- 1983: Television cameras allowed into Lords
- 1973: Sunningdale Agreement signed
- 1952: London fog clears after days of chaos
- 1993: Astronauts put Hubble back in action
- 1996: Guilty verdict on school machete attacker
- 1992: American marines land in Somalia
- 1987: Gatting row halts play in Pakistan
- 1957: Post Office issues Christmas warning
- 1988: Death toll rises in Armenian earthquake
- 1990: Iraq frees British hostages
- 2003: Mother cleared of murdering babies
- 1981: Mystery disease kills homosexuals
- 1961: Apartheid attacked at Nobel ceremony
- 1979: Daredevil Kidd's 80ft river jump
- 1975: Attack on British vessels heightens Cod War
- 1979: Rhodesia reverts to British rule
- 1941: Germany and Italy declare war on US
- 1986: BBC Aids slogan angers church
- 2001: 30,000 postal jobs 'to be cut'
- 2005: Massive fire at Buncefield oil depot
- 1994: Russian troops storm into Chechnya
- 1988: 35 dead in Clapham rail collision
- 1975: Balcombe Street siege ends
- 1969: Deadly bomb blasts in Italy
- 1992: Princess Royal remarries
- 1967: Stones guitarist escapes jail for drugs
- 1995: Riots break out in Brixton
- 2001: Suicide attack on Indian parliament
- 1972: New offer for Thalidomide victims
- 1981: Military crackdown on Polish people
- 1958: Monkey lost after space flight
- 2003: Saddam Hussein captured
- 1955: Gaitskell elected Labour leader
- 1972: Last Moon mission returns
- 1978: Labour faces vote of confidence
- 1962: 'Music of spheres' hails Venus fly-by
- 1995: Bosnia peace accord ends three-year war
- 1984: Court fines Scargill for obstruction
- 1959: Makarios elected president of Cyprus
- 1982: Spain opens border with the Rock
- 1993: Anglo-Irish pact paves way for peace
- 2004: Blunkett resigns over visa accusations
- 1994: Modahl banned for drug taking
- 1974: New speed limit to curb fuel use
- 1958: Film stars raise cash for Colleano
- 1984: Gorbachev visit to Britain a 'success'
- 1969: MPs vote to abolish hanging
- 1955: Queen opens London Airport terminal
- 2001: Thousands rally for Scots countryside
- 1977: Queen opens 'tube' link to Heathrow
- 1944: Germany counter-attacks in Ardennes
- 2003: Ian Huntley guilty of Soham murders
- 1968: Mary Bell found guilty of double killing
- 1983: Harrods bomb blast kills six
- 1942: Britain condemns massacre of Jews
- 1996: Aid workers killed in Chechnya
- 1976: Opec members split over prices
- 1997: Dawn of Scottish parliament
- 1950: Radio Times hits Christmas deadline
- 1985: Drug traffickers' appeal rejected
- 1989: Labour's union U-turn
- 1974: Compensation for Bloody Sunday victims
- 1956: Thick fog causes death on roads
- 1997: Tory leader weds
- 2003: Libya gives up chemical weapons
- 1972: Amin ultimatum to Uganda Britons
- 1984: Britain signs over Hong Kong to China
- 1979: Council tenants will have 'right to buy'
- 1981: Lifeboat crew missing after mission
- 1973: Spanish prime minister assassinated
- 1995: 'Divorce': Queen to Charles and Diana
- 1989: US forces oust General Noriega
- 1955: Yugoslavia wins UN vote
- Puffbox - SINGLE - lockerbie witnesses
- 1977: Firemen jeer TUC's pay snub
- 1958: Easy victory for de Gaulle
- 1962: America to sell Polaris to Britain
- 2001: Terror alert as police seize cargo ship
- 1988: Jumbo jet crashes onto Lockerbie
- 2003: Hostages freed by Colombian rebels
- 2000: Madonna weds her Guy
- 1974: Heath's home is bombed
- 1989: Brandenburg Gate re-opens
- 1997: BSE inquiry to be 'far-reaching'
- 1972: Survivors found 10 weeks after plane crash
