- 1974: Heath's home is bombed
- 1972: Survivors found 10 weeks after plane crash
- 1989: Brandenburg Gate re-opens
- 1997: BSE inquiry to be 'far-reaching'
- 2003: Hostages freed by Colombian rebels
- 2000: Madonna weds her Guy
- 1986: Sakharov comes in from the cold
- 1992: Queen's Christmas speech leaked
- 1972: Earthquake wreaks devastation in Nicaragua
- 1956: Jubilation as allied troops leave Suez
- 1964: Beeching to leave British Railways
- 1997: Minister's son arrested in drug probe
- 1988: Oilfields crippled after storage ship drifts
- 1979: Europe launches first rocket
- 1968: First astronauts orbit Moon
- 1962: Bay of Pigs prisoners fly to freedom
- 1974: 'Drowned' Stonehouse found alive
- 1990: Iranian leader upholds Rushdie fatwa
- 1988: First clue to Lockerbie crash found
- 2004: Thousands die in Asian tsunami
- 1970: 'Golden girl' of British athletics dies
- 1979: Joy as guerrillas fly in to Rhodesia
- 1965: Sea Gem oil rig collapses
- 1985: Gunmen kill 16 at two European airports
- 1977: Star Wars fever hits Britain
- 2004: Yushchenko wins Ukraine election re-run
- 1960: France explodes third atomic bomb
- 1997: Loyalist leader murdered in prison
- 1980: Green light for breakfast television
- 1993: Mafia link in cocaine haul
- 1957: Foot-and-mouth shuts down abattoir
- 2003: Britain gives go-ahead for 'sky marshals'
- 1979: Tay Bridge rail disaster remembered
- 1984: Rajiv Gandhi wins landslide election victory
- 1986: Harold Macmillan dies
- 1998: Six die as huge waves smash into yachts
- 1975: New laws to end battle of the sexes
- 2000: Freezing Britain grinds to a halt
- 2002: Diana Ross arrested for drink-driving
- 1994: Gunman kills two women at abortion clinic
- 1958: Castro's rebels edge closer to capital
- 1986: Coal mine canaries made redundant
- 1971: Iranians deported from Iraq
- 1999: Putin takes over as Yeltsin resigns
- 1964: Campbell speeds to double record
- 1987: Zeebrugge heroes honoured
- 1951: Churchill sets sail for talks with Truman
- 1999: UK prepares to celebrate millennium
- 1971: Sixty-six die in Scottish football disaster
- 1993: Round table talks on peace for Bosnia
- 1980: Steel workers strike over pay
- 1996: US peacekeepers pour into Bosnia
- 1969: Murdoch wins Fleet Street foothold
- 2000: Art theft was 'professional' job
- 1977: Jenkins quits Commons for Brussels
- 1980: Afghan leader defends Soviet invasion
- 1991: Britain expels Iraqi diplomats
- 1993: US and Russia halve nuclear warheads
- 1951: Communist forces to re-take Seoul
- 1967: Campbell killed during record attempt
- 1986: Thin Lizzy star dies
- 1958: Explorer Hillary arrives at South Pole
- 1985: Inquiry over 'baby-for-cash' deal
- 2000: First British women reach South Pole
- 1985: Israel ends major Ethiopian rescue mission
- 1976: Ten dead in Northern Ireland ambush
- 1993: Oil tanker runs aground off Shetland
- 2001: Shipman 'may have killed hundreds'
- 1981: Man arrested for Ripper murders
- 1952: Churchill renews 'special relationship'
- 1994: Mystery assailant attacks top US skater
- 1977: EMI fires Sex Pistols
- 2000: Flu outbreak stretches NHS resources
- 1992: US halts breast implants
- 1983: Danes raid British fishing grounds
- 1976: Iceland and Britain clash at sea
- 1990: Leaning Tower of Pisa closed to public
- 1980: Gandhi returned by landslide vote
- 1965: Krays in custody over menace charge
- 2000: Aitken freed from prison early
- 1991: One dead as train crashes into buffers
- 1989: Dozens die as plane crashes on motorway
