| 14th October 1644 | William Penn born
An english quaker who argued for religious tolerence and eventually founded Pennsylvania (which was actually named after his father not him).
For more information see :http://www.quaker.org/wmpenn.html
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| 17th January 1706 | Benjamin Franklin born
A scientist renowned for flying a kite in a thunderstorm he was also influencial in writing the US Declaration of Independence and the US Constitution.
For more information see :http://sln.fi.edu/franklin/rotten.html
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| 22nd February 1732 | George Washington born
The first president of the united states and it's been downhill ever since.
For more information see :http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/gw1.html
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| 30th October 1735 | John Adams born
The second president of the US.
For more information see :http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/ja2.html
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| 14th January 1741 | Benedict Arnold born
U.S. Revolutionary hero who turned traitor who's name has become a byword for a turn coat.
For more information see :http://www.benedictarnold.org/
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| 13th April 1743 | Thomas Jefferson born
Signatory to the US Declaration of Independence and U.S. President as well as scientist and founder of the Library of Congress
For more information see :http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/signers/jefferson.htm
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| 16th March 1751 | James Madison born
Fouth president of the U.S.A who declared war on Britain in 1812 and got the Whitehouse burnt down for his troubles.
For more information see :http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/jm4.html
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| 28th April 1758 | James Monroe born
U.S. President who formed the Monroe Doctrine which basically stated that the european powers were not welcome in the Americas. Funny how America has yet to figure that for many they feel the same principle should apply to American encroachment.
For more information see :http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/jm5.html
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| 15th March 1767 | Andrew Jackson born
The 7th US President who had a fond liking for his presidential veto and believed in using force if he couldn't get his way. Things haven't changed much then.
For more information see :http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/aj7.html
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| 11th July 1767 | John Quincy Adams born
The 6th U.S President who was the first in a line of father/son presidents. Unusually after his term of office he was elected to the House of Representitives and fought for civil liberties until his death.
For more information see :http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/ja6.html
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| 15th August 1769 | Napoleon Bonaparte born
The infamous French leader who put much of Europe to the sword until his downfall at Waterloo.
For more information see :http://www.napoleonguide.com/
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| 18th January 1782 | Daniel Webster born
US Congressman, Senator, Secretary of State and Presidential wannabe who was intimately involved in the long run up to the civil war.
For more information see :http://www.marshfield.net/History/webster.htm
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| 5th December 1782 | Martin Van Buren born
8th President of the USA and one time American Ambassidor to the UK (A blue plaque in Stratford Place, off Oxford Street, testifies to his time in Britain).
For more information see :http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/mb8.html
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| 24th July 1783 | Simon Bolivar born
The liberator of much of the northern part of South America from the Spanish and in whos honour Boliva was named.
For more information see :http://www.carpenoctem.tv/military/bolivar.html
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| 20th October 1784 | Lord Palmerston is born
Well respected Britsh Prime Minister and Statesman of the 19th century
For more information see :http://wawa.essortment.com/lordpalmerston_pbu.htm
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| 24th November 1784 | Zachary Taylor born
The 12th President of the U.S. An opponent of slavery he threatened the Southern States with war if they secseded. This eventually happened but long after his death and ironically his son fort against his fathers former cause.
For more information see :http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/zt12.html
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| 17th August 1786 | Davy Crockett born
Famous for his death at the Alamo he spent his formative years murdering indians before holding various politcal positions.
For more information see :http://www.americanwest.com/pages/davycroc.htm
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| 7th January 1800 | Millard Fillmore born
13th U.S. President
For more information see :http://www.americanpresidents.org/presidents/president.asp?PresidentNumber=13
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| 9th May 1800 | John Brown born
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| 19th January 1807 | Robert E. Lee born
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| 3rd June 1808 | Jefferson Davis born
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| 29th December 1808 | Andrew Johnson born
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| 12th February 1809 | Abraham Lincoln born
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| 4th April 1812 | Louisiania becomes the 18th US State
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| 6th April 1814 | Napoleon abdicates and is banished to Elba
His banishment was but a short one and he was to return shortly only be to defeated at the Battle of Waterloo
For more information see :http://www.napoleonguide.com/
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| 25th August 1814 | British troops burn the Whitehouse down
The Aliens in the film Independence Day weren't the first ones to destroy the residence of the US President
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| 1st April 1815 | Otto von Bismarck born
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| 11th December 1816 | Indiana becomes the 19th State of the US
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| 10th December 1817 | Mississippi becomes the 20th State of the US
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| 5th May 1818 | Karl Marx born
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| 3rd December 1818 | Illinois becomes the 21st State of the US
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| 16th August 1819 | The Peterloo Massacre
The Manchester Yeomanry mounted on horseback charge a 60,000 strong crown who had turned up at a pro-reform rally at St Peters Field, Manchester. Officially there were but a handfull of deaths although over 600 injured. It is believed that the number of dead was considerably higher. Whilst there were claims that the people were the cause it is clear that it was another case of the people with power using it to deny the ordinary folk there say. The governments response was to ban meetings of 50 or more people, flag bearing marches and introducing a newspaper tax
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| 14th December 1819 | Alabama becomes the 22nd State of the US
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| 6th February 1820 | The first freed slaves leave the US to form Liberia
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| 5th May 1821 | Napoleon Bonaparte dies
Many conspiracy theories abound from his death. The french claim his english captors did it, some claim that it was his fellow countrymen. Some have claimed that it was the arsenic in his wall paper that did the job. Personally I figure it was the guy on the grassy knoll
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| 27th April 1822 | Ulysses S. Grant born
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| 21st January 1824 | Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson born
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| 6th June 1824 | British workers gain the right to strike.
