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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 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 23 |
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| The US president, Richard Nixon, has appeared on national television to announce "peace with honour" in Vietnam. |
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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 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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| 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 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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| December 20 |
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The Queen has urged the Prince and Princess of Wales to seek "an early divorce".Buckingham Palace said the Queen called for an end to the marriage in a letter to each of them earlier this week.
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| December 17 |
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| The Germans have mounted a series of counter-attacks on the Western front allowing them to re-cross the borders of Luxembourg and Belgium. |
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| December 16 |
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| Mikhail Gorbachev, the man widely tipped as the next leader of the Soviet Union, has spent five hours in "very friendly" talks with the British Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher. |
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| December 15 |
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| The British and Irish prime ministers have signed The Joint Declaration of Peace which they hope will end 25 years of bombing and murder in Northern Ireland. |
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| December 14 |
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| The ousted President of Iraq, Saddam Hussein, is under arrest after he was captured by US soldiers. |
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| December 13 |
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| A group of gunmen has broken through tight security to attack the parliament building in the Indian capital, New Delhi. |
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| December 10 |
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| Up to 45,000 people have died and a further 500,000 are homeless after the devastating earthquake which ripped through Armenia, official figures revealed today. |
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| December 9 |
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| Tripartite talks on Northern Ireland have ended in an historic agreement to set up a Council of Ireland. |
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| December 8 |
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| Former Beatle John Lennon has been shot dead by an unknown gunman who opened fire outside the musician's New York apartment. |
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| December 7 |
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| Thousands of people may have died from the most devastating cyclone to strike Bangladesh in almost 20 years, the UN reports. |
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| December 6 |
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| A mob of Hindu militants has torn down a mosque and attacked other Muslim targets in the north Indian town of Ayodhya, in one of India's worst outbreaks of inter-communal violence. |
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| December 7 |
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| Thousands of people may have died from the most devastating cyclone to strike Bangladesh in almost 20 years, the UN reports. |
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| December 3 |
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| Health minister Edwina Currie has provoked outrage by saying most of Britain's egg production is infected with the salmonella bacteria. |
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| December 2 |
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| US President Dwight D Eisenhower has announced the signing of a pact of mutual security with the Nationalist Chinese Government. |
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| December 1 |
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| Construction workers have drilled through the final wall of rock to join the two halves of the Channel Tunnel and link Britain to France. |
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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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