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March 17
Thousands of Palestinian civilians are fleeing a third day of Israeli attacks in southern Lebanon.
2006-03-17
March 16
Former Italian prime minister Aldo Moro has been kidnapped in Rome.
2006-03-16
March 15
Britain has strongly condemned the Iraqi authorities over the execution of The Observer journalist Farzad Bazoft in Baghdad.
2006-03-15
March 14
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.
2006-03-14
March 13
A coup in the Caribbean island of Grenada has toppled the country's controversial Prime Minister, Sir Eric Gairy.
2006-03-13
March 10
On this date in 1785, Thomas Jefferson was appointed minister to France, succeeding Benjamin Franklin.
2006-03-10
March 9
In 1954, CBS newsman Edward R. Murrow critically reviewed Wisconsin Senator Joseph R. McCarthy's anti-Communism campaign on "See It Now."
2006-03-09
March 8
At least 45 people have died and 175 have been injured in a car bomb explosion in Beirut, Lebanon.
2006-03-08
March 7
Golda Meir, the "grand old woman of Israeli politics", is to become the first female prime minister of Israel.
2005-03-07
March 6
The people of Ghana have been celebrating the end of colonial rule and the dawn of their independence.
2006-03-06
March 5
Rumours are circulating in Moscow that Joseph Stalin, the long-time leader of the Soviet Union, is near death.
2005-03-05
March 4
Silent film legend Charlie Chaplin has become Sir Charles after a ceremony at Buckingham Palace.
2005-03-04
March 3
A Turkish Airlines DC10 has crashed near Paris killing all 345 people on board.
2006-03-03
March 2
The supersonic airliner, Concorde, has made a "faultless" maiden flight.
2006-03-02
March 1
The US has produced the biggest ever man-made explosion so far in the Pacific archipelago of Bikini, part of the Marshall Islands.
2006-03-01
February 28
The guns are silent and the war is over in the Gulf.
2006-02-28
February 27
Fifty-seven Hindu pilgrims have died in a fire on a train in India.
2006-02-27
February 26
A suspected car bomb has exploded underneath the World Trade Center in New York killing at least five people and injuring scores more.
2005-02-26
February 25
Hundreds of Iraqi civilians have been killed and wounded in Baghdad by American bombers.
2005-02-25
February 24
The South Vietnamese are celebrating the recapture of the country's third city, Hue, after a battle lasting three weeks.
2006-02-24
February 23
US troops have raised the Stars and Stripes over Iwo Jima four days after landing on the Japanese-held volcanic island.
2006-02-23
February 22
Scientists in Scotland have announced the birth of the world's first successfully cloned mammal, Dolly the sheep.
2006-02-22
February 21
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.
2006-02-21
February 20
The first American to orbit the Earth has landed safely in the Atlantic Ocean.
2006-02-20
February 19
China's paramount leader Deng Xiaoping has died at the age of 92.
2005-02-19
February 18
The Secretary of the US army has ordered two generals, subpoenaed by anti-Communist senator Joseph McCarthy, to ignore the summons.
2005-02-18
February 17
Serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer has been sentenced to life in prison by a court in Wisconsin for murdering and dismembering 15 young men and boys.
2005-02-17
February 16
Cuba's revolutionary leader Fidel Castro has become the country's youngest ever premier.
2006-02-16
February 15
The daughter of the millionaire American publisher, Randolph Hearst, has been kidnapped.
2006-02-15
February 14
Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean have been crowned the Olympic ice skating champions after scooping gold in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia.
2006-02-14
February 13
Hundreds of Iraqi civilians have been killed and wounded in Baghdad by American bombers.
2006-02-13
February 12
Thieves have stolen one of the world's best-known paintings from a gallery in the Norwegian capital, Oslo.
2005-02-12
February 11
Leading anti-apartheid campaigner Nelson Mandela has been freed from prison in South Africa after 27 years.
2006-02-13
February 10
American spy plane pilot Captain Francis "Gary" Powers has been freed from prison in the Soviet Union in exchange for a Russian spy jailed in the US.
2006-02-10
February 9
The first Briton and the first African-American have walked in space as part of a Nasa experiment.
2006-02-09
February 8
Three US astronauts have returned safely to Earth after a record-breaking stay in space.
2006-02-08
February 7
Plans are being drawn up by London, Washington and Moscow for the final phase of the war against Germany.
2006-02-07
February 6
His Majesty, King George VI, has died peacefully in his sleep at Sandringham House.
2005-02-06
February 5
The daughter of the millionaire American publisher, Randolph Hearst, has been kidnapped.
2005-02-05
February 4
An earthquake in northern Afghanistan has left thousands dead, injured or homeless.
