- 1964: President Kaunda takes power in Zambia
- 1984: Europe grants emergency aid for Ethiopia
- 2001: Crime rates lowest for 20 years
- 1979: South Korean President killed
- 1994: Israel and Jordan make peace
- 2000: Ministers 'misled' public on BSE
- 1956: Fighting spreads in Hungary revolution
- 1951: Churchill wins general election
- 1982: RUC officers killed by IRA bomb
- 1978: Gunman runs amok in West Midlands
- 1977: Liberal MP denies murder plot
- 1968: Police clash with anti-war protesters
- 1950: Hunt for missing atomic scientist
- 1986: 'Evil' Bamber jailed for family murders
- 1962: World relief as Cuban missile crisis ends
- 1979: Chairman Hua arrives in London
- 2001: Christians killed in Pakistan massacre
- 1974: Minister's wife survives bomb attack
- 1999: Super-cyclone wreaks havoc in India
- 1998: Apartheid report accuses SA leaders
- 1975: Franco's 36-year reign ends
- 1982: Mother jailed in dingo baby murder
- 2003: Tory Party leader resigns
- 1991: Bush opens historic Mid East peace conference
- 1984: Pro-Solidarity priest is murdered
- 1981: Euthanasia chief jailed over suicides
- 1957: Lords to admit first women peers
- 1961: World condemns Russia's nuclear test
- 1984: Indian prime minister shot dead
- 2003: End of Mahathir era in Malaysia
- 1971: Bomb explodes in Post Office tower
- 1955: Princess Margaret cancels wedding
- 1997: British au pair guilty of murder
- 1966: Viet Cong bombs Saigon
- 1970: Nightclub inferno 'wipes out generation'
- 1990: Howe resigns over Europe policy
- 1986: Chemical spill turns Rhine red
- 1984: Violence follows Gandhi killing
- 2000: Schools watchdog Woodhead resigns
- 1988: Dead heat in Israel elections
- 1986: US hostage freed in Beirut
- 1951: 6,000 British troops flown into Egypt
- 1995: Ex-minister charged with apartheid murders
- 1997: Angry truckers blockade French ports
- 1985: Agents plead guilty in Rainbow Warrior trial
- 1975: North Sea oil begins to flow
- 1964: Election triumph for Lyndon B Johnson
- 1957: Russians launch dog into space
- 2004: George W Bush wins second term
- 1956: Soviet troops overrun Hungary
- 1974: M62 bomber jailed for life
- 1980: Reagan beats Carter in landslide
- 1979: Militants storm US embassy in Tehran
- 1995: Israeli PM shot dead
- 1978: Iran's PM steps down amid riots
- 1952: Landslide victory for Eisenhower
- 1967: Forty die in Hither Green rail crash
- 1984: Sandinistas claim election victory
- 1991: Publisher Robert Maxwell dies at sea
- 1996: 'Comeback Kid' wins second term
- 1956: Allied forces take control of Suez
- 1999: Australia rejects republic
- 1968: Nixon wins close contest for president
- 1986: Oil workers die in helicopter crash
- 1972: Nixon takes second term by landslide
- 1956: Eisenhower re-elected with record vote
- 1989: Protests force out East German rulers
- 1975: IRA kidnappers release industrialist
- 2000: Hillary Clinton is first First Lady in Senate
- Puffbox - ultra Nov 7
- 1987: Bomb kills 11 at Enniskillen
- 1974: Police hunt Lord Lucan after murder
- 2000: Bush and Gore fight to the finish
- 1957: Inquiry publishes cause of nuclear fire
- 1990: Ireland elects first woman president
- 1985: America welcomes Charles and Diana
- 1960: Narrow victory for John F Kennedy
- 1979: Paperboy's killers convicted
- 1989: Berliners celebrate the fall of the Wall
- 1970: France mourns death of de Gaulle
- Puffbox - ultra Nov 9
- 1960: Lady Chatterley's Lover sold out
- 1997: British au pair freed after appeal
- 1995: Nigeria hangs human rights activists
