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| February 18 |
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| The Secretary of the US army has ordered two generals, subpoenaed by anti-Communist senator Joseph McCarthy, to ignore the summons. |
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| February 17 |
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| 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. |
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| February 16 |
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| Cuba's revolutionary leader Fidel Castro has become the country's youngest ever premier. |
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| February 13 |
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| Hundreds of Iraqi civilians have been killed and wounded in Baghdad by American bombers. |
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| February 12 |
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| Thieves have stolen one of the world's best-known paintings from a gallery in the Norwegian capital, Oslo. |
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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 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 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 28 |
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| The American space shuttle, Challenger, has exploded killing all seven astronauts on board. |
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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 21 |
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| The 52 American hostages held at the US embassy in Tehran for more than 14 months have arrived in West Germany on their way home to the United States. |
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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 19 |
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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 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 9 |
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| The Defence Secretary, Michael Heseltine, has resigned from his Cabinet job in a row with Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher over the Westland affair. |
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| January 8 |
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| General Charles de Gaulle has been proclaimed first President of the new Fifth Republic in France during a brief ceremony at the Elysee Palace in Paris. |
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| January 7 |
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| The Leaning Tower of Pisa has been closed to the public for the first time in 800 years amid speculation the structure is on the verge of toppling over. |
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