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Life

US weekly magazine of photojournalism, which recorded US and world events pictorially from 1936–72, 1978‐ . It was founded by Henry Luce, owner of Time Inc., who bought the title of an older magazine. It ceased publication in 1972, although a few ‘Special Report’ issues occasionally appeared after that date. In 1978 the magazine was revived, issued monthly, focusing more on personalities than on current news. From May 2000, the magazine ceased to be published monthly, but only in special editions. Its publication of books continued.

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European History for Dummies

The Incredible Journey of Mary Bryant

Yorkshire Ripper (Peter Sutcliffe)

Nazi Spies In America

Pope John Paul II

The Krays

Tin Town

The Boys of H Company

The Negotiator

The True Story Of Seabiscuit

Yasser Arafat

Jack the Ripper

The Hunt For Jack The Ripper

FIRST 48: Desert Bones/Party's Over

LOST SHIPS: The Ghost Of The Trafalgar

SECRETS OF ARCHAEOLOGY: Pompeii: A City Rediscovered

Richard Ramirez: The Night Stalker

The Industrial Revolution

D-Day

The Killing Fields: The Khmer Rouge and Cambodia

The Baader Meinhof Complex

Military Offer

Voices of the Armistice

'Che' Film Review

Specials Week

Pompeii: The Last Day

Anthony Beevor, D-Day

Spitfire Competition

'Valkyrie' Interview

Sitemap

Titanic: A Tale Of Two Journeys

Corgi

Holt

Museum of London

NAM - Faces of Battle

Almunia's Favourite Book

Last Voices of World War I

Ilse Koch, wife on the commandant of the Buchenwald concentration camp, is sentenced to life imprisonment in a court in West Germany. Koch was nicknamed the 'With of Buchenwald' for her extraordinary sadism.

18 January 1967
In the U.S.A. Albert DeSalvo,'The Boston Strangler', is sentenced to life in prison.

25 January 1981

Jiang Qing, the widow of former Chinese leader Mao Zedong, is found guilty of treason and sentenced to death - later commuted to life imprisonment.

29 January 2003

In Britain, solicitor Sally Clark is cleared by the Court of Appeal of murdering her two sons. Clark had already served more than three years of a life sentence.

30 January 2003

In America, British-born 'shoe bomber' Richard Reid is sentenced to life in prison after he attempted to blow up a flight from Paris to Miami.

31 January 2000

In Britain, GP Harold Shipman is jailed for life after murdering fifteen of his patients.

2 February 1999
Glenn Hoddle is sacked as England football manager after comments that disabled people were reaping the punishment for something done in a previous life.

4 February 1968
As a result of a law passed by the Kenyan government denying Asian Kenyans the ability to work in the country, many Indian and Pakistani citizens living in Kenya arrive in Britain to start a new life.

10 February 1983
In England, police launch a mass murder investigation after discovering the remains of 16 people in drains, in London. Later in 1983, Dennis Andrew Nilsen was convicted and sentenced to life in prison for the crimes.

17 February 1992

In Wisconsin, U.S.A., serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer is sentenced to life in prison for murdering and dismembering fifteen young men and boys. Dahmer was later murdered in prison.

4 March 1824
Formation of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.

5 March 1993
Disgraced Olympic sprinter, Ben Johnson, is banned from athletics for life after failing his second drugs test.

9 March 2004
A Virginia Court sentences John Allen Muhammad to death and Lee Boyd Malvo to life in prison for the Beltway sniper attacks in America.

17 March 1995
Ronnie Kray, the East End gangster, dies from a heart attack whilst serving a life prison sentence for murder, in Broadmoor jail.

23 March 2001
The life of the Russian Mir space station comes to an end as it is deliberately disposed of upon re-entering the earth’s atmosphere.

29 March 1971
In Los Angeles, America Charles Manson and three members of his cult are sentenced to death. There sentence is subsequently commuted to life in Prison as the death sentence is abolished in California in 1972.

6 April 1989
The British government announces plans to end the National Dock Labour Scheme, which had effectively given dockers “a job for life.”

14 April 2000
In England, Kenneth Noye is sentenced to life in prison by the Old Bailey in London for a road rage killing on the M25 motorway in 1996.

17 April 1999
A bomb explodes on a busy street in Brixton, south London injuring 45 people. David Copeland, a right-wing extremist, is later arrested and sentenced to life in prison for the attack and for planting other bombs in London.

21 April 1989

In China, 100,000 students gather in Tiananmen Square, Beijing to commemorate the life of Hu Yaobang, the former leader of the Chinese Communist Party.

23 April 2001
The trial of Jane Andrews, a former personal assistant to the Duchess of York, for the murder of her boy friend begins at the Old Bailey in London. Andrew’s is subsequently found guilty and sentenced to life.

25 April 1719
Daniel Defoe's book The Life and Strange Adventures of Robinson Crusoe is published.

28 April 1994
Former CIA agent Aldrich Ames is sentenced to life in prison by a court in Arlington, Virginia for spying for the Soviet Union.

3 May 2006
In Virginia, America Zacarias Moussaoui is sentenced to life in prison for his part in the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks.

8 May 1978
In New York, America David Berkowitz, who become known as “Son of Sam”, pleads guilty to killing six people. He is later found guilty and sentenced to life in prison.

9 May 2001

In Ghana, during a football match at Accra Stadium 126 fans lose their life during a stampede.

10 May 2002
In America, FBI agent Robert Hanssen is sentenced to life in prison for spying for Russia.

11 May 1987
Klaus Barbie, the “Butcher of Lyon”, goes on trial in Lyon, France for war crimes committed during the Second World War. He is eventually found guilty and sentenced to life in prison.