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| 13th February 1826 | The American Temperence Society is formed
First meeting in the Snug of the Dog and Duck.
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| 4th July 1826 | Former US President John Adams dies
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| 4th July 1826 | Former US President Thomas Jefferson dies
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| 15th September 1830 | William Huskisson killed
Tory MP William Huskisson is run over by a train whilst at the opening of the Manchester to Liverpool railway line. You would have thought that being at the opening of a railway line might have been a big enough hint that there were trains around!
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| 10th December 1830 | Simon Bolivar dies.
Simon Bolivar was a revoltionary hero in South America fight against Spanish rule. He is credited with the liberation of Chile, Peru, Colombia, Venezuala and Boliva, which named it's self after him.
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| 20th December 1830 | Belguim gains independence
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| 4th June 1832 | The Great Parlimentary reform act is passed
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| 1st August 1834 | Salvery is abolished in all British Colonies
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| 14th August 1834 | The Poor Law is amended in Britain causing the Work House to be established
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| 30th January 1835 | An assassination attempt on US President Andrew Jackson fails and Jackson kills the assassin
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| 20th December 1835 | The Republic of Texas is proclaimed
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| 26th January 1836 | Michigan becomes the 26th State of the US
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| 15th June 1836 | Arkansas becomes the 25th US State
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| 22nd October 1836 | Sam Houston becomes the first president of the Texas Republic
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| 18th March 1837 | Grover Cleveland born
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| 19th April 1838 | The Grand Duchy of Luxembourg is established
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| 6th February 1840 | The treaty of Waitangi is signed thus creating New Zealand as a British Colony
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| 5th April 1843 | Hong Kong is proclaimed a colony
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| 29th December 1845 | Texas becomes the 28th state of the US
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| 13th May 1846 | The US declares war on Mexico
The two year war was essentially a boundary dispute between Mexico and the US prinipally involving Texas, New Mexico and California.
For more information see :http://www.dmwv.org/mexwar/mexwar1.htm
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| 25th June 1846 | In Britain the Corn Laws are repealled
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| 28th December 1846 | Iowa becomes the 29th state of the US
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| 8th June 1847 | A new law is passed in Britain limiting working hours for women and children to 10 hours a day
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| 14th September 1847 | The US-Mexican war ends in victory for the US
The two year war was essentially a boundary dispute between Mexico and the US prinipally involving Texas, New Mexico and California.
For more information see :http://www.dmwv.org/mexwar/mexwar1.htm
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| 9th September 1850 | California becomes the 31st state of the US
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| 1st July 1851 | The Australian Colony of Victoria is created from the southern part of New South Wales
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| 14th September 1852 | The Duke of Wellington dies
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| 4th July 1855 | Alcohol is banned in New York State
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| 30th March 1856 | Crimean war ends
Essentially a war between the major empires of europe with Britain, France, Turkey and Austria on one side and Russia on the other. Russia was the loser in the end.
For more information see :http://www.historyofwar.org/articles/wars_crimean.html
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| 28th December 1856 | Woodrow Wilson born
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| 15th September 1857 | William H. Taft born
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| 11th May 1858 | Minnesota becomes the 32nd US State
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| 27th October 1858 | Theodore Roosevelt born
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| 14th February 1859 | Oregon becomes the 33rd state of the US
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| 18th June 1859 | Lord Palmerston becomes British Prime Minsiter
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| 13th September 1860 | John J. Pershing born
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| 12th April 1861 | The American civil war begins
Officially the war concerned whether the individual states had supremacy over the Federal Government. Realistically it had more to do with powerful slave owners wanting to retain their cheap labour.