- 1972: Earthquake wreaks devastation in Nicaragua
- 1956: Jubilation as allied troops leave Suez
- 1992: Queen's Christmas speech leaked
- 1986: Sakharov comes in from the cold
- 1964: Beeching to leave British Railways
- 1974: 'Drowned' Stonehouse found alive
- 1962: Bay of Pigs prisoners fly to freedom
- 1968: First astronauts orbit Moon
- 1979: Europe launches first rocket
- 1988: Oilfields crippled after storage ship drifts
- 1997: Minister's son arrested in drug probe
- 1991: Gorbachev resigns as Soviet Union breaks up
- 1977: Silent film legend Chaplin dies
- 1952: Queen makes first Christmas speech
- 1989: Romania's 'first couple' executed
- 1974: Cyclone Tracy leaves Darwin devastated
- 2003: Mars space probe disappears
- 1979: Joy as guerrillas fly in to Rhodesia
- 2004: Thousands die in Asian tsunami
- 1970: 'Golden girl' of British athletics dies
- 1988: First clue to Lockerbie crash found
- 1990: Iranian leader upholds Rushdie fatwa
- 2004: Yushchenko wins Ukraine election re-run
- 1960: France explodes third atomic bomb
- 1977: Star Wars fever hits Britain
- 1985: Gunmen kill 16 at two European airports
- 1997: Loyalist leader murdered in prison
- 1965: Sea Gem oil rig collapses
- 1993: Mafia link in cocaine haul
- 1980: Green light for breakfast television
- 2003: Britain gives go-ahead for 'sky marshals'
- 1957: Foot-and-mouth shuts down abattoir
- 1979: Tay Bridge rail disaster remembered
- 1998: Six die as huge waves smash into yachts
- 1975: New laws to end battle of the sexes
- 1986: Harold Macmillan dies
- 1984: Rajiv Gandhi wins landslide election victory
- 2000: Freezing Britain grinds to a halt
- 2002: Diana Ross arrested for drink-driving
- 1986: Coal mine canaries made redundant
- 1958: Castro's rebels edge closer to capital
- 1994: Gunman kills two women at abortion clinic
- 1971: Iranians deported from Iraq
- 1999: Putin takes over as Yeltsin resigns
- 1987: Zeebrugge heroes honoured
- 1951: Churchill sets sail for talks with Truman
- 1999: UK prepares to celebrate millennium
- 1964: Campbell speeds to double record
- 2000: World celebrates New Millennium
- 1973: Britain joins the EEC
- 1978: Newspaper editor flees South Africa
- 1959: Rebel army drives out Cuban dictator
- 1995: Serial killer West found hanged
- 2002: Celebrations as euro hits the streets
- 1969: Murdoch wins Fleet Street foothold
- 1996: US peacekeepers pour into Bosnia
- 1980: Steel workers strike over pay
- 1971: Sixty-six die in Scottish football disaster
- 1993: Round table talks on peace for Bosnia
- 2000: Art theft was 'professional' job
- 1991: Britain expels Iraqi diplomats
- 1977: Jenkins quits Commons for Brussels
- 1993: US and Russia halve nuclear warheads
- 1980: Afghan leader defends Soviet invasion
- 1986: Thin Lizzy star dies
- 1951: Communist forces to re-take Seoul
- 1958: Explorer Hillary arrives at South Pole
- 1985: Inquiry over 'baby-for-cash' deal
- 2000: First British women reach South Pole
- 1967: Campbell killed during record attempt
- 1985: Israel ends major Ethiopian rescue mission
- 1976: Ten dead in Northern Ireland ambush
- 1993: Oil tanker runs aground off Shetland
- 2001: Shipman 'may have killed hundreds'
- 1981: Man arrested for Ripper murders
- 1952: Churchill renews 'special relationship'
- 1994: Mystery assailant attacks top US skater
- 1977: EMI fires Sex Pistols
- 2000: Flu outbreak stretches NHS resources
- 1992: US halts breast implants
- 1983: Danes raid British fishing grounds
- 1976: Iceland and Britain clash at sea