15 May 1972
In America, the Governor of Alabama, George Wallace, is shot and crippled for life in an assassination attempt during his Presidential Campaign in Maryland.

1 June 2001
Crown Prince Dipendra, heir to the throne of Nepal, goes on a killing rampage, taking the lives of his parents the King and Queen of Nepal, amongst others, before taking his own life.

6 June 2004
In Israel, Palestinian Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti is sentenced to five life terms in prison for his role in attacks that killed five people since 2001.

12 June 1987
Former leader of the Central African Republic, Jean-Bedel Bokassa, is sentenced to death for crimes committed during his 13-year rule of the country. The sentence is later commuted to life in prison.

22 June 2004
A court in Belgium sentences Marc Dutroux to life in prison for the kidnap, rape and murder of several young girls.

23 June 1992
In America, New York Mafia boss John Gotti is sentenced to life imprisonment with no parole.

2 July 2001
Barry George has been sentenced to life in prison for the murder of television presenter Jill Dando.

3 July 1987
Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie, the ‘butcher of Lyon’, is jailed for life for crimes against humanity.

10 July 1925
Indian Spiritual Master Meher Baba begins his silence, and does not speak for the rest of his life, dying in 1969.

11 July 1975
China’s Terracotta Army uncovered near the ancient capital of Xian. More than 8,000 life sized warriors were buried around 206BC to guard the tomb of the first Chinese Emperor.

14 July 1966
In Chicago, America Richard Speck murders eight student nurses. Speck was arrested and sentenced to life in prison.

22 July 1991
In Milwaukee, American serial killer and cannibal, Jeffrey Dahmer, is arrested. Dahmer is later sentenced to life in prison but was killed by a fellow prisoner in 1994.

26 July 1983
In Britain, in a test case at the High Court in London, Victoria Gillick fails to prevent doctors prescribing contraception to under-16s without parental consent. This case has had wider ramifications for the right of minors to make potentially life-changing decisions for themselves, without parental consent.

6 August 1996
American scientists reveal that they have found evidence of ancient life on Mars in the remnants of a meteorite discovered in Antarctica.

24 August 1981
American Mark Chapman is given a 20 year life sentence for shooting dead John Lennon.

3 September 1954
The National Trust for Scotland buys the Fair Isle famous for its wildlife.

4 September 2006
The Australian wildlife enthusiast and television presenter Steve Irwin, known as the “The Crocodile Hunter”, is killed by a stingray during a dive off the Australian coast.

12 September 1992
In Peru, the leader of the Maoist insurgents the “Shinning Path”, Abimael Guzman, is arrested. He is later tried and convicted on charges of terrorism and sentenced to life in prison.

22 September 1975
U.S. President Gerald Ford survives an assassination attempt when he is shot at by Sarah Jane Moore. Ford had already survived one attempt on his life that month when Lynette Fromme also tried to kill him.

24 September 1992
The heritage minister and Conservative MP David Mellor is forced to resign from the government following a series of tabloid revelations about his private life.

8 October 2004
In America, lifestyle guru, Martha Stewart, starts her prison term after being found guilty of conspiracy and obstruction with regard to share trading.

15 October 1946
Having been sentenced to death at the at Nuremberg trails, senior Nazi, Hermann Göring, cheats the hangman by taking his own life through taking a cyanide tablet.

28 October 1986
In England, a court in Essex sentences Jeremy Bamber to life in prison for shooting dead five members of his family.

29 October 1982
In Australia, Lindy Chamberlain is sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of her nine week old baby who disappeared on a family trip into the outback. She claims the baby had been killed by a dingo which had come into the camp and taken the child from their tent. Chamberlain is later released and receives a pardon.

30 October 1957
In Britain, the Conservative government announces plans to reform the House of Lords, allowing women to sit in the chamber for the first time and creating Life Peerages.

4 November 1974
In England, Judith Ward is sentenced to life imprison after she is found guilty of planting a bomb on an army coach which exploded and killed 12 people. After serving 18 years, Ward’s conviction was quashed.

13 November 2002
One of the oil tanker Prestige’s 12 tanks bursts during a storm off Galician coast. The tanker eventually splits in half and sinks on the 19th causing significant devastation to the surrounding wildlife.

14 November 1991
The U.S. accuses two Libyan intelligence officers, Abdel Basset Ali Al-Megrahi and Al Amin Khalifa Fhimah, of masterminding the Lockerbie bombing. In 2001, Al-Megrahi was convicted and sentenced to life in prison, Fhimah was found not guilty.

17 November 1986
In France, the head of the car company Renault, Georges Besse, is assassinated. Two people are later sentenced to life in prison for his murder.

19 November 1992
In England, the High Court rules that the feeding tubes keeping Tony Bland alive, a victim of the Hillsborough football disaster, can be withdrawn. His life support machine was turned off in February 1993 and he died the following month.

22 November 1995
In Britain, Rosemary West is jailed for life after being found guilty of murdering 10 girls and young women.

23 November 1979
In the Republic of Ireland, IRA member Thomas McMahon is sentenced to life in prison for planting the bomb which killed Lord Mountbatten and two companions.

10 December 2003
In England, The Court of Appeal overturns Angela Cannings life sentence for the murder of her two baby sons. She had also maintained her sons had tragically died from cot death.

17 December 1975
In America, Lynette Alice Fromme, also known as “Squeaky” Fromme, is sentenced to life in prison for her attempted assassination of President Gerald Ford.

19 December 1981
The 8-man crew of the Penlee Lifeboat all lose their lives attempting to rescue the crew of the coaster Union Star which is wrecked in violent seas off the coast of Cornwall, England.

30 December 1994
Pro-life activist John Salvi shoots dead two people and injuries five others in an attack on two abortion clinics in Boston, U.S.A. Salvi is convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison but committed suicide in 1996.

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