- 1988: Dead heat in Israel elections
- 1995: Ex-minister charged with apartheid murders
- 2000: Schools watchdog Woodhead resigns
- 1951: 6,000 British troops flown into Egypt
- 1997: Angry truckers blockade French ports
- 1964: Election triumph for Lyndon B Johnson
- 1985: Agents plead guilty in Rainbow Warrior trial
- 1975: North Sea oil begins to flow
- 2004: George W Bush wins second term
- 1957: Russians launch dog into space
- 1956: Soviet troops overrun Hungary
- 1995: Israeli PM shot dead
- 1979: Militants storm US embassy in Tehran
- 1980: Reagan beats Carter in landslide
- 1974: M62 bomber jailed for life
- 1952: Landslide victory for Eisenhower
- 1991: Publisher Robert Maxwell dies at sea
- 1967: Forty die in Hither Green rail crash
- 1984: Sandinistas claim election victory
- 1978: Iran's PM steps down amid riots
- 1956: Allied forces take control of Suez
- 1996: 'Comeback Kid' wins second term
- 1999: Australia rejects republic
- 1968: Nixon wins close contest for president
- 1986: Oil workers die in helicopter crash
- 1987: Bomb kills 11 at Enniskillen
- 1974: Police hunt Lord Lucan after murder
- 2000: Bush and Gore fight to the finish
- 1957: Inquiry publishes cause of nuclear fire
- 1990: Ireland elects first woman president
- 1995: Nigeria hangs human rights activists
- 1997: British au pair freed after appeal
- 1980: Michael Foot is new Labour leader
- 1982: Brezhnev rumours sweep Moscow
- 1960: Lady Chatterley's Lover sold out
- 2004: Veteran leader Yasser Arafat is dead
- 2000: Skiers die in train tunnel inferno
- 1965: Rhodesia breaks from UK
- 1992: Church of England votes for women priests
- 1975: Divided Angola gets independence
- 1954: Pensioners demand more money
- 1987: Van Gogh fetches record price
- 1982: Solidarity leader Walesa released
- 1984: Quid notes out - pound coins in
- 1954: New York's Ellis Island closes
- 1980: Saturn's rings caught on film
- 1997: 'Great Train Robber' escapes extradition again
- 2001: Greece holds plane-spotting 'spies'
- 1985: Volcano kills thousands in Colombia
- 1995: Ecstasy pill puts party girl in coma
- 1971: American probe orbits Mars
- 1969: Quintuplets born at London hospital
- 1979: Times returns after year-long dispute
- 1991: US accuses Libyans of Lockerbie bombing
- 1973: IRA gang convicted of London bombings
- 1977: Firefighters strike over pay claim
- 1973: Crowds cheer marriage of Princess Anne
- 2000: Fuel protesters rally for tax cut
- 1940: Germans bomb Coventry to destruction
- 1985: Anglo-Irish agreement signed
- 1998: Iraqi climbdown averts air strikes
- 1951: Murder on Malay rubber estate
- 1977: Princess Anne gives birth to Master Phillips
- 1986: French car chief shot dead
- 1953: Twenty die in Channel collision
- 2003: Washington sniper convicted
- 1989: Police crush Prague protest rally
- 1997: Egyptian militants kill tourists at Luxor
- 2003: High security as Bush visits UK
- 1991: Church envoy Waite freed in Beirut
- 1967: Moves to curb spread of foot-and-mouth
- 1978: Mass suicide leaves 900 dead
- 1989: Protesters demand reform in Bulgaria
- 1987: King's Cross station fire 'kills 27'
- 2000: Hollywood meets Wales in 'wedding of year'
- 1977: Egyptian leader's Israel trip makes history
- 1994: Britain braced for first lottery draw
- 1992: Hillsborough victim allowed to die
- 1969: Second Apollo mission lands on Moon
- 1985: Superpower summit 'off to good start'
- 1967: Wilson defends 'pound in your pocket'
- 1945: Nuremberg trial of Nazis begins
- 1995: Diana admits adultery in TV interview
