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| January 9 |
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| The Defence Secretary, Michael Heseltine, has resigned from his Cabinet job in a row with Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher over the Westland affair. |
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| January 8 |
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| 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. |
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| January 7 |
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| 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. |
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| January 6 |
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| An unknown man brandishing a metal crowbar has attacked American figure-skater Nancy Kerrigan. |
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| January 5 |
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| Israel has airlifted thousands of Jewish Ethiopian refugees out of Sudan, it has emerged. |
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| January 4 |
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| Sir Edmund Hillary has reached the South Pole - the first overland explorer to do so since Captain Robert F Scott's expedition in 1912. |
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| January 3 |
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| The new president of Afghanistan, Babrak Karmal, has made his first public appearance since the Soviet-backed coup last week. |
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| January 2 |
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| Sixty-six football supporters have been killed following a clash between Celtic and Rangers at the Ibrox Park stadium in Glasgow. |
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| January 1 |
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| 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. |
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| November 28 |
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| Britain has a new prime minister for the first time in over 11 years. |
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| August 31 |
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| Diana, Princess of Wales, has died after a car crash in Paris. |
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| August 30 |
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| Former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic is to be charged with genocide- the most serious of all war crimes. |
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| August 3 |
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| Queen has officially opened the 11th Commonwealth Games in Edmonton, Canada. |
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| August 2 |
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| More than 100,000 Iraqi soldiers backed up by 700 tanks invaded the Gulf state of Kuwait in the early hours of this morning. |
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| January 8 |
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| 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. |
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| January 7 |
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| 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. |
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| November 30 |
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| Almost 1,000 people have been forced to abandon a luxury cruise ship in the Indian Ocean after it caught fire. |
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| November 29 |
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| One of Britain's greatest motor racing drivers has been killed in a plane crash in south-east England. |
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| November 27 |
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| John Major is to be Britain's new prime minister after winning the Conservatives' leadership election. |
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| November 26 |
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| A British monarch is to pay income tax for the first time since the 1930s. |
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| November 23 |
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| Fifty-five year old Lyndon Baines Johnson begins his new job today as US president. |
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| November 22 |
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| Margaret Thatcher is to stand down as prime minister after her Cabinet refused to back her in a second round of leadership elections. |
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| November 21 |
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| The Geneva summit has ended in optimism but with no agreement on the "Star Wars" space defence system. |
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| November 16 |
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| More than 20 English football supporters have been arrested in Luxembourg after a night of violence. |
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| November 15 |
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| Princess Anne has given birth to a boy - the first royal baby to be born a commoner for more than 500 years. |
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| November 14 |
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| 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. |
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| November 13 |
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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.
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| November 12 |
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| The so-called 'Great Train Robber', Ronnie Biggs, is celebrating after Brazil's Supreme Court rejected a British request to extradite him. |
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| November 11 |
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| 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. |
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| November 10 |
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| 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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