Put another way was the negro to be treated as a slave or a second class citizen.
For more information see :http://www.civilwar.com/timehome.php
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| 1st January 1863 | President Abraham Lincoln signs the emancipation act, thus freeing all slaves in the US
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| 20th June 1863 | West Virginia becomes the 35th State of the US
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| 15th April 1865 | US President Abraham Lincoln is assassinated
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| 27th April 1865 | Abraham Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Booth, is killed
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| 18th October 1865 | Former Prime Minister Lord Palmerston dies
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| 18th December 1865 | The 13th amendment abolishing slavery is passed in the US
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| 25th February 1868 | Benjamin Disraeli becomes British Prime Miinster
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| 9th December 1868 | William Gladstone becomes British Prime Minister
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| 10th January 1869 | Grigori Rasputin born
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| 2nd October 1869 | Mahatma Gandhi born
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| 22nd April 1870 | Vladimir Ilyich Lenin born
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| 19th July 1870 | Franco Prussian war starts
Essentially the war was as a result of France wanting to expand eastwards towards the Rhine. Much of the disputed territory remained disputed right up until the second world war. In saying France wanting to expand, it should be added French leaders, ie the ones that weren't going to get killed in battle.
For more information see :http://uk.geocities.com/fpw1870/
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| 10th May 1871 | The Franco Prussian war ends
France lose and the course is set for German Unification.
For more information see :http://uk.geocities.com/fpw1870/
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| 4th July 1872 | Calvin Coolidge born
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| 10th August 1874 | Herbert Hoover born
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| 30th November 1874 | Winston Churchill born
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| 5th January 1876 | Konrad Adenauer born
The first chancellor of West Germany
For more information see :http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/kbank/profiles/adenauer/
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| 1st August 1876 | Colorado becomes the 38th US State
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| 7th February 1878 | Pope Pius IX dies
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| 7th November 1879 | Leon Trotsky born
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| 21st December 1879 | Joseph Stalin born
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| 15th April 1880 | William Gladstone becomes Prime Minister
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| 31st December 1880 | George C. Marshall born
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| 19th April 1881 | Lord Salisbury becomes Leader of the Tory Party
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| 2nd July 1881 | US President Garfield is shot but survives
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| 19th September 1881 | US President Garfield dies
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| 30th January 1882 | Franklin D. Roosevelt born
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| 14th March 1883 | Karl Marx dies
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| 29th July 1883 | Benito Mussolini born
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| 8th May 1884 | Harry S. Truman born
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| 11th October 1884 | Eleanor Roosevelt born
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| 4th March 1885 | Grover Cleveland becomes US President
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| 6th September 1888 | Joseph P. Kennedy born
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| 20th April 1889 | Adolf Hitler born
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| 11th November 1889 | Washington, Montana and the Dakotas achieve statehood
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| 14th November 1889 | Jawaharlal Nehru born
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| 19th May 1890 | Ho Chi Minh born
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| 10th July 1890 | Wyoming becomes the 44th US State
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| 22nd July 1890 | Rose Kennedy born
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| 14th October 1890 | Dwight Eisenhower born
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| 22nd November 1890 | Charles de Gaulle born
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| 3rd September 1892 | Keir Hardie Britains first socialist MP takes his seat
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| 4th December 1892 | Francisco Franco born
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| 19th September 1893 | New Zealand women get the vote
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| 26th December 1893 | Mao Tse-tung born
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| 17th April 1894 | Nikita Khrushchev born
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| 1st January 1895 | J. Edgar Hoover born
Head of the FBI, Hoover was Americas own secret policeman keeping his own dossiers on the corruption, as he saw it, of the rich, powerful and famous. His biggest achievement was allowing the Mafia to flourish because he refused to accept that they existed. Did he never see the godfather or the Untouchables?