- 1961: French vote for Algerian freedom
- 2001: Bulger killers win anonymity for life
- 1996: France's former president Mitterrand dies
- 1979: Vietnam forces Khmer Rouge retreat
- 1959: De Gaulle becomes president
- 1986: Heseltine quits over Westland
- 2005: Abbas triumphs in Palestinian elections
- 1957: Sir Anthony Eden resigns
- 1972: Miners strike against government
- 1997: Bullimore rescued after five days
- 1992: Top policewoman suspended from duty
- 1957: Macmillan becomes Prime Minister
- 1985: Safety concerns over electronic trike
- 1996: King of Jordan in historic Tel Aviv visit
- 1979: 'No chaos here' declares Callaghan
- 1985: Gas blast kills eight in Putney
- 1991: Last ditch efforts to avoid Gulf War
- 1954: Comet jet crashes with 35 on board
- 1969: Civil rights protesters defiant
- 1966: UK politicians assaulted in Rhodesia
- 1991: US Congress votes for war in Iraq
- 2001: Swedish 'Iceman' starts England job
- 1971: British minister's home bombed
- 2001: Climbie carers guilty of murder
- 2003: Maurice Gibb dies after stomach op
- 1976: Crime writer Agatha Christie dies
- 1982: Mark Thatcher missing in Sahara
- 1991: Bloodshed at Lithuanian TV station
- 1964: Riots in Calcutta leave more than 100 dead
- 2001: Earthquake devastates Salvador
- 1993: Allies bomb Iraq
- 2004: Serial killer Shipman found hanged
- 1972: Ghana PM ousted in bloodless coup
- 1997: Shots heard at besieged embassy in Peru
- 2002: UK declared free of foot-and-mouth
- 1975: Heiress Lesley Whittle kidnapped
- 1983: Man shot by police hunting David Martin
- 1969: Matt Busby retires from Man United
- 1994: Duchess of Kent joins Catholic church
- 1973: Nixon orders ceasefire in Vietnam
- 1953: East German purge begins
- 1987: Officer cleared in Groce shooting case
- 1982: Mark Thatcher found safe and well
- 1997: Princess Diana sparks landmines row
- 1984: Benn back on road to Westminster
- 1979: Shah of Iran flees into exile
- 1981: Gunmen shoot civil rights campaigner
- 2001: DR Congo President Kabila shot
- 2001: Oil tanker endangers eco-paradise
- 1970: Gaddafi takes over as Libya's premier
- 1977: Gilmore executed by firing squad
- 1983: BBC wakes up to morning TV
- 1994: Massive earthquake hits Los Angeles
- 1995: Earthquake devastates Kobe
- 1991: 'Mother of all Battles' begins
- 2001: 'Internet twins' taken into care
- 1988: Disabled author wins Whitbread
- 1966: Indira Gandhi takes charge in India
- 1973: Super tug to defend fishing fleet
- 1990: Rebel cricketers face storm of protest
- 1966: Future of Monte Carlo rally in doubt
- 1950: Acclaimed author George Orwell dies
- 1997: Carers accused in child abuse inquiry
- 1992: UN threatens Libya with sanctions
- 1981: Tehran frees US hostages after 444 days
- 1971: Britain allowed to sell arms to S Africa
- 2002: Elderly patient sparks Commons row
- 1955: Express train crashes killing 14
- 1989: Many killed in Tajik earthquake
- 1973: Nixon announces Vietnam peace deal
- Puffbox - SINGLE - vietnam witness
- 1971: Idi Amin ousts Uganda president
- 1999: Colombia quake leaves hundreds dead
- 2004: Nasa rover looks for water on Mars
- 1998: Pope calls for reform in Cuba
- 1999: Olympic officials face bribery charges
- 1981: Dissident Labour MPs plan new party
- 1990: Children killed in devastating storm
- 1969: Prague riots over student martyr
- 2001: Thousands die in Gujarat quake
- 1982: UK unemployment tops three million
- 1952: Britons killed in Cairo riots
- 1998: Clinton denies affair with intern
