in the organisation of the Holocaust, Reinhard Heydrich, was bomb attacked, while motoring through Prague by two Czechoslovakian assassins, trained in Britain: Jozef Gabčík and Jan Kubiš. Heydrich died 8 days later in hospital.

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PHOTO OF THE DAY. Londoners go about daily life in Fleet Street as smoke rises after the explosion of a German V1 flying bomb (1944).

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1 August 1944. Anne Frank wrote the final entry in her famous diary,writing, “I get cross, then sad, and ... keep trying to find a way to become what I’d like to be and what I could be … if only there were no other people in the world.”

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13 September 1972. The 1st episode of the ITV crime drama series, Van der Valk, was broadcast. It featured a detective based in Amsterdam called Simon ("Piet") Van Der Valk, played by Barry Foster. There were 32 episodes produced, until 19 February 1992.

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PHOTO OF THE DAY. The grave of Eleanor Rigby in the churchyard of St.Peter's Church, Woolton, Liverpool, where John Lennon & Paul McCartney met for the first time #OTD in 1957.

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It’s my birthday today. I was born in Mill Road Hospital, Liverpool. Here’s a picture of me as a toddler.

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9 July 1776. A statue of King George III was pulled down in New York City, after the US Declaration of Independence was read out to a large cheering crowd and members the Continental Army.

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PHOTO OF THE DAY. A clock from Nagasaki, Japan, stopped at the exact time the atomic bomb dropped (1945).

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PHOTO OF THE DAY. Children from London, hiding in a trench in Kent, watching German planes overhead, during the battle of Britain. 📷 John Topham (1940).

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PHOTO OF THE DAY. John Osborne, the West Brom goalkeeper, smoking a cigarette during a match (1972). 📷google images

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PHOTO OF THE DAY. This boy came home to find his house was bombed and his mother, father and brother were dead. He survived the war and became a truck driver. His face features in the titles of World at War 📷 Toni Frissell (1945).

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PHOTO OF THE DAY. Londoners go about daily life in Fleet Street as smoke rises after the explosion of a German V1 flying bomb (1944).

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PHOTO OF THE DAY. Anne Frank’s father Otto, revisiting the attic where his family hid from the Gestapo during the Second World War (1960).

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1 January 1973. The UK officially became a member of the European Economic Community (EEC). The Daily Mail was very enthusiastic about Britain’s entry.

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PHOTO OF THE DAY. Children from London, hiding in a trench in Kent, watching a dog fight overhead, during the battle of Britain. 📷 John Topham (1940).

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9 May 1921. Sophie Scholl was born in Forchtenberg, Germany. She was a member of the anti Nazi resistance group, The White Rose. She was convicted of treason on 22 February 1943 after distributing leaflets at the University of Munich. As a result, she was executed by guillotine.

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3 years

Things are getting worse for Johnson. A crisis meeting on Michael Fabricant Island is under way. 😂

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4 August 1981. Meghan Markle was born in Los Angeles. California, USA. She was a successful actress before becoming the Duchess of Sussex upon her marriage to Prince Harry in 2018. The couple have now settled in California, where they are pursuing media and charity projects.

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6 August 2005. Labour politician Robin Cook died (aged 59). He was British Foreign Secretary from 1997 to 2001. He resigned from Tony Blair’s Labour government in protest against Tony Blair’s policy over the Iraq War in 2003.

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DAWN BREAKS ON D-DAY: 6 JUNE 1944.

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10 September 1979. The 1st part of the BBC TV 7-part drama series, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, was broadcast. It starred Alec Guinness as George Smiley, and was based on John le Carré's 1974 spy novel. Le Carré said the series was his favourite adaptation of his work.

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Remembering my son-in-law James West, who died on 26 March 2022 (aged 46). Thoughts are with Emily, and their daughters, Martha and Veronica (Roni). ❤️❤️❤️

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PHOTO OF THE DAY. This boy came home to find his house was bombed and his mother, father and brother were dead. He survived the war and became a truck driver. His face features in the titles of World at War 📷 Toni Frissell (1945).

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PHOTO OF THE DAY. Children from London, hiding in a trench in Kent, watching German planes overhead, during the battle of Britain. 📷 John Topham (1940).

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PHOTO OF THE DAY. East German police officer, Conrad Schumann, escaping from East to West Berlin (1961). 📷 Peter Leibing

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PHOTO OF THE DAY. Johnny Cash just before going on stage for his live concert at Folsom Prison (1969).

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PHOTO OF THE DAY. Anne Frank (aged 5) standing on the steps of her father’s office building in Amsterdam (1934).

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DAWN BREAKS ON D-DAY: 6 JUNE 1944.

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6 June 1944. British soldiers wade ashore on Sword Beach. A total of 28,845 landed. The British brought 21 amphibious tanks ashore, and were then able to fight their way off the beach.

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13 June 1920. The US Post Office Department ruled that children could no longer be sent by parcel post. Before that time, provided your child weighed less than 50 lbs, you could simply affix stamps to their clothing and send them off from a post office to a nominated address.

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Jamie Vardy in top form 😂

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PHOTO OF THE DAY: Robert Kennedy with his brother John. 📷 Hank Walker (1960).

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1 April 1957. BBC TV broadcast the famous “April Fool’s Day spaghetti tree hoax” on Panorama, narrated by Richard Dimbleby. At the time, spaghetti was relatively unknown in the UK, with British people unaware that it is made from wheat flour and water.