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Today in History
 
February 11
Leading anti-apartheid campaigner Nelson Mandela has been freed from prison in South Africa after 27 years.
 
February 10
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.
 
February 9
The first Briton and the first African-American have walked in space as part of a Nasa experiment.
 
February 8
Three US astronauts have returned safely to Earth after a record-breaking stay in space.
 
February 7
Plans are being drawn up by London, Washington and Moscow for the final phase of the war against Germany.
 
February 6
His Majesty, King George VI, has died peacefully in his sleep at Sandringham House.
 
February 5
The daughter of the millionaire American publisher, Randolph Hearst, has been kidnapped.
 
February 4
An earthquake in northern Afghanistan has left thousands dead, injured or homeless.
 
February 3
Three young rock 'n' roll stars have been killed in a plane crash in the United States.
 
February 2
The Soviet Government has announced the final defeat of the German 6th Army at the port of Stalingrad, in southern Russia.
 
February 1
The US space shuttle Columbia has broken up as it re-entered the Earth's atmosphere killing all seven astronauts on board.
 
January 31
At least 53 people have been killed and another 1,400 injured in a suicide attack in the capital of Sri Lanka.
 
January 30
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.
 
January 29
President of the Philippines Corazon Aquino has forced a group of heavily armed rebels occupying a television station to surrender.
 
January 28
The American space shuttle, Challenger, has exploded killing all seven astronauts on board.
 
January 27
Three American astronauts died when fire swept the Saturn rocket on its launch pad at Cape Kennedy.
 
January 26
The Red Army has liberated the Nazis' biggest concentration camp at Auschwitz in south-western Poland.
 
January 25
Six members of the International Olympic Committee face expulsion following an inquiry into a corruption scandal which has deeply shaken the Olympic movement.
 
January 24
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.
 
January 23
The US president, Richard Nixon, has appeared on national television to announce "peace with honour" in Vietnam.
 
January 22
President Mikhail Gorbachev has made a statement on Soviet television explaining the Soviet crackdown on civil unrest in the republic of Azerbaijan.
 
January 20
Indira Gandhi, only daughter of India's first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru, is to become the country's next leader.
 
January 17
A huge earthquake has rocked Los Angeles, killing more than twenty people.
 
January 16
The Shah of Iran has fled the country following months of increasingly violent protests against his regime.
 
January 15
President Nixon has ordered a halt to American bombing in North Vietnam following peace talks in Paris.
 
January 14
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.
 
January 13
American, British and French fighter jets have carried out a series of bombing raids over southern Iraq.
 
January 12
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.
 
January 11
The first graduates from the Open University (OU) have been awarded their degrees after two years studying from home.
 
January 10
Harold Macmillan has accepted the Queen's invitation to become prime minister following the sudden resignation of Sir Anthony Eden.