- 1944: Celebrations as Rome is liberated
- 1968: Robert Kennedy injured in shooting
- 1972: Duke of Windsor laid to rest
- 1989: Election boost for Solidarity
- 1992: Huge rise in water disconnections
- 1966: Black civil rights activist shot
- 1984: Troops raid Golden Temple in Amritsar
- 1944: D-Day marks start of Europe invasion
- 1994: Asylum seekers flee detention centre
- 1975: UK embraces Europe in referendum
- Puffbox - SINGLE fred bromley
- 1942: Japanese beaten in Battle of Midway
- 1981: Israel bombs Baghdad nuclear reactor
- 1977: Queen celebrates Silver Jubilee
- 1990: Three countries lift beef export ban
- 2000: Blair 'handbagged' by the WI
- 1982: Fifty die in Argentine air attack
- 1968: James Earl Ray quizzed over King death
- 1999: Liar Aitken jailed for 18 months
- 1963: Ward charged over 'immoral earnings'
- 1978: Woman takes world sailing record
- 1970: King Hussein escapes gunman's bullet
- 1983: Thatcher wins landslide victory
- 1975: First live broadcast of Parliament
- 1995: First man jailed for male rape
- 1958: Queen opens revamped Gatwick
- Puffbox - single/otdwitness/natobomb
- 1967: Israel ends six-day war
- 1986: Magee convicted of Brighton bombing
- 1999: Nato calls off air war on Kosovo
- 2000: Swaying Millennium Bridge closed
- 1977: Killer perch outwitted by electric rod
- 1959: Hovercraft marks new era in transport
- 1998: UN warns of famine in Sudan
- 1955: Le Mans disaster claims 77 lives
- 1987: Thatcher wins record third term
- 1976: Mercenaries trial begins in Angola
- 1968: French student rebel arrives in UK
- 1986: Labour expels Militant Hatton
- 1962: Three escape from Alcatraz
- 1997: Straw to reconsider Bulger killers' fate
- 1964: Nelson Mandela jailed for life
- 1975: Gandhi found guilty of corruption
- 1940: German troops enter Paris
- 1982: Ceasefire agreed in Falklands
- 1991: Iraqi Kurds fear US troop withdrawal
- 1972: Pilots threaten worldwide strike
- 1961: Panda replaces zebra at road crossing
- Puffbox - SINGLE rachel aspogard
- Puffbox - SINGLE manchester bomb
- 1996: Huge explosion rocks central Manchester
- 1974: Man dies in race rally clashes
- 1966: Hovercraft deal opens show
- 1971: Councils defy Thatcher milk ban
- 2000: British marines leave Sierra Leone
- 1976: Soweto protest turns violent
- 1963: Soviets launch first woman into space
- 1989: Hungary reburies fallen hero Imre Nagy
- 1992: Controversial Diana book published
- 1982: Welsh miners back health workers
- 1974: IRA bombs parliament
- 1961: Russian dancer in freedom dash
- 1970: 'Babes in the wood' bodies found
- 1980: Government announces missile sites
- 1964: Japan trade fair floats into London
- 2001: Catholic leader Cardinal Winning dies
- Puffbox - SINGLE dalyell witness
- 1972: UK's worst air crash kills 118
- 1979: Leaders agree arms reduction treaty
- Puffbox - SINGLE staines witness
- 1999: Anti-capitalism demo turns violent
- 1965: Drink-drive limit to be introduced
- 1956: Truman rejects anti-Stalin talk
- 1997: Victory for McDonald's - at a cost
- 1978: Botham bowls into cricket history
- 1980: Gunbattle at British embassy in Iraq
- 1975: Missing earl guilty of murder
- 1970: Shock election win for Heath
- 1982: 'God's banker' found hanged
- 1976: Westerners evacuated from Beirut
- 1995: Shell makes dramatic U-turn
- 1990: Major proposes new Euro currency
- 1984: O-Levels to be replaced by GCSEs
- 1965: Students protest after Algiers coup
- 1978: Four dead in post office shootings
