- 1966: Euston staff 'colour bar' ended
- 1971: Seals shot by government decree
- 2000: Police camera action violates human rights
- 1945: Allied leaders gather at Potsdam
- 1969: Apollo 11 takes off for the Moon
- 1970: State of emergency called over dock strike
- 1955: Moss claims first Grand Prix victory
- 1987: Great British airline ready for take off
- 1993: Secret Service goes public
- 2001: Rebel MPs defeat the government
- 1987: Ex-Guinness boss owes millions
- 1976: African countries boycott Olympics
- 2000: Tesco bows to imperial pressure
- 1974: Bomb blast at the Tower of London
- 1979: Sandinista rebels take Nicaraguan capital
- 1981: Violence erupts at Irish hunger strike protest
- 2000: Sarah Payne's body found
- 1990: English teenagers held in Thailand over drugs
- 1966: Nurses murder suspect charged
- 2003: Missing Iraq expert - body found
- 1965: S Korea's first president dies in exile
- 1976: Fight for fishing rights in Europe
- 1983: Flesh-eating dinosaur resurrected
- 1996: 'War criminal' Karadzic resigns
- 1997: IRA declares ceasefire
- 1960: Ceylon chooses world's first woman PM
- 1982: IRA bombs cause carnage in London
- 1990: IRA bombs Stock Exchange
- 1952: Zatopek wins gold at Helsinki
- 1944: Hitler survives assassination attempt
- Puffbox - SINGLE cyprus memories
- 1974: Turkey invades Cyprus
- 1976: Pictures of Mars from Viking ship
- 1957: Britons 'have never had it so good'
- 2003: BBC admits Kelly was 'main source'
- 1982: Homecoming for HMS Hermes
- 1974: Cyprus conflict spills into London
- 1994: Labour chooses Blair
- 1954: Peace deal ends Indo-China war
- 2005: Tube chaos after more blasts
- 1969: Man takes first steps on the Moon
- Puffbox - SINGLE moon witness
- 1987: Cartoonist shot in London street
- 1991: Citizen's charter promises better services
- 1965: Sir Alec steps down from top of Tory tree
- 2005: Man shot dead by London police
- 2003: Saddam's sons killed in gun battle
- 1977: Deng Xiaoping back in power
- 1995: British forces sent to Sarajevo
- 2005: Dozens killed in Egypt bomb blast
- 1984: Sellafield 'not linked' to cancer cluster
- 1986: Prince Andrew weds Sarah Ferguson
- 1974: Greek military rule gives in to democracy
- 1957: Bus dispute turns violent
- 1974: Nixon 'must hand over Watergate tapes'
- 2000: Loyalist killer Michael Stone freed from Maze
- 1987: Archer wins record damages
- 1959: Khrushchev and Nixon have war of words
- 1969: Briton freed from Soviet prison
- Puffbox - SINGLE gundy
- 1969: Kennedy pleads guilty over car crash
- 1992: World unites at Barcelona Olympics
- 1993: Failed Bosnian ceasefire threatens peace
- 1943: Italian dictator Mussolini quits
- 1978: First 'test tube baby' born
- 2000: Concorde crash kills 113
- 1989: Diana opens Landmark Aids Centre
- 1978: Motability gets moving in the UK
- 1956: Egypt seizes Suez Canal
- 1945: Churchill loses general election
- 1963: Thousands killed in Yugoslav earthquake
- 1994: Israel's London embassy bombed
- 1952: Eva Peron dies
- 1983: Mother loses contraception test case
- 1996: Bomb rocks Atlanta Olympics
- 1965: Heath is new Tory leader
- 1982: Seychelles coup leader guilty of hijack
- 2003: Comic legend Bob Hope dies
- 2000: Labour publishes plans to revolutionise NHS
- 1978: Transatlantic balloonists in trouble
- 1976: Chinese earthquake kills hundreds of thousands
- 2005: IRA declares end to armed struggle
- 2000: Last prisoners leave the Maze
