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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 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 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 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 11 |
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| 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. |
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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 6 |
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| The people of Ghana have been celebrating the end of colonial rule and the dawn of their independence. |
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| March 5 |
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| Rumours are circulating in Moscow that Joseph Stalin, the long-time leader of the Soviet Union, is near death. |
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| March 4 |
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| Silent film legend Charlie Chaplin has become Sir Charles after a ceremony at Buckingham Palace. |
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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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| 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 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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