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| January 19 |
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| Indira Gandhi, only daughter of India's first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru, is to become the country's next leader. |
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| January 18 |
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| Six major environmental organisations today added their support to the growing anti-bypass campaign in Newbury, Berkshire. |
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| January 17 |
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| A huge earthquake has rocked Los Angeles, killing more than twenty people. |
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| January 16 |
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| The Shah of Iran has fled the country following months of increasingly violent protests against his regime. |
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| January 15 |
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| President Nixon has ordered a halt to American bombing in North Vietnam following peace talks in Paris. |
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| January 14 |
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| The foot-and-mouth crisis that began almost 11 months ago will officially end at midnight, the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has said. |
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| January 13 |
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| American, British and French fighter jets have carried out a series of bombing raids over southern Iraq. |
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| January 12 |
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| The carers of an eight-year-old girl who died after being tortured and fed scraps of food like a dog have been found guilty of her murder. |
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| January 11 |
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| The first graduates from the Open University (OU) have been awarded their degrees after two years studying from home. |
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| January 10 |
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| Harold Macmillan has accepted the Queen's invitation to become prime minister following the sudden resignation of Sir Anthony Eden. |
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| January 9 |
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| The Defence Secretary, Michael Heseltine, has resigned from his Cabinet job in a row with Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher over the Westland affair. |
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| January 8 |
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| General Charles de Gaulle has been proclaimed first President of the new Fifth Republic in France during a brief ceremony at the Elysee Palace in Paris. |
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| January 7 |
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| The Leaning Tower of Pisa has been closed to the public for the first time in 800 years amid speculation the structure is on the verge of toppling over. |
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| January 6 |
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| An unknown man brandishing a metal crowbar has attacked American figure-skater Nancy Kerrigan. |
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| January 5 |
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| Israel has airlifted thousands of Jewish Ethiopian refugees out of Sudan, it has emerged. |
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| January 4 |
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| Sir Edmund Hillary has reached the South Pole - the first overland explorer to do so since Captain Robert F Scott's expedition in 1912. |
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| January 3 |
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| The new president of Afghanistan, Babrak Karmal, has made his first public appearance since the Soviet-backed coup last week. |
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| January 2 |
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| Sixty-six football supporters have been killed following a clash between Celtic and Rangers at the Ibrox Park stadium in Glasgow. |
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| January 1 |
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| Twelve of the European Union's 15 countries have woken to life with a new currency today, as the euro reached the purses of ordinary citizens across the continent. |
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| December 31 |
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| The British Prime Minister has set off on his trip to America after more than 24 hours of delays. |
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| December 30 |
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| A vicious house-to-house battle between rebel guerrillas, led by Fidel Castro, and the Cuban army is raging around the town of Santa Clara, the capital of the province of Las Villas. |
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| December 29 |
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| Six people are feared dead after raging storms hit competitors in the Sydney to Hobart yacht race. |
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| December 28 |
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| British customs officials have seized ￡70m of Columbian cocaine which is thought to be directly linked to the Mafia. |
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| December 27 |
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| Thousands of people are flocking to cinemas in the UK to watch the long-awaited blockbuster, Star Wars - a movie which is already setting US box offices alight. |
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| December 26 |
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| Iran's spiritual leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has said the death sentence on writer Salman Rushdie for alleged blasphemy will remain in force. |
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| December 25 |
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| Charles "Charlie" Spencer Chaplin, the comic genius of silent films, has died aged 88. |
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| December 24 |
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| Former UK minister John Stonehouse has been found living under a false name in Australia after apparently faking his own death. |
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| December 23 |
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| Ten thousand people are feared dead after a two-hour earthquake ripped through the Nicaraguan capital of Managua. |
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| December 22 |
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| The American superstar Madonna has married British movie director Guy Ritchie at an exclusive ceremony in the Scottish Highlands. |
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| December 21 |
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| General Charles de Gaulle has been elected President of France with an overwhelming majority. |
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