- 1996: Israel launches attack on Beirut
- 1951: MacArthur fired - Ridgway takes over
- 1990: Customs seize 'supergun'
- 1957: Britain agrees to Singapore self-rule
- 1961: Nazi war crimes trial begins
- 1981: Brixton ablaze after riot
- 1997: Tiger Woods wins Masters at 21
- 1964: Poitier breaks new ground with Oscar win
- 1975: 'Cambridge rapist' strikes again
- 1992: Labour's Neil Kinnock resigns
- 1989: Six killed in West Bank village raid
- 1975: Beirut street battle leaves 17 dead
- 1979: New president for war-torn Uganda
- 1988: USSR pledges to leave Afghanistan
- 1970: Critical explosion cripples Apollo 13
- 1968: Berlin student unrest worsens
- 2000: M25 killer gets life
- 1998: Former Cambodian dictator dies
- 1942: Malta gets George Cross for bravery
- 1989: Football fans crushed at Hillsborough
- 1986: US launches air strikes on Libya
- 1945: British troops liberate Bergen-Belsen
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- 1953: Britain honours American hero
- 2000: White farmer shot dead in Zimbabwe
- 1953: Queen launches Royal Yacht Britannia
- 1970: Paisley victory rattles NI parliament
- 1987: MP on gay sex charges
- 1993: UN makes Srebrenica 'safe haven'
- 1964: 'Great Train Robbers' get 300 years
- 1988: 'Ivan the Terrible' guilty of war crimes
- 1994: Killing spreads in Rwanda
- 1955: Albert Einstein dies
- 1956: Macmillan unveils premium bond scheme
- 1960: Thousands protest against H-bomb
- 1996: Greek tourists killed by Egyptian gunmen
- 1978: Carter wins Panama Canal battle
- 1972: Apollo 16 safely on Moon after engine crisis
- 1999: Students 'kill dozens' at Denver school
- 1974: 'Troubles' death toll hits 1,000
- 1953: UN and Korea begin prisoner exchange
- 1968: Powell slates immigration policy
- 1975: Vietnam's President Thieu resigns
- 1945: Red Army enters outskirts of Berlin
- 1987: Tamil Tigers blamed for bus garage blast
- 1955: Fleet Street papers back after strike
- 1994: 'Guildford Four' man cleared of IRA murder
- 1971: Haitian dictator dies
- 1980: Deposed ministers executed in Liberia
- 2000: Swat team grabs tug-of-love Cuban boy
- 1959: Dame Margot Fonteyn released from jail
- 1997: Troops storm embassy in Peru
- 1979: Teacher dies in Southall race riots
- 1984: Scientist finds Aids virus
- 2001: Royal aide on trial for murder
- 1968: Decimal coins reach the high street
- 1998: Martin Luther King killer dies
- 1982: First Briton dies in Falklands campaign
- 1975: Baader-Meinhof blow up embassy
- 1954: British crackdown on Kenya rebels
- 1990: Hubble telescope takes off for space
- 1993: IRA bomb devastates City of London
- 1967: Russian cosmonaut dies in space crash
- 1953: Scientists describe 'secret of life'
- 2002: Brothers cleared of Damilola murder
- 1983: 'Hitler diaries' published
- 1982: Marines land in South Georgia
- 1974: Rebels seize control of Portugal
- 1980: Tehran hostage rescue mission fails
- 1993: Recession over - it's official
- 1975: Labour votes to leave the EEC
- 1984: Reagan arrives in China
- 2005: Syrian troops leave Lebanon
- 2000: Minister sees immigrants captured
- 1962: First US rocket lands on Moon
- 1971: Protest disrupts Welsh language trial
- 1992: Betty Boothroyd is new Speaker
- 1984: Libyan embassy siege ends
- 1961: Sierra Leone wins independence
- 1945: Russians and Americans link at Elbe
- 2001: First space tourist blasts off
- 1994: CIA double agent jailed for life
- 1969: President Charles de Gaulle resigns
- 1945: Italian partisans kill Mussolini
- 1996: Gunman runs amok in Tasmania
