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March 4 |
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Silent film legend Charlie Chaplin has become Sir Charles after a ceremony at Buckingham Palace. |
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March 3 |
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A Turkish Airlines DC10 has crashed near Paris killing all 345 people on board. |
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March 2 |
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The supersonic airliner, Concorde, has made a "faultless" maiden flight. |
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March 1 |
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The US has produced the biggest ever man-made explosion so far in the Pacific archipelago of Bikini, part of the Marshall Islands. |
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March 26 |
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Israel and Egypt have ended 30 years of war with an historic peace treaty brokered by the United States. |
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March 19 |
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Princess Margaret and Lord Snowdon are to separate after 16 years of marriage, it has been announced by Buckingham Palace. |
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March 15 |
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Britain has strongly condemned the Iraqi authorities over the execution of The Observer journalist Farzad Bazoft in Baghdad. |
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March 5 |
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Rumours are circulating in Moscow that Joseph Stalin, the long-time leader of the Soviet Union, is near death. |
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March 20 |
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American missiles have hit the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, signalling the start of the US-led campaign to topple Saddam Hussein. |
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March 13 |
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A coup in the Caribbean island of Grenada has toppled the country's controversial Prime Minister, Sir Eric Gairy. |
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March 6 |
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The people of Ghana have been celebrating the end of colonial rule and the dawn of their independence. |
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February 28 |
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The guns are silent and the war is over in the Gulf. |
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February 25 |
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Hundreds of Iraqi civilians have been killed and wounded in Baghdad by American bombers. |
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February 23 |
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US troops have raised the Stars and Stripes over Iwo Jima four days after landing on the Japanese-held volcanic island. |
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February 21 |
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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. |
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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 15 |
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The daughter of the millionaire American publisher, Randolph Hearst, has been kidnapped. |
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February 14 |
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Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean have been crowned the Olympic ice skating champions after scooping gold in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia. |
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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 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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February 26 |
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A suspected car bomb has exploded underneath the World Trade Center in New York killing at least five people and injuring scores more. |
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February 24 |
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The South Vietnamese are celebrating the recapture of the country's third city, Hue, after a battle lasting three weeks. |
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February 20 |
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The first American to orbit the Earth has landed safely in the Atlantic Ocean. |
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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 5 |
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The daughter of the millionaire American publisher, Randolph Hearst, has been kidnapped. |
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