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11 July 1973

British Prime Minister Edward Heath presides over Britain’s full entry into the European Economic Community.

3 January 1993
Russia and the United States sign the second START agreement in Moscow. The Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty is a further indication that the Cold War is over.

4 January 1885
The first successful appendix operation is performed by Dr William West Grant in Iowa in the United States of America.

6 January 1974

As a result of the energy crisis, daylight saving time is introduced early in the United States.

7 January 1953
President Harry Truman announces that the United States of America has developed a Hydrogen Bomb.

8 January 1877

Crazy Horse and his warriors fight their last battle with the United States Cavalry at Montana.

10 January 1991

United Nations Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar sets off for Baghdad in a final diplomatic effort to avoid war with Iraq.

11 January 1989
After eight years as President of the United States, Ronald Reagan gives his farewell address to the American people. In particular, Reagan emphasises the foreign policy achievements of his administration.

12 January 1991
The United States Congress votes to authorise the use of military force against Iraq to end its occupation of Kuwait.

13 January 1950

The Soviet Ambassador to the United Nations, Jacob Malik, storms out of a meeting of the UN Security Council, as a Soviet proposal to expel the Chinese Nationalist representative is rejected. Malik announces his intention to boycott future meetings of the Council.

14 January 2002
After three months of no cases being reported, the United Kingdom is finally declared free from the Foot-and-Mouth infection, after a crisis started in 2001 in which millions of cows and sheep were destroyed.

16 January 1917
World War I: German Foreign Secretary Arthur Zimmermann sends a telegram to the German Ambassador in Mexico instructing him to approach the Mexican government to propose a German-Mexican alliance against the United States.

19 January 1840

Whilst on an exploring expedition, Captain Charles Wilkes sights the coast of eastern Antarctica and claims it for the United States

20 January 1961

In America, John F. Kennedy is inaugurated as the 35th President of the United States. Kennedy is to be both the youngest ever President and the first Roman Catholic to hold the office.

21 January 1992

The United Nations orders Libya to hand over the intelligence agents accused of the Lockerbie and French airliner bombings.

23 January 1941

In America, Charles Lindbergh testifies before the House Foreign Affairs Committee, suggesting that the United States negotiate a neutrality pact with Hitler.

27 January 1995

Manchester United player Eric Cantona is fined £20,000 and banned from playing football for nine months after he attacked a fan who taunted him.

28 January 1813

'Pride and Prejudice' is first published in the United Kingdom.

1 February 1946
Norwegian politician Trygve Lie becomes the first United Nations Secretary General.

3 February 1988
Iran-Contra Affair: The United States House of Representatives rejects President Ronald Reagan's request for $36.25 million to aid Nicaraguan Contras.

5 February 1919
Hollywood actors Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks and director D.W. Griffith launch the United Artists Corporation.

6 February 1958
7 Manchester United footballers are among the 21 people killed when their plane crashes in snow and ice during its take-off from Munich Airport.

8 February 1918
The United States Army resumes publication of the military newsletter 'Stars and Stripes', first published during the American civil war.

9 February 1950
United States Senator Joe McCarthy launches his anti-communist crusade, claiming that more than two hundred state department officials are members of the communist party.

12 February 2002

The trial of former President of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Slobodan Milosevic begins at the United Nations war crimes tribunal in The Hague.

14 February 1945

Chile, Ecuador, Paraguay and Peru join the United Nations.

17 February 1801

Thomas Jefferson is elected the third President of the United States.

23 February 1903

Cuba leases Guantanamo Bay to the United States ‘in perpetuity’.

1 March 1954
The United States of America carries out its first H-bomb test at Bikini Atoll.

3 March 2002
Switzerland votes in favour of joining the United Nations.

5 March 1956
The United States Supreme Court upholds a ban on racial segregation in state schools, colleges and universities.

6 March 1993
In the Angolan city of Huambo 350 people are killed in fighting between Unita rebels and government forces.

9 March 1973
The people of Northern Ireland vote in favour of staying in the United Kingdom.

14 March 1900
United States currency is placed on the gold standard as the Gold Standard Act is ratified.

21 March 1984
A European Economic Community summit in Brussels collapse as Britain tries to negotiate a more substantial rebate.