- 1968: Egg board 'should be scrapped'
- 1991: Anger over chairman's 66% pay rise
- 1982: Princess Diana gives birth to boy
- Puffbox - SINGLE - prince william appeal
- 1945: US troops take Okinawa
- 1941: Hitler invades the Soviet Union
- 1981: Chapman pleads guilty to Lennon murder
- Puffbox - SINGLE lennon memories
- 2004: Child killer Dutroux jailed for life
- 1979: Thorpe cleared of murder charges
- 2001: Bulger killers to be released
- 1959: Harrods in £34m merger talks
- 1985: Air India jet crashes killing 329
- 1992: 'Teflon Don' jailed for life
- 1983: Pope meets banned union leader Walesa
- 1955: Queen Elizabeth sails on schedule
- 1972: Chancellor orders pound flotation
- 1974: Labour rift over nuclear test
- 1983: US astronaut Sally Ride returns
- 1968: Rail go-slow begins
- 1986: Ian Paisley's battle cry condemned
- 1993: Minister resigns over business links
- 1950: UN condemns North Korean invasion
- 1953: Christie to hang for wife's murder
- 2005: Iran hardliner sweeps to victory
- 1970: New peace plan for Middle East
- 2001: Race violence erupts in Burnley
- 1985: Police hunt IRA resort bombs
- 1963: Kennedy: 'Ich bin ein Berliner'
- 1970: Violence flares as Devlin is arrested
- 2000: IRA weapons dump inspected
- 1986: Branson on course for Blue Riband
- 1959: Queen and Eisenhower open seaway
- 1960: Welsh pit blast kills miners
- 2004: US transfers power back to Iraq
- 1976: Death sentence for mercenaries
- 1958: Algeria prisoners freed to win Muslim support
- 1991: Thatcher to retire from Commons
- 1974: First female president for Argentina
- 1995: US shuttle docks with Russian space station
- 1960: BBC unveils TV 'factory'
- 1986: Branson beats Atlantic speed record
- 2001: Diana fountain given go-ahead
- Puffbox - SINGLE witness 54eclipse
- 1992: Thatcher takes her place in Lords
- 1969: Nigeria bans Red Cross aid to Biafra
- 1954: Three continents see eclipse of sun
- 1971: Space mission ends in tragedy
- 1985: Beirut ordeal ends for US hostages
- 1997: Hong Kong handed over to Chinese control
- 1963: Philby confirmed as 'third man'
- 1994: Yasser Arafat ends 27-year exile
- 2004: Cassini captures Saturn's rings
- 1987: Stock-broker guilty of corruption
- 2000: Ex-Blair ally attacks prime minister
- 1964: President Johnson signs Civil Rights Bill
- 2005: Millions rock to Live8 message
- 2001: Dando killer jailed for life
- 1987: Brady to help search for Moors victims
- 1992: IRA murders 'informers'
- 1970: Police snatch London gun cache
- 1988: US warship shoots down Iranian airliner
- 1987: Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie gets life
- 1970: Holiday jet goes missing over Spain
- 1951: Ridgway agrees to ceasefire talks
- 1971: Doors' singer Jim Morrison found dead
- 1966: Arrests in London after Vietnam rally
- 2000: Livingstone to take on government
- 1956: Commonwealth heads honoured
- 1976: Israelis rescue Entebbe hostages
- 1954: Housewives celebrate end of rationing
- 1995: Major wins Conservative leadership
- 1985: Teenage genius gets a first
- 1968: Alec Rose sails home
- 1977: Manchester United sack manager
- 1988: Piper Alpha oil rig ablaze
- 1978: Eleven die in sleeper train inferno
- 2005: London to host 2012 Olympics
- 1997: Mars buggy starts exploring Red Planet
- 1992: Riot police confront French truckers
- 1952: London's trams trundle into history
- 2000: Prime Minister's son arrested for drunkenness
- Puffbox - SINGLE piper witness
