0100
THE WORLD - New century is greeted throughout the world. BOER WAR - 
British troops were involved in a major ground battle. LONDON - Fifty
people are dying each day from the influenza epidemic ravaging the city.
IRELAND - John Redmond an Irish nationalist calls for rebellion against 
the British presence in Ireland. CHINA - Foreign legations demand that
the imperial government discipline the rebellious Boxer sect.
BALTIMORE - Dr. Henry A. Rowland of Johns Hopkins university discovers
the cause of the earth's magnetism.
0700
CHINA - It is reported that over 1,500 foreigners have been massacred by
100,000 Boxer rebels and renegade Chinese soldiers. AUSTRIA - Archduke
Franz Ferdinand, heir to Kaiser franz Josef, marries Countess Sophie
Chotek. BRUSSELS - Jean-Baptiste Sipido, alleged assassin of the Prince
of Wales goes on trial. PARIS - The opening of the Metropolitan, or 
Metro, underground rail system. CANADA - The Federal government forbids
the immigration of paupers and criminals. GERMANY - Count Zeppelin's 
airship takes to the skies for the first time.
0101
ISLE OF WIGHT - Queen Victoria dies at the age of 81 and had reigned for
63 years. AUSTRALIA - The Common wealth of Australia comes into being
with Lord Hopetoun as governor-general and Edmund Barton as first Prime
Minister. CHINA - Russia and Britain agree on the partition of China.
MANCHESTER - An explosion in a hat factory kills 12 people. LONDON - 
King Edward VII makes his nephew the German Kaiser a field-marshal in 
the British army. MANCHESTER - 12 retailers are prosecuted for selling
beer containing arsenic.
0701
NEW YORK - Nearly 400 people died in one day during a heat wave, with
temperatures up to 110 degrees F (37 degrees C) in the shade. FRANCE - 
The speed limit for cars in towns is set at 10km/h. LONDON - The Opening
of the first completed section of the London Electric tramway from 
Shepherds Bush to Southall. BERLIN - Reichstag members unsuccessfully
attempt to outlaw duelling. U.K. - The British congress on Tuberculosis
opens. LONDON - Statistics reveal that around 86,000 whites and 23,000
blacks are being held in South African concentration camps.
0102
U.S. - The Carnegie Institution is formed in Washington to promote study
and research. LONDON - Irish MP's pass resolutions protesting at inter-
ference in meetings and suppression of free speech. MEXICO - Earthquake
in Mexico city kills at least 300 people. U.S. - The Ithsmian Canal 
commission shifts support to Panama for new shipping canal. SWITZERLAND 
- A referendum opposes separation of church and state. U.K. - A census 
shows the population of Greater London is 6,581,372. LONDON - The U.K.
and Japan sign a treaty guaranteeing an independence of China and Korea.
0702
LONDON - Balfour takes over as the British prime minister. VENICE - The
Campanile of St. Mark's Cathedral collapses, the tower dated back to the
year 902. GERMANY - The formula is patented for Barbituric acid, used in
sleeping pills. LONDON - King Edward VII confers the order of the garter
on Archduke Franz Ferdinand heir to the Habsburg Empire. LONDON - Lord
Kitchener is given a triumphant welcome on his return from S. Africa.
ST. PETERSBURG - Russia announces its intention to restore Manchuria to
China. AFRICA - The British defeat the Mad Mullah in Somaliland.
0103
INDIA - India acclaims Edward VII as emperor. U.S. - U.S. signs treaty 
with Columbia for Panama Canal. NEW YORK - The 'Wizard of Oz' is a 
spectacular hit on Broadway. WASHINGTON - Blacks demand pensions for ex
slaves. PARIS - A new bicycle race is announced for 1903, called the 
'Tour de France'. CHINA - The imperial government announces that it is
unable to meet reparations for the Boxer rebellion. WASHINGTON - U.S. 
and U.K. create joint commission to determine Alaskan frontier. U.K. - 
51 people die in a fire at a mental hospital at Colney, London.
0703
ROME - Pope Leo XIII dies at the age of 93, having been in office for 25
years. FRANCE - Maurice Garin wins the first Tour de France, arriving
back in Paris 2hrs 49 minutes ahead of his closest rival. IRELAND - The
worlds first powerboat race takes place, organised by the Royal Cork 
Yacht Club. U.S. - The Ford motor company sells first production car, a
two cylinder model A. GLASGOW - 15 die and many are injured in a train
crash. LONDON - The UK and Japan demand Russian evacuation of Manchuria.
Also in Britain, American artist James Whistler dies.
0104
SOUTH WEST AFRICA - Rebellious Herero tribesmen systematically massacred
123 German settlers. KOREA - British, US and Russian marines land to 
protect legations in Seoul. ROME - Joan of Arc is dubbed Blessed by the
Pope, the second stage to canonisation. SOMALILAND - British troops 
massacre 1,000 Dervishes. U.S. - Henry Ford sets new land speed record
of 91.37 mph in his motor car '999' on frozen lake St. Clair. NORWAY - 
Fire destroys the city of Alesundi; 12,000 people are left destitute.
U.S. - Two hundred miners are buried in an explosion in Pennsylvania.
0704
SIBERIA - The long awaited Trans-Siberian railway stretching 4,607 miles
has been completed after 13 years. U.S. - The third Olympic Games of
modern times open at St.louise. Willie Anderson wins the third US Open
Golf Championships. MIDDLE EAST - The UK sends warships to protect it's
shipping from harassment by the Russian navy looking for the Japanese.
LONDON - Crisis in Anglo-Russian relations as Russia sinks one British
ship and seizes another. PARIS - Maurice Garin wins his second Tour de 
France. RUSSIA - The interior minister Viacheslav von Plehva is killed.
0105
ST. PETERSBURG - Loyal strikers marching through St.Petersburg to 
petition Czar Nicholas II for better conditions were shot down leaving
more than 500 dead and many more wounded. PORT ARTHUR - After a seven
month seige the 20,000 Russian garrison surrendered to the Japanese.
RUSSIA - The Trans Siberian railway officially opens, allowing travel 
from Paris to Vladivostok in 21 days. U.S. - The Senate reluctantly 
approves Roosevelt's choice of a black man as head of the S. Carolina
customs service. LONDON - A Transatlantic liner ticket to US costs £6.
0705
FRANCE - France separates the church and the state. SOUTH AFRICA - Boers
protest against British privilege in new electoral law. NEW YORK - The
world record for a mile in a steam powered car is cut to 48.8 seconds.
WASHINGTON - Elihu Root replaces the late John Hay as secretary of state
. PARIS - France consents to conference with Germany over the Moroccan 
crisis. NEW YORK - Raid led on womens poolroom led by female detective.
