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December 20 |
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The Queen has urged the Prince and Princess of Wales to seek "an early divorce".Buckingham Palace said the Queen called for an end to the marriage in a letter to each of them earlier this week.
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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 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 18 |
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A bill giving Scotland its own parliament for the first time in three centuries has been unveiled in Glasgow today. |
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December 17 |
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The Germans have mounted a series of counter-attacks on the Western front allowing them to re-cross the borders of Luxembourg and Belgium. |
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December 16 |
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Mikhail Gorbachev, the man widely tipped as the next leader of the Soviet Union, has spent five hours in "very friendly" talks with the British Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher. |
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December 15 |
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The British and Irish prime ministers have signed The Joint Declaration of Peace which they hope will end 25 years of bombing and murder in Northern Ireland. |
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December 14 |
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The ousted President of Iraq, Saddam Hussein, is under arrest after he was captured by US soldiers. |
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December 13 |
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A group of gunmen has broken through tight security to attack the parliament building in the Indian capital, New Delhi. |
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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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December 11 |
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Germany and Italy have announced they are at war with the United States. America immediately responded by declaring war on the two Axis powers. |
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December 10 |
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Up to 45,000 people have died and a further 500,000 are homeless after the devastating earthquake which ripped through Armenia, official figures revealed today. |
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December 9 |
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Tripartite talks on Northern Ireland have ended in an historic agreement to set up a Council of Ireland. |
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December 8 |
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Former Beatle John Lennon has been shot dead by an unknown gunman who opened fire outside the musician's New York apartment. |
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December 7 |
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Thousands of people may have died from the most devastating cyclone to strike Bangladesh in almost 20 years, the UN reports. |
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December 6 |
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A mob of Hindu militants has torn down a mosque and attacked other Muslim targets in the north Indian town of Ayodhya, in one of India's worst outbreaks of inter-communal violence. |
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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 4 |
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The US President, George W Bush, has withdrawn a punitive tax on imported steel to avoid a damaging trade war between the United States and Europe. |
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December 3 |
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Health minister Edwina Currie has provoked outrage by saying most of Britain's egg production is infected with the salmonella bacteria. |
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December 2 |
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US President Dwight D Eisenhower has announced the signing of a pact of mutual security with the Nationalist Chinese Government. |
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December 1 |
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Construction workers have drilled through the final wall of rock to join the two halves of the Channel Tunnel and link Britain to France. |
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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 29 |
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One of Britain's greatest motor racing drivers has been killed in a plane crash in south-east England. |
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November 28 |
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Britain has a new prime minister for the first time in over 11 years. |
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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 22 |
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Margaret Thatcher is to stand down as prime minister after her Cabinet refused to back her in a second round of leadership elections. |
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November 21 |
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The Geneva summit has ended in optimism but with no agreement on the "Star Wars" space defence system. |
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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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