- 1975: Spanish dictator Franco dies
- 1990: Thatcher fails to win party mandate
- 1978: Liberal MP accused of murder plot
- 1951: British families leave Egypt's Canal Zone
- 1992: Blaze rages in Windsor Castle
- 2003: British targets bombed in Istanbul
- 1986: Police renew hunt for Moors victims
- 1974: Birmingham pub blasts kill 19
- 1995: Balkan leaders agree to peace
- 1979: Mob destroys US embassy in Pakistan
- 1967: Foot-and-mouth slaughter rate soars
- 1985: Superpowers aim for 'safer world'
- 1990: Thatcher quits as prime minister
- 1963: Kennedy shot dead in Dallas
- 1995: Life sentence for Rosemary West
- 2003: England win Rugby World Cup
- 1997: Michael Hutchence found dead in hotel
- 1971: Six dead in Scottish mountain tragedy
- 2005: Merkel becomes German chancellor
- 1963: Johnson takes over as US president
- 1978: Nightclub ordered to lift race ban
- 2002: Riots force Miss World out of Nigeria
- 1996: Hijacked jet crashes into sea
- 1984: London tube fire traps hundreds
- 1963: John F Kennedy is laid to rest
- 1973: Army deposes 'hated' Greek president
- 1998: 'Corrupt' Turkish government falls
- 1991: Silcott not guilty of PC's murder
- 1981: Brixton riots report blames racial tension
- 1992: Queen to be taxed from next year
- 1983: £25m gold heist at Heathrow
- 1968: Race discrimination law tightened
- 1972: Police foil IRA hospital rescue attempt
- 1953: Lords vote for commercial television
- 2000: Schoolboy Damilola Taylor dies in stabbing
- 1990: Tories choose Major for Number 10
- 1961: RAF flies aid to flood-stricken Somalia
- 1985: Kinnock moves against Militant
- 1967: De Gaulle says 'non' to Britain - again
- 1975: TV presenter Ross McWhirter shot dead
- 1999: NI power-sharing executive appointed
- 1985: 'Gas blast' kills five in Glasgow
- 1956: Motorists panic as petrol rations loom
- 1993: Secret meetings with IRA revealed
- 1975: Graham Hill killed in air crash
- 1963: Canadian air disaster kills 118
- 1982: Animal activists bomb Downing Street
- 1995: Clinton kindles hope in Northern Ireland
- 1999: T-bone steaks on sale by Christmas
- 1954: Winston Churchill turns 80
- 1968: Shops told to stop conning customers
- 1994: Blazing liner abandoned off east Africa
- 1955: Black woman challenges race law
- 1942: Beveridge lays welfare foundations
- 1990: Tunnel links UK and Europe
- 1943: Allies united after Tehran conference
- 1973: Israel's founding father dies
- 1986: Surprise inquiry into Guinness affairs
- 1965: Sweeping changes to British farming
- 1977: South African police cleared of Biko death
- 1954: US pledges to defend Nationalist China
- 1988: Bangladesh cyclone 'worst for 20 years'
- 1954: US Senate condemns McCarthy
- 1995: Rogue trader jailed for six years
- 1971: Bomb demolishes crowded Belfast pub
- 1991: Last US hostage freed
- 1983: IRA gunmen shot dead in SAS ambush
- 2003: US pulls back from steel trade war
- 1961: Birth control pill 'available to all'
- 1976: 'Genius' composer Benjamin Britten dies
- 1962: Choking fog spreads across Britain
- 1978: Spain set to vote for democracy
- 1983: Transplant makes British medical history
- 1975: Couple under siege in Balcombe Street
- 1992: Mob rips apart mosque in Ayodhya
- 2005: David Cameron is new Tory leader
- 1994: Royal approval for oil drilling at Windsor
- 1941: Japanese planes bomb Pearl Harbor
- 1955: Attlee steps down as Labour leader
- 2001: Taleban surrender Kandahar
- 1979: Lord Soames to govern Rhodesia
- 1983: Tomcat halts steeplejack