Commander Peary's ship sails for North Pole. RUSSIA - Russian nobility
vehemently opposes the creation of Duma.
0106
U.S. - wright brothers aeroplane flies 24 miles in 38 minutes at 38 mph,
75 to 100 feet altitude. U.K. - Voting begins in the general election;
LIVERPOOL - Tram accident kills 30 people. U.S. - New motor speed record
for the mile is 28.2 seconds achieved in Florida. LONDON - River Thames 
catches fire as oil on the surface ignites. BERLIN - The Police forbid
'obscene' Isadora Duncan from dancing in public. U.S. - The US army in
the Philippines is boosted in anticipation of unrest in China. CANADA - 
120 drown when steamer, Valencia runs aground off Vancouver.
0706
FRANCE - At long last, the French Republic made the 'Amende Honourable'
to Captain Alfred Dreyfus, who eleven years ago was publicly disgraced
as a spy for the Germans. After being vindicated he was made a Knight of
the Legion of Honour. RUSSIA - The dissolution of Russia's first 
democratic institution, known as Duma. LONDON - London County Council
warns of the spread of tuberculosis through infected milk. WIMBLEDON - 
Dorothea Douglass beats Mary Sutton for the Ladies' Singles Championship
. RUSSIA - 50 Regiments are reported to have mutinied.
0107
JAMAICA - Hundreds are feared dead in an earthquake which devastated the
Jamaican capital of Kingston. PERSIA - Mohammad Ali is the new Shah.
CHINA - Four million people are feared to be starving owing to heavy 
rains and crop failure. EUROPE - Arctic weather grips the continent, it
is minus 30 degrees F in Austria. GERMANY - 164 are killed in a mine
explosion at Saarbrucken. ROME - Pope Pius X says French government
policies aim to dechristianise France. LONDON - Senior diplomat Sir Eyre
Crowe says Britain must stand up to Germanys wish to dominate Europe.
0707
ITALY - National celebrations mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of
Guiseppe Garibaldi. LONDON - Tom Reece ends Billiards break of 499,135 
begun on June 3rd when two balls stuck in pocket opening. PARIS - Major
Alfred Dreyfus resigns from the army, one year after his complete
rehabilitation. MUNICH - Experimental train reported to average 81 mph
and reach 98 mph maximum. LONDON - Robert Baden-Powell forms the Boys
Scouts after Brownsea camp. BELFAST - Troops sent in following unrest.
JAPAN - 471 miners lost in mine disaster."
0108
U.S. - Georgia introduces a law prohibiting alcohol. LONDON - 'The Times
' is bought by Arthur Pearson from the Walter family. BARNSLEY - 16 
children die when a staircase collapses at a childrens show. PANAMA -
Chief Panama Canal engineer George Goethals says the project will cost
around 60 million pounds. U.K. - First issue of 'Scouting for Boys', 
journal of the scouting movement. LONDON - The Playhouse theatre opens.
HULL - The Labour party conference decides by a narrow margin to adopt
socialism.
0708
RUSSIA - 228 die in Jusovka pit disaster, 150 are missing. ROME - Papal
decree says that the UK, US, Canada and Holland are no longer missionary
lands. U.K. - Scotsman George Davidson invents a 'Gyrocopter' a flying
machine with two rotary fans. LONDON - Fire breaks out in Moorgate tube
station. The first criminal appeal, against a murder conviction, is 
turned down at the central criminal court. WIMBLEDON - Arthur Gore beats
Herbert Barret in the men's singles final.TURKEY - Revolt of the 'Young 
Turks' breaks out in Monastir.
0109
SICILY - A massive international rescue operation is under way in 
Southern Italy as the full horror of the Messina earthquake becomes 
known. At least 200,000 people are now feared dead. SOUTH POLE - A 
British expedition, led by Lieutenant Edward Shackleton, has reached a
point closer to the South Pole than any other explorers. U.S. - Reported
that the motion picture industry employs 100,000 people and is already 
worth 40 million dollars. LONDON - Astronomers report they may have 
sighted another planet beyond Neptune.
0709
                 'BLERIOT FLIES 43 MINUTES INTO HISTORY' 
Frenchman Louis Bleriot became aviation's latest hero when he success-
fully flew across the English Channel. Bleriot was awarded 1000 pounds 
offered by the Daily Mail and a hero's welcome when he landed at Dover.
GREECE - 116 people are killed in an earthquake. GERMANY - Count von 
Zeppelin makes a 200 mile flight at 21 mph in his latest airship. ROME -
The Vatican denounces feminine fashions as immodest. TEHRAN - Persian 
Shah deposed by nationalists; to be replaced by his 12 year old son. 
0110
U.K. - 10 die when the steamer Arcadian collides with another vessel in
the Irish sea. MANCHURIA - Russia and Japan agree to neutrality of Man- 
churian railway. BERLIN - The German government tells the US it is ready
 for a tariff war. INDIA - Anarchist shoots dead a policeman in 
Calcutta court. LONDON - Police rescue Asquith when he is mobbed by 
suffragettes. FRANCE - Rains that have been falling unrelentingly on 
Paris for several days have brought devastating floods. The Louvre 
Gallery with priceless treasures could be damaged beyond repair.
0710
CANADA - Dr Hawley Harvey Crippen, wanted for murder, was arrested on a 
ship off Canada - the first criminal suspect to be caught by radio. His 
wife's body was found mutilated and dismembered and buried beneath the 
cellar floor of their home. FAR EAST - Russia acknowledges Japanese 
occupation of Korea in return for a free hand in Manchuria. EGYPT - 
Discovery of a tablet describing the fall of Jerusalem. U.S. - Race 
riots flare as Jack Johnson, the first black World Heavyweight Champion
crushed a comeback attempt by former title holder Jim Jeffries.
0111
The siege of Sidney Street began when two members of a group of foreign
anarchists were trapped by police in a house in London's east end. Three
weeks earlier the group had committed a robbery, killing three policemen
. The Scots Guards from the Tower of London were sent in and the House 
was set on fire and eventually collapsed. The anarchists were burnt to 
death. While at the same time Eugene Ely became the first pilot to land 
his aircraft on a ship. His Curtis Pusher bi plane landed on a special 
120 foot platform on a US cruiser in San Francisco. 
0711
NEW YORK - 221 die from heat exhaustion  while an unprecedented heat 
wave hits Europe. NIAGARA FALLS - Bobby Leach is the second person to 
survive a trip down Niagara Falls in a barrel, the first was Anna Edson 
Taylor who did it because she could not pay her mortgage and wanted the 
notoriety. IRELAND - King George V opens the Royal College of Science in
Dublin. FRANCE- French racer Victor Garrigou wins eighth Tour de France.
