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November 19 |
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The An estimated jackpot of £1m may be won tonight in Britain's first ever lottery draw. |
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November 18 |
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Church envoy Terry Waite has been freed by the Islamic extremists who kidnapped him in Beirut in 1987. |
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November 17 |
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More than 60 people have been killed after an attack on a group of foreign tourists visiting a temple in southern Egypt. |
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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 15 |
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Princess Anne has given birth to a boy - the first royal baby to be born a commoner for more than 500 years. |
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November 14 |
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The wedding of the Queen's only daughter, Princess Anne, has taken place at Westminster Abbey. Princess Anne, 23, married Mark Phillips, a lieutenant in the Army. |
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November 13 |
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The Times newspaper has been published for the first time in nearly a year.The paper's disappearance from news stands followed a dispute between management and unions over manning levels and the introduction of new technology.
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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.The final price was more than twice what the painting, called Irises, had been expected to reach. |
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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 8 |
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Voters in the Republic of Ireland have chosen their first female president. |
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November 7 |
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East Germany's Communist-dominated government has resigned - the first time such an event has occurred in the country's 40-year history. |
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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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November 2 |
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An American held hostage in Beirut by Muslim fundamentalists has been released. |
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November 1 |
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Outbreaks of religious violence have occurred in parts of India in the wake of yesterday's assassination of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi by Sikh members of her bodyguard. |
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October 31 |
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The Prime Minister of Malaysia, Mahathir Mohamad, has handed over power and stepped down after 22 years in office. |
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October 30 |
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US President George Bush has encouraged Arabs and Israelis to "lay down the past" in his opening speech to the Middle East peace conference in Spain. |
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October 29 |
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The long-awaited report by South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) has accused leading figures from across the political spectrum of human rights violations. |
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October 28 |
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The world has breathed a collective sigh of relief after the superpowers reached an agreement ending the immediate threat of nuclear war. |
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October 27 |
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MI5 has been brought into the hunt for the missing atomic scientist Bruno Pontecorvo who has not been seen for about seven weeks. |
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October 26 |
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The Conservative Party has won the general election by a small majority, making Winston Churchill prime minister for the second time. |
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October 25 |
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The EEC is donating 5.8 million to help combat the famine in Ethiopia. |
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October 24 |
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The legendary supersonic aircraft, Concorde, has landed at the end of its last commercial passenger flight, amid emotional scenes at Heathrow airport. |
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October 23 |
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The Northern Ireland peace process has reached an historic breakthrough as the IRA announced they had begun decommissioning their weapons. |
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October 22 |
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One of Britain's most notorious double-agents, George Blake, has escaped from prison in a daring break-out believed to have been masterminded by the Soviet Union. |
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October 21 |
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A third person has been diagnosed in the US with the most serious form of anthrax. |
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