23 March 1970
From Peking, China Prince Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia announces the establishment of a united front of communist forces to fight the new Cambodian government of Lon Nol.

31 March 1917
The United States buys the Danish West Indies from Denmark for $25 million, renaming it the U.S. Virgin Islands.

2 April 1972
Having been labelled a communist in the red scare during the 1950's, Charlie Chaplin returns to the United States for the first time since 1952.

6 April 1917
The United States of America declares war on Germany and enters the First World War.

7 April 1953
Dag Hammarskjold is elected secretary-general of the United Nations.

9 April 1959
NASA introduces to the press the United States' first seven astronauts who will take part in America’s first manned space programme.

11 April 1951
General Douglas MacArthur is dismissed by President Truman as commander of the United Nations and US forces in the Far East after disagreements over American policy in Korea.

15 April 1959
Fidel Castro visits the United States but President Eisenhower refuses to meet him.

16 April 1945
The Second World War: The United States Congress extends the Lend-Lease programme.

18 April 1983
The United States embassy in Beirut, Lebanon is destroyed by a suicide bomber. 63 people are killed by the attack.

20 April 1953
During the Korean War, one hundred United Nations prisoners are freed under Operation “Little Switch.”

21 April 2005
John Negroponte is sworn as the first United States Director of National Intelligence.

22 April 1970
Earth Day, an event to increase public awareness of the world's environmental problems, is celebrated in the United States for the first time.

26 April 1975
In Britain, the Labour Party votes in favour of leaving the European Economic Community.

29 April 1970
United States and South Vietnamese troops launch a limited invasion of Cambodia.

30 April 1948
The United States and 20 Latin American countries form the Organization of American States, an anti-communist alliance.

1 May 1898
The United States Navy destroys the Spanish Pacific fleet at the Battle of Manila Bay during the Spanish-American War.

6 May 1877
Native American Chief, Crazy Horse of the Oglala Sioux, surrenders to United States troops in Nebraska.

11 May 1949
Israel joins the United Nations.

13 May 1846
The United States of America declares war on Mexico.

14 May 1904
The Modern Olympic Games are held in the United States of America for the first time - at St Louis, Missouri.

24 May 1958
Global news agency United Press International is formed.

25 May 1963
32 African nations form the Organisation of African Unity.

26 May 1999
Manchester United becomes the first British football club to win the European Cup for 15 years, beating Bayern Munich 2-1 in the final in Barcelona, thus completing a treble of the English Premier League and F.A. Cup.

27 May 1860
Giuseppe Garibaldi takes Palermo in Sicily during his struggle to unite Italy.

29 May 1968
Manchester United becomes the first English football team to win the European cup beating Benfica 4 -1.

31 May 1910
The colonies of the Cape of Good Hope, Natal, the Transvaal and the Orange River Colony are united to form the Union of South Africa.

1 June 1796
Tennessee becomes the 16th state of the United States of America.

2 June 1924
President Calvin Coolidge signs the Indian Citizen Act, granting automatic American citizenship to Native Americans born in the United States.

6 June 1975
In Britain’s first nationwide referendum the country votes in favour of maintaining membership of the European Economic Community.

7 June 1939
King George VI of England becomes the first British monarch to visit the United States of America.

8 June 1986
Former United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim is elected president of Austria.

10 June 1692
In America, Bridget Bishop becomes the first of the ‘Salem Witches’ to be hanged - wrongly accused of witchcraft by a hysterical group of young girls in an isolated Puritan community in Massachusetts.

14 June 1970
Manchester United footballer Bobby Charlton plays his 106th and last international match for England against West Germany in the World Cup in Mexico.

15 June 1877
Henry Ossian Flipper becomes the first African American cadet to graduate from the United States Military Academy at West Point.

17 June 1994
Start of football's World Cup Finals in the United States of America with an opening ceremony which included President Bill Clinton, television celebrity Oprah Winfrey and singer Diana Ross.

19 June 2005
Only six cars compete in the Formula One United States Grand Prix as the cars using Michelin tyres pull out due to safety concerns.