- 1980: Michael Foot is new Labour leader
- 1982: Brezhnev rumours sweep Moscow
- 2000: Skiers die in train tunnel inferno
- 2004: Veteran leader Yasser Arafat is dead
- 1965: Rhodesia breaks from UK
- 1992: Church of England votes for women priests
- 1975: Divided Angola gets independence
- 1954: Pensioners demand more money
- 1987: Van Gogh fetches record price
- 1982: Solidarity leader Walesa released
- 1984: Quid notes out - pound coins in
- 1954: New York's Ellis Island closes
- 1980: Saturn's rings caught on film
- 1997: 'Great Train Robber' escapes extradition again
- 2001: Greece holds plane-spotting 'spies'
- 1985: Volcano kills thousands in Colombia
- 1995: Ecstasy pill puts party girl in coma
- 1971: American probe orbits Mars
- 1969: Quintuplets born at London hospital
- 1979: Times returns after year-long dispute
- 1973: Crowds cheer marriage of Princess Anne
- 1991: US accuses Libyans of Lockerbie bombing
- 1973: IRA gang convicted of London bombings
- 1977: Firefighters strike over pay claim
- 2000: Fuel protesters rally for tax cut
- 1951: Murder on Malay rubber estate
- 1940: Germans bomb Coventry to destruction
- 1985: Anglo-Irish agreement signed
- 1977: Princess Anne gives birth to Master Phillips
- 1998: Iraqi climbdown averts air strikes
- 1976: Bank robbers jailed for 100 years
- 1983: England fans rampage in Luxembourg
- 1995: Queen mum hip op 'successful'
- 1960: TV star famed for rudeness dies
- 1979: Blunt revealed as 'fourth man'
- 2003: Washington sniper convicted
- 1997: Egyptian militants kill tourists at Luxor
- 1986: French car chief shot dead
- 1953: Twenty die in Channel collision
- 1989: Police crush Prague protest rally
- 1989: Protesters demand reform in Bulgaria
- 1978: Mass suicide leaves 900 dead
- 2003: High security as Bush visits UK
- 1991: Church envoy Waite freed in Beirut
- 1987: King's Cross station fire 'kills 27'
- 2000: Hollywood meets Wales in 'wedding of year'
- 1967: Moves to curb spread of foot-and-mouth
- 1977: Egyptian leader's Israel trip makes history
- 1994: Britain braced for first lottery draw
- 1992: Hillsborough victim allowed to die
- 1969: Second Apollo mission lands on Moon
- 1985: Superpower summit 'off to good start'
- 1967: Wilson defends 'pound in your pocket'
- 1986: Police renew hunt for Moors victims
- 1951: British families leave Egypt's Canal Zone
- 1990: Thatcher fails to win party mandate
- 1978: Liberal MP accused of murder plot
- 1945: Nuremberg trial of Nazis begins
- 1992: Blaze rages in Windsor Castle
- 1975: Spanish dictator Franco dies
- 1995: Diana admits adultery in TV interview
- 2003: British targets bombed in Istanbul
- 1974: Birmingham pub blasts kill 19
- 1995: Balkan leaders agree to peace
- 1979: Mob destroys US embassy in Pakistan
- 1967: Foot-and-mouth slaughter rate soars
- 1985: Superpowers aim for 'safer world'
- 2005: Merkel becomes German chancellor
- 1971: Six dead in Scottish mountain tragedy
- 2003: England win Rugby World Cup
- 1963: Kennedy shot dead in Dallas
- 1995: Life sentence for Rosemary West
- 1990: Thatcher quits as prime minister
- 1997: Michael Hutchence found dead in hotel
- 1984: London tube fire traps hundreds
- 1978: Nightclub ordered to lift race ban
- 2002: Riots force Miss World out of Nigeria
- 1963: Johnson takes over as US president
- 1996: Hijacked jet crashes into sea
- 1985: Commandoes storm hijacked plane
- 1998: Queen's speech spells end for peers
- 1963: Kennedy 'assassin' murdered
- 1989: New era for Czechoslovakia