U.S. - Harry Atwood makes first plane flight over Manhattan. U.K. - 
Parliament passes the Shops Act, giving shop workers a half day off.
0112
AMERICA - New Mexico becomes the 47th state of the Union.  U.K.  -
National Telephone Company is taken over by the Post Office.  LONDON -
The Cabinet is reported to be split down the middle on women's suffrage.
PARIS - Prof.  Dastre of the Sorbonne describes a pioneering cornea
graft operation by Dr.  Magiot, which restored a blind man's sight.
LONDON - The London General Omnibus Co.  and London Underground Electric
Railways Co.  provisionally agree to merge.  U.K.  - Churchill and Irish
leader redmond decide to meet in a marquee on Glasgow Celtic FC's pitch.
0712
BRITAIN - Many shows and markets are cancelled in Yorkshire because of
foot and mouth outbreak which has also been reported in Ireland.  ITALY
- The 15 month trial of Neapolitan Camorra gangsters found nine of the
accused guilty of murder, as one of the accused cuts his throat in the
dock.  DUBLIN - Irish Nationalist leader Redmond is wounded by a hatchet
thrown at the British Prime Minister by a suffragist.  YORKSHIRE - 87
miners were killed in a huge colliery explosion..  LONDON - Inquiry into
Titanic disaster finds Captain Smith guilty of negligence.
0113
BALKANS - At the London peace talks Turkey agrees to give up all its
European territories except the area west of Constantinople.  CHINA -
300 Chinese troops are killed in a night raid by Tibetans.  LONDON - The
Government introduces Proportional Respresentation into Home Rule
proposals to safeguard interests of Protestant minority in Ireland.
U.K.  - First sick and maternity benefits under National Insurance act.
ROME - Pope forbids films of a religious nature and bans films from
church.  LONDON - Two die as black fog descends on the city.
0713
BRITAIN - The aviator Samuel Cody was killed when his aircraft crashed
at Farnborough, it was Britain's first air tragedy.  IRELAND - 150,000
Ulstermen prepare for armed resistance to home rule proposed by British
Liberals.  SOUTH AFRICA - Anarchy prevails in Johannesburg as troops
fire on gold mine strikers, killing 40.  BRITAIN - 50 girls die in a 20
minute factory fire.  FRANCE - Aviator Pegoud says parachutes are as
safe as Motor cars.  CHINA - Civil war is reported to have broken out in
Shanghai.  GERMANY - Report shows Battleships are being built for war.
0114
LONDON - Doctors at the Middlesex hospital successfully treat Cancer
with Radium.  AMERICA - Henry Ford announces that workers will share
$10,000,000 of company profits,and that they will be paid $5 for an
eight hour day rather than $.234 for a nine hour day.  JAPAN - Nine
million are reported starving in North East Japan.  LONDON - The Queen
Victoria memorial in front of Buckingham Palace is completed.  Sylvia
Pankhurst is re-arrested under the "cat and mouse" act.  TOKYO -
Volcanic eruption kills 300 as 25,000 flee.
0714
U.S.  - Telephone line installed between New York and San Francisco.
NEW YORK - Bomb meant for J.D.  Rockerfeller explodes in assassins
apartment, killing many.  GERMANY - Wilhelm II reasserts alliance with
Austria and Hungary.  AUSTRIA - Austria prepares to invade Serbia, sends
ultimatum demanding reperations for Archduke's assassination, Serbia
rejects; diplomatic relations are broken; Austria/Hungary declare war on
Serbia.  IRELAND - British troops invade streets of Dublin to disarm
Irish rebels.  BELGIUM - Albert I announces general mobilization.
0115
                  "GERMANS SUNK IN NORTH SEA BATTLE"
British warships have scotched a German plan to bombard east coast
towns, and sunk the most powerful battle cruiser in the world, The
Blucher.  ITALY - 29,000 die in a massive earthquake.  CENTRAL ASIA -
Turkish 9th Army Corps surrenders to Russians with loss of 50,000 Turks.
POLAND - It is reported that Poles and Cossacks are slaughtering Jews or
driving them from their homes.  U.S.  - Alexander Graham Bell sets new
telephone call record of 4,750 miles between New York and San Francisco.
0715
                  "BRIDES IN THE BATH MURDERER TO HANG"
Triple killer George Joseph Smith was convicted of murder and sentenced
to death.  The Bristol antique dealer, had bigamously married his three
victims using a series of aliases.  Having insured his wife's life he
persuaded her to make a will in his favour then he drownedher in the
bath.  EASTERN FRONT - German troops continue advance into Poland.
LONDON - Government estimates war is now costing £3 million.  U.K.  -
Casualties so far in the war number 330,995.
0116
                   "CONSCRIPTION BILL GIVEN GO AHEAD"
BRITAIN - The House of Commons voted overwhelmingly for conscription.
LONDON - Home scretary Sir John Simon resigns over proposal to conscript
single men.  MIDDLE EAST - British defeat 60,000 Turks in Tigris battle.
CENTRAL ASIA - Russia begins offensive against the Turks.U.S.- President
Wilson says the US navy is ready for war if it comes. NEW YORK - US 
Industrialist Henry Ford returns from abortive peace mission to Europe.
HOLLAND - Breach of Zuyder Zee Dam in worst storms for 90 years.
0716
FRANCE - Carnage as Somme campaign opens. U.S. - Alcohol is prohibited
in Michigan, Montana, Nebraska and South Dakota; 24 states are now dry.
U.S. - Caca-Cola Co. has introduced a new contoured bottle to make
immitation difficult. LONDON - Lloyd George becomes War Secretary in
succession to Kitchener. DUBLIN - Independent Irish Nationalists hold
large meeting in the Pheonix Park to protest at British government's
Irish partition proposals. U.K. - Queen Mary opens the Chelsea Hospital
for women. U.S. - 39 die in race riots in East St. Louis, Illinois.
0117
                 "WILD WEST LEGEND, BUFFALO BILL, DIES"
One of the most colourful characters of the wild west dies.  William
Cody was an army scout during the Sioux warsand later won the contract
to supply meat to workers building the Kansas City railroad.  In 18
months he killed 4,820 buffalo - hence his name.  ATLANTIC - 350 die
when HMS Laurentic is sunk by a mine.  LONDON - Parliamentary conference
recommends giving the vote to married women over a certain age.  GERMANY
- Otto Hahn and Lise Meitner discover the radioactive element Proactium.
