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| February 27 |
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| Fifty-seven Hindu pilgrims have died in a fire on a train in India. |
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| February 26 |
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| A suspected car bomb has exploded underneath the World Trade Center in New York killing at least five people and injuring scores more. |
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| February 25 |
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| Hundreds of Iraqi civilians have been killed and wounded in Baghdad by American bombers. |
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| February 24 |
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| The South Vietnamese are celebrating the recapture of the country's third city, Hue, after a battle lasting three weeks. |
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| February 23 |
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| US troops have raised the Stars and Stripes over Iwo Jima four days after landing on the Japanese-held volcanic island. |
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| February 21 |
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| The American President Richard Nixon has arrived in China at the start of a week-long summit aimed at ending 20 years of frosty relations between the two countries. |
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| February 20 |
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| The first American to orbit the Earth has landed safely in the Atlantic Ocean. |
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| February 19 |
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| China's paramount leader Deng Xiaoping has died at the age of 92. |
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| February 18 |
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| The Secretary of the US army has ordered two generals, subpoenaed by anti-Communist senator Joseph McCarthy, to ignore the summons. |
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| February 17 |
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| Serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer has been sentenced to life in prison by a court in Wisconsin for murdering and dismembering 15 young men and boys. |
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| February 16 |
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| Cuba's revolutionary leader Fidel Castro has become the country's youngest ever premier. |
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| February 15 |
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| The daughter of the millionaire American publisher, Randolph Hearst, has been kidnapped. |
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| February 14 |
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| Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean have been crowned the Olympic ice skating champions after scooping gold in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia. |
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| February 13 |
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| Hundreds of Iraqi civilians have been killed and wounded in Baghdad by American bombers. |
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| February 12 |
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| Thieves have stolen one of the world's best-known paintings from a gallery in the Norwegian capital, Oslo. |
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| February 11 |
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| Leading anti-apartheid campaigner Nelson Mandela has been freed from prison in South Africa after 27 years. |
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| February 10 |
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| American spy plane pilot Captain Francis "Gary" Powers has been freed from prison in the Soviet Union in exchange for a Russian spy jailed in the US. |
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| February 9 |
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| The first Briton and the first African-American have walked in space as part of a Nasa experiment. |
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| February 8 |
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| Three US astronauts have returned safely to Earth after a record-breaking stay in space. |
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| February 7 |
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| Plans are being drawn up by London, Washington and Moscow for the final phase of the war against Germany. |
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| February 6 |
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| His Majesty, King George VI, has died peacefully in his sleep at Sandringham House. |
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| February 5 |
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| The daughter of the millionaire American publisher, Randolph Hearst, has been kidnapped. |
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| February 4 |
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| An earthquake in northern Afghanistan has left thousands dead, injured or homeless. |
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| February 3 |
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| Three young rock 'n' roll stars have been killed in a plane crash in the United States. |
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| February 2 |
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| The Soviet Government has announced the final defeat of the German 6th Army at the port of Stalingrad, in southern Russia. |
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| February 1 |
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| The US space shuttle Columbia has broken up as it re-entered the Earth's atmosphere killing all seven astronauts on board. |
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| January 31 |
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| At least 53 people have been killed and another 1,400 injured in a suicide attack in the capital of Sri Lanka. |
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| January 30 |
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| Thousands of people have paid their last respects to Britain's greatest wartime leader Sir Winston Churchill who was buried today after a full state funeral. |
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| January 29 |
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| President of the Philippines Corazon Aquino has forced a group of heavily armed rebels occupying a television station to surrender. |
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| January 28 |
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| The American space shuttle, Challenger, has exploded killing all seven astronauts on board. |
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