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Today in History
 
January 9
The Defence Secretary, Michael Heseltine, has resigned from his Cabinet job in a row with Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher over the Westland affair.
 
January 8
General Charles de Gaulle has been proclaimed first President of the new Fifth Republic in France during a brief ceremony at the Elysee Palace in Paris.
 
January 7
The Leaning Tower of Pisa has been closed to the public for the first time in 800 years amid speculation the structure is on the verge of toppling over.
 
January 6
An unknown man brandishing a metal crowbar has attacked American figure-skater Nancy Kerrigan.
 
January 5
Israel has airlifted thousands of Jewish Ethiopian refugees out of Sudan, it has emerged.
 
January 4
Sir Edmund Hillary has reached the South Pole - the first overland explorer to do so since Captain Robert F Scott's expedition in 1912.
 
January 3
The new president of Afghanistan, Babrak Karmal, has made his first public appearance since the Soviet-backed coup last week.
 
January 2
Sixty-six football supporters have been killed following a clash between Celtic and Rangers at the Ibrox Park stadium in Glasgow.
 
January 1
Twelve of the European Union's 15 countries have woken to life with a new currency today, as the euro reached the purses of ordinary citizens across the continent.
 
November 28
Britain has a new prime minister for the first time in over 11 years.
 
August 31
Diana, Princess of Wales, has died after a car crash in Paris.
 
August 30
Former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic is to be charged with genocide- the most serious of all war crimes.
 
August 3
Queen has officially opened the 11th Commonwealth Games in Edmonton, Canada.
 
August 2
More than 100,000 Iraqi soldiers backed up by 700 tanks invaded the Gulf state of Kuwait in the early hours of this morning.
 
January 8
General Charles de Gaulle has been proclaimed first President of the new Fifth Republic in France during a brief ceremony at the Elysee Palace in Paris.
 
January 7
The Leaning Tower of Pisa has been closed to the public for the first time in 800 years amid speculation the structure is on the verge of toppling over.
 
November 30
Almost 1,000 people have been forced to abandon a luxury cruise ship in the Indian Ocean after it caught fire.
 
November 29
One of Britain's greatest motor racing drivers has been killed in a plane crash in south-east England.
 
November 27
John Major is to be Britain's new prime minister after winning the Conservatives' leadership election.
 
November 26
A British monarch is to pay income tax for the first time since the 1930s.
 
November 23
Fifty-five year old Lyndon Baines Johnson begins his new job today as US president.
 
November 22
Margaret Thatcher is to stand down as prime minister after her Cabinet refused to back her in a second round of leadership elections.
 
November 21
The Geneva summit has ended in optimism but with no agreement on the "Star Wars" space defence system.
 
November 16
More than 20 English football supporters have been arrested in Luxembourg after a night of violence.
 
November 15
Princess Anne has given birth to a boy - the first royal baby to be born a commoner for more than 500 years.
 
November 14
The wedding of the Queen's only daughter, Princess Anne, has taken place at Westminster Abbey. Princess Anne, 23, married Mark Phillips, a lieutenant in the Army.
 
November 13
The Times newspaper has been published for the first time in nearly a year.The paper's disappearance from news stands followed a dispute between management and unions over manning levels and the introduction of new technology.
 
November 12
The so-called 'Great Train Robber', Ronnie Biggs, is celebrating after Brazil's Supreme Court rejected a British request to extradite him.
 
November 11
A painting by Vincent Van Gogh has been sold for $49m - a world record for a work of art.The final price was more than twice what the painting, called Irises, had been expected to reach.
 
November 10
Bookshops all over England have sold out of Penguin's first run of the controversial novel Lady Chatterley's Lover - a total of 200,000 copies - on the first day of publication.
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