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Today in History
 
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.
 
December 31
The British Prime Minister has set off on his trip to America after more than 24 hours of delays.
 
December 29
Six people are feared dead after raging storms hit competitors in the Sydney to Hobart yacht race.
 
December 28
British customs officials have seized £70m of Columbian cocaine which is thought to be directly linked to the Mafia.
 
December 27
Thousands of people are flocking to cinemas in the UK to watch the long-awaited blockbuster, Star Wars - a movie which is already setting US box offices alight.
 
December 26
Iran's spiritual leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has said the death sentence on writer Salman Rushdie for alleged blasphemy will remain in force.
 
December 25
Charles "Charlie" Spencer Chaplin, the comic genius of silent films, has died aged 88.
 
December 24
Former UK minister John Stonehouse has been found living under a false name in Australia after apparently faking his own death.
 
December 21
General Charles de Gaulle has been elected President of France with an overwhelming majority.
 
December 20
The Queen has urged the Prince and Princess of Wales to seek "an early divorce".Buckingham Palace said the Queen called for an end to the marriage in a letter to each of them earlier this week.
 
December 19
The British colony of Hong Kong is to be returned to China in 1997 after an historic agreement was signed in Peking today.
 
December 18
A bill giving Scotland its own parliament for the first time in three centuries has been unveiled in Glasgow today.
 
December 17
The Germans have mounted a series of counter-attacks on the Western front allowing them to re-cross the borders of Luxembourg and Belgium.
 
December 14
The ousted President of Iraq, Saddam Hussein, is under arrest after he was captured by US soldiers.
 
December 13
A group of gunmen has broken through tight security to attack the parliament building in the Indian capital, New Delhi.
 
December 12
Princess Anne today became Mrs Timothy Laurence after a small family wedding in Scotland.
 
December 11
Germany and Italy have announced they are at war with the United States. America immediately responded by declaring war on the two Axis powers.
 
December 10
Up to 45,000 people have died and a further 500,000 are homeless after the devastating earthquake which ripped through Armenia, official figures revealed today.
 
December 7
Thousands of people may have died from the most devastating cyclone to strike Bangladesh in almost 20 years, the UN reports.
 
December 6
A mob of Hindu militants has torn down a mosque and attacked other Muslim targets in the north Indian town of Ayodhya, in one of India's worst outbreaks of inter-communal violence.
 
December 5
Administrators have been called in to try to salvage the Maxwell business empire, which is at least ?bn in debt.
 
December 4
The US President, George W Bush, has withdrawn a punitive tax on imported steel to avoid a damaging trade war between the United States and Europe.
 
December 3
Health minister Edwina Currie has provoked outrage by saying most of Britain's egg production is infected with the salmonella bacteria.
 
October 8
The film star Arnold Schwarzenegger has been elected governor of California, ousting the incumbent, Gray Davis, three years before his term was due to end.
 
October 7
The United States has begun its military campaign, Operation Enduring Freedom, against al-Qaeda and the Taleban in Afghanistan.
 
October 6
Heavy fighting has erupted between Arab and Israeli forces along two fronts.
 
August 1
Polish Home Army has begun a battle to liberate Warsaw, the first European capital to fall to the Germans nearly five years ago.
 
March 1
The US has produced the biggest ever man-made explosion so far in the Pacific archipelago of Bikini, part of the Marshall Islands.
 
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.

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