- 1965: US orders 50,000 troops to Vietnam
- 1972: National dock strike begins
- 1988: Ashdown to lead Britain's third party
- 1981: Charles and Diana marry
- Puffbox - SINGLE royal wedding witness
- 1993: Israeli court sets Demjanjuk free
- 1968: Pope renews birth control ban
- 1993: Lawrence murder suspects freed
- 1976: Fire engulfs Southend Pier
- Puffbox - SINGLE crispm
- 1986: Parents appeal for missing agent
- 1966: Football glory for England
- 1973: Final deal for thalidomide victims
- 1974: Peace deal for Cyprus
- 1991: Pavarotti sings in the British rain
- 1987: Newspaper caught in Spycatcher row
- 1973: Chaotic meeting of Belfast Assembly
- 1962: Violence flares at Mosley rally
- 1998: UK imposes total ban on landmines
- 1991: Superpowers to cut nuclear warheads
- 2001: Boy 'held prisoner for eight years'
- 1994: Library fire wipes out historic records
- 1989: Britain's oldest person turns 112
- 2003: Hutton inquiry begins
- 1971: Apollo 15 finds rock from birth of Moon
- 1944: Uprising to free Warsaw begins
- 1976: Lauda fights for life after Grand Prix crash
- 1965: Riviera fires force campers to flee
- 1973: Dozens die in resort fire
- 1984: Euro Court condemns phone-tapping
- Puffbox - SINGLE les quayle
- 1980: Bologna blast leaves dozens dead
- 1990: Iraq invades Kuwait
- 2003: Anglican church approves gay bishop
- 2001: Car bomb in west London injures seven
- 1990: UK temperatures reach record high
- 1978: Queen opens Commonwealth Games
- 1957: Rahman to lead independent Malaya
- 1964: Three civil rights activists found dead
- 1987: Moors murderer claims more killings
- 2002: Police 'concerned' for missing girls
- 1972: Governor Wallace's attacker jailed
- 2000: Queen Mother celebrates centenary
- 1973: Athens attack leaves three dead
- 1962: Marilyn Monroe found dead
- 1983: IRA members jailed for 4,000 years
- 1991: Toddler 'poorly' after dog attack
- 1975: Deadly tree disease spreads
- 1945: US drops atomic bomb on Hiroshima
- 1961: Russian cosmonaut spends day in space
- 1995: Japan mourns Hiroshima anniversary
- 1987: David Owen resigns as leader of SDP
- 1971: Sailor's record 'wrong way' voyage
- Puffbox - single/otd/atombombs
- 1998: US embassies in Africa bombed
- 2003: Bali bomber smiles at guilty verdict
- 1972: Asians given 90 days to leave Uganda
- 1958: Arthur Miller cleared of contempt
- 1987: Chilly swim thaws Cold War relations
- 2001: NHS buys private hospital
- 2001: Hollywood's 'golden couple' divorce
- Puffbox - SINGLE nixon memories
- 1988: Prince Andrew becomes a father
- 1963: Train robbers make off with millions
- 1974: President Nixon to resign from office
- 1991: Beirut hostage John McCarthy freed
- 1971: NI activates internment law
- 1945: Atom bomb hits Nagasaki
- 1969: Film star stabbed in 'ritualistic' killings
- 1974: Ford takes over as Nixon quits
- 1979: Brighton bares all
- 1993: Wounded Bosnian girl flown to UK
- 1999: Kennedy wins Lib Dem leadership
- 1981: Second killer escapes from Broadmoor
- 2003: Britain swelters in record heat
- 1988: Mysterious seal disease spreads
- 1990: Magellan starts mapping Venus
- 1964: Guns fall silent in Cyprus
- 1977: Tight security for Queen's Irish visit
- 2001: Hamiltons condemn 'sex assault' arrest
- 1971: Admiral's Cup triumph for Heath
- 1999: Millions marvel at total eclipse
- 1984: Zola Budd in race trip controversy
- 2000: Air rage pair jailed
