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11 July 1973

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

2 January 1971
Football disaster at Ibrox Stadium in Glasgow, Scotland. 66 football fans are crushed to death on the exit steps of the ground towards the end of a match between Glasgow Rangers and Glasgow Celtic.
3 January 1924

English explorer Howard Carter finds the sarcophogus of King Tutankhamun in Egypt's Valley of the Kings.

4 January 1642
Under the orders of King Charles I, armed soldiers enter Parliament. The English Civil War started shortly afterwards.
5 January 1900

Irish Nationalist leader John Edward Redmond advocates a revolt against British home rule.

6 January 1999

In England, Prince Edward and Sophie Rhys-Jones (the Duke and Duchess of Wessex) announce their engagement.

9 January 1945

General MacArthur presides over the landing of the American 6th Army on Luzon, in another step towards capturing the Philippine Islands from the Japanese.

16 January 1572
Thomas Howard, the Fourth Duke of Norfolk, is tried for treason for his part in the Ridolfi plot to restore Catholicism in England. He is later executed at the Tower of London.
20 January 1936

George V, King of England, dies. He is succeeded by Edward VIII, who abdicates 325 days later, before his coronation, because of his insistence in marrying American divorcee Wallis Simpson.

25 January 1949

The first Emmy awards are held at the Hollywood Athletic Club in Los Angeles, USA.

28 January 1547

Edwards VI becomes King of England.

1 February 1995
Manic Street Preachers band member Richey James Edwards goes missing. Edwards has never been found.
5 February 2003
US secretary of state Colin Powell addresses the UN Security Council, putting forward America’s case that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction.
7 February 1974
British Prime Minister Edward Heath calls a snap general election.
9 February 1960
Actress Joanne Woodward receives the first star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
13 February 1861

In America, the first Medal of Honor is award to Colonel Bernard J.D. Irwin.

16 February 1923

British archaeologist Howard Carter opens the sealed doorway to the burial chamber of the Sarcophagus of Tutankhamun.

18 February 1929

The first Academy Awards are announced.

19 February 1807

Former U.S. vice president, Aaron Burr, is arrested in Alabama on charges of plotting to annex Spanish territory in Louisiana and Mexico to be used toward the establishment of an independent republic.

20 February 1547

Edward VI is crowned King of England at Westminster Abbey.

24 February 1988

In America, the Supreme Court votes 8-0 to overturn the $200,000 settlement awarded to the Reverend Jerry Falwell for his emotional distress at being parodied in Hustler, a pornographic magazine.

4 March 1461
Wars of the Roses in England: Lancastrian King Henry VI is deposed by his cousin, Edward of York, who subsequently becomes King Edward IV.
5 March 1962
George C. Scott becomes the first actor to refuse a nomination for an Academy Award.
7 March 1951
The Korean War: U.S. forces launch Operation Ripper, designed to relive communist pressure on Seoul and push UN troops towards the 38th parallel.
11 March 1996
In Australia, John Howard takes office as prime minister.
17 March 2003
British Foreign Secretary, Robin Cook reigns from the cabinet over the government’s policy towards Iraq.
18 March 2005
Private Johnson Gideon Beharry, of the 1st Battalion, Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment, becomes the first recipient of the Victoria Cross since a posthumous award to Sgt Ian McKay, in 1982.
19 March 1953
American filmmaker, Ceil B. Demille wins his only Academy Award for best picture, for the film, The Greatest Show on Earth.
23 March 1708
James Francis Edward Stuart, pretender to the English and Scottish throne, attempts but fails to land at the Firth of Forth, Scotland.
28 March 1990
American President George Bush posthumously awards Jesse Owens the Congressional Gold Medal.
3 April 1987

The jewels of the late Duchess of Windsor, the former Mrs Wallis Simpson who married Edward VI of England after his abdication in 1936, fetch more than £30million at auction.