0717
                  "PILLOW TALK COSTS MATA HARI HER LIFE"
Mata Hari, the glamerous Dutch dancer and adventuress was sentenced to
death after being found guilty of spying by a French court-martial.
                      "WE SAW VIRGIN CLAIM IN FATIMA"
Pilgrims are beginning to flock towards the small village of Fatima in
portugal where three shepherd's children claim to have seen visions of
the Virgin Mary.  BRITAIN - The war is now costing Britain 7 million
pounds a day.
0118
LONDON - The House of Lords approves the representation of the people
bill, giving married women over the age of 30 the vote. WASHINGTON -
The House of Representatives votes in favour of women's suffrage.
President Wilson orders all except food industries to shut down for five
days and then every Monday until 25th March to save coal due to the 
miners strike. U.K. - 103 sailors die and two submarines are lost in a
series of collisions during a Royal Navy night exercise in the Firth of
Forth. FRANCE - Former French Prime Minister, is arrested for treason.
0718
Russia's Bolshevik rulers cold bloodedly wiped out former Czar Nicholas
II and his family in revenge for the past and in fear of the future.
The Romanovs were shot and bayoneted to death in a celler.  U.K.  - 100
are killed and 150 injured in an explosion at an armaments factory in
the Midlands.  U.S.  - Charles Strite announces the invention of a new
"Popup" machine for toasting bread.  FRANCE - Spanish influenza is
taking on epidemic proportions.  Frenchman Captain Sarret makes first
ever parachute drop from an aeroplane, falling 800 feet.
0119
BERLIN - Communist uprising is crushed in Berlin.  MANCHESTER -
Professor Ernest Rutherford "splits the smallest particle" of atoms.
U.K.  - Over 200 sailors on leave drown when the yacht "Stornoway" is
wrecked off Scotland.  TURKEY - 1.5 million Armenians massacred by
Turks.  WASHINGTON - Thirty days official mourning ordered for ex
president Roosevelt.  EUROPE - Germany releases all Allied prisoners of
war; the Allies release only sick German prisoners.  WASHINGTON - 18th
amendment becomes law; Prohibition will take effect one year from now.
0719
             "BRITISH AIRSHIP IN FIRST ATLANTIC ROUND TRIP"
The British airship R-34 landedin Norfolk after the first two way
crossing of the North Atlantic by air. On board was the first trans-
atlantic air stowaway, rigger William Ballantyne, who hid on board after
he was dropped from the crew at the lat moment. U.S. - Jack Dempsey
thrashes Jess Willard in three rounds to become the world heavyweight
champion. WEIMAR - Germany is declared a republic. CHICAGO - Over 4,000
troops are called out to quell rioting by blacks which left 14 dead.
0120
                 "AMERICA BRINGS IN PROHIBITION LAW"
The Eighteenth amendment to the American Constitution, prohibiting the
manufacture and sale of alcohol, went into force.
             "AMERICA BOYCOTTS FIRST MEETING OF LEAGUE"
The League of Nations was inaugurated at a meeting in the Clock room of
the French Foreign office - but in the absence of the country whose
president had fought hardest for the world body during the Paris peace
talks, President Wilson.  U.K.  - 35 drown when steamer "Treveal" sinks.
0720
GERMANY - The German government surrenders thier largest airship, L71,
to Britain.  BELGIUM - Allied premiers meet German leaders for the first
time since the versailles treaty, at the resort of Spa.  U.S.  - British
barber Charles Stephens dies when he goes over the Niagara Falls in a
barrel.  LONDON - The London County Council bans the employment of
foreigners in almost all council jobs.  GERMANY - Ex Kaiser Wilhelm's
youngest son commits suicide.  LONDON - Official end to war with Austria
is declared.  Lloyd George appeals for US to join League of Nations.
0121
SPAIN - 160 passengers and crew are feared drowned when the ship Santa
Isabel sinks off Villa Garcia.  WASHINGTON - President Harding asks for
a simple inauguration ceremony.  U.K.  - Unemployment stands at 927,000.
U.S.  - Unemployment stands at 3,473,000.  BERLIN - Professor Albert
Einstein causes a stir with his suggestion that the universe could be
measured.  PARIS - The Allies fix Germany's reparations at 10 billion
pounds over 42 years.  DUBLIN - British tanks are ordered to roll in.
U.K.  - 17 people are killed when two passenger trains collide.
0721
                       "IRISH TRUCE IS DECLARED"
Ireland now has a truce after months of the most savage fighting the
country has ever known.  U.K.  - 1,363,121 people are on poor relief,
the highest number ever recorded.  VIENNA - Scientists claim they have
carried out successfully eye transplants on fish, frogs and rats.
FRANCE - Albert Calmette and Camille Guerin give a child the first BCG
vaccination against tuberculosis.  GERMANY - Adolf Hitler is voted
president of National Socialist German Workers Party.  .
0122
                  "IRISH PARLIAMENT VOTES TO ACCEPT TREATY"
After a debate of fiery words and high drama, Dail Eireann, of the
provisional Irish parliament, has approved the treaty with Britain which
sets up the Irish Free State.  "SHAKLETON, POLAR EXPLORER, DIES" - Sir
Ernest Shakleton, regarded by many as the finest explorer of his age,
died of a heart attack while in Georgia on his fourth expedition to the
Antartic. RUSSIA - 33 million people are now in danger of starvation.
WASHINGTON - 107 dead when theatre roof collapses under weight of snow.
0722
                   "WEISSMULLER SETS SWIMMING RECORD"
One of sport's classic time barriers was decisively broken as Johnny
Weissmuller, an 18-year-old austrian born American immigrant from
Chicago became the first man to swim 100 metres in less than a minute.
U.S.  - The world's first shopping centre, the Country Club Plaza,
opens.  PARIS - Lloyd George proposes world disarmament to the League of
Nations.  DUBLIN - The Irish Army Council is formed, with Michael
Collins as commander-in-chief.
0123
                    "GERMANS DEFY THE OCCUPYING FRENCH"
The favourite tune in the industrial towns of the Ruhr these days is
"Deutchland uber Alles".  Crowds gather around statues of Bismarck and
other German national heroes to shout insults at the French troops and
sing, again and again.  "Germany stands for me above all, above all the
world".  MUNICH - The Nazi Party holds its first rally.  RUSSIA -
Rumours are circulating that Lenin is close to death.  FRANCE - Sadi
lecointe sets a new air speed record of 217.5 mph.
0723
U.S.  - Jack Dempsey beats Tom Gibbons after a full 15 rounds to keep
his world heavyweight title.  GERMANY - France and Belgium warn Berlin
that relations will be severed unless it condemns Ruhr violence.