- 1969: Brian Jones died of 'drink and drugs'
- 1998: Chief's death sparks turmoil in Nigeria
- 1985: Boris Becker wins Wimbledon at 17
- 2005: Bomb attacks on London
- 2001: Two stabbed in Bradford race riots
- 1976: British grandmother missing in Uganda
- 2000: New Harry Potter most magical yet
- 1971: British troops shoot Londonderry rioters
- 2003: Conjoined twins die in separation op
- 2005: G8 leaders agree $50bn aid boost
- 1996: Seven slashed in school machete attack
- 1965: Ronald Biggs escapes from jail
- 1996: Girl survives murder of mother and sister
- 1943: Western Allies invade Sicily
- 1985: Rainbow Warrior sinks after explosion
- 1940: Luftwaffe launches Battle of Britain
- 1972: Whitelaw's secret meeting with IRA
- 2000: UK tidal wave of web users
- 1986: Orange Parade sparks riots
- 1990: Yeltsin resignation splits Soviet Communists
- 1974: Shankly quits Liverpool
- 2000: British-backed dam threatens ancient lifestyle
- 1998: Children die in Drumcree protests
- 1993: Green light for Manchester Olympics
- 2001: Family demand inquiry into police shooting
- 1971: Death for Moroccan rebel leaders
- 1955: Ruth Ellis hanged for killing lover
- 1985: Live Aid makes millions for Africa
- 1971: Suicide note reveals murder confession
- 1989: Paris in 200-year-old revolutionary fervour
- 1958: Coup in Iraq sparks jitters in Middle East
- 1991: UK forces withdraw from Kurdish haven
- 2001: NI agreement stalls in Staffordshire
- 1945: Allied leaders gather at Potsdam
- 1969: Apollo 11 takes off for the Moon
- 2001: Rebel MPs defeat the government
- 1993: Secret Service goes public
- 1987: Great British airline ready for take off
- 1955: Moss claims first Grand Prix victory
- 1970: State of emergency called over dock strike
- 2000: Sarah Payne's body found
- 1966: Nurses murder suspect charged
- 1990: English teenagers held in Thailand over drugs
- 2003: Missing Iraq expert - body found
- 1981: Violence erupts at Irish hunger strike protest
- 1997: IRA declares ceasefire
- 1996: 'War criminal' Karadzic resigns
- 1965: S Korea's first president dies in exile
- 1976: Fight for fishing rights in Europe
- 1983: Flesh-eating dinosaur resurrected
- 1954: Peace deal ends Indo-China war
- 1994: Labour chooses Blair
- 2005: Tube chaos after more blasts
- 1969: Man takes first steps on the Moon
- Puffbox - SINGLE moon witness
- 1974: Cyprus conflict spills into London
- 1982: Homecoming for HMS Hermes
- 1977: Deng Xiaoping back in power
- 2003: Saddam's sons killed in gun battle
- 1987: Cartoonist shot in London street
- 2005: Man shot dead by London police
- 1965: Sir Alec steps down from top of Tory tree
- 1991: Citizen's charter promises better services
- 1974: Greek military rule gives in to democracy
- 2005: Dozens killed in Egypt bomb blast
- 1986: Prince Andrew weds Sarah Ferguson
- 1984: Sellafield 'not linked' to cancer cluster
- 1995: British forces sent to Sarajevo
- 1957: Bus dispute turns violent
- 1974: Nixon 'must hand over Watergate tapes'
- 2000: Loyalist killer Michael Stone freed from Maze
- 1987: Archer wins record damages
- 1959: Khrushchev and Nixon have war of words
- 1969: Briton freed from Soviet prison
- Puffbox - SINGLE gundy
- 1963: Thousands killed in Yugoslav earthquake
- 1956: Egypt seizes Suez Canal
- 1945: Churchill loses general election
- 1994: Israel's London embassy bombed
- 1952: Eva Peron dies
- 1983: Mother loses contraception test case
- 2003: Comic legend Bob Hope dies