1986: Seven dead in space shuttle disaster. The American space shuttle Challenger explodes killing all seven astronauts on board. 1953: Derek Bentley hanged for murder. Teenager Derek Bentley is...
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On this day: 18 September. 1931 18 Sep A railway explosion is faked by the Japanese as a pretext for the invasion of Manchuria, China. 1942 18 Sep Nazi minister of justice Otto Thierack...
Mugabe to lead independent Zimbabwe. 22 Mar. Schild family reunited with daughter. 25 Mar. Britain will go to Moscow Olympics. 27 Mar. North Sea platform collapses. 25 Apr. Tehran hostage rescue...
12 January 1976 Crime writer Agatha Christie dies. 28 January 1986 Seven dead in space shuttle disaster. 13 March 1996 Massacre in Dunblane school gym. Search ON THIS DAY by date.
Leading anti-apartheid campaigner Nelson Mandela has been freed from prison in South Africa after 27 years. 1956: 'Cambridge spies' surface in Moscow Two British diplomats, Guy Burgess and Donald...
A gigantic new dinosaur skeleton is unveiled to the media at the Natural History Museum in London. British fishermen are urging the Foreign Secretary, Anthony Crosland, to secure a 50-mile fishing...
1962: 130 die in Paris air crash. An Air France Boeing 707 crashes on take-off at Orly Airport killing all but two of those on board. 1991: IRA men shot dead by British army. Three members of the...
Theme highlights. Northern Ireland. 1972 A civil rights march turns into a riot. Kidnapping. 1983 Police hunt for missing racehorse Shergar. Space. 1969 Man sets foot on the moon.
Two 10-year-old boys are charged with the abduction and murder of two-year-old James Bulger in Liverpool. Hundreds of people are reported to have died in Assam as fierce fighting rages in the...