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From the Hutchinson Encyclopedia of World History. © Research Machines plc [2006] All Rights Reserved, Helicon Publishing is a division of Research Machines.
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War of the Roses
Breitling Jet Team - Terms and Conditions
Pride and Prejudice
The Planet of The Apes
European History for Dummies
Chechnya in Focus
Iraq
Zimbabwe's Political History
The Arab-Israeli Conflict
TECH EFFECT: Waco
RUSSIA: LAND OF THE TSARS Episode 4
Sea Spies
The Boys of H Company
The True Story Of Seabiscuit
Soviet UFO Secrets Revealed
The Trial Of Louise Woodward
Isaac's Storm
LOST SHIPS: The Ghost Of The Trafalgar
The Hillside Stranglers
The Crusades
The Industrial Revolution
The Olympics
D-Day
Trafalgar 200
The Killing Fields: The Khmer Rouge and Cambodia
The Zulu War of 1879
The Falklands War
Civ City Rome
Tanganyika
Military Offer
Dambusters
'Valkyrie' Interview
Expedition: Africa
Titanic: A Tale Of Two Journeys
The New Big Picture Show: War at Home
NAM - The Somme
Dambusters 2
Shots From The Front
Chechnya in Focus
Iraq
Zimbabwe's Political History
The Arab-Israeli Conflict
7 January 2000

Disgraced former Cabinet Minister Jonathan Aitken is released from jail after serving less than half of his 18 month sentence.

 

Aitken had been convicted of perjury and perverting the course of justice after his libel case against the Guardian Newspaper and Granda Television collapsed.

9 January 1986
British defence secretary Michael Heseltine resigns from the Cabinet of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher over the 'Westland Affair'.
13 January 1966

American President Lyndon Johnson appoints the first African-American to a cabinet position. Robert C. Weaver is made head of the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

16 January 1909
The British Antarctic Expedition, led by Ernest Shackleton, locates the magnetic South Pole.
19 January 2001

In North Wales, baby twins are taken into care by social services from a couple who bought the children for £8000 from America over the internet.

23 January 1920

The Dutch government refuses to extradite Wilhelm II to the Allies. The former Kaiser of Germany has been living in exile in the Netherlands since November 1918.

24 January 2001

In Britain, Peter Mandelson, the Northern Ireland Secretary, resigns from the cabinet over a row concerning a passport application from an Indian billionaire. It the second time Mandelson has had to reign from the Cabinet.

25 January 2004

The second NASA rover, sent to explore Mars, lands on the surface of the planet, where it will look for signs of water.

26 January 2005

Condoleezza Rice is confirmed as the US Secretary of State. She is the highest ranking African-American woman ever to serve in a presidential cabinet.

31 January 2001

In the Netherlands, a court convicts one Libyan and acquits another for their part in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 which crashed in Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988.

1 February 2004
During the interval of Super Bowl XXXVIII, Janet Jackson exposes her breast on American television, prompting the "Nipplegate" controversy.
5 February 1996
In Britain, the first genetically modified food goes on sale.
7 February 1991
British Prime Minister John Major and senior Cabinet Ministers escape unhurt as the IRA fires three mortar shells at 10 Downing Street from a van parked several streets away in the centre of London.
10 February 1989
In America, The Ford Motor Company announces a 1988 net income of $5.3 billion, a world record for a car manufacturer.
23 February 1820

British police uncover 'The Cato Street Conspiracy' to assassinate several Cabinet ministers. All those found guilty are executed.

28 February 1844

A gun on the boat USS Princeton explodes while it is cruising down the Potomac River. Two US Cabinet members are killed, but President John Tyler is unhurt.

1 March 1966
Venera 3, a Soviet probe collides with Venus. It is the first unmanned spacecraft to reach the surface of another planet.
2 March 1991
A bomb blast in Colombo, Sir Lanka, kills nineteen people, including the deputy defence minister.
4 March 1685
King Charles II of England declares war on The Netherlands, starting the Second Anglo-Dutch War.
11 March 2006
Former president of Yugoslavia Slobodan Milosevic is found dead in his prison cell in The Hague, Netherlands where he was standing trial on charges of genocide and war crimes. He is thought to have died from a heart problem.
13 March 1781
William Herschel discovers the planet Uranus.
17 March 2003
British Foreign Secretary, Robin Cook reigns from the cabinet over the government’s policy towards Iraq.
22 March 1979
The British ambassador to the Netherlands, Sir Richard Sykes, is shot dead by the IRA outside his Dutch home.
27 March 2002
In Israel, a Palestinian suicide bomber murders 27 people who had gathered in Netanya to celebrate the Jewish Peasch (Passover) festival.
29 March 1974
Mariner 10, an unmanned NASA space probe, becomes the first spacecraft to visit the planet Mercury.
1 April 2000

The Enigma coding machine, used by Germany to code its messages during the Second World War, is stolen from its display cabinet at Bletchley Park Museum in England.

