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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 18 |
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| A bill giving Scotland its own parliament for the first time in three centuries has been unveiled in Glasgow today. |
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| December 11 |
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| Germany and Italy have announced they are at war with the United States. America immediately responded by declaring war on the two Axis powers. |
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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 4 |
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| The US President, George W Bush, has withdrawn a punitive tax on imported steel to avoid a damaging trade war between the United States and Europe. |
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| November 30 |
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| Almost 1,000 people have been forced to abandon a luxury cruise ship in the Indian Ocean after it caught fire. |
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| November 29 |
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| One of Britain's greatest motor racing drivers has been killed in a plane crash in south-east England. |
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| November 26 |
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| A British monarch is to pay income tax for the first time since the 1930s. |
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| November 25 |
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| The funeral of the assassinated President, John F Kennedy, has taken place in Washington. |
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| November 24 |
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| The man accused of assassinating the US President, John F Kennedy, has himself been shot dead in a Dallas police station. |
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| November 23 |
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| Fifty-five year old Lyndon Baines Johnson begins his new job today as US president. |
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| November 22 |
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| Margaret Thatcher is to stand down as prime minister after her Cabinet refused to back her in a second round of leadership elections. |
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| November 19 |
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| The An estimated jackpot of ￡1m may be won tonight in Britain's first ever lottery draw. |
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| November 18 |
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| Church envoy Terry Waite has been freed by the Islamic extremists who kidnapped him in Beirut in 1987. |
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| November 17 |
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| More than 60 people have been killed after an attack on a group of foreign tourists visiting a temple in southern Egypt. |
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| November 16 |
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| More than 20 English football supporters have been arrested in Luxembourg after a night of violence. |
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| November 15 |
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| Princess Anne has given birth to a boy - the first royal baby to be born a commoner for more than 500 years. |
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| November 12 |
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| The so-called 'Great Train Robber', Ronnie Biggs, is celebrating after Brazil's Supreme Court rejected a British request to extradite him. |
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| November 11 |
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| A painting by Vincent Van Gogh has been sold for $49m - a world record for a work of art.The final price was more than twice what the painting, called Irises, had been expected to reach. |
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| November 10 |
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| Bookshops all over England have sold out of Penguin's first run of the controversial novel Lady Chatterley's Lover - a total of 200,000 copies - on the first day of publication. |
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| November 9 |
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| Lawyers acting for the Princess of Wales have started legal action over secretly-taken pictures of her exercising which were published last week by a national newspaper. |
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| November 8 |
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| Voters in the Republic of Ireland have chosen their first female president. |
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| November 5 |
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| General Dwight D Eisenhower has swept to victory in the American presidential elections with the largest number of popular votes ever recorded for a presidential candidate. |
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| November 4 |
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| Democrat Bill Clinton has won the presidential election to become the 42nd United States president and the first in US history born after World War II. |
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| November 3 |
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| Jimmy Carter has been confirmed as the next President of the United States after a closely-fought contest which gave him 51% of the popular vote. |
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| November 2 |
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| An American held hostage in Beirut by Muslim fundamentalists has been released. |
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| November 1 |
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| Outbreaks of religious violence have occurred in parts of India in the wake of yesterday's assassination of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi by Sikh members of her bodyguard. |
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| November 28 |
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| Britain has a new prime minister for the first time in over 11 years. |
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| November 27 |
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| John Major is to be Britain's new prime minister after winning the Conservatives' leadership election. |
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| November 21 |
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| The Geneva summit has ended in optimism but with no agreement on the "Star Wars" space defence system. |
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