- 1945: Thousands of bombs destroy Dresden
- 1993: Missing two-year-old found dead
- 1984: British ice couple score Olympic gold
- 2005: Explosion kills former Lebanon PM
- 1989: Ayatollah sentences author to death
- 1997: Lawrence 'killed by racists'
- 1974: Russian author charged with treason
- 1971: D-Day delivers new UK currency
- 1989: Soviet troops pull out of Afghanistan
- 1961: Belgian jet crashes seconds before landing
- 1942: Singapore forced to surrender
- 1952: King George VI is laid to rest
- 1986: Printers and police clash in Wapping
- 1996: Arms-to-Iraq report published
- 1974: No hope of survivors from missing Gaul trawler
- 1959: Castro sworn in as Cuban PM
- 2001: Serbs killed in Kosovo pilgrimage
- 1985: Falklands' row civil servant resigns
- 1972: Miners' strike turns off the lights
- 1965: Beeching plans for 'bloated' railways
- 2005: Kyoto Protocol comes into force
- 2005: Ban on hunting comes into force
- 1996: Bomb blast destroys London bus
- 1981: Thatcher gives in to miners
- 1969: Lulu ties knot with Bee Gee
- 1954: McCarthy hunts 'army Communists'
- 1978: Belfast bomb suspects rounded up
- 2001: Foot-and-mouth scare at UK abbatoir
- 1997: China's reformist Deng Xiaoping dies
- 1961: Lumumba rally clashes with UK police
- 1968: Damages for thalidomide children
- 1978: Egyptian forces die in Cyprus gunfight
- 1986: Soviets launch space station Mir
- 1993: Two boys charged with toddler's murder
- 1983: Hundreds die in Assam poll violence
- 1989: IRA bombs Tern Hill barracks
- 1962: US spaceman orbits Earth
- 1958: Historic Sheerness docks to close
- 1988: TV evangelist quits over sex scandal
- 2001: Ban follows foot-and-mouth outbreak
- 1972: Nixon makes historic visit to China
- 1965: Black nationalist leader shot dead
- 1997: 'Bridgewater Three' freed
- 1997: Dolly the sheep is cloned
- 1972: IRA bomb kills six at Aldershot barracks
- 1991: Bush threatens Iraq with land war
- 1974: Hearst 'ransom' provokes violence
- 1986: Filipino coup leaders tell Marcos to go
- 1955: American tennis star 'Little Mo' to quit
- 1955: Britain's big freeze
- 1999: Lawrence report blasts 'racist' police
- 1950: Labour wins slim majority
- 1981: Prince Charles and Lady Di to marry
- 1968: South Vietnamese recapture Hue
- 1971: UK restricts Commonwealth migrants
- 2001: At least 10 die in Selby rail crash
- 1975: Dozens killed in Moorgate Tube crash
- 1986: Swedish prime minister assassinated
- 1991: Jubilation follows Gulf War ceasefire
- 2000: Nuclear chief quits over safety scandal
- 2000: Pinochet escapes torture trial charges
- 1956: King of Jordan sacks British general
- Puffbox - SINGLE rhodesia memories
- 1969: Concorde flies for the first time
- 1970: Ian Smith declares Rhodesia a republic
- 1991: Sri Lankan hardliner among 19 killed in blast
- 1974: Turkish jet crashes killing 345
- 1985: Miners call off year-long strike
- 1982: Queen opens Barbican Centre
- 1995: MPs move to outlaw hunting
- 1966: BBC tunes in to colour
- 2005: Fossett sets solo flight record
- 1976: Guilty verdict for 'Maguire Seven'
- 1989: Six die in Purley rail crash
- 1969: Kray twins guilty of McVitie murder
- 1980: Mugabe to lead independent Zimbabwe
- 1975: Comic genius Chaplin is knighted
- 1966: Passenger jet crashes into Mount Fuji
- 1953: Soviet leader 'on brink of death'
- 1973: Mid-air collision kills 68
- 1956: US court victory for black students
- 1993: Johnson gets life ban from athletics