LAUSANNE - The Turks and the Allies agree a peace treaty restoring to
Turkey Aegan areas and Armenia, lost after the war.  ROME - Musolini
dissolves all opposition parties.  LONDON - Stanley Baldwin tells France
and Belgium to leave the Ruhr for fear of starting a new world conflict.
ROME - Mussolini bans gambling throughout Italy.
0124
                  "FATHER OF THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION DIES"
The provisional lawyer turned political agitator, who made a revolution
that shook the world, died after a long illness.  Vladimar Ilyich Ulyich
Ulyanov, who styled Himself Lenin, was 54.  PARIS - The Pasteur
Institute says it has isolated the bacillus causing rabies.  MOSCOW - A
council is appointed to succeed Lenin:  Gregory Zinoviev, Leon Kamenev
and Stalin.  GERMANY - Prussian state executioner Paul Spaethe lights 45
candles for the 45 people he has killed, then kills himself.
0724
PARIS - The Olympic Games open with 42 nations taking part, but not
Germany.  BRAZIL - Government opponents take Sao Paulo, 250 are killed.
WASHINGTON - President Coolidge's 16 year old son dies of blood
poisoning. PARIS - The Prince of Wales unveils a memorial to British war
dead in Notre Dame cathedral. INDIA - Many deaths reported in flooding
in the south of the country which has destroyed many villages. DUBLIN -
The Irish Free State releases Eamon de Valera and other political 
prisoners. LONDON - Government rejects idea of a channel Tunnel.
0125
                  "TROTSKY FIRED FROM SOVIET WAR COUNCIL"
Joseph Stalin has moved decisively against Leon Trotsky and ousted him
from leadership in the Soviet Communist party.  NORWAY - The capital
Christiania is renamed Oslo.  ROME - Mussolini assumes full dictatorial
powers.  GERMANY - 25 die and 60 are injured in a train crash in
Westphalia.  WASHINGTON - President Coolidge says he "wouldn't be seen
dead" in the "Oxford Bags" worn by some students.  U.S.  - 25 million
people see a total eclipse of the sun.
0725
U.K.  - The first International Congress of Radiology opens.  U.S.  -
The pro-evolution pastor of Dayton, Tennessee is forced to quit
following threats against him.  GERMANY - French and Belgian troops
begin their evaculation of the Ruhr.  U.K.  - Scientists claim they have
successfully innoculated animals against cancer.  U.K.  - It is reported
that ten million people listen to the BBC wireless broadcasts.  LONDON -
Patricia Cheeseman, a patient at Guy's hospital, has first successful
treatment for diabetes.  GERMANY - "Mein Kampf" is Hitler's manifesto.
0126
                 "DEVICE SENDS MOVING IMAGES BY RADIO"
Moving pictures transmitted by wireless were demonstrated at the Royal
Institution in London by inventor John Baird.  In Baird's system a scene
is converted to varying electrical signals with the help of a camera.
GERMANY - The airline Lufthansa is founded.  U.K.  - The first widows
pensions are paid out at post offices.  PARIS - The Pasteur Institute
announces the discovery of an anti-tetanus serum.  U.S.  - America leads
the world with 61 per cent of the 27,750 telephones in existence.
0726
LONDON - The government has to import large quantities of food as the
coal strike enters its third month.  FRANCE - 19 are reported killed and
100 injured when the Paris-Le Harve train crashes.  GERMANY - The first
congress of the reconstituted Nazi Party begins, called by Adolf Hitler.
LONDON - Rudyard Kipling is awarded a gold medal by the Royal Society of
Literature.  U.S.  - Lightning strikes a US Navy munitions dump, causing
an explosion visible for 30 miles.  LONDON - From next year broadcasting
will be in the hands of a new British Broadcasting Corporation.
0127
U.K.  - The British Broadcasting Corporation broadcast its first 
programmes. LISBON - Bubonic plague is reported to have broken out. NEW
YORK - Fox demonstrates the "Movietone", which synchronises sound with
motion pictures. MONTREAL - 77 children die in ten minutes in the panic
to escape a burning theatre.  LOS ANGELES - Charlie Chaplin's wife Lita
Grey files for divorce. MEXICO - 100 feared killed when an archbishop
leads a revolt of Catholics against the government. GLASGOW - 8 die and
10 are injured when the city is hit by a  hurricane.
0727
                 "VIENNA ROCKED BY REVOLUTIONARY RIOTS"
Loyal troops, ferried by Vienna along the Danube, have put down a revolt
that threatened to engulf Austria.  The trouble started when three men
of the anti-socialist front, Kaempfers, were acquitted of the murder of
two communists, who were killed in a fracas in January.  PALESTINE - 26
people are reported killed in an earthquake.  U.K.  - US amateur golfer
Bobby Jones wins the British Open.  VIENNA - Order is finally restored
after the recent rioting.  
0128
                  "LONDONERS DIE AS THAMES BURSTS BANKS"
The Thames burst its banks, flooding low-lying districts of London,
drowning 14 people - including four sisters in their basement homes.
Hundreds more have been made homeless along the length of the grey,
swollen river. U.S. - From this month Pan-American Airways are the first
airline to use male stewards. U.K. - 466,000 people over 65 receive the
first state pensions of Ten shilling a week. ROME - The government says
it may abolish trial by jury because juries are too lenient.
0728
INDIA - 15 die in a riot between Sikhs and Moslems at Khargpur.  U.S.  -
The first commercially available television set, made by the Daven
Corporation, goes on sale for $75.  BRAZIL - Two Italians set a world
record by flying 5,000 miles non-stop from Rome.  U.S.  - Jean Lussier
goes over the Niagara Falls in a rubber ball. LONDON - A government 
committee says smallpox can be eradicated from the world by systematic
vaccination. THE ARCTIC - Umberto Nobile and the crew of the airship 
"Italia" are finally rescued by a Soviet icebreaker.
0129
                   "WYATT EARP DIES WITH HIS BOOTS OFF"
With his colt '45 Buntline Special hanging from the brass bedpost, Wyatt
Earp, the legendary former marshal of Dodge City, died with his boots
off.  His end came peacefully while he was asleep at aged 80.  NEW YORK
- Premiere of George Gershwin's musical "Strike Up The Band.  GERMANY -
American motor manufactures General Motors buys the German firm Opel.
USSR - Trotsky is ordered out of the country.  YUGOSLAVIA - King
Alexander declares himself a dictator. 
