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On 20 September 1854, on the heights south of the River Alma, British, French and Ottoman armies drove back Russian forces commanded by Prince Alexand...
Sophia Loren turns 92. Born Sofia Villani Scicolone in Rome on 20 September 1934, she grew up in Pozzuoli near Naples in the war years. Beauty contest...
On 19 September 1941 German troops entered Kiev, today Kyiv, after the encirclement of Soviet forces in the region. The capture followed a vast operat...
On 19–20 September 1863, in the woods by Chickamauga Creek in north-western Georgia, the Army of the Cumberland met Braxton Bragg’s Confederate forces...
Nile Rodgers was born on 19 September 1952. On 19 September 2026 the American guitarist, songwriter and producer turns 74. His career links late-1970s...
British actor Jeremy Irons turns 78 on 19 September 2026. His career links classical theatre, television, independent film and popular productions....
On 19 September 1944, Finland signed in Moscow an armistice with the Soviet Union and the United Kingdom. The document ended fighting in the Continuat...
On 19 September 1940, Witold Pilecki allowed himself to be caught in a German roundup in Warsaw’s Żoliborz district. It was not a chance trap: the Pol...
On 19 September 1870, Prussian armies and troops from allied German states closed the roads and railways into Paris. The siege lasted until the capitu...
On 19 September 1356, south of Poitiers, the Anglo-Gascon army led by Edward of Woodstock defeated the forces of King John II of France. The date rema...
On 18 September 1850 the Fugitive Slave Act was enacted as part of the Compromise of 1850. At 176 years’ distance it remains one of the harshest feder...
HMRC says nearly seven million UK adults — about 12.5%, from a survey of 5,206 people in February–March 2026 — have never checked their State Pension...
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