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| 5th August 1895 | Communist father Friedrich Engels dies
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| 8th October 1895 | Juan Peron born
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| 4th January 1896 | Utah becomes the 45th US State
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| 3rd May 1898 | Golda Meir born
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| 19th May 1898 | Former Prime Minister William Gladstone dies
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| 27th February 1900 | The British Labour Party formed
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| 1st January 1901 | The Commonwealth of Australia comes into being
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| 14th September 1901 | US President William McKinley assassinated
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| 26th March 1902 | Cecil Rhodes dies
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| 17th May 1902 | Ayatollah Khomeini born
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| 12th July 1902 | Arthur Balfour becomes British Prime Minister
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| 20th July 1903 | Pope Leo XIII dies
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| 5th December 1905 | Sir Henry Campbell-Banner becomes the British Prime Minister
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| 12th February 1906 | Keir Hardie becomes Labour Party leader
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| 12th April 1908 | Herbert Asquith becomes British Prime Minister
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| 27th August 1908 | Lyndon B. Johnson born
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| 1st January 1909 | Barry Goldwater born
Failed republican U.S. Presidential Canditate
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| 1st January 1909 | The first old age pension was issued in Britain
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| 14th November 1909 | Senator Joseph McCarthy born
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| 10th March 1910 | Slavery is abolished in China
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| 6th February 1911 | Ronald Reagan born
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| 27th May 1911 | Hubert H. Humphrey born
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| 5th July 1911 | Georges Pompidou born
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| 23rd October 1911 | Winston Churchill is appointed First Lord of the Admiralty
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| 13th November 1911 | Andrew Bonar Law becomes leader of the Tory Party
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| 6th January 1912 | New Mexico becomes the 47th state of the US
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| 14th February 1912 | Arizona becomes the 48th State of the US
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| 9th January 1913 | Richard Nixon born
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| 12th March 1913 | Canberra becomes capital of Australia
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| 4th June 1913 | Suffragette Emily Davison throws herself under the Kings horse during the Derby and dies
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| 14th July 1913 | Gerald R. Ford born
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| 20th August 1914 | Pope Pius X dies
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| 7th November 1916 | The first female member of the US Congress elected
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| 7th December 1916 | Lloyd George becomes British Prime Minister
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| 16th December 1916 | Rasputin is murdered
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| 29th May 1917 | John F. Kennedy born
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| 19th November 1917 | Indira Gandhi born
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| 8th April 1918 | Betty Ford born
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| 18th July 1918 | Nelson Mandela born
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| 9th November 1918 | Spiro Agnew born
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| 25th December 1918 | Anwar Sadat born
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| 28th December 1918 | British Women vote for the first time in a General Election
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| 13th January 1919 | The first Indian peer takes his seat in the House of Lords
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| 10th April 1919 | Mexican rebel Emiliano Zapata is killed
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| 7th May 1919 | Eva Peron born
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| 1st December 1919 | Nancy Astor becomes the first female MP
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| 16th January 1920 | Prohibition begins in the US
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| 18th May 1920 | Pope John Paul II born
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| 13th November 1920 | The first session of the League of Nations is convened
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| 6th July 1921 | Nancy Reagan born
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| 22nd January 1922 | Pope Benedict XV dies
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| 19th July 1922 | George McGovern born
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| 22nd August 1922 | Irish Nationalist Michael Collins is killed
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| 22nd October 1922 | Mussolini becomes dictator of Italy
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| 16th November 1922 | Andrew Bonar Law becomes Prime Minister
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| 21st November 1922 | Ramsey MacDonald becomes leader of the Labour Party
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| 5th December 1922 | The Irish Free State (now the Republic of Ireland) is proclaimed
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| 9th March 1923 | Lenin retires
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| 21st May 1923 | Stanley Baldwin becomes Prime Minister
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| 27th May 1923 | Henry Kissinger born
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| 20th July 1923 | Revolutionary Pancho Villa is killed
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| 22nd July 1923 | Bob Dole born
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| 23rd August 1923 | US Vice President Calvin Coolidge becomes President
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| 12th June 1924 | George Bush born
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| 1st October 1924 | Jimmy Carter born
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| 24th October 1924 | The Zinoviev Letter is published losing the Labour party the election that followed.
