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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 7 |
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| East Germany's Communist-dominated government has resigned - the first time such an event has occurred in the country's 40-year history. |
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| November 6 |
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| Australians have rejected a proposal to break ties with the British monarchy and become a republic. |
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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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| October 31 |
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| The Prime Minister of Malaysia, Mahathir Mohamad, has handed over power and stepped down after 22 years in office. |
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| October 30 |
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| US President George Bush has encouraged Arabs and Israelis to "lay down the past" in his opening speech to the Middle East peace conference in Spain. |
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| October 29 |
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| The long-awaited report by South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) has accused leading figures from across the political spectrum of human rights violations. |
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| October 28 |
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| The world has breathed a collective sigh of relief after the superpowers reached an agreement ending the immediate threat of nuclear war. |
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| October 27 |
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| MI5 has been brought into the hunt for the missing atomic scientist Bruno Pontecorvo who has not been seen for about seven weeks. |
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| October 26 |
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| The Conservative Party has won the general election by a small majority, making Winston Churchill prime minister for the second time. |
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| October 25 |
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| The EEC is donating 5.8 million to help combat the famine in Ethiopia. |
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| October 24 |
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| The legendary supersonic aircraft, Concorde, has landed at the end of its last commercial passenger flight, amid emotional scenes at Heathrow airport. |
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| October 23 |
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| The Northern Ireland peace process has reached an historic breakthrough as the IRA announced they had begun decommissioning their weapons. |
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| October 22 |
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| One of Britain's most notorious double-agents, George Blake, has escaped from prison in a daring break-out believed to have been masterminded by the Soviet Union. |
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| October 21 |
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| A third person has been diagnosed in the US with the most serious form of anthrax. |
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| October 20 |
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| The biggest demonstration yet against American involvement in the Vietnamese War has taken place in the town of Oakland, in California. |
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| October 19 |
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| The American illusionist David Blaine has his feet back on solid ground after ending 44 days suspended in a glass box by the River Thames in London without food. |
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| October 18 |
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| Liz Hurley has been greeted by protesters at the Los Angeles premiere of her new film Bedazzled. |
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| October 17 |
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| A powerful earthquake has rocked San Francisco killing nine people and injuring hundreds. |
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| October 16 |
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| Cardinals at the Vatican have chosen the first non-Italian Pope for more than 400 years. |
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| October 15 |
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| China has succeeded in sending its first manned spacecraft into orbit, making it only the third country ever to send a human into space. |
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| October 14 |
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| Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, and two Israelis, the Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Foreign Minister Shimon Peres, have been named the winners of this year's Nobel peace prize. |
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| October 13 |
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| Chris Chataway, the 23-year-old Oxford blue, has broken the 5,000 metres world record by five seconds in what has been described as one of the most remarkable races seen on a British track. |
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| October 12 |
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| Reports from the Indonesian holiday island of Bali say more than 50 people have been killed in two explosions. |
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| October 11 |
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Two big earthquakes have struck the northern Algerian town of El Asnam.An official report said up to 20,000 had died and many tens of thousands have been injured or are missing.
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