- 1986: Soviets admit nuclear accident
- 1992: LA in flames after 'not guilty' verdict
- 1993: Queen to open Palace doors
- 1978: Afghan coup rebels claim victory
- 1986: Simple funeral rites for Duchess
- 1958: My Fair Lady dazzles London
- 1975: Saigon surrenders
- 1973: Nixon takes rap for Watergate scandal
- 1999: Dozens injured in Soho nail bomb
- 1993: Tennis star stabbed
- 1952: Anne Frank published in English
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- 1945: Germany announces Hitler is dead
- 1982: RAF bombs Port Stanley
- 1994: Race ace Senna killed in car crash
- 1973: Thousands strike over pay and prices
- 1961: Victorious Castro bans elections
- 2000: May Day violence on London streets
- 1997: Labour routs Tories in historic election
- 1982: British sub sinks Argentine cruiser
- 1952: Comet inaugurates the jet age
- 2001: Sotheby's and Christies chiefs charged
- 1969: Crackdown on student protests in US
- 2000: Leading stock exchanges plan merger
- 1951: King George opens Festival of Britain
- 1986: Bomb kills 21 in Sri Lanka
- 1968: Surgeons conduct UK's first heart transplant
- 1990: Latvia to declare independence
- 1982: Argentines destroy HMS Sheffield
- 1953: Duke of Edinburgh gets his wings
- 2000: Ken Livingstone voted London mayor
- 1966: Doctors and dentists get huge pay rise
- 1979: Election victory for Margaret Thatcher
- 1966: Moors murderers jailed for life
- 1976: Huge earthquake rocks Italy
- 1954: Bannister breaks four-minute mile
- 1960: Margaret weds Armstrong-Jones
- 1994: President and Queen open Chunnel
- 2001: Second blast at London post office
- 1997: Brown sets Bank of England free
- 1988: Hick makes cricketing history
- 1965: Huge Rhodesia election win for Smith
- 1976: More bodies found after Italy quake
- 1945: Germany signs unconditional surrender
- 2001: Thousands greet Pope in Syrian visit
- 1956: Minister rejects anti-smoking lobby
- 2001: Healthy cattle to die to save Exmoor
- 1945: Rejoicing at end of war in Europe
- 1984: Moscow pulls out of US Olympics
- 1968: Krays held on suspicion of murder
- 1978: 'Son of Sam' pleads guilty to murders
- 2000: Sneak preview of new Tate Modern
- 1994: Mandela becomes SA's first black president
- 1940: Churchill takes helm as Germans advance
- 1998: Sinn Fein backs peace deal
- 1978: Italy mourns murdered statesman
- 1967: Two Rolling Stones on drugs charges
- 1985: Fans killed in Bradford stadium fire
- 1971: Britain's oldest tabloid closes
- 1963: Moscow jails British 'spy'
- 1956: Gold Coast to get independence
- 1998: India explodes nuclear controversy
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- 1994: Labour leader John Smith dies at 55
- 1981: Second IRA protester dies in jail
- 1967: Stansted to become London's third airport
- 2000: Ford quits Dagenham after 70 years
- 1971: Row rocks Rolling Stone wedding
- 1955: Communist states sign Warsaw Pact
- 1991: Mandela's wife jailed for kidnaps
- 1964: Nasser and Khrushchev divert the Nile
- 1957: Cheers as petrol rationing ended
- 2001: Scientists warn of more CJD cases
- 1957: Britain drops its first H-bomb
- 1974: Teenagers die in Israeli school attack
- 1993: French police rescue child hostages
- 1954: Queen returns after lengthy voyage
- 2001: UK supermarkets slash price of drugs
- 1978: Charlie Chaplin's stolen body found
- 2000: First Britons reach North Pole unaided
- 1974: Bombs devastate Dublin and Monaghan
- 1943: RAF raid smashes German dams
- 1955: Eden takes to the airwaves