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| 19th May 1925 | Malcolm X born
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| 8th June 1925 | Barbara Bush born
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| 13th October 1925 | Margaret Thatcher born
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| 20th November 1925 | Robert F. Kennedy born
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| 6th March 1926 | Alan Greenspan born
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| 3rd May 1926 | The General stike starts
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| 12th May 1926 | The General Strike ends
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| 13th August 1926 | Fidel Castro born
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| 5th January 1928 | Walter Mondale born
US Vice President to Jimmy Carter. He ran against Ronald Reagan for the presidency and lost. How do you live that one down
For more information see :http://www2.worldbook.com/wc/popup?path=features/presidents&page=html/mondale.htm&direct=yes
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| 11th April 1928 | Ethel Kennedy born
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| 15th January 1929 | Dr. Martin Luther King born
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| 11th February 1929 | The Vatican becomes a state
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| 4th March 1929 | Herbert Hoover becomes US President
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| 20th March 1929 | Marshal Foch dies
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| 7th June 1929 | Margaret Bondfield becomes Britains first female minster
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| 28th July 1929 | Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis born
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| 24th August 1929 | Yasser Arafat born
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| 24th October 1929 | The Wall Street Stock Market crash
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| 19th March 1930 | Former prime minister Arthir Balfour dies
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| 27th June 1930 | H. Ross Perot born
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| 30th November 1930 | G. Gordon Liddy born
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| 1st February 1931 | Boris Yeltsin born
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| 25th February 1931 | Hitler is granted German citizenship
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| 2nd March 1931 | Mikhail Gorbachev born
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| 7th October 1931 | Bishop Desmond Tutu born
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| 22nd February 1932 | Edward M. Kennedy born
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| 8th November 1932 | Franklin D Roosevelt wins first US Presidential term
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| 30th January 1933 | Hitler becomes chancellor
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| 28th March 1933 | The Reichstag burns down
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| 3rd November 1933 | Michael Dukakis born
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| 5th December 1933 | Prohibition in the US ends
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| 30th June 1934 | Hitler purges Nazi party in the Night of the long knieves
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| 7th June 1935 | Stanley Baldwin becomes Prime Minister
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| 6th July 1935 | Dalai Lama born
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| 8th October 1935 | Clement Atlee is elected Labour Party leader
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| 18th March 1936 | F.W. deKlerk born
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| 3rd November 1936 | Franklin D Roosevelt wins second term as US President
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| 5th April 1937 | Colin Powell born
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| 28th April 1937 | Saddam Hussein born
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| 15th May 1937 | Madeleine Albright born
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| 28th May 1937 | Neville Chamberlain becomes Prime Minister
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| 8th April 1938 | Kofi Annan born
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| 10th February 1939 | Pope Pius XI dies
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| 10th May 1940 | Winston Churchchill becomes prime minister
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| 21st August 1940 | Leon Trotsky murdered
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| 5th November 1940 | Franklin D Roosevelt elected for the third time
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| 30th January 1941 | Dick Cheney born
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| 8th October 1941 | Jesse Jackson born
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| 2nd January 1942 | Dennis Hastert born
The Speaker of the US House of Representitives
For more information see :http://speaker.house.gov/
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| 29th March 1943 | John Major born
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| 17th June 1943 | Newt Gingrich born
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| 29th September 1943 | Lech Walesa born
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| 11th December 1943 | John Kerry born
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| 7th November 1944 | Franklin Roosevelt becomes the only US president to win a fourth term
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| 26th March 1945 | Lloyd George dies
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| 12th April 1945 | US President Franklin D Roosevelt dies
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| 28th April 1945 | Italian dictator Benito Mussalino executed by partisans
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| 1st May 1945 | Adolf Hitler commits suicide
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| 26th July 1945 | Winston Churchill loses the general election and gives Labour it's first majority
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| 12th November 1945 | Marshal Tito wins Yugoslavian election
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| 13th November 1945 | Charles de Gaulle elected president of France
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| 6th July 1946 | George W. Bush born
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| 21st July 1946 | Kenneth Starr born
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| 19th August 1946 | Bill Clinton born
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| 4th November 1946 | Laura W. Bush born
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| 4th February 1947 | Dan Quayle born
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| 26th October 1947 | Hillary Rodham Clinton born
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| 31st March 1948 | Al Gore born
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| 26th January 1950 | India becomes a republic
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| 30th March 1951 | Rosenbergs found guilt of spying in New York
Ethel and Julius Rosenburg were at the centre of a soviet spy ring in the US that passed secrets from the US Atomic Weapons programme to the Soviets and was instrumental in them aquiring the bomb. The Rosenburgs were subsequently executed.
For more information see :http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/rosenb/ROSENB.HTM
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| 26th October 1951 | Winston Churchill wins general election
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| 10th February 1952 | First India General Election
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| 26th July 1952 | Eve Peron dies
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| 6th May 1953 | Tony Blair born
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| 14th November 1954 | Condoleezza Rice born
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| 5th April 1955 | Winston Churchchill resigns as Prime Minster due to ill health
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| 9th May 1955 | Germany joins Nato
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| 7th December 1955 | Labour leader Clement Attlee retires
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| 14th December 1955 | Hugh Gaitskell elected Labour party leader
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| 11th February 1956 | Russian spys Burgess and Maclean surface in Moscow
Burgess and Maclean along with Philby and Blunt were infamous spys working inside British Intelligence for many years. Burgess and Maclean dissappeared from view, when suspicion arose, only to resurface in Moscow. Philby was suspected of warning them and later defected. Anthony Blunt was also involved in the spy ring but when he was finally unmasked no action was taken against him.
Such a fate was not shared by Sarah Tisdall who leaked the date that cruise missiles were to arrive in the UK as she went to jail. But consider the difference between the two. Sarah was a junior civil servant who did what she thought was in the nations interest. Blunt was the Queens art expert, moved in aristocratic circles and did what he thought was against the nations interested.
