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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 27 |
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Fifty-seven Hindu pilgrims have died in a fire on a train in India. |
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February 19 |
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China's paramount leader Deng Xiaoping has died at the age of 92. |
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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 6 |
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His Majesty, King George VI, has died peacefully in his sleep at Sandringham House. |
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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 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 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 18 |
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Six major environmental organisations today added their support to the growing anti-bypass campaign in Newbury, Berkshire. |
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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 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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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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January 6 |
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An unknown man brandishing a metal crowbar has attacked American figure-skater Nancy Kerrigan. |
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January 5 |
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Israel has airlifted thousands of Jewish Ethiopian refugees out of Sudan, it has emerged. |
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January 4 |
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Sir Edmund Hillary has reached the South Pole - the first overland explorer to do so since Captain Robert F Scott's expedition in 1912. |
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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 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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