5 April 1976
Reclusive billionaire Howard Hughes dies aged 70.
10 April 1972
One his first visit to the U.S. in twenty years, Charlie Chaplin is awarded an honorary Oscar. 
12 April 2000
The Queen awards the Royal Ulster Constabulary, the Northern Ireland police, the George Cross. 
13 April 1964
In America, actor Sydney Poitier becomes the first black man to win an Oscar. Poitier won the award for Best Actor for the film, “The Lillies Of The Field.”
15 April 1953
Reis Leming, as U.S. soldier stationed in Britain, is awarded the George Medal following his heroic savour of 27 people caught in dangerous flooding in East Angela. 
27 April 1296
The Scots are defeated by the English army of Edward I at the Battle of Dunbar.
3 May 1959
The first Grammy Awards are held.
4 May 1953
In Britain, the Duke of Edinburgh is awarded his pilot's “wings.”
6 May 1940
John Steinbeck is awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his novel The Grapes of Wrath.
14 May 1796
Edward Jenner is the first British physician to carry out a successful vaccination by inoculating an eight-year old boy against smallpox. His pioneering work lays the foundation for modern immunology techniques.
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.
19 May 1749
In America, King George II of England grants the Ohio Company a charter of several hundred thousand acres of land around the forks of the Ohio River, thereby promoting westward settlement by American colonists from Virginia.
20 May
Britain passes the Quebec Act extending its boundaries northwards to Hudson Bay and as far south as the junction of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers.
24 May 1989
Sonia Sutcliffe, wife of the Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe, is awarded £600,000 by the High Court in London after successfully suing the satirical magazine Private Eye for libel. The figure is later reduced to £60,000 after the magazine appealed.
3 June 1965
Launch of U.S.A.’s Gemini 4 spaceship manned by James McDivitt and Edward White. During the flight Edward White becomes the first American to walk in space.
4 June 1917
The first ever Pulitzer Prizes are awarded in America.
5 June 1989
In China, a solitary protester, known as the “Unknown Rebel,” halts the progress of a column of advancing tanks towards Tiananmen Square in Beijing.
8 June 1963
In England, Dr Stephen Ward is charged with living on immoral earnings. Ward’s charges are made in connection with the Profumo affair.
12 June 1997
In Britain, the Law Lords rule that former Home Secretary, Michael Howard, acted illegally by raising the minimum sentence imposed on the killers of James Bulger.
16 June 1998
Judges in America uphold the decision to convict British au pair Louise Woodward of manslaughter and the passing of a reduced sentence - the number of days already spent in custody awaiting trial for the killing of Matthew Eappen - the young boy left in her care in Massachussets.
19 June 1970
In Britain, the Conservative Party wins the general election - Edward Heath becomes Prime Minister.
24 June 1314
In Scotland, Robert the Bruce inflicts a crushing defeat on the English army of Edward II as the Battle of Bannockburn ends.
26 June 1857
The first investiture ceremony for Victoria Cross winners takes place in Hyde Park, London. Queen Victoria personally awards 62 servicemen with Britain’s highest military honour.
29 June 2003
Four-time Academy Award winner Katharine Hepburn dies aged 96.
8 July 1996
A man wielding a machete attacks several children, parents and a teacher at a primary school in Wolverhampton, England. Teacher Lisa Potts, later awarded for her bravery, is badly injured protecting the children.
12 July 1862
In America, the Medal of Honour award is established.
16 July 1970
In Britain, Prime Minister Edward Heath declares a state of emergency following the start of a national dock strike - the first state of emergency issued in Britain since 1926.
18 July 1969
American Senator Edward Kennedy crashes his car into Chappaquiddick River near Martha's Vineyard on the USA's east coast. Kennedy escapes, but his companion, Mary Jo Kopechne drowns.
19 July 1333
Edward III of England defeats the Scottish Army at the Battle of Halidon Hill.
22 July 1298
The English Army of Edward I defeats the Scots led by William Wallace at the Battle of Falkirk in Scotland.
24 July 1987
Conservative Peer and novelist Jeffrey Archer is awarded record damages by the high Court in a libel case against the Daily Star newspaper after it claimed Archer had paid to have sex with a prostitute.
25 July 1969
American Senator Edward Kennedy pleads guilty to leaving the scene of a crime and is sentenced to a two-month suspended jail sentence.
27 July 1965
In Britain, Edward Heath is elected the leader of the Conservative Party.
28 July 1540
King Henry VIII of England marries Catherine Howard, his fifth wife.
4 August
Baron Simon de Montfort is defeated by the Royalist forces of the future King Edward I at the Battle of Evesham.
9 August 1902
In England, the Coronation of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra takes place at Westminster Abbey in London.
11 August 1971
British Prime Minister Edward Heath steers the British team to success to win the Admiral's Cup (in sailing).
12 August 1938
The Second World War: Adolf Hitler institutes the Mother’s Cross, to encourage German women to have more children, to be awarded each year on 12 August, Hitler’s mother’s birthday.
20 August 1944
The Second World War: 60 British soldiers fight their way east from Rennes toward Orleans, through German-occupied forest, forcing the Germans to retreat and aiding the French Resistance in its struggle for liberation.
29 August 1350
The English fleet commanded by Edward III defeats a Castilian fleet at the Battle of Winchelsea.
1 September 1807
Former U.S. vice president Aaron Burr is acquitted of plotting to annex parts of Louisiana and Spanish territory in Mexico to be used toward the establishment of an independent republic.
7 September 1812
After marching towards Moscow, the French Army of Napoleon Bonaparte defeats the Russians at the Battle of Borodino.
9 September 1513
In England, the Battle of Flodden Field is fought near Branxton in Northumberland. James IV of Scotland is defeated and killed by English troops commanded by Thomas Howard, Earl of Surrey.
14 September 1964
American author John Steinbeck is awarded the U.S. Medal of Freedom.
19 September 1356
One Hundred Years’ War: The English Army, led by Edward, the Black Prince, defeats the French at the Battle of Poitiers.
8 October 1998