- 1960: East-West summit in tatters after spy plane row
- 1991: Sharman becomes first Briton in space
- 1950: US and Europe agree Nato aims
- 1944: Monte Cassino falls to the Allies
- 1964: Mods and Rockers jailed after seaside riots
- 1972: Duke too ill for tea with the Queen
- 1980: Nine dead after Mount St Helens eruption
- 2004: Angry dads hit Blair with purple flour
- 1986: South African raids wreck peace bid
- 1974: Giscard d'Estaing voted French president
- 1997: Labour to stub out tobacco sponsorship
- 1983: Car bomb in South Africa kills 16
- 1965: British police to be issued with tear gas
- 1973: Royal Navy moves to protect trawlers
- 2000: Blairs' delight at birth of fourth child
- 1958: High Wycombe weighs new mayor
- 1961: Freedom Riders spark Montgomery riots
- 1958: Trunk dialling heralds cheaper calls
- 1991: Bomb kills India's former leader Rajiv Gandhi
- 1950: Tornado sweeps southern England
- 1966: Cooper loses to world champ Clay
- 1998: Leaders welcome 'yes' vote for N Ireland
- 1977: Dutch children held hostage
- 1962: Ex-general escapes death sentence
- 1984: Villagers die in water plant blast
- 1966: Emergency laws over seamen's strike
- 2001: Israel wedding party tragedy
- 1975: Journalists leave fallen Saigon
- 1989: Yorkshire Ripper's wife wins damages
- 1968: De Gaulle: 'Back me or sack me'
- 1999: Drugs row Dallaglio goes
- 2000: Hezbollah celebrates Israeli retreat
- 1998: Veterans reject Japanese 'sorrow'
- 1981: Italy in crisis as cabinet resigns
- 1950: UK drivers cheer end of fuel rations
- 1972: Thomas Cook packaged and sold
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- 1964: Light goes out in India as Nehru dies
- 1955: Election victory for Tories under Eden
- 1963: Kenyatta to be Kenya's first premier
- 1994: Dissident writer Solzhenitsyn returns
- 1980: Peach death was 'misadventure'
- 2000: GM blunder leaves farmers in uproar
- 1998: World fury at Pakistan's nuclear tests
- 1974: Strikes topple NI power-sharing body
- 1959: Monkeys survive space mission
- 1967: Sir Francis Chichester sails home
- 1951: Glasgow powers up for the Festival
- 1968: Manchester Utd win European Cup
- 1985: Fans die in Heysel rioting
- 1953: Hillary and Tenzing conquer Everest
- 1972: Japanese kill 26 at Tel Aviv airport
- 1982: Pope makes historic visit to Canterbury
- 1984: Miners and police clash at Orgreave
- 1990: France bans British beef imports
- 1972: Official IRA declares ceasefire
- 1981: Bangladeshi president assassinated
- 2001: French ex-minister jailed over sleaze
- 1967: Egypt and Jordan unite against Israel
- 1957: Arthur Miller guilty of contempt
- 1973: US Senate stops Cambodia bombing
- 1985: English teams banned after Heysel
- 1966: Vietnam Buddhist burns to death
- 1998: Ginger leaves the Spice Girls
- 1953: Queen Elizabeth takes coronation oath
- 1979: Millions cheer as the Pope comes home
- 1994: MI5 officers killed in helicopter crash
- 1985: Uefa bans English clubs from Europe
- 1966: First US space probe lands on Moon
- 1976: Piggott celebrates 7th Derby victory
- 1962: 130 die in Paris air crash
- 1991: IRA men shot dead by British army
- 1982: Israeli ambassador shot in London
- 1972: Protestant march ends in battle
- 1957: Noel Coward comes home
- 1940: Dunkirk rescue is over - Churchill defiant
- 1989: Massacre in Tiananmen Square
- 1977: Greece releases UK plane-spotters
- 1991: UK army spending to be cut
- 1968: Dover begins bird purge
- 1967: Israel launches attack on Egypt
- 1963: Profumo resigns over sex scandal