For more information see :http://www.bvalphaserver.com/article7880.html
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| 23rd October 1956 | Hungarian uprising
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| 4th November 1956 | Soviet troops put down Hungarian uprising
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| 9th January 1957 | Sir Anthony Eden resigned as British Prime minister
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| 10th January 1957 | Harold Macmillan becomes British Prime Minister
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| 6th March 1957 | Ghana gains independence
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| 31st August 1957 | Malaya gains independence from Britain
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| 23rd October 1957 | Martin Luther King III born
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| 27th November 1957 | Caroline Kennedy born
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| 1st January 1959 | Cuban President Fulgeneio Batista flees Fidel Castros rebel army
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| 8th January 1959 | Charles De Gaulle becomes president
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| 16th February 1959 | Fidel Castro becomes Prime Minsiter of Cuba
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| 9th October 1959 | Harold MacMillan leans tories to election victory
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| 21st March 1960 | Sharpeville massacre
69 demonstrators were killed and 180 where injured when police opened fire on the protest against the racist pass laws.
For more information see :http://www.rebirth.co.za/apartheid_sharpeville_massacre.htm
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| 20th July 1960 | Sirimavo Bandaranaike becomes Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) and the worlds first female prime minister
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| 19th August 1960 | U2 spyplane pilot Gary Powers jailed
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| 25th November 1960 | John F. Kennedy born
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| 20th January 1961 | John F Kennedy sworn is as President
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| 27th April 1961 | Sierra Leone gains independence
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| 13th August 1961 | Berlin Wall appears overnight
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| 18th September 1961 | UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold killed in air crash
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| 18th January 1963 | Death of Hugh Gaitskell
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| 5th June 1963 | John Profumo resigns
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| 28th August 1963 | Martin Luthers King's 'I have a dream' speech
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| 22nd November 1963 | President Kennedy assassinated in Dallas
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| 27th May 1964 | Indias first and current prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru dies
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| 12th June 1964 | Nelson Mandela is jailed for life
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| 18th August 1964 | South Africa banned from Olympics
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| 15th October 1964 | Nikita Khrushchev retires as Soviet leader
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| 25th October 1964 | Zambia gains independence
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| 24th January 1965 | Death of Winston Churchchill
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| 30th January 1965 | State funeral of Winston Churchchill
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| 21st February 1965 | Death of Malcolm X
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| 22nd July 1965 | Sir Alex Douglas Home steps down as Tory leader
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| 27th July 1965 | Edward Heath becomes leader of the tory party
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| 11th November 1965 | Rhodesia declares UDI
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| 19th January 1966 | Indira Gandhi becomes Indias first female prime minister
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| 22nd October 1966 | Spy George Blake escapes from prison
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| 9th March 1967 | Stalins daughter defects
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| 9th October 1967 | Che Guevara killed
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| 4th April 1968 | Martin Luther King assassinated
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| 5th June 1968 | Robert Kennedy assassinated
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| 7th March 1969 | Golda Meir becomes Israels first female prime minister
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| 28th April 1969 | Charles de Gaulle resigns as french president
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| 14th August 1969 | British troops sent into Northern Ireland
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| 14th October 1969 | 50p piece introduced into Britain
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| 16th January 1970 | Colonel Gaddafi becomes prime minster of Libya
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| 19th June 1970 | Edward Heath wins general election for Tory Party
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| 25th January 1971 | Idi Amin Ousted as Ugandan President
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| 15th February 1971 | British Decimal currency introduced
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| 22nd April 1971 | Dictator of Haiti Papa Doc Duvalier dies
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| 9th January 1972 | 1972 National Miners Strike begins
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| 22nd August 1972 | Rhodesia (now Zimbarbwee) thrown out of Olympics
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| 1st January 1973 | Great Britain joins the EEC
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| 9th July 1973 | Bahamas gains independence from Britain
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| 23rd July 1973 | Monica Lewinsky born
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| 1st December 1973 | David Ben-Gurion dies
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| 20th December 1973 | Spanish Prime Minister murdered
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| 15th March 1974 | Corrupt architect John Poulson jailed for 7 years
John Poulson built his business by bribing various politicians to allow his projects to proceed and to obtain business from councils. He eventually got his come uppence along with a few others including Tory Cabinet Minister Reginald Maudling. How unusual a tory MP on the take!