The U.S. House of Representatives votes to proceed toward impeaching President Bill Clinton on charges of perjury and obstruction of justice.

9 October 1975
Andrei Sakharov is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Having helped to develop the Soviet Union’s first hydrogen bomb, Sakharov subsequently campaigned against the arms race and become a passionate advocate of human rights.
11 October 2002
Former American President Jimmy Carter is awarded the Novel Peace Prize. 
12 October 1945
Private First Class Desmond T. Doss is presented the Congressional Medal of Honour for outstanding bravery as a medical corpsman, the first conscientious objector in American history to receive the nation’s highest military award.
13 October 2005
British playwright Harold Pinter is awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
14 October 1994
The Nobel Peace Prize is jointly awarded to the Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin; Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres and the Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organisation Yasser Arafat.
16 October 1996

British Home Secretary Michael Howard announces stringent new gun controls following the mass shooting of children at a school in Dunblane, Scotland.

17 October 1346
The English army of Edward III defeats the army of King David II of Scotland at the Battle of Neville's Cross near Durham.
22 October 1964
French existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre is awarded the Nobel Prize for literature but declines the award.
27 October 1936
In England, American Wallis Simpson, the future Duchess of Windsor, is granted a divorce, from her husband leaving her free to marry King Edward VIII.
29 October 1956
The Suez Crisis begins as Israeli troops cross the Sinai Peninsula into Egypt heading towards the Suez Canal.
31 October 1997
19 year old British au pair Louise Woodward is found guilty by a court in America of murdering 8 month old Matthew Eappen. Woodward’s conviction was later reduced to manslaughter and she was immediately released from jail due to the amount of time she had already spent in custody.
2 November 1947
The Hughes Flying Boat, commonly known as the “Spruce Goose”, is piloted by designer Howard Hughes on its first and only flight.
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.
5 November 1930
Sinclair Lewis becomes the first American to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
9 November 1907
The Cullinan Diamond, the largest diamond yet found, is presented by the government of Transvaal to King Edward VII of Britain.
10 November 1991
British au pair Louise Woodward walks free from a court in America as her murder conviction is reduced to manslaughter. The judge, taking into account the length of time she had already spent in jail for killing youngster Matthew Eappen, releases Woodward.
19 November 1990
After having confessed to not actually sing the songs on their album, Girl You Know It’s True, pop group Milli Vanilli are stripped of their Grammy Award.
22 November 1718
Notorious pirate Edward Teach, known as Blackbeard, is killed off North Carolina’s Outer Banks during a bloody battle with a British navy force sent from Virginia.
27 November 1295
In England, the first elected representatives from Lancashire are called to Westminster by King Edward I to attend what becomes known as “The Model Parliament.”
10 December 1986
Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
22 December 1974
In London, the IRA bombs the home of Conservative Party leader Edward Heath, luckily for Heath he was not at home during the attack.
31 December 1968
Scientist Marie Curie receives a second Nobel Prize - an unprecedented event in the history of the award. Born in Poland, Marie won her first Nobel Prize along with her husband, French scientist Pierre Curie, in 1903.
3 December 1988
British Health Minister Edwina Currie controversially claims that most eggs produced in Britain are affected by salmonella. Soon afterwards she is forced to resign.
3 January 1924

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