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August 5 |
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Sicon Marilyn Monroe has been found dead in bed at her Los Angeles home. |
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August 4 |
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Celebrations have been taking place all over the United Kingdom to mark the 100th birthday of Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother. |
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August 3 |
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Queen has officially opened the 11th Commonwealth Games in Edmonton, Canada. |
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August 2 |
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More than 100,000 Iraqi soldiers backed up by 700 tanks invaded the Gulf state of Kuwait in the early hours of this morning. |
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August 28 |
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The fight for racial equality in the United States moved a step closer to victory today as Martin Luther King spoke of his dream for freedom in an address to thousands of Americans. |
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August 21 |
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The Philippines opposition leader, Benigno Aquino, has been assassinated just minutes after returning home from exile. |
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August 7 |
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At least 200 people have been killed and more than 1,000 injured following explosions at United States embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. |
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August 8 |
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Hollywood superstars Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise have divorced. |
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August 22 |
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The late Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping was one of the greatest men of the 20th century, |
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August 15 |
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Japan has surrendered to the Allies. There is joy and celebration around the world and 15 August has been declared Victory in Japan day. |
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August 29 |
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Britain's oldest twins have today both received telegrams from the Queen. |
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December 5 |
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Administrators have been called in to try to salvage the Maxwell business empire, which is at least ?bn in debt. |
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December 26 |
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Iran's spiritual leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has said the death sentence on writer Salman Rushdie for alleged blasphemy will remain in force. |
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December 19 |
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The British colony of Hong Kong is to be returned to China in 1997 after an historic agreement was signed in Peking today. |
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December 12 |
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Princess Anne today became Mrs Timothy Laurence after a small family wedding in Scotland. |
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November 30 |
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Almost 1,000 people have been forced to abandon a luxury cruise ship in the Indian Ocean after it caught fire. |
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November 27 |
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John Major is to be Britain's new prime minister after winning the Conservatives' leadership election. |
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November 26 |
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A British monarch is to pay income tax for the first time since the 1930s. |
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November 23 |
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Fifty-five year old Lyndon Baines Johnson begins his new job today as US president. |
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November 20 |
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At least 27 people have been killed and more than 400 injured in twin bomb attacks in the Turkish capital, Istanbul. |
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November 16 |
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More than 20 English football supporters have been arrested in Luxembourg after a night of violence. |
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November 13 |
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The Times newspaper has been published for the first time in nearly a year. |
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November 12 |
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The so-called 'Great Train Robber', Ronnie Biggs, is celebrating after Brazil's Supreme Court rejected a British request to extradite him. |
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November 11 |
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A painting by Vincent Van Gogh has been sold for $49m - a world record for a work of art. |
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November 10 |
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Bookshops all over England have sold out of Penguin's first run of the controversial novel Lady Chatterley's Lover - a total of 200,000 copies - on the first day of publication. |
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November 9 |
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Lawyers acting for the Princess of Wales have started legal action over secretly-taken pictures of her exercising which were published last week by a national newspaper. |
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November 6 |
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Australians have rejected a proposal to break ties with the British monarchy and become a republic. |
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November 5 |
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General Dwight D Eisenhower has swept to victory in the American presidential elections with the largest number of popular votes ever recorded for a presidential candidate. |
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November 4 |
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Democrat Bill Clinton has won the presidential election to become the 42nd United States president and the first in US history born after World War II. |
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November 3 |
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Jimmy Carter has been confirmed as the next President of the United States after a closely-fought contest which gave him 51% of the popular vote. |
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