- 1950: India becomes a republic
- 1945: Auschwitz death camp liberated
- 1967: Three astronauts die in Apollo 1 tragedy
- 1944: Leningrad siege ends after 900 days
- 1980: Exiled Mugabe returns to Rhodesia
- 1984: Michael Jackson burned in Pepsi ad
- 1969: Rebel students take over LSE
- 1995: Cantona banned over attack on fan
- 1996: France halts nuclear testing
- 1976: Explosions rock London's West End
- 2003: Solicitor cleared of killing sons
- 1987: Aquino suppresses rebel uprising
- 1959: Fog brings transport chaos
- 1985: Thatcher snubbed by Oxford dons
- Puffbox - fog
- 2003: Columbia shuttle disintegrates killing seven
- 1979: Exiled Ayatollah Khomeini returns to Iran
- 1953: Violent storms claim hundreds of lives
- 1994: MPs condemn sale of Rover
- 1952: Test drive for TV detector vans
- 1984: Halfpenny coin to meet its maker
- 1959: Buddy Holly killed in air crash
- 1960: Macmillan speaks of 'wind of change' in Africa
- 1986: Pope and Mother Teresa feed the sick
- 1998: Military jet causes cable car tragedy
- 1966: Soviets land probe on Moon
- 1988: Nurses protest for better pay
- 1978: Sadat in US for Mid East talks
- 1974: Soldiers and children killed in coach bombing
- 1998: 4,000 feared dead in Afghan earthquake
- 1968: More Kenyan Asians flee to Britain
- 1988: Defiant seamen strike on
- 1973: Vietnam observers' struggle for peace
- 1994: Market massacre in Sarajevo
- 1996: First GM food goes on sale in UK
- 1974: Newspaper heiress kidnapped
- 1968: Trawler sinks - 18 feared dead
- 1982: Laker Airways goes bust
- 1953: Sweet rationing ends in Britain
- 1958: United players killed in air disaster
- 1952: King George VI dies in his sleep
- 2001: Sharon sweeps to power
- 1983: 'Butcher of Lyon' returns to face trial
- 1997: Widow allowed dead husband's baby
- 1971: Man plays golf on the Moon
- 2005: Blair is Labour's longest-serving PM
- 1964: Green light for Channel Tunnel
- 1945: Black Sea talks plan defeat of Germany
- 1964: Beatlemania arrives in the US
- 1974: Heath calls snap election over miners
- 1992: Maastricht treaties make EU official
- 1974: Radical group 'arrested' heiress
- 1987: S Korea clashes over student death
- 2005: MacArthur sails into record books
- 1966: Hawaii hosts US-Vietnamese summit
- 1971: Swiss women get the vote
- 1962: Eight die in Paris riot
- 1994: Police probe MP's suspicious death
- 1952: New Queen proclaimed for UK
- 1983: Sharon quits after massacre inquiry
- 2005: Mid-East leaders announce truce
- 1974: Americans end outer space marathon
- 1983: Police hunt Shergar's kidnappers
- 1979: Forest break football transfer record
- 1950: McCarthy launches anti-red crusade
- 1995: Space pioneers take first small steps
- 1966: New nuclear reactor for Dounreay
- 1996: Docklands bomb ends IRA ceasefire
- 1983: British police on trail of mass murderer
- 1962: Russia frees US spy plane pilot
- 1952: India passes first test of democracy
- 1955: US evacuates Pacific islands
- 2005: Charles and Camilla to be married
- 1990: Freedom for Nelson Mandela
- 1956: 'Cambridge spies' surface in Moscow
- 1979: Victory for Khomeini as army steps aside
- 1976: John Curry skates to Olympic gold
- 1975: Tories choose first woman leader
- Puffbox - SINGLE witness cape town
- 1987: Mrs Payne is no brothel Madam
- 1989: Belfast lawyer Finucane murdered
- 1964: Deaths follow Cyprus truce breach
- 1994: Art thieves snatch Scream
- 1954: New authority for atomic energy
- 1999: Scientists highlight hazards of GM food