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| April 3 |
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| The Grand National has ended in chaos after a series of events at the start which reduced the world-famous horse race to a shambles. |
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| April 2 |
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| Former French cabinet minister Maurice Papon has been sentenced to 10 years in jail for his part in deporting Jews from France during World War II. |
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| April 1 |
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| A coding machine used by the Germans to encode messages during World War II has been stolen from the Bletchley Park Museum in Buckinghamshire, south-east England. |
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| March 31 |
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| Queen Mary has been laid to rest next to her late husband following a funeral service at Windsor Castle. |
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| March 30 |
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| President Ronald Reagan has been shot and wounded after a lone gunman opened fire in Washington. |
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| March 29 |
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| Thousands of people have jogged through the normally quiet Sunday streets of the capital to compete in the first ever London marathon. |
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| March 28 |
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| Radioactive steam has leaked into the atmosphere in Pennsylvania, USA. |
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| March 27 |
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| At least 560 people died when two jumbo jets collided on a runway in what is thought to be the world's worst disaster involving aircraft on the ground. |
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| March 26 |
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| Israel and Egypt have ended 30 years of war with an historic peace treaty brokered by the United States. |
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| March 25 |
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| King Faisal of Saudi Arabia has died after a gun attack in Riyadh despite the efforts of doctors to save him. |
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| March 24 |
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| Great Train robber Ronnie Biggs has been rescued by Barbados police following his kidnapping. |
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| March 23 |
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| President Reagan has unveiled plans to combat nuclear war in space. |
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| March 22 |
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| Civil rights leader, the Reverend Martin Luther King, has been convicted of organising an illegal boycott by black passengers of buses in the US state of Alabama. |
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| March 21 |
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| One of Britain's most loved and most successful comedians, Ernie Wise, has died aged 73. |
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| March 20 |
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| American missiles have hit the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, signalling the start of the US-led campaign to topple Saddam Hussein. |
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| March 19 |
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| Princess Margaret and Lord Snowdon are to separate after 16 years of marriage, it has been announced by Buckingham Palace. |
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| March 18 |
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| White South Africans have backed an overwhelming mandate for political reforms to end apartheid and create a power-sharing multi-racial government. |
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| March 17 |
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| Thousands of Palestinian civilians are fleeing a third day of Israeli attacks in southern Lebanon. |
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| March 16 |
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| Former Italian prime minister Aldo Moro has been kidnapped in Rome. |
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| March 15 |
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| Britain has strongly condemned the Iraqi authorities over the execution of The Observer journalist Farzad Bazoft in Baghdad. |
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| March 14 |
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| The radio telescope at Jodrell Bank has set a new space record making contact with the American Pioneer V satellite at a distance of 407,000 miles. |
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| March 13 |
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| A coup in the Caribbean island of Grenada has toppled the country's controversial Prime Minister, Sir Eric Gairy. |
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| March 12 |
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| One of the 20th century's finest musicians Yehudi Menuhin has died, aged 82. |
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| March 10 |
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| On this date in 1785, Thomas Jefferson was appointed minister to France, succeeding Benjamin Franklin. |
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| March 9 |
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| In 1954, CBS newsman Edward R. Murrow critically reviewed Wisconsin Senator Joseph R. McCarthy's anti-Communism campaign on "See It Now." |
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| March 3 |
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| A Turkish Airlines DC10 has crashed near Paris killing all 345 people on board. |
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| March 2 |
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| The supersonic airliner, Concorde, has made a "faultless" maiden flight. |
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| March 1 |
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| The US has produced the biggest ever man-made explosion so far in the Pacific archipelago of Bikini, part of the Marshall Islands. |
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| February 28 |
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| The guns are silent and the war is over in the Gulf. |
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