2 April 1998
A French Court sentences former French cabinet minister Maurice Papon to 10 years in jail for his part in deporting Jews from France during the Second World War.
4 April 1660
King Charles II of England issues the Declaration of Breda from exile in the Netherlands.
6 April 1973
In America, NASA launches Pioneer 11 to investigate Jupiter and the outer solar system and the planet Saturn and its main rings.
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.
28 April 2003
Apple launches iTunes Store – an internet download music store.
29 April 1672
France invades the Netherlands during the French-Dutch Wars.
30 April 1980
Beatrix becomes Queen of the Netherlands.
3 May 1960
The Anne Frank House opens as a museum in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
6 May 2002
Controversial Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn is shot dead during the general election campaign in the Netherlands.
10 May 1940
The Second World War: Germany invades the Netherlands and Belgium.
14 May 1940
The Second World War: In the Netherlands, most of Rotterdam is destroyed by German bombing, which kills 1,000 people and makes more than 50,000 homeless.
15 May 1940
The Second World War: The Netherlands surrenders to Germany.
16 May 1929
The first Academy Awards ceremony takes place in Hollywood, USA. Emil Jannings wins the first award for Best Actor and Janet Gaynor is Best Actress.
18 May 1152
Eleanor, Duchess of Aquitaine, marries Henry Plantagenet (later Henry II of England).
23 May 1977
Terrorists the South Moluccan Islands, formerly part of the Dutch East Indies, hold 105 schoolchildren and 50 others hostage after hi-jacking a train in the Netherlands. The children are released on 27th May, and the siege ends on 11th June when the train is stormed by Dutch police.
26 May 1981
In Italy, the Prime Minister and the Cabinet resign following a scandal over membership of a Masonic lodge.
28 May 1934
Birth of the world's first surviving quintuplets; Annette, Cecile, Emilie, Marie and Yvonne Dionee are born in Ontario, Canada.
30 May 1971
Launch of the US space probe Mariner 9 on its mission to Mars. It is able to send more than 7,000 pictures of the planet back to Earth.
31 May 1996
Benjamin Netanyahu is elected as Prime Minister of Israel.
1 June 2005
A referendum in the Netherlands rejects ratification of the European Constitution.
8 June 1949
George Orwell’s book Nineteen Eight Four is published in Britain.
10 June 1986
In England, Patrick Joseph Magee is found guilty of planting the Brighton bomb which killed five people and nearly killed all of the Conservative Party cabinet two years ago.
13 June 1983
After more than a decade in space, Pioneer 10, the world’s first outer-planetary probe, leaves the solar system.
19 June 1997
McDonalds win the longest trial in English legal history against two environmental campaigners who published a leaflet accusing McDonalds of unethical and environmentally destructive activities.
22 June 1978
Charon, a satellite of the planet Pluto, is discovered.
1 July 2004
Cassini-Huygens, the international mission to Saturn, goes into orbit around the planet beaming back pictures of Saturn’s rings.
5 July 1950
The Korean War: Private Kenneth Shadrick, a 19-year-old infantryman from Skin Fork, West Virginia, becomes the first American reported killed in the war.
6 July 1997
Sojourner, a robot onboard the Mars Pathfinder, is released from the probe to explore the red planet.
7 July 2005
52 people are killed as four British born suicide bombers linked to al-Qaeda detonate their bombs in a co-ordinated attack on London’s transport network.
10 July 2000
The British Government releases statistics showing that one in four homes in Britain has the internet.
13 July 1573
In the Netherlands, the Siege of Haarlem ends after seven months as the city surrenders to the Spanish Army.
14 July 1965
The American spacecraft Mariner 4 flies past Mars and takes photos of the Red planet.
21 July 2005
Two weeks after London is brought to a standstill by a terrorist attack, two detonators are exploded on the London underground network in a second failed terrorist attack.
22 July 1944
In Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, America, 44 countries agree to the creation of a World Bank and International Monetary Fund.
7 August 2005
Finance Minister Binyamin Netanyahu resigns from the Israeli government in protest against Israel’s planned withdrawal from the Gaza Strip.
14 August 1979
15 people are killed during the Fastnet yacht race in the Irish Sea as a big storm hits the competition.
25 August 1987
U.S. spacecraft Voyager sends pictures to Earth of the planet Neptune and its satellite planets.
31 August 1897
Thomas Edison receives a patent for his movie camera, the Kinetograph.
3 September 1976
The U.S. spacecraft Viking II lands on Mars after a journey through space lasting 359 days and begins sending pictures of the planet back to earth.
5 September 1975
In Sacramento, U.S. President Gerald Ford survives an assassination attempt by Lynette Fromme, a follower of the jailed cult leader Charles Manson.
6 September 1948
Juliana is crowned Queen of the Netherlands.
10 September 1940
The Second World War: In response to the German Blitz, the British War Cabinet instructs British bombers over Germany to drop their bombs anywhere if unable to reach their targets.
11 September 1997
NASA’s Mars Global Surveyor reaches the red planet.
17 September 1944

