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Today in History
 
September 30
The Hollywood film star James Dean has been killed in a road accident in California, USA.
 
September 26
Britain and China have finalised an agreement which will end 50 years of UK rule in Hong Kong.
 
September 20
The Queen has launched the new Cunard cruise liner named after her, the Queen Elizabeth 2, at a ceremony on the Clydebank.
 
September 19
The United States is to prevent the film legend, Charlie Chaplin, from returning to his Hollywood home until he has been investigated by the Immigration Services.
 
September 13
The Prime Minister of Israel, Yitzhak Rabin, and the PLO leader, Yasser Arafat, have shaken hands before cheering crowds on the White House lawn in Washington.
 
September 12
The President of the United States has described the destruction caused in New York and Washington as an act of war against all freedom-loving people.
 
September 22
Serbian forces have renewed their assault against rebel fighters in Kosovo.
 
September 19
The United States is to prevent the film legend, Charlie Chaplin, from returning to his Hollywood home until he has been investigated by the Immigration Services.
 
September 18
The body of UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold has been identified among the wreckage of a plane which crashed last night outside the Northern Rhodesian town of Ndola.
 
September 17
New Yorkers have been returning to work six days after the terror attacks which devastated the heart of their city.
 
September 16
At least 177 people have died during a lethal fire in a South African gold mine.
 
September 12
The President of the United States has described the destruction caused in New York and Washington as an act of war against all freedom-loving people.
 
September 5
Mother Teresa, the Nobel Peace Prize winner who devoted her life to helping the sick and the poor, has died at the age of 87.
 
September 23
Crowds have gathered outside Buckingham Palace for news of King George VI following an operation to remove part of his lung.
 
September 26
Britain and China have finalised an agreement which will end 50 years of UK rule in Hong Kong.
 
September 25
Nine black children have finally been able to attend Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. But they had to be surrounded by more than 1,000 US paratroopers to protect them from segregationist whites.
 
September 24
The Rhodesian Government has agreed to introduce black majority rule to the country within two years.
 
August 31
Diana, Princess of Wales, has died after a car crash in Paris.
 
August 28
The fight for racial equality in the United States moved a step closer to victory today as Martin Luther King spoke of his dream for freedom in an address to thousands of Americans.
 
August 27
The BBC has transmitted the first ever live television pictures across the Channel.
 
August 26
A man has been given the world's first battery-operated heart in a pioneering operation in Britain.
 
August 25
The unmanned Voyager 2 spacecraft has sent back the first close-up pictures of Neptune and its satellite planets.
 
August 24
Police in Los Angeles are investigating allegations of child abuse made against singer Michael Jackson.
 
August 21
The Philippines opposition leader, Benigno Aquino, has been assassinated just minutes after returning home from exile.
 
August 20
Intimate photographs of the Duchess of York and a Texan businessman, John Bryan, have been published in a tabloid newspaper.
 
August 19
Russian President Mikhail Gorbachev has been overthrown after a coup by Communist hardliners.
 
August 18
Manchester United Football Club has been sold for £20m in the biggest takeover deal in the history of British football.
 
August 17
Three Americans have made the first crossing of the Atlantic Ocean by hot air balloon.
 
August 14
Massive power failures have caused chaos across the eastern United States and Canada, hitting major cities such as New York and Ottawa.
 
August 13
Troops in East Germany have sealed the border between East and West Berlin, shutting off the escape route for thousands of refugees from the East.