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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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| November 9 |
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| Lawyers acting for the Princess of Wales have started legal action over secretly-taken pictures of her exercising which were published last week by a national newspaper. |
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| November 8 |
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| Voters in the Republic of Ireland have chosen their first female president. |
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| November 7 |
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| East Germany's Communist-dominated government has resigned - the first time such an event has occurred in the country's 40-year history. |
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| November 6 |
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| Australians have rejected a proposal to break ties with the British monarchy and become a republic. |
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| November 5 |
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| General Dwight D Eisenhower has swept to victory in the American presidential elections with the largest number of popular votes ever recorded for a presidential candidate. |
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| November 4 |
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| Democrat Bill Clinton has won the presidential election to become the 42nd United States president and the first in US history born after World War II. |
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| November 3 |
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| Jimmy Carter has been confirmed as the next President of the United States after a closely-fought contest which gave him 51% of the popular vote. |
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| November 2 |
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| An American held hostage in Beirut by Muslim fundamentalists has been released. |
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| November 1 |
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| Outbreaks of religious violence have occurred in parts of India in the wake of yesterday's assassination of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi by Sikh members of her bodyguard. |
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| October 31 |
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| The Prime Minister of Malaysia, Mahathir Mohamad, has handed over power and stepped down after 22 years in office. |
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| October 30 |
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| US President George Bush has encouraged Arabs and Israelis to "lay down the past" in his opening speech to the Middle East peace conference in Spain. |
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| October 29 |
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| The long-awaited report by South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) has accused leading figures from across the political spectrum of human rights violations. |
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| October 28 |
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| The world has breathed a collective sigh of relief after the superpowers reached an agreement ending the immediate threat of nuclear war. |
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