For more information see :http://www.marxists.org/archive/foot-paul/1993/02/poulson.htm
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| 29th June 1974 | Isobel Peron becomes Argentina's first female president
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| 8th August 1974 | President Richard Nixon resigns
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| 9th August 1974 | Gerald Ford becomes US President
The American President who was never elected, due to the scandals of Spiro Agnews tax problems and Richard Nixon's resignation after Watergate. He was once described as not being able to chew gum and walk at the same time although this is a sanitised version of the real comment.
For more information see :http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/gf38.html
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| 24th December 1974 | Disgraced MP John Stonehouse returns from the dead
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| 11th February 1975 | Margeret Thatcher elected first leader of Tory party
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| 9th June 1975 | House of Commons broadcast on radio for first time
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| 11th November 1975 | Angola gains independence from Portugal
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| 16th March 1976 | British Prime Minister Harold Wilson resigns
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| 12th September 1977 | Steve Biko dies in police custody in South Africa
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| 22nd August 1978 | President Jomo Kenyatta of Kenya dies
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| 29th September 1978 | Pope John Paul I dies
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| 16th October 1978 | Pope John Paul II Elected
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| 16th January 1979 | Shah of Iran flees country
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| 30th March 1979 | MP Airey Neave killed by car bomb
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| 4th May 1979 | Margeret Thatcher becomes first female British Prime Minister
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| 27th February 1980 | Chelsea Clinton born
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| 4th March 1980 | Robert Magabe becomes Prime Minister of Zimbabwee
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| 21st January 1981 | American Hostages in Iran freed
After 444 days the hostages captured from the US Embassy in Tehran. America had become hated in Iran because it was their power that kept the Shah in power since the fifties. Needless to say if the 'land of the free' supported someone you can be certain that freedom won't be on the menu. The reality is that their years of supporting a despote placed their own people at risk.
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| 26th March 1981 | Social Democrate Party launched in Great Britain
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| 30th March 1981 | President Ronald Regan shot
John Hinckley shot the president, along with a press aid, a policeman and a Secret Service office to impress the Actress Jodie Foster. A nice bunch of flowers or box of Cadburys Mini Heros might have been a better idea.
He was eventually found to be insane, John Hinckley that is not the President although......
For more information see :http://www.paperlessarchives.com/reagan_assassination_attempt.html
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| 5th May 1981 | IRA Hunger striker Bobby Sands dies
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| 12th May 1981 | IRA hunger striker Francis Hughes dies
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| 6th October 1981 | President Sadat of Egypt assassinated
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| 25th November 1981 | Barbara and Jenna Bush born
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| 25th February 1982 | Coporal punishment banned in British schools
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| 29th May 1982 | Pope John Paul II becomes the first pope to visit Britain
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| 9th June 1983 | Margaret Thatcher wins second term as British Prime Minister
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| 21st August 1983 | Opposition leader Benigno Aquino assassinated in Manila
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| 2nd October 1983 | Neil Kinnock becomes leader of the Labour Party
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| 1st February 1984 | Halfpenny coin removed from circulation in Britain
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| 12th March 1984 | Miners strike starts
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| 27th April 1984 | Libyan embassy seige ends
Whilst controling a small demonstration outside the Libyan embassy shots were fired from inside the embassy killing the policewoman. An 11 day seige then ensured. The Libyans claimed diplomatic immunity and were allowed to leave the embassy. There are times when diplomacy is not the best approach and this was clearly one of them.
For more information see :http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-1078819,00.html
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| 12th October 1984 | Bombing of Tory party conference at Brighton
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| 29th January 1985 | Oxford University snub Margaret Thatcher by refusing her an Honorary Degree
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| 3rd March 1985 | 1984 Miners strike ends
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| 10th July 1985 | French agents sink Greenpeace's Rainbow Warrior in New Zealand
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| 28th February 1986 | Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme assasinated
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| 8th April 1986 | Clint Eastwood elected mayor of Carmel
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| 29th December 1986 | Former prime minister Harold MacMillan dies
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| 11th June 1987 | Margaret Thatcher wins third and final term as British Prime Minister
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| 28th July 1988 | Paddy Ashdown is elected the leader of the Liberal Democrates
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| 9th November 1989 | Berlin wall falls
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| 24th November 1989 | Communist party in Czechoslovakia resign power
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| 25th December 1989 | Nicolae Ceausescu, former leader of Rumania executed along with his wife
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| 2nd February 1990 | ANC legalised in South Africa
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| 11th February 1990 | Nelson Mandela freed from prison
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| 31st March 1990 | Anti Poll Tax riot in London
The last time a poll tax was introduced into Britain it caused the Peasants Revolt, a fact the was pointed out to the then Prime Minister, Margeret Thatcher. But as usual she thought she knew better. There was a strong and persistent campaign against it that culminated in a riot sparked by a small group of extremists.
