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| August 14 |
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| Massive power failures have caused chaos across the eastern United States and Canada, hitting major cities such as New York and Ottawa. |
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| August 13 |
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| Troops in East Germany have sealed the border between East and West Berlin, shutting off the escape route for thousands of refugees from the East. |
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| August 12 |
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| The family of murdered schoolgirl Sarah Payne has been joined by friends and hundreds of members of the public for a memorial service. |
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| August 11 |
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| Up to 350 million people in Europe and Asia have witnessed the last total solar eclipse of the century. |
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| August 10 |
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| The United Nations has brokered another ceasefire in Cyprus, defusing the growing crisis between Greek and Turkish Cypriots and heading off the threat of invasion by Turkey. |
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| August 9 |
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| American forces have dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki - the second such attack on Japan in three days. |
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| August 8 |
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| Hollywood superstars Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise have divorced. |
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| August 7 |
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| At least 200 people have been killed and more than 1,000 injured following explosions at United States embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. |
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| August 6 |
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| The first atomic bomb has been dropped by a United States aircraft on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. |
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| August 4 |
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| Celebrations have been taking place all over the United Kingdom to mark the 100th birthday of Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother. |
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| August 3 |
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| Queen has officially opened the 11th Commonwealth Games in Edmonton, Canada. |
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| August 2 |
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| More than 100,000 Iraqi soldiers backed up by 700 tanks invaded the Gulf state of Kuwait in the early hours of this morning. |
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| August 1 |
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| Polish Home Army has begun a battle to liberate Warsaw, the first European capital to fall to the Germans nearly five years ago. |
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| July 31 |
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| The United States and the Soviet Union have signed an historic agreement reducing their stockpiles of nuclear warheads by about a third. |
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| July 28 |
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| Hundreds of thousands of people are feared dead following an earthquake measuring 8.3 on the Richter Scale in China. |
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| July 27 |
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| A bomb has exploded at a crowded concert in Atlanta, Georgia, the city hosting this year's Olympic Games. |
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| July 26 |
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| Egypt's president, Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser, has announced the nationalisation of the Suez Canal Company to provide funding for the construction of the Aswan High Dam. |
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| July 25 |
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| The birth of the world's first "test tube baby" has been announced in Manchester. |
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| July 24 |
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| The United States Supreme Court has ordered President Nixon to surrender tape recordings of White House conversations about the Watergate affair. |
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| July 23 |
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| Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson have married at Westminster Abbey. |
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| July 22 |
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| The US space laboratory, Skylab I, plunged to Earth this evening scattering debris across the southern Indian Ocean and sparsely populated Western Australia. |
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| July 21 |
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| American Neil Armstrong has become the first man to walk on the Moon. |
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| July 20 |
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| Mrs Sirimavo Bandaranaike, widow of Ceylon's assassinated prime minister Solomon Bandaranaike, has been elected the world's first woman prime minister. |
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| July 19 |
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| A huge new dinosaur skeleton has been unveiled to the media at the Natural History Museum in London. |
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| July 18 |
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| A body believed to be that of government scientist Dr David Kelly has been found in woodland not far from his Oxfordshire home. |
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| July 17 |
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| The opening ceremony of the 21st Olympic Games in Montreal has been marred by the withdrawal of 25 African countries. |
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| July 14 |
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| Diana, Princess of Wales,has given birth to a boy sixteen hours after checking in to St Mary's Hospital,in London. |
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| July 13 |
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| Officials in Manchester bidding to hold the 2000 Olympic Games have been told their chances are "very, very high". |
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| June 12 |
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| Diana, Princess of Wales, has given The populist politician and president of the Russian parliament, Boris Yeltsin, has resigned from the Soviet Communist Party. |
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| July 11 |
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| The World Aids Conference in South Africa has announced trials for a new HIV vaccine will begin in Britain. |
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