- 1990: Leaning Tower of Pisa closed to public
- 1980: Gandhi returned by landslide vote
- 1965: Krays in custody over menace charge
- 2000: Aitken freed from prison early
- 1989: Dozens die as plane crashes on motorway
- 1979: Vietnam forces Khmer Rouge retreat
- 1961: French vote for Algerian freedom
- 1959: De Gaulle becomes president
- 1991: One dead as train crashes into buffers
- 1996: France's former president Mitterrand dies
- 2001: Bulger killers win anonymity for life
- 2005: Abbas triumphs in Palestinian elections
- 1986: Heseltine quits over Westland
- 1972: Miners strike against government
- 1957: Sir Anthony Eden resigns
- 1992: Top policewoman suspended from duty
- 1997: Bullimore rescued after five days
- 1957: Macmillan becomes Prime Minister
- 1979: 'No chaos here' declares Callaghan
- 1985: Safety concerns over electronic trike
- 1996: King of Jordan in historic Tel Aviv visit
- 1985: Gas blast kills eight in Putney
- 1991: Last ditch efforts to avoid Gulf War
- 1954: Comet jet crashes with 35 on board
- 1969: Civil rights protesters defiant
- 1973: First Open University degrees awarded
- 1993: BA dirty tricks against Virgin cost £3m
- 1998: 100 die in massacre in Algeria
- 2000: Seven missing in Irish Sea
- 1962: Thousands killed in Peru landslide
- 2001: Swedish 'Iceman' starts England job
- 1966: UK politicians assaulted in Rhodesia
- 1991: US Congress votes for war in Iraq
- 1971: British minister's home bombed
- 2001: Climbie carers guilty of murder
- 2003: Maurice Gibb dies after stomach op
- 1976: Crime writer Agatha Christie dies
- 1982: Mark Thatcher missing in Sahara
- 1991: Bloodshed at Lithuanian TV station
- 1964: Riots in Calcutta leave more than 100 dead
- 2001: Earthquake devastates Salvador
- 1993: Allies bomb Iraq
- 2004: Serial killer Shipman found hanged
- 1972: Ghana PM ousted in bloodless coup
- 1997: Shots heard at besieged embassy in Peru
- 2002: UK declared free of foot-and-mouth
- 1969: Matt Busby retires from Man United
- 1983: Man shot by police hunting David Martin
- 1975: Heiress Lesley Whittle kidnapped
- 1994: Duchess of Kent joins Catholic church
- 1973: Nixon orders ceasefire in Vietnam
- 1953: East German purge begins
- 1987: Officer cleared in Groce shooting case
- 1982: Mark Thatcher found safe and well
- 1997: Princess Diana sparks landmines row
- 1984: Benn back on road to Westminster
- 1970: Gaddafi takes over as Libya's premier
- 2001: Oil tanker endangers eco-paradise
- 1981: Gunmen shoot civil rights campaigner
- 1979: Shah of Iran flees into exile
- 2001: DR Congo President Kabila shot
- 1995: Earthquake devastates Kobe
- 1994: Massive earthquake hits Los Angeles
- 1991: 'Mother of all Battles' begins
- 1977: Gilmore executed by firing squad
- 1983: BBC wakes up to morning TV
- 1981: Nine die in New Cross house fire
- 1991: Iraqi Scud missiles hit Israel
- 1996: Green groups join bypass battle
- 1967: 'Boston Strangler' sentenced to life
- 1972: Rhodesia's former leader arrested
- 1963: Labour leader Hugh Gaitskell dies
- 1966: Indira Gandhi takes charge in India
- 1988: Disabled author wins Whitbread
- 2001: 'Internet twins' taken into care
- 1990: Rebel cricketers face storm of protest
- 1973: Super tug to defend fishing fleet
- 2002: Camp X-Ray pictures spark outrage
- 1958: Explorers meet at South Pole
- 1972: UK unemployment tops one million
- 1987: Police crack down on soccer hooligans
- 1961: John F Kennedy sworn in as US president
- 1992: UN threatens Libya with sanctions