- 1982: Krays let out for mother's funeral
- 1985: Hundreds dead in Boeing crash
- 1969: Police use tear gas in Bogside
- 1964: Great Train Robber escapes from jail
- 2003: Gilligan: language 'wasn't perfect'
- 2000: Murdered schoolgirl's life celebrated
- 1990: Briton shot by Iraqis
- 1985: Heart-lung transplant makes history
- 1991: Prince quits in museum design row
- 1977: Violent clashes at NF march
- 1966: China announces Cultural Revolution
- 1961: Berliners wake to divided city
- 1969: British troops sent into Northern Ireland
- 1980: Shipyard Poles strike for their rights
- 2000: Rescuers race to save stricken Kursk
- 1979: Freak storm hits yacht race
- 1941: Secret meetings seal US-Britain alliance
- 2001: Setback for NI peace process
- 2003: Lights go out across NE America
- 1979: Disgraced ex-MP released from jail
- 1990: One in five yet to pay poll tax
- Puffbox - SINGLE matthew sheahan
- 1945: Allied nations celebrate VJ Day
- 1998: Dozens die in Omagh bombing
- 1965: Los Angeles riot toll keeps rising
- 2005: Settlers protest at Gaza pullout
- 1971: 'V-sign' costs rider victory
- 1985: Virgin voyage ends in disaster
- 1950: Princess gives birth to second child
- Puffbox - SINGLE omagh witness
- 1952: Flood devastates Devon village
- 2004: Dozens stranded in Cornish floods
- 1977: Rock and roll 'king' Presley dies
- 1984: DeLorean cleared of drugs charges
- 2003: 'War criminal' Idi Amin dies
- 2001: Diana butler charged with theft
- 2000: Prince William makes the grade
- 1978: US balloonists' record Atlantic crossing
- 1998: Clinton admits Lewinsky affair
- 1987: Hitler's deputy found dead
- 1999: Turkey hit by huge earthquake
- 1971: British Army shot 'unarmed' disabled man
- 1964: South Africa banned from Olympics
- 1989: Man U sold in record takeover deal
- 1992: Serbian prison camps condemned
- 1969: Woodstock music festival ends
- 1942: Allies launch daring raid on Dieppe
- 2003: UN envoy dies in Baghdad bombing
- 1991: Hardliners stage coup against Gorbachev
- 1987: Gunman kills 14 in Hungerford rampage
- 1960: Moscow jails American U-2 spy pilot
- 1975: Davis campaigners stop Test match
- 1970: Bobby Moore cleared of stealing
- 1978: Two dead after El Al crew ambushed
- 1992: Duchess of York in photos row
- 1989: Marchioness river crash 'kills 30'
- 1992: Iraq jails 'lost' Briton
- Puffbox - SINGLE prague witness
- 1968: Russia brings winter to 'Prague Spring'
- 1973: 'Bloody Sunday' inquest accuses Army
- 1986: Hundreds gassed in Cameroon lake disaster
- 1983: Filipino opposition leader shot dead
- 1986: Giant glacier threatens eco disaster
- Puffbox - SINGLE kenyatta witness
- 1978: Kenya's founding father dies
- 1972: Rhodesia out of Olympics
- 1986: Police chief cleared of misconduct
- 1999: Man in custody after burglary shooting
- 1966: ICI announces big nylon job losses
- 1990: Outrage at Iraqi TV hostage show
- 1991: Gorbachev punishes coup plotters
- 1961: Couple found shot in A6 lay-by
- 1985: West German spy chief defects to East
- 1979: Kurdish revolt grows in Iran
- 1967: Penguins cool off in heat wave
- 1954: Brazilian president found dead
- 1990: Irish hostage released in Lebanon
- 1985: Sleeping boy killed in police raid
- 1993: Michael Jackson accused of child abuse
- 1974: Human cannonball misses target
- 1967: 'American Hitler' shot dead
- 1989: Voyager spacecraft reaches Neptune
- 1997: East German leader guilty of Berlin Wall deaths