Rent a mob consider that there actions brought Margeret Thatcher down, but the truth is it more to do with the inability to actually collect the tax.
For more information see :http://www.caliach.com/paulr/news/polltax/
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| 11th April 1990 | Iraqi supergun seized by British customs
The supergun's barrel was being manufactured in Britain with the knowledge of the intelligence services but no one else. Fortunately Customs discovered the the oil pipelines were part of a giant gun. The signifcance of its size was that it could launch a projectile into space and therefore nowhere would have been safe.
For more information see :http://www.astronautix.com/lvs/babongun.htm
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| 2nd August 1990 | Iraq invades Kuwait
Saddam Hussain invaded Kuwait on a pretext and sparked what was to become the first Gulf War.
For more information see :http://www.historyofwar.org/articles/wars_gulf1990.html
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| 8th October 1990 | Britain joins the ERM
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| 8th November 1990 | Ireland elects Mary Robinson as its first female president
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| 22nd November 1990 | Margaret Thatcher resigned as Prime Minister and Tory Leader
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| 27th November 1990 | John Major becomes leader of Tory party and Prime Minister
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| 17th January 1991 | The first gulf war begins
Following Iraq's invasion of Kuwait the previous August the Coalition forces launch there counter attack. By 1st March they had successfully pushed the Iraqis out of Kuwait thus restoring freedom to the country. Well freedom for its previous dictators to continue there human rights abuses. Unfortunately for less than noble reasons President George Bush stopped the advance into Iraq thus leaving Hussain in power, comdeming thousands more to death and leaving a problem that would clearly need to be addressed again at a later date. (By his equally stupid son as it turned out).
For more information see :http://www.historyofwar.org/articles/wars_gulf1990.html
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| 21st May 1991 | Rajiv Gandhi assassinated
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| 19th August 1991 | Mikhail Gorbachev overthrown as Soviet leader
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| 16th September 1991 | Black Wednesday when Britain leaves the European Exchange rate mechanism
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| 13th April 1992 | Neil Kinnock resigns as Labour party leader
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| 27th April 1992 | Betty Boothroyd becomes first female Speaker of the House
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| 30th June 1992 | Former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher takes her seat in the House of Lords
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| 3rd January 1993 | Start II arms reduction treaty signed
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| 26th February 1993 | World Trade Centre bomb
The first attempt to destroy the World Trade Centre
For more information see :http://cns.miis.edu/pubs/reports/wtc93.htm
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| 21st April 1994 | Guildford four cleared
The Guildford Four were wrongly convicted of planting bombs in pubs in Guildford and Woolwich. After 15 years in prison their convictions were quoshed
For more information see :http://www.irelandinformationguide.com/Guildford_Four
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| 10th May 1994 | Nelson Mandela becomes first black president of South Africa
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| 12th May 1994 | Labour party leader John Smith Dies
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| 21st July 1994 | Tony Blair becomes leader of the Labour Party
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| 19th April 1995 | Oklahoma bombing
In an attack by white supremesist 168 people were killed when a bomb exploded destroying a major part of the building. Timothy McVeigh the first culprit to be arrested was subsequently executed.
For more information see :http://www.okcbombing.org/
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| 4th July 1995 | John Major takes over as Prime Minister of Britain from Margaret Thatcher
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| 10th November 1995 | Human rights activist Ken Saro-Wiwa executed in Nigeria
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| 13th June 1996 | Abortion is legalised in the Baliwick of Guernsey
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| 2nd May 1997 | Labour party win general election ridding Britain of 18 years of despotic Tory rule
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| 1st July 1997 | Control of Hong Kong returned to the Chinese
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| 15th April 1998 | Pol Pot dies
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| 1st April 1999 | Minimum wage introduced into Britain
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| 8th June 1999 | Former Tory minister Jonathan Aitken jailed for perjury
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| 9th August 1999 | Charles Kennedy becomes leader of Liberal Democrate party
For more information see :http://www.charleskennedy.org.uk/
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| 31st December 1999 | Boris Yeltsin resigns
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| 1st May 2000 | May Day anti-capitalist riots in London
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| 13th September 2001 | Ian Duncan Smith becomes leader of Tory party
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| 1st January 2002 | The Euro is introduced into 12 of the EU countries
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| 18th July 2003 | Dr David Kelly found dead
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| 16th August 2003 | Former dictator Idi Amin dies
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| 8th October 2003 | Arnold Schwarzenegger elected govenor of California
For more information see :http://www.schwarzenegger.com/
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| 19th December 2003 | Libya renounces chemical weapons
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