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1945: Thousands of bombs destroy Dresden British and US bombers pound the ancient German city of Dresden with high explosives and incendiaries. |
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1993: Missing two-year-old found dead Police confirm a body found on a railway embankment in Merseyside is that of missing toddler James Bulger. |
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1984: British ice couple score Olympic gold British figure skating couple Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean skate off with a gold medal at the Winter Olympics in Sarajevo after dancing to Ravel's Bolero. |
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2005: Explosion kills former Lebanon PM Former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri is killed by a car bomb explosion in Beirut. |
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1989: Ayatollah sentences author to death Iranian Muslim leader Ayatollah Khomeini issues a death threat against British author Salman Rushdie and his publishers over the book Satanic Verses. |
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1997: Lawrence 'killed by racists'
Jurors at the inquest into the death of Stephen Lawrence have decided the black teenager was unlawfully killed "in a completely unprovoked racist attack by five white youths".
1974: Russian author charged with treason
Soviet authorities formally charge Russian writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn with treason a day after forcing him to leave the USSR.
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