21 June 1788
New Hampshire ratifies the Constitution of the United States, thereby making the document the law of the land.

23 June 196
The first day of the Glassboro Summit Conference between United States President Lyndon B. Johnson and Soviet Union Premier Aleksei Kosygin in America.

24 June 1974
The British Government admits to having recently conducted a nuclear test explosion in the United States.

26 June 1948
In response to the Soviet blockade of West Berlin the United States begins a massive airlift of food, water and medicine to the citizens of the besieged city.

28 June 2004
The Iraq War: The United States formally hands back sovereignty of Iraq to the Iraqi Government.

30 June 1859
Tightrope walker Emile Blondin crosses Niagara Falls from the United States into Canada in eight minutes - walking across a 1,100 foot rope suspended 160 feet above the water.

2 July 1881
James Garfield, 20th President of the United States, is shot in Washington and dies in September.

4 July 1826
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, the second and third presidents of the United States, respectively, die on this day, the 50th anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence.

7 July 1976
For the first time in history, women are enrolled into the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York.

8 July 1950
The Korean War: General Douglas MacArthur is appointed head of the United Nations Command in Korea.

10 July 1917
The First World War: Unable to unite a divided Reichstag, Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg, the Chancellor of Germany, resigns.

11 July 1995
The Bosnian Serb army forces Dutch peacekeepers to withdraw from the United Nations safe area of Srebrenica. The Serb army subsequently commits one of Europe’s worst genocides in Srebrenica killing in excess of 7000 Muslims.

13 July 1919
British airship R34 lands back in Norfolk, England after making the first round trip across the Atlantic to the United States and back again.

16 July 1969
In the United States, the launch of the Apollo 11 spacecraft at the start of its mission to land men on the moon. On board the spacecraft - three US astronauts, Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins.

23 July 1962
The United States and the Soviet Union sign an agreement guaranteeing a free and neutral Laos.

24 July 1974
The United States Supreme Court orders President Nixon to hand over tape recordings of White House conversations about the Watergate affair.

25 July 1946
The United States detonates an atomic bomb at Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean.

26 July 1941
The Second World War: President Franklin Roosevelt seizes all Japanese assets in the United States in retaliation for the Japanese occupation of French Indo-China.

28 July 2005
In an historic announcement the IRA declare that their armed campaign has ended, and that it will only pursue peaceful means to secure a united Ireland.

29 July 1958
The United States Congress passes legislation formally inaugurating the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).

1 August 1975
The United States, the Soviet Union, Canada and every European nation (except Albania) sign the Helsinki Final Act at the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe.

5 August 1963
113 countries including Britain, the United States and the USSR sign a nuclear test ban treaty, agreeing that any further tests should be carried out underground.

6 August 1787
In Philadelphia, delegates to the Constitutional Convention begin debating the first complete draft of the proposed Constitution of the United States.

7 August 1987
Lynne Cox becomes the first woman to swim from the United States to the Soviet Union.

8 August 1945
President Harry S. Truman signs the United Nations Charter and the United States becomes the first nation to complete the ratification process and join the new international organisation.

9 August 1842
The Webster-Ashburton Treaty, signed between America and Britain, agrees the frontier between the United States and Canada.

10 August 1964
A United Nations ceasefire comes into force in Cyprus temporarily ending the conflict between Greek and Turkish Cypriots.

11 August 1987
Alan Greenspan becomes Chairman of the United States Federal Reserve, a position he holds until January 2006.

12 August 1898
Spanish-American War comes to an end when Spain formally agrees to a peace protocol on U.S. terms: the cession of Cuba, Puerto Rico and Manila in the Philippines to the United States pending a final peace treaty.

14 August 2003
Massive power cuts hit the eastern United States and Canada causing chaos.

16 August 1841
President John Tyler vetoes a second attempt by Congress to re-establish the Bank of the United States. In response, angry supporters of the bank gathered outside the White House and burned an effigy of Tyler.

18 August 1989
In England, Manchester United football club is sold for £20 million – the biggest deal in football history at the time.

19 August 2003
The Iraq War: The UN’s chief envoy to Iraq, Sergio Vieira de Mello and 17 other people are killed when a bomb explodes at the United Nations headquarters in Baghdad.

