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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 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 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 7 |
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Plans are being drawn up by London, Washington and Moscow for the final phase of the war against Germany. |
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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 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 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 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 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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