- 1965: Goldie the eagle evades capture again
- 1959: African activist flees to UK
- 1969: Israel elects first female leader
- 1988: IRA gang shot dead in Gibraltar
- 1975: Kidnapped heiress found strangled
- 1965: Police attack Alabama marchers
- 1971: Post strike ends with pay deal
- 1985: Beirut car bomb kills dozens
- 1972: TWA jet explodes at Las Vegas airport
- 2001: Donald Campbell's speedboat recovered
- 1950: Gas turbine car gets road test
- 1967: Stalin's daughter defects to the West
- 1973: Northern Ireland votes for union
- 1956: Britain deports Cyprus Archbishop
- 1995: Queen marks peace in Belfast
- 1976: Scores die in cable car tragedy
- 1981: M5 rapist jailed for life
- 1969: Martin Luther King's killer gets life
- 1988: Avalanche hits royal ski party
- 1990: Observer 'spy' sentenced to die
- 1973: British officials shot dead in Bermuda
- 1956: Riots erupt in Cyprus over Archbishop
- Puffbox - SINGLE adel darwish
- 2001: Big rise in new cases of foot-and-mouth
- 1977: Roman Polanski charged with rape
- 1974: 'Anti-IRA spies' break out of jail
- 2004: Many die as bombs destroy Madrid trains
- 1985: Gorbachev becomes Soviet leader
- 1955: Farewell to scientist who discovered penicillin
- 1993: Bombay hit by devastating bombs
- 1984: Miners strike over threatened pit closures
- 1964: Hoffa faces eight years behind bars
- 1969: Paul McCartney weds Linda Eastman
- 1999: Violinist Yehudi Menuhin dies
- 1983: Nkomo flees Zimbabwe 'death threats'
- 1996: Massacre in Dunblane school gym
- 1961: Five Britons accused of spying for Moscow
- Puffbox - SINGLE dunblane witness
- 1979: Grenada leader ousted by coup
- 1970: Conservative victory in first teen election
- 1967: Protest over student suspensions
- 1984: Sinn Fein leader shot in street attack
- 1964: Jack Ruby sentenced to death
- 1991: Birmingham Six freed after 16 years
- 1960: Radio telescope makes space history
- 1958: 'Bonny' Prince Albert of Monaco born
- 1990: Observer journalist executed in Iraq
- 1976: Tube driver shot dead
- 1981: Pakistani jet hostages released
- 1974: Architect jailed over corruption
- 1962: Liberals seize Orpington
- 1978: Civilians flee southern Lebanon
- 1957: BEA withdraws Viscount aircraft
- 1995: Killer Ronnie Kray dies
- 1968: Anti-Vietnam demo turns violent
- 1984: Boat race halted before starting
- Puffbox - single eden
- 1967: Supertanker Torrey Canyon hits rocks
- 1992: South Africa votes for change
- 1974: Violent border clashes at Golan Heights
- 1979: Three die in Golborne mine blast
- 1950: Government falls as Belgians vote for king
- 1982: Judge halts 'obscenity' trial
- 1964: 'Ambitious' plans for south east
- 1992: Fergie and Andrew split
- 1970: Willi and Willy meet in East Germany
- 1976: Princess Margaret and Lord Snowdon to split
- 1982: Argentine flag hoisted on S Georgia
- 2003: US launches missiles against Saddam
- 1993: Child killed in Warrington bomb attack
- 1989: Senior RUC men die in gun attack
- 1974: Kidnap attempt on Princess Anne
- 1966: Football's World Cup stolen
- 1960: Scores die in Sharpeville shoot-out
- 1991: Heseltine unveils new property tax
- 1999: Comedy genius Ernie Wise dies
- 1984: EEC summit collapses over rebate row
- 1963: Train drives itself
- 1980: Schild family reunited with daughter
- 1979: British ambassador assassinated in Holland
- 1963: Profumo denies affair with model
- 1956: King convicted for bus boycott
- 2002: Woman granted 'right to die'
- 1977: Government wins no confidence vote