23 August 1979
Alexander Godunov, a member of the Bolshoi Ballet, is given political asylum in the United States.

24 August 1954
U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower signs the Communist Control Act making it illegal to be a member of the Communist Party of the United States.

26 August 1920
United States of America ratifies the 19th Amendment to the Constitution granting women the right to vote.

28 August 1964
In the wake of several incidents between the police and the black community in Philadelphia, America race riots begin.

29 August 2005
Hurricane Katrina pounds New Orleans and quickly becomes the worst natural disaster in the history of the United States.

31 August 1994
In Northern Ireland, the IRA announces a ceasefire in its armed struggle for a united Ireland. The ceasefire is broken in 1996 with the Docklands bombing in London.

1 September 1951
A mutual defence pact – the ANZUS Treaty - is signed by the United States, Australia and New Zealand.

2 September 1998
A United Nations court finds Jean-Paul Akayesu, the former mayor of a small town in Rwanda, guilty of nine counts of genocide, the first conviction of this kind since the 1948 law banning genocide was introduced.

3 September 1783
Britain recognises the United States of America by signing the Treaty of Paris which officially ends the American War of Independence.

4 September 1918
United States troops land at Archangel, in northern Russia in support of the provisional government in its civil war against the Bolsheviks.

6 September 1976
Soviet pilot Lieutenant Viktor Belenko flies his MIG fighter jet to Japan and asks for asylum in the United States.

9 September 1999
In Northern Ireland, the Police Review Commission recommends that the Royal Ulster Constabulary should undertake several reforms in order to make it a police service for the whole community.

10 September 1846
Elias Howe receives the first United States patent for a sewing machine.

11 September 1973
A military junta led by General Augusto Pinochet and backed by the United States of America, overthrows the elected Marxist Government of Salvador Allende in Chile.

12 September 1990
Representatives from the United States, Great Britain, France and the Soviet Union sign an agreement giving up all occupation rights in Germany.

15 September 1959
Nikita Khrushchev becomes the first Soviet head of state to visit the United States.

16 September 1940

Sam Rayburn is elected Speaker of the United States House of Representatives.

17 September 1947

James Forrestal is sworn in as the first Secretary of Defence of United States of America.

18 September 1987
The United States and the USSR announce their intention to sign a treaty to reduce their arsenal of nuclear weapons.

19 September 1959
Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev, on his first visit to the United States, is informed by his American hosts that he won’t be able to visit Disneyland due to concerns with regard to crowd control!

22 September 1965
The United Nations Security Council unanimously passes a resolution calling for an unconditional ceasefire in the Indo-Pakistani War. The fighting stops the next day.

24 September 1789
The Supreme Court of the United States is established.

25 September 1789
The first Congress of the United States approves 12 amendments to the U.S. Constitution, known as the Bill of rights, and sends them to the states for ratification.

26 September 1983
Racing yacht Australia II beats the American boat Liberty in the deciding race off Newport, Rhode Island to deprive the United States of the America’s Cup, a trophy the Americans had never lost in the 132 year history of the event.

4 October 1965
Pope Paul VI becomes the first Pope to visit the U.S.A. when he addresses the United Nations in New York.

8 October 1919
The first transcontinental air race in the United States begins, with 63 planes competing in the round-trip aerial derby between California and New York.

10 October 1845
The United States Naval Academy opens in Annapolis, Maryland.

20 October 1818
The 49th Parallel is established by USA and Britain as the official boundary between Canada and the United States of America with the signing of The Convention of 1818.

24 October 1945
The United Nations Charter is formally ratified.

25 October 1984
The European Economic Community donates £1.8 million to Ethiopia to try and help fight the famine in the country.

26 October 1860
Italian nationalist Giuseppe Garibaldi proclaims Victor Emmanuel II King of Italy in order to establish a united Italy.

27 October 1795
Treaty of Madrid is signed between the United States and Spain which defines the borders of the U.S. and its Spanish colonies.

3 November 2004
George W. Bush wins a second term as President of the United States defeating Senator John Kerry in the presidential election.

