- 1997: Carers accused in child abuse inquiry
- 1966: Future of Monte Carlo rally in doubt
- 1950: Acclaimed author George Orwell dies
- 1981: Tehran frees US hostages after 444 days
- 1980: Soviet dissident Sakharov banished
- 1979: Public sector strike paralyses country
- 2001: MMR triple vaccine declared safe
- 1990: Gorbachev explains crackdown in Azerbaijan
- 1962: 'A6 murder' trial begins
- 2002: Elderly patient sparks Commons row
- 1971: Britain allowed to sell arms to S Africa
- 1989: Many killed in Tajik earthquake
- 1955: Express train crashes killing 14
- 1973: Nixon announces Vietnam peace deal
- Puffbox - SINGLE - vietnam witness
- 1961: End of the road for Monroe and Miller
- 1969: LSE closes over student clashes
- 1956: Plans unveiled for homes in Barbican
- 1965: Winston Churchill dies
- Puffbox - Single - LSE witness
- 1986: Leon Brittan quits over Westland
- 1966: 117 die in Air India tragedy
- 2001: Mandelson resigns - again
- 1990: Children killed in devastating storm
- 1981: Dissident Labour MPs plan new party
- 1998: Pope calls for reform in Cuba
- 1999: Olympic officials face bribery charges
- 2004: Nasa rover looks for water on Mars
- 1999: Colombia quake leaves hundreds dead
- 1971: Idi Amin ousts Uganda president
- 1998: Clinton denies affair with intern
- 2001: Thousands die in Gujarat quake
- 1969: Prague riots over student martyr
- 1982: UK unemployment tops three million
- 1952: Britons killed in Cairo riots
- 1950: India becomes a republic
- 1945: Auschwitz death camp liberated
- 1967: Three astronauts die in Apollo 1 tragedy
- 1944: Leningrad siege ends after 900 days
- 1980: Exiled Mugabe returns to Rhodesia
- 1984: Michael Jackson burned in Pepsi ad
- 1969: Rebel students take over LSE
- 1995: Cantona banned over attack on fan
- Puffbox - SINGLE - shuttle witnesses
- 1986: Seven dead in space shuttle disaster
- 1953: Derek Bentley hanged for murder
- 1982: US general rescued from Red Brigade
- 1990: Romanians call for government change
- 1968: Radiation alert following B-52 crash
- Puffbox - challenger pics
- 1996: France halts nuclear testing
- 1976: Explosions rock London's West End
- 2003: Solicitor cleared of killing sons
- 1987: Aquino suppresses rebel uprising
- 1959: Fog brings transport chaos
- 1985: Thatcher snubbed by Oxford dons
- Puffbox - fog
- 1972: Army kills 13 in civil rights protest
- 1965: Last farewell to Churchill
- 2003: 'Shoe bomber' jailed for life
- 1991: US Marines killed at Al Khafji
- 1952: Korea truce talks hit stalemate
- 1983: British drivers ordered to belt up
- 1961: Chimp returns safely after space flight
- 2005: Belfast stab victim McCartney dies
- 1996: Fifty dead in Sri Lanka suicide bombing
- 1953: 130 die in ferry disaster
- 2000: Life for serial killer Shipman
- 1968: Americans alarmed by 'Tet Offensive'
- 1953: Violent storms claim hundreds of lives
- 1994: MPs condemn sale of Rover
- 1984: Halfpenny coin to meet its maker
- 1952: Test drive for TV detector vans
- 1979: Exiled Ayatollah Khomeini returns to Iran
- 2003: Columbia shuttle disintegrates killing seven
- 1972: British embassy in Dublin destroyed
- 1979: Sid Vicious dies from drugs overdose
- 1987: Peace envoy imprisoned in Beirut
- 1990: De Klerk dismantles apartheid in South Africa
- 1943: Germans surrender at Stalingrad
- 1959: Buddy Holly killed in air crash
- 1960: Macmillan speaks of 'wind of change' in Africa
- 1986: Pope and Mother Teresa feed the sick