0729
                  "POPE PIUS VENTURES BEYOND THE VATICAN"
Pius XI became the first Pope to leave the Vatican since 1870.  He
blessed a crowd of some 300,000 from a specially erected altar on the
Basilica steps.  "SUBMARINE CRASH:  24 ARE FEARED DEAD" - Twenty-four
seamen died when two submarines collided in the Irish Sea while
returning from an exercise.  GENEVA - 48 countries sign a convention on
the treatment of prisoners of war.  U.S. - The German liner Bremen
crosses the Atlantic from east to west in a record four days, 18 hours.
0130
PALESTINE - It is reported that the site of the biblical city of Sodom
has been found, five miles north of the Dead Sea.  GLASGOW - Police
arrest the manager of the Glen Cinema, Paisley, where 69 children died
on New Year's Eve.  THE ATLANTIC - 23 die when the Royal Navy tug Saint
Genny sinks in a gale off Ushant.  CHINA - Two million are reported to
have died of Starvation; famine threatens millions more.  THE
PHILIPPINES - 14 towns are devastated in a typhoon. U.S. - Figures show
a 600 per cent rise in deaths from alcohol since prohibition in 1920.
0730
                "THE FIRST WORLD CUP IS WON BY URUGUAY"
Uruguay, the host nation in the competition win the first World Cup in
Montevideo, beating Argentina 4-2.  U.S.  - Northland Transport Co.
starts a nationwide bus service as the Greyhound Co.  U.K.  - 13 die and
many are hurt in an explosion at a chemical factory in Yorkshire.
CHICAGO - 72 people die in heat wave. ITALY - An earthquake in the 
Naples area leaves up to 3,000 dead and 6,000 injured. CHINA - The skull
of a man who lived a million years ago has been found at Chou Kou Tien.
0131
                      "PRIMA BALLERINA PAVLOVA DIES"
Anna Pavlova, the dancer who inspired generations of Ballet students,
has died at her home, at the age of 49.  She had made her home in London
since 1912, after leaving St.  Petersburg.  VIENNA - Thousands of Nazis
demonstrate outside a cinema showing the film "All Quiet on the Western
Front".  LONDON - Doctors claim to have discovered a vaccine against
Polio.  BRITAIN - 26 miners are feared killed in a pit explosion at
Whitehaven.  INDIA - Gandhi is released from prison.
0731
                  "FIRST TROLLY BUSES TO RUN IN LONDON"
Twenty years after they made their debut in Yorkshire, trolley buses
begin regular services in the London area for the first time this month.
GERMANY - All banks close until August 5th following the collapse of the
Danatbank.  BRITAIN - Unemployment now stands at a record 2.71 million
people.  MOSCOW - Irish Writer and Playwright, George Bernard Shaw meets
Premier Stalin.  BRITAIN - Census results show lowest rate of increase 
in population since 1801, at 44.8 million it`s almost at a standstill.
0132
INDIA - The Congress Party decides to resume its campaign of civil
disobedience while Gandhi and fellow nationalist leader Vallabhai Patel
are arrested.  BERLIN - Chancellor Bruning says Germany is unable to
meet its war reparations repayments.  JAPAN - Emperor Hirohito escapes
an assassination attempt.  U.S.  - Figures show unemployment stands at
8.2 million people.  FRANCE - 18 die in a bus accident between Abbeville
and Paris.  NEW YORK - State Governor Franklin D.  Roosevelt says he
will run for President for the Democrats.
0732
U.K.  - The first main line electric express train runs from London
Bridge Station to Three Bridges Station in Sussex.  BASLE - The World
Bank calls for the return of the Gold Standard.  U.K.  - The Rector of
Stiffkey is found guilty of disreputable association with women.  BERLIN
- 15 die in clashes between Communists and Nazis, while war ministers
Kurt Von Schleicher says Germany is ready to re-arm itself.  LONDON -
King George V opens Lambeth Bridge.  PARIS - The trial opens of
President Doumer's alleged assassin, Paul Gorguloff.  
0133
                  "HITLER IS NEW CHANCELLOR OF GERMANY"
After weeks of back door intrigues involving bankers, army officers and
right wing politicians, Adolf Hitler, the flamboyant Nazi leader, became
the new Chancellor of Germany.  he was appointed by President Von
Hindenburg, the man who rejected him last month because he believed a
Hitler Cabinet would be bound to develop into a party dictatorship.
SPAIN - Martial law is imposed as revolution grows.  GERMANY - Police
kill nine Communists at a Nazi rally.
0733
                "NAZIS TO STERILISE 'IMPERFECT' GERMANS"
In the wake of a stream of official decrees directed at strengthening
and purifying the German race.  Hitler's cabinet announced plans for the
compulsory sterilisation of people suffering from blindness, deafness,
physical deformity, hereditary imbecility, epilepsy and St.  Vitus'
dance.  The sterilisation will be carried out without the consent of the
victims, force will be used if necessary. U.K.  - British doctors 
isolate the virus that causes Influenza.
0134
              "FLYING CIRCUS TO HELP IN INDIAN EARTHQUAKE"
It is now feared that some 2,000 people died in last Monday's earthquake
in Bihar.  In an imaginative move the Bihar government is trying to
arrange for Captain Barnards flying circus to tour the province to
ascertain the extent of the damage.  SOUTH AFRICA - A poor prospector
found the world's third largest diamond, a massive 726 carats.  GERMANY
- The law for sterilisation of 'imperfect' Germans comes into effect.
BRITAIN - Os.  Mosley calls for a modern dictatorship.
0734
                "HIMMLER TO CONTROL CONCENTRATION CAMPS"
Heinrich Himmler, a former chicken farmer has been appointed overlord of
Germany's notorious concentration camps.  Himmler is also the Chief of
Hitler's black uniformed praetorian guard, the SS.
                "DILLINGER SHOT DOWN OUTSIDE THE CINEMA"
John Dillinger was shot dead in front of a Chicago cinema.  He was
wanted for bank holdups, 16 murders and some spectacular prison breaks.
U.S.  - A heat wave in the Mid West kills over 205 people.
0135
               "HITLER WINS VOTES OVER DISPUTED TERRITORY"
Wild rejoicing throughout Germany has greeted the result of the
plebiscite on the return of the coal rich Saar territory.  A record 99
percent of Saarlanders went to poll and 90 percent voted to be reunited
with Germany.  U.S.  - A handwriting expert at Bruno Hauptmann's trial
claims he wrote all the kidnap notes to the Lindberghs.  On the last day
of his cross examination Hauptmann admits he has lied since his arrest.
ROME - Mussolini dismisses the entire Italian Cabinet.
0735
MOSCOW - Tunnel engineers on the new underground railway discover Ivan
the Terrible's torture chamber.  BERLIN - Nazis beat Jews along the
Kurfurstendamm in the centre of the city.  INDIA - 10 died when troops
opened fire on Muslims.  JAPAN - 227 people die in floods.  LONDON - The
Ministry of Transport says dipped headlights will be made compulsory.
