- 1986: Pinochet survives rebel ambush
- 2000: French fuel protests spread to UK
- 1950: Miners trapped underground by landslide
- 1998: Real IRA announce ceasefire
- 1943: Italy's surrender announced
- 1988: Indian cricket tour 'cancelled'
- 1976: Chairman Mao Zedong dies
- 1999: Report urges sweeping reform of RUC
- 1971: British diplomat freed after eight months
- 1987: Liverpool fans to stand trial in Belgium
- 1963: American Express comes to Britain
- 1973: Bomb blasts rock central London
- 1988: BBC presenters in helicopter crash
- 1973: Big Biba opens its doors
- 2000: Daring rescue frees jungle hostages
- 1978: Umbrella stab victim dies
- 2001: US rocked by day of terror
- 2005: Last Israeli troops leave Gaza
- 1973: President overthrown in Chile coup
- 2003: Anna Lindh dies of stab injuries
- 1980: Famous gem grabbed in armed raid
- 1960: Rudolph takes third Olympic gold
- 1969: Shelter exposes slum homelessness
- 1988: Cubans blame shooting on 'CIA plot'
- 1982: Dingo baby trial opens in Australia
- 1980: Missing Scottish bear is found
- 2001: Duncan Smith is new Tory leader
- 1993: Rabin and Arafat shake on peace deal
- 1993: UK tourist shot dead in Florida
- 1951: Refinery opens as oil row continues
- 1985: USSR expels 25 in tit-for-tat spy row
- 1982: Hollywood princess dead
- 1981: Queen's 'fantasy assassin' jailed
- 1960: Violence follows army coup in Congo
- 1940: Victory for RAF in Battle of Britain
- 1950: UN stages daring assault on Inchon
- 2000: UK fuel protesters go back home
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- 1985: Europe wins Ryder Cup
- 1978: German terror suspect arrested in UK
- 1964: The Sun newspaper is born
- 1986: Kinross Miners 'killed where they stood'
- 1978: Thousands dead in Iran earthquake
- 1977: T-Rex singer killed in car smash
- 1992: UK crashes out of ERM
- 1968: Post Office backs first class service
- 1944: Airborne invasion of Holland begins
- 1970: Civil war breaks out in Jordan
- 1982: Refugees massacred in Beirut camps
- 1993: Shock as racist wins council seat
- 1956: World water speed record smashed
- 2001: Workers return to Wall Street
- 1970: Rock legend Hendrix dies after party
- 1978: Arab-Israeli breakthrough in US
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- 1961: UN Secretary General killed in air crash
- 1972: Expelled Ugandans arrive in UK
- 1987: Superpower treaty to scrap warheads
- 2000: Crash survivors attack Railtrack
- 1985: Mexico suffers devastating earthquake
- 1997: Six dead in Southall train disaster
- 2003: Washington DC swept by hurricane
- 1972: Parcel bomb attack on Israeli embassy
- 1952: US Immigration slams door on Chaplin
- 1986: Two dead in Midlands rail crash
- 1984: US embassy blast kills 20
- 1978: Police hunt Bridgewater killers
- 1999: UN force arrives in East Timor
- 1970: Soviet probe collects moon rock
- 1967: Queen Elizabeth 2 takes to the waves
- 1998: Clinton's Grand Jury testimony released
- 1979: Harrier crash kills three
- 1955: Britain claims Rockall
- 1984: Maltby picket sparks violence
- 1969: Police storm squat in Piccadilly
- 1980: War breaks out between Iran and Iraq
- 1989: Ten dead in Kent barracks bomb
- 1955: New TV channel ends BBC monopoly
- 1975: Bomb blasts rock Northern Ireland
- 2001: Simpson smuggled into Afghanistan
- 1998: Thousands flee fighting in Kosovo
- 2000: Redgrave wins fifth Olympic gold
- 1951: King has lung operation
- 1976: British warship blaze kills eight