- 1998: Military jet causes cable car tragedy
- 1966: Soviets land probe on Moon
- 1988: Nurses protest for better pay
- 1978: Sadat in US for Mid East talks
- 1974: Soldiers and children killed in coach bombing
- 1998: 4,000 feared dead in Afghan earthquake
- 1968: More Kenyan Asians flee to Britain
- 1988: Defiant seamen strike on
- 1973: Vietnam observers' struggle for peace
- 1994: Market massacre in Sarajevo
- 1953: Sweet rationing ends in Britain
- 1974: Newspaper heiress kidnapped
- 1982: Laker Airways goes bust
- 1968: Trawler sinks - 18 feared dead
- 1996: First GM food goes on sale in UK
- 1958: United players killed in air disaster
- 2001: Sharon sweeps to power
- 1997: Widow allowed dead husband's baby
- 1983: 'Butcher of Lyon' returns to face trial
- 1952: King George VI dies in his sleep
- 1971: Man plays golf on the Moon
- 2005: Blair is Labour's longest-serving PM
- 1964: Green light for Channel Tunnel
- 1974: Radical group 'arrested' heiress
- 1971: Swiss women get the vote
- 1966: Hawaii hosts US-Vietnamese summit
- 2005: MacArthur sails into record books
- 1987: S Korea clashes over student death
- 1992: Maastricht treaties make EU official
- 1974: Heath calls snap election over miners
- 1964: Beatlemania arrives in the US
- 1945: Black Sea talks plan defeat of Germany
- 1952: New Queen proclaimed for UK
- 2005: Mid-East leaders announce truce
- 1994: Police probe MP's suspicious death
- 1974: Americans end outer space marathon
- 1983: Sharon quits after massacre inquiry
- 1962: Eight die in Paris riot
- 1966: New nuclear reactor for Dounreay
- 1995: Space pioneers take first small steps
- 1950: McCarthy launches anti-red crusade
- 1979: Forest break football transfer record
- 1983: Police hunt Shergar's kidnappers
- 1996: Docklands bomb ends IRA ceasefire
- 1983: British police on trail of mass murderer
- 1962: Russia frees US spy plane pilot
- 1952: India passes first test of democracy
- 1955: US evacuates Pacific islands
- 2005: Charles and Camilla to be married
- 1990: Freedom for Nelson Mandela
- 1956: 'Cambridge spies' surface in Moscow
- 1979: Victory for Khomeini as army steps aside
- 1976: John Curry skates to Olympic gold
- 1975: Tories choose first woman leader
- Puffbox - SINGLE witness cape town
- 1987: Mrs Payne is no brothel Madam
- 1994: Art thieves snatch Scream
- 1954: New authority for atomic energy
- 1964: Deaths follow Cyprus truce breach
- 1989: Belfast lawyer Finucane murdered
- 1999: Scientists highlight hazards of GM food
- 1978: Ford makes her ITN debut
- 2001: Landmark Aids case begins in Scotland
- 1961: Ex-Congo PM declared dead
- 1991: US bombers strike civilians in Baghdad
- 1975: Miners set for 35 per cent pay rises
- 1993: Missing two-year-old found dead
- 1945: Thousands of bombs destroy Dresden
- 1997: Lawrence 'killed by racists'
- 1989: Ayatollah sentences author to death
- 1974: Russian author charged with treason
- 2005: Explosion kills former Lebanon PM
- 1984: British ice couple score Olympic gold
- 1996: Arms-to-Iraq report published
- 1971: D-Day delivers new UK currency
- 1952: King George VI is laid to rest
- 1942: Singapore forced to surrender
- 1961: Belgian jet crashes seconds before landing
- 1989: Soviet troops pull out of Afghanistan
- 1986: Printers and police clash in Wapping
- 1974: No hope of survivors from missing Gaul trawler
- 1972: Miners' strike turns off the lights
- 2001: Serbs killed in Kosovo pilgrimage
- 2005: Kyoto Protocol comes into force
