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| August 5 |
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| Sicon Marilyn Monroe has been found dead in bed at her Los Angeles home. |
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| August 4 |
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| Celebrations have been taking place all over the United Kingdom to mark the 100th birthday of Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother. |
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| August 3 |
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| Queen has officially opened the 11th Commonwealth Games in Edmonton, Canada. |
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| August 2 |
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| More than 100,000 Iraqi soldiers backed up by 700 tanks invaded the Gulf state of Kuwait in the early hours of this morning. |
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| August 28 |
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| The fight for racial equality in the United States moved a step closer to victory today as Martin Luther King spoke of his dream for freedom in an address to thousands of Americans. |
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| August 21 |
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| The Philippines opposition leader, Benigno Aquino, has been assassinated just minutes after returning home from exile. |
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| August 7 |
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| At least 200 people have been killed and more than 1,000 injured following explosions at United States embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. |
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| August 8 |
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| Hollywood superstars Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise have divorced. |
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| August 22 |
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| The late Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping was one of the greatest men of the 20th century, |
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| August 15 |
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| Japan has surrendered to the Allies. There is joy and celebration around the world and 15 August has been declared Victory in Japan day. |
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| August 29 |
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| Britain's oldest twins have today both received telegrams from the Queen. |
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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 26 |
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| Iran's spiritual leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has said the death sentence on writer Salman Rushdie for alleged blasphemy will remain in force. |
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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 12 |
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| Princess Anne today became Mrs Timothy Laurence after a small family wedding in Scotland. |
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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 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 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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| 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 13 |
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| The Times newspaper has been published for the first time in nearly a year. |
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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. |
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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 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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