- 1997: Peace talks wobble after Unionist outburst
- 1952: Charlie Chaplin comes home
- 1987: Ban lifted on MI5 man's memoirs
- 1957: Troops end Little Rock school crisis
- 1950: Seoul in UN hands
- 1983: Dozens escape in Maze break-out
- 1996: Taleban gains threaten Kabul
- 2003: Hutton Inquiry hears final arguments
- 1968: Musical Hair opens as censors withdraw
- 1988: Johnson stripped of Olympic gold
- 1970: Arab leaders sign Jordan peace deal
- 2001: Swiss man kills 14
- 1996: Afghan forces routed as Kabul falls
- 2000: 'Provocative' mosque visit sparks riots
- 1984: Pit dispute 'illegal' says judge
- 1964: Kennedy murder was 'no conspiracy'
- 1994: Hundreds feared dead in ferry disaster
- 1995: Palestinian self-rule in West Bank agreed
- 1985: Riots in Brixton after police shooting
- 1979: Pope calls for peace in Ireland
- 1960: Khrushchev anger erupts at UN
- 1978: Catholics mourn Pope's death
- 1988: Shuttle blasts US back into space
- 1997: Scientists confirm brain diseases link
- 1955: James Dean killed in car smash
- 2000: Shocking images of boy shot in Gaza
- 1971: Foreign Office names Soviet superspy
- 1988: 'SAS killed lawfully' - Gibraltar jury
- 1994: Sleepy Boris 'snubs' Irish leader
- 1951: Festival closes to applause
- 1938: 'Peace for our time' - Chamberlain
- 1962: Mississippi race riots over first black student
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- 1985: Riots erupt in Toxteth and Peckham
- 2005: Bombs rip through Bali restaurants
- 1975: Muhammad Ali wins 'Thrilla in Manila'
- 1970: Mourners killed as Nasser is buried
- 1957: British public gets 'Asian Flu' vaccine
- 1993: Hardline Communists riot in Moscow
- 1968: Student riots threaten Mexico Olympics
- 1968: Birth of sextuplets stuns Britain
- 1983: 'Dream ticket' wins Labour leadership
- 1989: Anglican anger over united church
- 1974: Cannabis 'causes brain damage'
- 1995: OJ Simpson verdict: 'Not guilty'
- 1975: London's Spaghetti House siege ends
- 1944: Poles surrender after Warsaw uprising
- 1981: IRA Maze hunger strikes at an end
- 1952: Tea rationing to end
- 1979: Anti-racists tackle South African rugby tourists
- 1957: Sputnik satellite blasts into space
- 1992: El Al jumbo crashes in Amsterdam
- 1993: US forces killed in Somali gun battle
- 1976: New train speeds into service
- 1965: Immigrants feel at home with BBC
- 1968: Londonderry march ends in violence
- 1994: Cult members die in 'mass suicide'
- 1974: Four dead in Guildford bomb blasts
- 1999: Death toll rising in Paddington crash
- 2000: Protesters storm Yugoslav parliament
- 1984: Essex police make record drugs haul
- 1981: Egypt's President Sadat assassinated
- 1986: Nuclear technician missing after secrets leak
- 1973: Arab states attack Israeli forces
- 1985: Policeman killed in Tottenham riots
- 2000: Milosevic quits, street celebrations continue
- 1953: Britain sends troops to Guiana
- 2001: US launches air strikes against Taleban
- 1985: Gunmen hijack Italian cruise liner
- 2004: British hostage feared dead in Iraq
- 1959: Southend Pier fire traps hundreds
- 1977: Invasion of Swedish identical twins
- 1952: Many die as three trains crash at Harrow
- 2003: The Terminator takes on California
- 2005: Powerful quake hits South Asia
- 1987: Zeebrugge disaster was no accident
- 1973: Commercial radio joins UK airwaves
- 1990: Britain's first full day in ERM
- 1988: Latvia cries freedom from Moscow
- 1967: Che Guevara 'shot dead'
- 1975: Man killed in Piccadilly bomb blast