CUBA - The army foils an alleged Communist plot to overthrow the
government.  EAST AFRICA - Abyssinaians kill 40 Italian troops in a
surprise night attack.
0136
                   "KING GEORGE V DEAD: NATION MOURNS"
King George V was laid to rest at Windsor amidst the tombs of his
ancestors.  Some 124 naval ratings pulled the gun carriage, carrying the
body of the sailor King through the silent and crowded streets.  Edward
the Eighth is now King. "POET RUDYARD KIPLING DEAD" - Rudyard Kipling
died this month at the age of seventy.  BERLIN - Hitler tells the League
of Nations to mind its own business on Germany's treatment of Jews.

0736
              "FASCIST REBELS START CIVIL WAR IN SPAIN"
The Civil war that erupted in Spain when the army rose against the
Republican government two weeks ago is being fought with the utmost
ferocity.  Atrocities are being carried out by both sides as they
struggle for the advantage all over Spain.  "AMERICA GETS ITS MONOPOLY"
- The latest craze in America is a board game called Monopoly, with some
20,000 sets being sold each week.  U.K.  - Mass production of gas masks
begins, the target is one for every citizen.
0137
              "FAULTLESS FONTEYN HAS LONDON AT HER FEET"
The 18 year old English dancer Morgot Fonteyn scored a triumph at her
debut in "Giselle" at Sadler's Wells.  When Alicia Markova left the
Wells two years ago, the company was without a Prima Ballerina.  ROME -
The government bans inter-racial marriages in the Italian colonies in
Africa.  U.K.  - Britain bans volunteers from fighting in Spain,
imposing a two year jail sentence on anyone caught doing so.  WASHINGTON
- The U.S.  puts a ban on joining either side in the Spanish civil war.
0737
          "BRITAIN DRAW UP PLANS FOR JEWISH STATE IN PALESTINE"
To end the "irreconcilable conflict" between the Jews and Arabs, the
British government announced proposals to partition Palestine.  "GEORGE
GERSHWIN DEAD" - George Gershwin died in Hollywood from a brain tumour,
at the age of 38.  he was to music what F.  Scott Fitzgerald was to
fiction; Between them they made the twenties the Jazz age.  PACIFIC -
Aviator Amelia Eardhart disappears on the last half of her round the
world flight that began in California.
0138
       "DISNEY RELEASES FIRST FULL LENGTH ANIMATED MOTION PICTURE"
People said that cartoon films would never be more than short fillers
between pictures, but Walt Disney has proved them all wrong with the
release of his first feature length cartoon,"Snow white and the Seven
Dwarfs".  "FREUD ARRIVES IN LONDON" - The founder of Psychoanalysis, Dr.
Sigmund Freud arrived in London.  The Nazis have been persecuting Freud
for months because he is a Jew and because of his ideas.  BARCELONA -
200 people are reported dead in an air raid by Franco's forces.
0738
              "HUGHES FLYS ROUND THE WORLD IN RECORD TIME"
More than 2 million New Yorkers gave the tycoon aviator Howard Hughes a
ticker tape welcome after he set a new record for round the world flight
in just three days, 19 hours and 17 minutes.  The Lockheed aircraft
averaged over 208 mph on the 14,824 mile trip. VIENNA - Many Jews are
reported to have killed themselves in recent days.  CANADA - Eskimos in
the Arctic complain of a heatwave: it is 67 degrees F. DUBLIN - American
pilot Douglas Corrigan lands but says he meant to fly to California.
0139
                  "POWER UNLEASHED: THE ATOM IS SPLIT"
It may be possible to exploit the energy in the atom, following the
discovery of a new radioactive process:  Nuclear Fission.  This could be
used to produce weapons of unprecedented power, or as a virtually
inexhaustible source of energy.  IRELAND - William Butler Yeats, the
voice of Ireland whom many regard as the finest poet now writing in
English, has died aged 73.  U.S.  - Gangster Al Capone is moved from
Alcatraz Island to San Padro's Terminal Island prison. 
0739
             "HITLER'S DESIGNS ON DANZIG SPARKS NEW CRISIS"
It looks as though the Baltic port of Danzig could provide the spark
needed to set off the explosion of a new European war.  The Germans are
smuggling arms and military instructors into the free city.  VIENNA -
Nazi thugs beat up the Archbishop of Vienna, Cardinal Theodor Innitzer.
BERLIN - All Jews in the Reich are ordered to join a new Reich "Union of
Jews".  U.K.  - The submarine HMS Thetis is lifted from the sea bed,
seven weeks after the tragedy in which 71 died.
0140
                 "BRITAIN ON SHORT RATIONS DUE TO WAR"
For the first time since 1918 Britain faces food rationing.  Butter,
Sugar, Bacon and Ham can be bought only on production of ration books.
BRITAIN - 2 million 19 to 27 year olds are conscripted.  FINLAND -
50,000 Soviet troops are reported to have died since the war with the
USSR began.  U.K.  - 152 are feared dead when the liner "Union Castle"
is sunk by a mine off the South East coast.  BERLIN - The Nazis warn
that listening to foreign radio is an offence punishable by death.
0740
                   "CHANNEL ISLANDS INVADED BY GERMANS"
German forces landed on the Channel Islands without opposition.  The
islands were demilitarised after a decision was taken that they would be
too difficult to defend.  BERLIN - Hitler is reported to have postponed
his attack on Britain until the full moon.  "1000 DEAD AS FRENCH FLEET
IS SUNK BY BRITAIN" - The Royal Navy removed the threat of the French
fleet falling into German hands by destroying a large part of it at
anchor in Algeria - killing 1000 French sailors in the process.
0141
                     "DUBLINER DIES IN SWITZERLAND"
From Zurich comes the news of the death of James Joyce.  Although he
left his native Dublin in 1904 and last saw it in 1912, no man has
written more about the city - in "Dubliners", "Portrait of the artist as
a young man" and "Ulysses". IRELAND - German bombs fall in a surprise
air raid. "AMY JOHNSON FEARED DEAD" - Amy Johnson, the female aviator
who made history by flying solo to Australia is missing, feared drowned,
after the aircraft she was flying ditched in the Thames Estuary.
0741
                "GERMANS POWER INTO RUSSIA WITH PANZERS"
German Panzer tank forces often operating far in advance of their
supporting infantry, have driven a great wedge between the armies
defending Moscow.  Berlin claimed that the Russians were retreating
along the whole front from the Baltic to the Black Sea.  WASHINGTON -
General Douglas MacArthur is appointed to command American forces in the
far east.  INDOCHINA - Japanese troops advance into Cambodia and
Thailand; Saigon is occupied.  
