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Today in History
 
April 1
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.
 
March 31
Queen Mary has been laid to rest next to her late husband following a funeral service at Windsor Castle.
 
March 30
President Ronald Reagan has been shot and wounded after a lone gunman opened fire in Washington.
 
March 27
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.
 
March 26
Israel and Egypt have ended 30 years of war with an historic peace treaty brokered by the United States.
 
March 25
King Faisal of Saudi Arabia has died after a gun attack in Riyadh despite the efforts of doctors to save him.
 
March 24
Great Train robber Ronnie Biggs has been rescued by Barbados police following his kidnapping.
 
March 23
President Reagan has unveiled plans to combat nuclear war in space.
 
March 20
American missiles have hit the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, signalling the start of the US-led campaign to topple Saddam Hussein.
 
March 19
Princess Margaret and Lord Snowdon are to separate after 16 years of marriage, it has been announced by Buckingham Palace.
 
March 18
White South Africans have backed an overwhelming mandate for political reforms to end apartheid and create a power-sharing multi-racial government.
 
March 17
Thousands of Palestinian civilians are fleeing a third day of Israeli attacks in southern Lebanon.
 
March 16
Former Italian prime minister Aldo Moro has been kidnapped in Rome.
 
March 13
A coup in the Caribbean island of Grenada has toppled the country's controversial Prime Minister, Sir Eric Gairy.
 
March 12
One of the 20th century's finest musicians Yehudi Menuhin has died, aged 82.
 
March 11
On this date in 1888, a torrential rainstorm hit the East Coast. The rain turned to snow the next day and it became the Blizzard of 1888.
 
March 10
On this date in 1785, Thomas Jefferson was appointed minister to France, succeeding Benjamin Franklin.
 
March 9
In 1954, CBS newsman Edward R. Murrow critically reviewed Wisconsin Senator Joseph R. McCarthy's anti-Communism campaign on "See It Now."
 
March 6
The people of Ghana have been celebrating the end of colonial rule and the dawn of their independence.
 
March 5
Rumours are circulating in Moscow that Joseph Stalin, the long-time leader of the Soviet Union, is near death.
 
March 4
Silent film legend Charlie Chaplin has become Sir Charles after a ceremony at Buckingham Palace.
 
March 3
A Turkish Airlines DC10 has crashed near Paris killing all 345 people on board.
 
March 2
The supersonic airliner, Concorde, has made a "faultless" maiden flight.
 
February 27
Fifty-seven Hindu pilgrims have died in a fire on a train in India.
 
February 26
A suspected car bomb has exploded underneath the World Trade Center in New York killing at least five people and injuring scores more.
 
February 25
Hundreds of Iraqi civilians have been killed and wounded in Baghdad by American bombers.
 
February 24
The South Vietnamese are celebrating the recapture of the country's third city, Hue, after a battle lasting three weeks.
 
February 23
US troops have raised the Stars and Stripes over Iwo Jima four days after landing on the Japanese-held volcanic island.
 
February 20
The first American to orbit the Earth has landed safely in the Atlantic Ocean.
 
February 19
China's paramount leader Deng Xiaoping has died at the age of 92.