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April 1 |
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A coding machine used by the Germans to encode messages during World War II has been stolen from the Bletchley Park Museum in Buckinghamshire, south-east England. |
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April 23 |
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The discovery of a virus which may cause Aids, the fatal disease sweeping through America, has been hailed as a "monumental breakthrough" in medical research. |
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April 22 |
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Haiti's ruler, Francois 'Papa Doc' Duvalier, has died after 14 years in power. |
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April 16 |
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The United Nations has voted to make the Bosnian town of Srebrenica a safe haven, as the town teeters on the brink of falling to Bosnian Serb forces. |
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April 15 |
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At least 93 football supporters have been killed in Britain's worst-ever sporting disaster. |
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April 14 |
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An explosion on board Apollo 13 has caused one of the most critical situations in American space history and put the lives of the three astronauts on board in severe jeopardy. |
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April 9 |
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There have been scenes of jubilation in Baghdad as US tanks rolled into the very heart of the Iraqi capital, confirming that the government of Saddam Hussein has been ousted from power. |
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April 24 |
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A massive bomb has ripped through the heart of the City of London, killing one and injuring more than 40. |
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April 17 |
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The entire 75-strong crew of a British submarine is feared dead after going missing off the south coast of England. |
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April 10 |
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The Northern Ireland peace talks have ended with an historic agreement. |
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April 3 |
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The Grand National has ended in chaos after a series of events at the start which reduced the world-famous horse race to a shambles. |
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March 31 |
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Queen Mary has been laid to rest next to her late husband following a funeral service at Windsor Castle. |
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March 30 |
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President Ronald Reagan has been shot and wounded after a lone gunman opened fire in Washington. |
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March 29 |
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Thousands of people have jogged through the normally quiet Sunday streets of the capital to compete in the first ever London marathon. |
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March 28 |
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Radioactive steam has leaked into the atmosphere in Pennsylvania, USA. |
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March 25 |
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King Faisal of Saudi Arabia has died after a gun attack in Riyadh despite the efforts of doctors to save him. |
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March 24 |
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Great Train robber Ronnie Biggs has been rescued by Barbados police following his kidnapping. |
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March 23 |
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President Reagan has unveiled plans to combat nuclear war in space. |
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March 22 |
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Civil rights leader, the Reverend Martin Luther King, has been convicted of organising an illegal boycott by black passengers of buses in the US state of Alabama. |
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March 21 |
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One of Britain's most loved and most successful comedians, Ernie Wise, has died aged 73. |
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March 18 |
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White South Africans have backed an overwhelming mandate for political reforms to end apartheid and create a power-sharing multi-racial government. |
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March 17 |
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Thousands of Palestinian civilians are fleeing a third day of Israeli attacks in southern Lebanon. |
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March 16 |
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Former Italian prime minister Aldo Moro has been kidnapped in Rome. |
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March 14 |
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The radio telescope at Jodrell Bank has set a new space record making contact with the American Pioneer V satellite at a distance of 407,000 miles. |
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March 12 |
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One of the 20th century's finest musicians Yehudi Menuhin has died, aged 82. |
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March 11 |
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On this date in 1888, a torrential rainstorm hit the East Coast. The rain turned to snow the next day and it became the Blizzard of 1888. |
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March 10 |
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On this date in 1785, Thomas Jefferson was appointed minister to France, succeeding Benjamin Franklin. |
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March 9 |
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In 1954, CBS newsman Edward R. Murrow critically reviewed Wisconsin Senator Joseph R. McCarthy's anti-Communism campaign on "See It Now." |
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March 8 |
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At least 45 people have died and 175 have been injured in a car bomb explosion in Beirut, Lebanon. |
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March 7 |
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Golda Meir, the "grand old woman of Israeli politics", is to become the first female prime minister of Israel. |
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