- 1959: Castro sworn in as Cuban PM
- 1965: Beeching plans for 'bloated' railways
- 1985: Falklands' row civil servant resigns
- 1979: China invades Vietnam
- 1987: Tamils strip off at Heathrow
- 1992: Cannibal killer jailed for life
- 1959: Turkish leader involved in fatal crash
- 1965: Countdown to Gambian independence
- 1996: Bomb blast destroys London bus
- 1978: Belfast bomb suspects rounded up
- 1981: Thatcher gives in to miners
- 2005: Ban on hunting comes into force
- 1954: McCarthy hunts 'army Communists'
- 1969: Lulu ties knot with Bee Gee
- 1968: Damages for thalidomide children
- 2001: Foot-and-mouth scare at UK abbatoir
- 1997: China's reformist Deng Xiaoping dies
- 1961: Lumumba rally clashes with UK police
- 1978: Egyptian forces die in Cyprus gunfight
- 1993: Two boys charged with toddler's murder
- 1983: Hundreds die in Assam poll violence
- 1989: IRA bombs Tern Hill barracks
- 1962: US spaceman orbits Earth
- 1958: Historic Sheerness docks to close
- 1986: Soviets launch space station Mir
- 1972: Nixon makes historic visit to China
- 1997: 'Bridgewater Three' freed
- 1965: Black nationalist leader shot dead
- 1988: TV evangelist quits over sex scandal
- 2001: Ban follows foot-and-mouth outbreak
- 1991: Bush threatens Iraq with land war
- 1972: IRA bomb kills six at Aldershot barracks
- 1955: American tennis star 'Little Mo' to quit
- 1986: Filipino coup leaders tell Marcos to go
- 1997: Dolly the sheep is cloned
- 1974: Hearst 'ransom' provokes violence
- 1963: Shocking wardens could be legal
- 1972: Hijackers surrender and free Lufthansa crew
- 1981: Rebel army seizes control in Spain
- 1959: Macmillan and Khrushchev talk peace
- 1945: US flag raised over Iwo Jima
- 1971: UK restricts Commonwealth migrants
- 1999: Lawrence report blasts 'racist' police
- 1981: Prince Charles and Lady Di to marry
- 1968: South Vietnamese recapture Hue
- 1950: Labour wins slim majority
- 1955: Britain's big freeze
- 1991: Iraqi troops flee Kuwait City
- 1984: US troops withdraw from Beirut
- 1993: World Trade Center bomb terrorises New York
- 1968: Hospital blaze kills 21 patients
- 1987: Synod says 'yes' to women priests
- 2000: UK Government moves to gag ex-spy
- 1953: Spelling bill passes second reading
- 1963: Argoud charged over de Gaulle plot
- 1975: PC murder linked to IRA bomb factory
- 2002: Hindus die in train fire
- 1999: Nigerians vote to break with military
- 2000: Nuclear chief quits over safety scandal
- 1986: Swedish prime minister assassinated
- 2001: At least 10 die in Selby rail crash
- 1975: Dozens killed in Moorgate Tube crash
- 1991: Jubilation follows Gulf War ceasefire
- 1966: Britain to go decimal in 1971
- 1990: Secrets act gags whistleblowers
- 1971: Workers down tools over union rights
- 1973: Palestinian gunmen hold diplomats in Sudan
- 1994: West charged as death toll mounts
- 1954: US tests hydrogen bomb in Bikini
- 1950: Communist spy jailed for 14 years
- Puffbox - SINGLE rhodesia memories
- 1991: Sri Lankan hardliner among 19 killed in blast
- 1970: Ian Smith declares Rhodesia a republic
- 1969: Concorde flies for the first time
- 2000: Pinochet escapes torture trial charges
- 1956: King of Jordan sacks British general
- 1982: Queen opens Barbican Centre
- 1995: MPs move to outlaw hunting
- 1966: BBC tunes in to colour
- 1985: Miners call off year-long strike
- 1974: Turkish jet crashes killing 345
- 2005: Fossett sets solo flight record
- 1989: Six die in Purley rail crash