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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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| January 27 |
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| Three American astronauts died when fire swept the Saturn rocket on its launch pad at Cape Kennedy. |
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| January 26 |
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| The Red Army has liberated the Nazis' biggest concentration camp at Auschwitz in south-western Poland. |
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| January 25 |
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| Six members of the International Olympic Committee face expulsion following an inquiry into a corruption scandal which has deeply shaken the Olympic movement. |
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| January 24 |
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| Sir Winston Churchill has died at the age of 90 with his wife Lady Clementine Churchill and other members of the family at his bedside. |
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| January 23 |
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| The US president, Richard Nixon, has appeared on national television to announce "peace with honour" in Vietnam. |
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| January 22 |
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| President Mikhail Gorbachev has made a statement on Soviet television explaining the Soviet crackdown on civil unrest in the republic of Azerbaijan. |
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| January 20 |
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| Indira Gandhi, only daughter of India's first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru, is to become the country's next leader. |
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| January 17 |
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| A huge earthquake has rocked Los Angeles, killing more than twenty people. |
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| January 16 |
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| The Shah of Iran has fled the country following months of increasingly violent protests against his regime. |
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| January 15 |
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| President Nixon has ordered a halt to American bombing in North Vietnam following peace talks in Paris. |
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| January 14 |
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| The foot-and-mouth crisis that began almost 11 months ago will officially end at midnight, the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has said. |
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| January 13 |
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| American, British and French fighter jets have carried out a series of bombing raids over southern Iraq. |
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| January 12 |
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| The carers of an eight-year-old girl who died after being tortured and fed scraps of food like a dog have been found guilty of her murder. |
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| January 11 |
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| The first graduates from the Open University (OU) have been awarded their degrees after two years studying from home. |
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| January 10 |
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| Harold Macmillan has accepted the Queen's invitation to become prime minister following the sudden resignation of Sir Anthony Eden. |
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