4 November 1980
Former Hollywood movie star Ronald Reagan is elected the 40th President of the United States of America.

5 November 1940
Franklin Delano Roosevelt is re-elected for an unprecedented third term as President of the United States.

6 November 1986
One of the most successful British football mangers ever, Alex Ferguson, starts his reign as manager of Manchester United.

7 November 1944
Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt is re-elected president of the United States becoming the first and only president in history to win a fourth term in office.

8 November 2002
The UN Security Council passes resolution 1441, giving Iraq a last opportunity to disarm.

9 November 1985
“Royal fever” hits the United States as Prince Charles and Princess Diana begin a four day visit to America.

10 November 2001
In the wake of the 9th September terrorist attacks in America, President George W. Bush address the general assembly of the United Nations asking support in his war on terror.

11 November 1889
Washington becomes the 42nd state of the United States.

13 November 1789
The first President of the United States, George Washington, returns to the capital Washington D.C. at the end of his first presidential tour.

16 November 1945
The United States ships 88 German scientists, many of whom previously worked for the Nazi’s, to America to assist in the production of rocket technology.

18 November 1903
America and Panama sign the Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty, providing for the sale of the Canal and a Canal Zone to the United States.

25 November 1950
The so-called “storm of the century” hits the eastern side of the United States, killing hundreds and causing millions of dollars worth of damages.

27 November 1973
The United States Senate votes to confirm Gerald Ford as Vice President of the United States following the resignation of Spiro Agnew.

28 November 1821
Panama declares its independence from Spain uniting with Colombia.

29 November 1947
The United Nations votes for the partition of Palestine and the creation of an independent Jewish state.

30 November 1981
Representatives from the United States and the Soviet Union open talks to reduce their intermediate-range nuclear forces (INF) in Europe. However, they fail to reach an agreement.

1 December 1958
The French colony Ubangi-Shari adopts the name the name Central African Republic as it becomes an autonomous territory within the French Community.

4 December 1945
The U.S. Senate approves full U.S. participation in the United Nations.

6 December 1917
In the harbour of Halifax in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, the most devastating manmade explosion in the pre-atomic age occurs when the Mont Blanc, a French munitions ship, explodes 20 minutes after colliding with another vessel.

7 December 1787
Delaware becomes the first state of the modern United States.

8 December 1991
The beginning of the end of the Soviet Union; three of the major republics - Russia, Ukraine and Belarus unite to form the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS).

10 December 1948
The United Nations General Assembly adopts the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

11 December 1946
The General Assembly of the United Nations votes to establish the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF).

12 December 1936
In China, in what is known as the Xi'an Incident, Kuomintang leader Chiang Kai-shek is kidnapped by his own generals and forced to call a truce with the communists and form a united front against the Japanese.

13 December 2003
The Iraq War: The United States capture Saddam Hussein.

14 December 1819
In America, Alabama officially becomes the 22nd state to join the United States.

15 December 1978
President Jimmy Carter states that as of 1st January 1979, the United States will formally recognise the People's Republic of China and sever relations with Taiwan.

16 December 1998
U.S. and British planes launch Operation Desert Fox, a four day bombing campaign against Iraq, after United Nations weapons inspectors are expelled from the country contrary to assurances given by Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.

17 December 1777
France formally recognises the United States of American as an independent nation.

18 December 1865
Slavery is officially abolished in the United States of America with the ratification of the 13th Amendment to the Constitution by the requisite three-quarters of the states.

19 December 1974
Nelson Rockefeller is sworn as Vice-President on the United States of America.

20 December 1803
The French hand over New Orleans and Lower Louisiana to the United States.

24 December 1962
The last prisoners taken at the disastrous U.S. sponsored Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba are returned to the United States.

30 December 1853
The U.S.A. and Mexico sign the Gadsden Purchase. The treaty settled the dispute over the location of the Mexican border west of El Paso, Texas and established the final boundaries of the southern United States.

31 December 1999
The United States, in accordance with the Torrijos-Carter Treaties, officially hands over control of the Panama Canal over to Panama.

3 December 1828
Andrew Jackson beats incumbent John Quincy Adams to be elected President of the United States.

2 December 1954
The United States and Formosa (Taiwan) sign a treaty of mutual assistance.

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