- 1993: Activists lose battle over chestnut tree
- 1980: John Lennon shot dead
- 1983: Television cameras allowed into Lords
- 2003: Greek terrorists convicted
- 1995: Youth gang stabs head teacher to death
- 1987: Superpowers to reverse arms race
- 1965: New UK race law 'not tough enough'
- 1996: Guilty verdict on school machete attacker
- 1952: London fog clears after days of chaos
- 1973: Sunningdale Agreement signed
- 1993: Astronauts put Hubble back in action
- 1992: American marines land in Somalia
- 1987: Gatting row halts play in Pakistan
- 1957: Post Office issues Christmas warning
- 1990: Iraq frees British hostages
- 1988: Death toll rises in Armenian earthquake
- 1961: Apartheid attacked at Nobel ceremony
- 1979: Daredevil Kidd's 80ft river jump
- 2003: Mother cleared of murdering babies
- 1981: Mystery disease kills homosexuals
- 2001: 30,000 postal jobs 'to be cut'
- 1986: BBC Aids slogan angers church
- 1975: Attack on British vessels heightens Cod War
- 1979: Rhodesia reverts to British rule
- 2005: Massive fire at Buncefield oil depot
- 1941: Germany and Italy declare war on US
- 1994: Russian troops storm into Chechnya
- 1988: 35 dead in Clapham rail collision
- 1975: Balcombe Street siege ends
- 1969: Deadly bomb blasts in Italy
- 1967: Stones guitarist escapes jail for drugs
- 1992: Princess Royal remarries
- 1995: Riots break out in Brixton
- 2001: Suicide attack on Indian parliament
- 1981: Military crackdown on Polish people
- 1972: New offer for Thalidomide victims
- 1958: Monkey lost after space flight
- 1995: Bosnia peace accord ends three-year war
- 2003: Saddam Hussein captured
- 1972: Last Moon mission returns
- 1959: Makarios elected president of Cyprus
- 1955: Gaitskell elected Labour leader
- 1962: 'Music of spheres' hails Venus fly-by
- 1984: Court fines Scargill for obstruction
- 1978: Labour faces vote of confidence
- 2004: Blunkett resigns over visa accusations
- 1993: Anglo-Irish pact paves way for peace
- 1982: Spain opens border with the Rock
- 1994: Modahl banned for drug taking
- 1974: New speed limit to curb fuel use
- 1958: Film stars raise cash for Colleano
- 1984: Gorbachev visit to Britain a 'success'
- 1969: MPs vote to abolish hanging
- 1955: Queen opens London Airport terminal
- 2001: Thousands rally for Scots countryside
- 1977: Queen opens 'tube' link to Heathrow
- 1944: Germany counter-attacks in Ardennes
- 2003: Ian Huntley guilty of Soham murders
- 1968: Mary Bell found guilty of double killing
- 1983: Harrods bomb blast kills six
- 1942: Britain condemns massacre of Jews
- 1996: Aid workers killed in Chechnya
- 1976: Opec members split over prices
- 1950: Radio Times hits Christmas deadline
- 1989: Labour's union U-turn
- 1997: Dawn of Scottish parliament
- 1974: Compensation for Bloody Sunday victims
- 1985: Drug traffickers' appeal rejected
- 1984: Britain signs over Hong Kong to China
- 2003: Libya gives up chemical weapons
- 1972: Amin ultimatum to Uganda Britons
- 1956: Thick fog causes death on roads
- 1997: Tory leader weds
- 1973: Spanish prime minister assassinated
- 1981: Lifeboat crew missing after mission
- 1955: Yugoslavia wins UN vote
- 1989: US forces oust General Noriega
- 1979: Council tenants will have 'right to buy'
- 1995: 'Divorce': Queen to Charles and Diana
- 1977: Firemen jeer TUC's pay snub
- Puffbox - SINGLE - lockerbie witnesses
- 1958: Easy victory for de Gaulle
- 2001: Terror alert as police seize cargo ship
- 1962: America to sell Polaris to Britain
- 1988: Jumbo jet crashes onto Lockerbie