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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 20 |
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| American missiles have hit the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, signalling the start of the US-led campaign to topple Saddam Hussein. |
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| March 19 |
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| Princess Margaret and Lord Snowdon are to separate after 16 years of marriage, it has been announced by Buckingham Palace. |
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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 15 |
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| Britain has strongly condemned the Iraqi authorities over the execution of The Observer journalist Farzad Bazoft in Baghdad. |
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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 13 |
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| A coup in the Caribbean island of Grenada has toppled the country's controversial Prime Minister, Sir Eric Gairy. |
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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 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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| 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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| March 3 |
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| A Turkish Airlines DC10 has crashed near Paris killing all 345 people on board. |
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| March 2 |
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| The supersonic airliner, Concorde, has made a "faultless" maiden flight. |
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| March 1 |
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| The US has produced the biggest ever man-made explosion so far in the Pacific archipelago of Bikini, part of the Marshall Islands. |
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| February 28 |
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| The guns are silent and the war is over in the Gulf. |
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| February 27 |
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| Fifty-seven Hindu pilgrims have died in a fire on a train in India. |
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| February 26 |
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| A suspected car bomb has exploded underneath the World Trade Center in New York killing at least five people and injuring scores more. |
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| February 25 |
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| Hundreds of Iraqi civilians have been killed and wounded in Baghdad by American bombers. |
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| February 24 |
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| The South Vietnamese are celebrating the recapture of the country's third city, Hue, after a battle lasting three weeks. |
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| February 23 |
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| US troops have raised the Stars and Stripes over Iwo Jima four days after landing on the Japanese-held volcanic island. |
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| February 21 |
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| The American President Richard Nixon has arrived in China at the start of a week-long summit aimed at ending 20 years of frosty relations between the two countries. |
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| February 20 |
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| The first American to orbit the Earth has landed safely in the Atlantic Ocean. |
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| February 19 |
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| China's paramount leader Deng Xiaoping has died at the age of 92. |
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