- 1959: 'Supermac' leads Tories to victory
- 1991: Sumos size up Royal Albert Hall
- 1967: Harold Wilson wins Moving apology
- 1974: Labour scrapes working majority
- 1982: Mary Rose rises after 437 years
- 1976: China's 'Gang of Four' arrested
- 1987: Search ends for Loch Ness monster
- 1994: Loyalists announce a ceasefire
- 1976: Bolivian plane crashes in Santa Cruz
- 1992: Thousands of miners to lose their jobs
- 1988: Government loses Spycatcher battle
- 1971: Army blasts N Ireland border roads
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- 1954: Ethiopian emperor visits UK
- 1969: New 50-pence coin sparks confusion
- 1983: Parkinson quits over lovechild scandal
- 1973: Thai army shoots protesters
- 1969: Millions march in US Vietnam Moratorium
- 1964: Khrushchev 'retires' as head of USSR
- 1999: Police award Silcott damages
- 1976: UDR men jailed for Showband killings
- 1987: Fiji one step closer to a republic
- 1996: Handguns to be banned in the UK
- 1987: Hurricane winds batter southern England
- 1974: Maze prison goes up in flames
- 1967: Joan Baez arrested in Vietnam protest
- 1978: Polish bishop is new Pope
- 1989: East Germany leader ousted
- 1963: Aristocrat is new prime minister
- 1967: Soviets glimpse beneath clouds of Venus
- 1976: Funeral of Mafia boss held in NY
- 2000: Hurley mocked at premiere
- 1989: Guildford Four released after 15 years
- 2004: British aid worker kidnapped in Iraq
- 1987: Shares plunge after Wall Street crash
- 1954: 'Metal fatigue' caused Comet crashes
- 1977: Kidnapped German found dead
- 1967: Thousands join anti-war movement
- 1983: Grenada's prime minister 'assassinated'
- 2000: British activist freed from Burma
- 1973: Dalai Lama makes first UK visit
- 1988: New law could erode right to silence
- 1966: Coal tip buries children in Aberfan
- 1952: Kenyatta arrested in security raid
- 2001: Anthrax claims third victim in US
- 1982: Sinn Fein triumph in elections
- 1975: Herrema kidnappers under siege
- 1966: Double-agent breaks out of jail
- 1990: Aral Sea is 'world's worst disaster'
- 1974: Bomb blast in London club
- 1983: CND march attracts biggest ever crowd
- 2001: UK braced for more flooding
- 1956: Hungarians rise up against Soviet rule
- 1971: Two women shot at Belfast checkpoint
- 1951: Churchill denies 'warmonger' claims
- 2001: IRA begins decommissioning weapons
- 1983: Beirut blasts kill US and French troops
- 1994: Israel and Jordan make peace
- 1979: South Korean President killed
- 1956: Fighting spreads in Hungary revolution
- 2000: Ministers 'misled' public on BSE
- 1951: Churchill wins general election
- 1978: Gunman runs amok in West Midlands
- 1982: RUC officers killed by IRA bomb
- 1968: Police clash with anti-war protesters
- 1977: Liberal MP denies murder plot
- 1950: Hunt for missing atomic scientist
- 1962: World relief as Cuban missile crisis ends
- 2001: Christians killed in Pakistan massacre
- 1974: Minister's wife survives bomb attack
- 1986: 'Evil' Bamber jailed for family murders
- 1979: Chairman Hua arrives in London
- 1991: Bush opens historic Mid East peace conference
- 1984: Pro-Solidarity priest is murdered
- 1981: Euthanasia chief jailed over suicides
- 1957: Lords to admit first women peers
- 1961: World condemns Russia's nuclear test
- 1970: Nightclub inferno 'wipes out generation'
- 1966: Viet Cong bombs Saigon
- 1986: Chemical spill turns Rhine red
- 1984: Violence follows Gandhi killing
- 1990: Howe resigns over Europe policy
- 1986: US hostage freed in Beirut