- 1974: Six charged over Birmingham pub bombs
- 2005: Pubs open 24 hours
- 1991: Giant of rock dies
- 1963: John F Kennedy is laid to rest
- 1973: Army deposes 'hated' Greek president
- 1998: 'Corrupt' Turkish government falls
- 1991: Silcott not guilty of PC's murder
- 1981: Brixton riots report blames racial tension
- 1983: £25m gold heist at Heathrow
- 1992: Queen to be taxed from next year
- 1953: Lords vote for commercial television
- 1972: Police foil IRA hospital rescue attempt
- 1968: Race discrimination law tightened
- 1985: Kinnock moves against Militant
- 1961: RAF flies aid to flood-stricken Somalia
- 1967: De Gaulle says 'non' to Britain - again
- 1990: Tories choose Major for Number 10
- 2000: Schoolboy Damilola Taylor dies in stabbing
- 1975: TV presenter Ross McWhirter shot dead
- 1994: Norway votes 'no' to Europe
- 1999: Nude swordsman attacks churchgoers
- 1990: Tearful farewell from Iron Lady
- 1971: Farmer cracks 'major smuggling ring'
- 1967: Racing is latest victim of foot-and-mouth
- 1956: Motorists panic as petrol rations loom
- 1993: Secret meetings with IRA revealed
- 1985: 'Gas blast' kills five in Glasgow
- 1999: NI power-sharing executive appointed
- 1975: Graham Hill killed in air crash
- 1963: Canadian air disaster kills 118
- 1994: Blazing liner abandoned off east Africa
- 1968: Shops told to stop conning customers
- 1954: Winston Churchill turns 80
- 1982: Animal activists bomb Downing Street
- 1995: Clinton kindles hope in Northern Ireland
- 1999: T-bone steaks on sale by Christmas
- 1973: Israel's founding father dies
- 1986: Surprise inquiry into Guinness affairs
- 1943: Allies united after Tehran conference
- 1965: Sweeping changes to British farming
- 1942: Beveridge lays welfare foundations
- 1990: Tunnel links UK and Europe
- 1955: Black woman challenges race law
- 1977: South African police cleared of Biko death
- 1954: US pledges to defend Nationalist China
- 1988: Bangladesh cyclone 'worst for 20 years'
- 1954: US Senate condemns McCarthy
- 1995: Rogue trader jailed for six years
- 1984: Hundreds die in Bhopal chemical accident
- 1971: Pakistan intensifies air raids on India
- 1992: Bomb explosions in Manchester
- 1989: Malta summit ends Cold War
- 1988: Egg industry fury over salmonella claim
- 1965: White jury convicts Ku Klux Klansmen
- 2003: US pulls back from steel trade war
- 1983: IRA gunmen shot dead in SAS ambush
- 1971: Bomb demolishes crowded Belfast pub
- 1976: 'Genius' composer Benjamin Britten dies
- 1991: Last US hostage freed
- 1961: Birth control pill 'available to all'
- 1991: Maxwell business empire faces bankruptcy
- 1977: Egypt severs ties with Arab hardliners
- 1950: Pyongyang taken as UN retreats
- 1995: Jaffna falls to Sri Lankan army
- 1989: Thatcher beats off leadership rival
- 1962: Choking fog spreads across Britain
- 1983: Transplant makes British medical history
- 2005: David Cameron is new Tory leader
- 1994: Royal approval for oil drilling at Windsor
- 1978: Spain set to vote for democracy
- 1992: Mob rips apart mosque in Ayodhya
- 1975: Couple under siege in Balcombe Street
- 1979: Lord Soames to govern Rhodesia
- 1983: Tomcat halts steeplejack
- 1993: Activists lose battle over chestnut tree
- 2001: Taleban surrender Kandahar
- 1955: Attlee steps down as Labour leader
- 1941: Japanese planes bomb Pearl Harbor
- 1987: Superpowers to reverse arms race
- 1965: New UK race law 'not tough enough'
- 1980: John Lennon shot dead
- 2003: Greek terrorists convicted
- 1995: Youth gang stabs head teacher to death