- 1991: Tories launch 'citizen charter'
- 1981: New measures to contain farm disease
- 1983: Reagan launches Cold War into space
- 1987: 30 hurt as car bomb hits Army base
- 1989: Exxon Valdez creates oil slick disaster
- 1978: Tanker Amoco Cadiz splits in two
- 1953: Queen Mary dies peacefully after illness
- 1981: Biggs rescued after kidnapping
- 1965: Millions watch space probe crash into Moon
- 1992: Punch ends 150 years of satire
- 1975: Saudi's King Faisal assassinated
- 1975: National Front rallies against Europe
- 1980: Britain will go to Moscow Olympics
- 2000: Trimble narrowly wins leadership challenge
- 1950: Ski jumpers soar over Hampstead Heath
- 1979: Israel and Egypt shake hands on peace deal
- 2000: Pope prays for Holocaust forgiveness
- 1981: 'Gang of four' launches new party
- 1999: Record compensation for miners
- 1973: Stock Exchange admits women
- 1979: Nuclear leak causes alarm in America
- 1991: Family anger at Hillsborough verdict
- 1965: Thousands join Dr King in Alabama rally
- 1979: Early election as Callaghan defeated
- 1983: Macgregor named as coal boss
- 1971: Calley guilty of My Lai massacre
- 1981: Triumph at first London Marathon
- 1971: Manson sent to gas chamber
- 1967: Bombs rain down on Torrey Canyon
- 1999: Hanratty family wins right to appeal
- Puffbox - SINGLE marathon accounts
- 1981: President Reagan is shot
- 1979: Car bomb kills Airey Neave
- 1951: Rosenbergs guilty of espionage
- 2002: Queen Mother dies
- 1992: John Major climbs onto his soapbox
- 1978: Tories recruit advertisers to win votes
- 1972: CND begins march to Aldermaston
- 1953: Queen Mary laid to rest in Windsor
- 1990: Violence flares in poll tax demonstration
- 1959: Dalai Lama escapes to India
- 1986: Greater London Council abolished
- 1966: Harold Wilson wins sweeping victory
- 2001: Ex-Yugoslav leader arrested after siege
- 1957: BBC fools the nation
- 1990: Rioting inmates take over Strangeways
- 1999: Britain gets first minimum wage
- 1983: Human chain links nuclear sites
- 2000: Wartime coding machine stolen
- 1996: 'Unabomber' suspect arrested
- 1993: Grand National ends in 'shambles'
- 1987: Windsor gems fetch record price
- 1954: Oxford wins 100th Boat Race
- 2000: Asylum voucher scheme enforced
- 1979: Deposed Pakistani PM is executed
- 1984: Greenham Common women evicted
- 1991: Orkney 'abuse' children go home
- 1968: Martin Luther King shot dead
- 2000: Spring freeze brings chaos
- 1970: West German envoy killed by rebels
- 2001: Driver jailed for immigrant deaths
- 1976: Billionaire Howard Hughes dies
- 1986: Berlin disco bombed
- 1976: Callaghan is new prime minister
- 1988: Hijackers free 25 hostages
- 1955: Sir Winston Churchill resigns
- 1975: 'Operation Babylift' lands in UK
- 1997: Fault cuts short space shuttle mission
- 1994: Rwanda presidents' plane 'shot down'
- 1968: United States erupts in race violence
- 1989: Dockers' 'jobs for life' scrapped
- 1969: Sikh busmen win turban fight
- 1984: Dozens arrested in picket line violence
- 1999: President of Niger 'killed in ambush'
- 2005: Prince Charles marries Camilla
- 1976: Young Liberal leader cleared of robbery
- Puffbox - SINGLE paul hayes
- 2003: Saddam statue topples with regime
- 2000: Damages for sacked HIV manager
- 1998: Northern Ireland peace deal reached
- Puffbox - SINGLE good friday
- 1972: Earthquake kills thousands in Iran
- 1968: Dozens die in NZ ferry disaster
- 1981: Hunger striker elected MP