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Today in History
 
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 15
Britain has strongly condemned the Iraqi authorities over the execution of The Observer journalist Farzad Bazoft in Baghdad.
 
March 14
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.
 
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 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 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.
 
March 1
The US has produced the biggest ever man-made explosion so far in the Pacific archipelago of Bikini, part of the Marshall Islands.
 
February 28
The guns are silent and the war is over in the Gulf.
 
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 21
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.
 
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.
 
February 18
The Secretary of the US army has ordered two generals, subpoenaed by anti-Communist senator Joseph McCarthy, to ignore the summons.
 
February 17
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.
 
February 16
Cuba's revolutionary leader Fidel Castro has become the country's youngest ever premier.
 
February 15
The daughter of the millionaire American publisher, Randolph Hearst, has been kidnapped.
 
February 14
Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean have been crowned the Olympic ice skating champions after scooping gold in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia.
 
February 13
Hundreds of Iraqi civilians have been killed and wounded in Baghdad by American bombers.
 
February 12
Thieves have stolen one of the world's best-known paintings from a gallery in the Norwegian capital, Oslo.