1967: Suharto takes full power in Indonesia
Indonesian President Sukarno surrenders all executive authority to military dictator General Suharto, remaining president in title only. In 1965, Suharto, a senior army officer, narrowly saved Sukarno from a communist coup. In the aftermath, he moved to replace Sukarno and launched a purge of Indonesian communists that resulted in thousands of deaths. In 1967, he assumed full power and in 1968 was elected president.
Re-elected every five years until his resignation in 1998, Suharto stabilised his nation and oversaw significant economic progress. However, he was criticised for his repressive rule and for Indonesia's 1975 invasion of East Timor, which left an estimated 100,000 Timorese dead from famine, disease and warfare.
2006
Thieves break into a Securitas depot in Tonbridge, Kent stealing £53 million, in Britain’s largest every robbery.
2006
In Iraq, one of the holiest sites in Shia Islam, the Al Askari Mosque, is severely damaged in a bomb attack.
2005
Hundreds of people are killed in the Iranian city of Zarand and the surrounding area as a significant earthquake strikes.
2004
Ralph Nader announces he will run as an independent candidate in the American presidential election.
2003
Former American Olympic ice-skater, Tonya Harding loses her first professional women’s boxing fight.
1997
In Scotland, Scientists in Edinburgh clone a sheep called Dolly.
1994
In America, CIA agent Aldrich Ames is arrested for selling secrets to the Soviet Union
1979
Saint Lucia gains independence from the Britain.
1972
Six people are killed in England as the IRA bomb an army barracks in Hampshire.
1968
The Vietnam War: The Tet offensive ends.
1955
One of America’s greatest ever female tennis players, Maureen "Little Mo" Connolly, retires at the age of 19.
1847
The American – Mexican War, the Battle of Buena Vista begins.
1819
America and Spain sign the Florida Purchase Treaty, which brings the whole of Florida under U.S. control.
1744
The naval Battle of Toulon takes place in the Mediterranean Sea between England and Spain/France.
1288
Nicholas IV becomes Pope.