The Second World War: The start of Operation Market Garden, Allied troops are parachuted in behind enemy lines in the Netherlands.  

21 September 1998
TV networks in America broadcast President Clinton’s testimony given on 17th August 1998, explaining his relationship with White House intern Monica Lewinsky.
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.
23 September 1846
German Astronomer Johann Galle discovers the planet Neptune.
26 September 1944
The Second World War: Allied forces go “a bridge too far” and bid a hasty retreat from Arnhem in the Netherlands suffering heavy loses as Operation Market Garden fails. 
4 October 1992
An Israeli El Al plane crashes into an apartment block on the outskirts of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. A total of 51 people are killed. 
7 October 1840
William II becomes King of the Netherlands.
8 October 1990
Britain has its first full day as a member of the Exchange Rate Mechanism of the European Monetary System.
18 October 1967
The Soviet space probe Venera 4 enters the atmosphere of the planet Venus, the first such probe to achieve this.
19 October 1967
The American spacecraft Mariner 5 successfully transmits data back to Earth as it flies past the planet Venus.
25 October 1929
In America, Albert B. Fall, secretary of the interior in President Warren G. Harding’s cabinet, is found guilty of accepting a bribe while in office.
26 October 1942
The Second World War: The Japanese sinks the U.S. Aircraft Carrier Hornet off the coast of the Solomon Islands in the Pacific Ocean during the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands.
30 October 1938
In America, the radio broadcast of Orsen Welles’ adaptation of the H. G. Wells’ novel War of the Worlds causes widespread panic - its realism convincing many listeners that beings from another planet have landed on earth.
3 November 1973
NASA launches Mariner 10, an unmanned space mission to fly by the planet Mercury.
8 November 1576
The provinces of the Netherlands unite to sign the Pacification of Ghent, an alliance to force the Spanish out of the country. 
13 November 1971
The American space probe, Mariner 9, flies around Mars, becoming the first spacecraft to orbit another planet.
16 November 1965
The Soviet Union launches the unmanned spacecraft Venera 3, which eventually lands on the surface of the planet Venus, becoming the first space probe to successfully land on another planet.
17 November 1970
Soviet spacecraft Lunokhod 1 lands on the Moon and releases the first moonwalker vehicle to travel across the planet’s surface.
18 November 1421
In the Netherlands, a seawall at the Zuider Zee dike collapses, leading to mass flooding killing approximately 10,000 people.
22 November 1990
British Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, announces her resignation as it becomes apparent that she no longer holds the confidence of her Cabinet.
23 November 1890
Following the death of King William III of the Netherlands, Princess Wilhelmina, I the absence of a make heir becomes, Queen of the Netherlands. Although her mother Emma is named Regent until Wilhelmina’s 18th birthday.
25 November 1975
Suriname gains independence from the Netherlands.
28 November 1964
NASA launches the spacecraft Mariner 4, which becomes the first to successfully fly by the planet Mars.  
7 December 1995
NASA’s unmanned spacecraft Galileo reaches the planet Jupiter after being launched in October 1989. 
14 December 1962
U.S. spacecraft Mariner II becomes the first spacecraft to fly by the planet Venus sending data back to Earth.
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.
27 December 2006
The French space agency launches the spacecraft COROT from Kazakhstan in a search for extra solar planets. 
3 December 1973
The NASA spacecraft, Pioneer 10, sends back the first close-up images of the planet Jupiter.
3 January 1946

Nazi Propagandist William Joyce, the notorious radio broadcaster known as 'Lord Haw-Haw', is hanged for treason.

 

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