2005-02-04
February 3
Three young rock 'n' roll stars have been killed in a plane crash in the United States.
2005-02-03
February 2
The Soviet Government has announced the final defeat of the German 6th Army at the port of Stalingrad, in southern Russia.
2005-02-02
February 1
The US space shuttle Columbia has broken up as it re-entered the Earth's atmosphere killing all seven astronauts on board.
2005-02-01
January 31
At least 53 people have been killed and another 1,400 injured in a suicide attack in the capital of Sri Lanka.
2005-01-31
January 30
Thousands of people have paid their last respects to Britain's greatest wartime leader Sir Winston Churchill who was buried today after a full state funeral.
2006-01-30
January 29
President of the Philippines Corazon Aquino has forced a group of heavily armed rebels occupying a television station to surrender.
2006-01-29
January 28
The American space shuttle, Challenger, has exploded killing all seven astronauts on board.
2006-01-28
January 27
Three American astronauts died when fire swept the Saturn rocket on its launch pad at Cape Kennedy.
2006-01-27
January 26
The Red Army has liberated the Nazis' biggest concentration camp at Auschwitz in south-western Poland.
2005-01-26
January 25
Six members of the International Olympic Committee face expulsion following an inquiry into a corruption scandal which has deeply shaken the Olympic movement.
2005-01-25
January 24
Sir Winston Churchill has died at the age of 90 with his wife Lady Clementine Churchill and other members of the family at his bedside.
2005-01-24
January 23
The US president, Richard Nixon, has appeared on national television to announce "peace with honour" in Vietnam.
2005-01-23
January 22
President Mikhail Gorbachev has made a statement on Soviet television explaining the Soviet crackdown on civil unrest in the republic of Azerbaijan.
2005-01-22
January 21
The 52 American hostages held at the US embassy in Tehran for more than 14 months have arrived in West Germany on their way home to the United States.
2005-01-21
January 20
Indira Gandhi, only daughter of India's first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru, is to become the country's next leader.
2006-01-20
January 19
Indira Gandhi, only daughter of India's first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru, is to become the country's next leader.
2006-01-19
January 18
Six major environmental organisations today added their support to the growing anti-bypass campaign in Newbury, Berkshire.
2006-01-18
January 17
A huge earthquake has rocked Los Angeles, killing more than twenty people.
2006-01-17
January 16
The Shah of Iran has fled the country following months of increasingly violent protests against his regime.
2006-01-16
January 15
President Nixon has ordered a halt to American bombing in North Vietnam following peace talks in Paris.
2005-01-15
January 14
The foot-and-mouth crisis that began almost 11 months ago will officially end at midnight, the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has said.
2005-01-14
January 13
American, British and French fighter jets have carried out a series of bombing raids over southern Iraq.
2006-01-13
January 12
The carers of an eight-year-old girl who died after being tortured and fed scraps of food like a dog have been found guilty of her murder.
2006-01-12
January 11
The first graduates from the Open University (OU) have been awarded their degrees after two years studying from home.
2006-01-11
January 10
Harold Macmillan has accepted the Queen's invitation to become prime minister following the sudden resignation of Sir Anthony Eden.
2006-01-10
January 9
The Defence Secretary, Michael Heseltine, has resigned from his Cabinet job in a row with Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher over the Westland affair.
2006-01-09
January 8
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.
2006-01-09
January 7
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.
2006-01-09
January 6
An unknown man brandishing a metal crowbar has attacked American figure-skater Nancy Kerrigan.
2006-01-06
January 5
Israel has airlifted thousands of Jewish Ethiopian refugees out of Sudan, it has emerged.
2006-01-05
January 4
Sir Edmund Hillary has reached the South Pole - the first overland explorer to do so since Captain Robert F Scott's expedition in 1912.
2006-01-04
January 3
The new president of Afghanistan, Babrak Karmal, has made his first public appearance since the Soviet-backed coup last week.
2006-01-03
January 2
Sixty-six football supporters have been killed following a clash between Celtic and Rangers at the Ibrox Park stadium in Glasgow.
2006-01-02
January 1
Twelve of the European Union's 15 countries have woken to life with a new currency today, as the euro reached the purses of ordinary citizens across the continent.
2006-01-01
December 31
The British Prime Minister has set off on his trip to America after more than 24 hours of delays.
2005-12-31
December 30
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.
2005-12-30
December 29
Six people are feared dead after raging storms hit competitors in the Sydney to Hobart yacht race.
2005-12-29
December 28
British customs officials have seized ￡70m of Columbian cocaine which is thought to be directly linked to the Mafia.
2005-12-28
December 27
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.
2005-12-27
December 26
Iran's spiritual leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has said the death sentence on writer Salman Rushdie for alleged blasphemy will remain in force.
2005-12-26
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