0142
N. IRELAND - Several thousand American troops landed in Northern
Ireland.  They are the first US troops to set foot in Europe.  GERMANY -
Many thousands of Jews are believed to have been killed already,
somewhat haphazardly, by shooting or beating, under Heydrich's plan the
task will be carried out more systematically in special camps with
facilities for mass extermination.  Heydrich's violent anti-semitism is
said to be fuelled by rumours that his mother was half Jewish. LAS VEGAS
- Actress Carol Lombard and 22 others die in a TWA airline disaster.
0742
AMERICA - British born actor Cary Grant marries Woolworth heiress
Barbara Hutton a week after becoming an American citizen.  YUGOSLAVIA -
The Germans slaughter 700 in a reprisal attack for the killing of Zagreb
Gestapo Chief.  U.K.  - Driving for pleasure is banned.  DANZIG -
Lancasters, the RAF's newest bombers, bomb Uboat yards in the city.
VICHY - Laval lets Germans enter unoccupied France to hunt for
resistance radio transmitters.  OTTAWA - Canada's parliament votes for
full conscription.
0143
                      "BOMB KILLS SCHOOL CHILDREN"
Twenty three school girls were killed in a raid as they waited to watch
a performance of "A Mid Summer's Night Dream".  Four teachers were also
killed.  The German planes were attacking South East England in
daylight. "GERMANS SURRENDER IN STALINGRAD" - After a week of heavy 
fighting in Stalingrad, Field Marshal Von Paulus surrendered to the red
army. BERLIN - Hitler orders the mobilisation of the whole population 
from 16 to 65. U.K. - German army blames the SS for Nazi atrocities.
0743
                "GESTAPO EXECUTE FRENCH RESISTANCE CHIEF"
Jean "Max" Moulin, the French underground leader, is dead after being
tortured by the Gestapo; He was 44.  He was captured on June 21st, when
a traitor told the Gestapo of a secret meeting of resistance chiefs at
Caluire, on the river Saone.  "GERMANS ROUTED IN MASSIVE TANK BATTLE" -
The greatest tank battle in history, fought on the flat cornlands around
Kursk, South of Moscow, has ended in a devastating defeat for the German
army. ROME - Allied bombing raids on Rome kill 1,400 people.
0144
                    "DNA: THE BUILDING BLOCK OF LIFE"
One of the great mysteries of biology has been solved.  Genes, the
hereditary units which determine the characteristics of all living
things, are made up from a chemical called Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid, DNA
for short.  ROME - Mussolini's son in law and ex foreign minister Count
Ciano along with four others are found guilty of treason against
Mussolini and are shot.  BERLIN - Hitler orders the mobilisation of all
children over the age of ten.  
0744
            "HITLER ESCAPES ASSASSINATION BID BY OWN OFFICERS"
At his Wolf's Lair Headquarters in East Prussia, the Fuehrer was
listening to a report on the deteriorating military situation on the
Russian front when a violent explosion shattered the conference room,
killing at least three officers - but not Hitler.  Hitler sustained only
minor burns and cuts, he took his escape as a sign that providence was
preserving him to continue his life's work.  FRANCE - The Allies drive
the Germans from Normandy in their first major tank operation.
0145
                "RUSSIANS DISCOVER THE HORROR OF AUSCHWITZ"
By the time the Russian tanks battered through the gates, most of the
surviving inmates had been marched off in the direction of Germany.  The
Russian's have found only 5,000 prisoners alive in the camp, all of them
near to death from starvation and disease, and mounds of skeletal 
corpses. LONDON - A report says British anti-aircraft rockets caused the
panic at Bethnal Green Tube Station in 1943 that left 173 people dead.
POLAND - The Russians advance across the the German border.
0745
          "IRON CURTAIN IS DRAWN ACROSS EUROPE AS ALLIES FALL OUT"
The conference of the victorious powers has become a meeting of
mistrust.  Two weeks ago Churchill, Truman and Stalin travelled to
Potsdam, the historic residence of the German Emperors, to chart a
course for post war Europe.  They disagreed about where Germany's
borders should be drawn; The Western powers objected to seizing huge
areas of Germany and expelling millions of Germans.  U.S.  - The first
Atomic bomb tests take place in the New Mexico desert. 
0146
U.K.  - Test flights started from a new major airport to the west of
London, to be known as Heathrow.  This future terminus for all long
distance flights to and from London is at present a great plain of earth
with very few facilities, apart from a row of huts and tents and some
telephone boxes.  NUREMBERG - The trial of Goering and Von Ribbentrop
opens.  Rudolph Hess asks to conduct his own defence, while Streicher
suffers from a mild heart attack.  U.K.  - Fifteen die in a rail crash
at Lichfield, Staffordshire.  
0746
                       "TITO EXECUTES HIS OLD ALLY"
General Draja Mihailovich, the former Yugoslav guerrilla leader who, in
the early stages of the war, led his Chetnik partisans against the
occupying German and Italian troops, was executed by a firing squad.  He
was found guilty of treason and collaboration by a Belgrade court.
PACIFIC - An Atomic bomb is exploded, sinking three ships and damaging
thirty one out of seventy three.  U.K.  - The Jockey Club says it is
going to install Photo-Finish cameras on all racecourses.
0147
                "BRITISH EVACUATE FAMILIES FROM PALESTINE"
Faced with a deteriorating security situation in Palestine, General Sir
Alan Cunningham, has ordered the evacuation of all British women and
children.  The move comes in the wake of attacks on British citizens by
Jewish terrorists, who threaten to kill two kidnapped Britons if the
death sentence on a convicted terrorist is carried out.  MIAMI - Al
Capone dies of a massive brain hemorrhage aged 48 years.  GREECE - Three
hundred people die when a ship hits a mine.
0747
                   "ELIZABETH TO MARRY GREEK PRINCE"
The long expected engagement of Princess Elizabeth to Lieutenant Philip
Mountbatten was announced.  All around Buckingham Palace there were
crowds, thousands strong, cheering the young couple at each appearance
on the Palace balcony.  "ZIONISTS MURDER KIDNAPPED BRITISH SOLDIERS" -
The bodies of two British soldiers were found hanging from two
eucalyptus trees in a town near Haifa, pinned to their shirts were
notices saying they had been hung as spies.
0148
                     "MAHATMA GANDHI ASSASSINATED"
Mahatma Gandhi, the man who, more than any other, secured India's
freedom from British rule, was assassinated by one of his own countrymen
in New Delhi.  Mister Gandhi, still weak from his recent hunger strike
for Hindu/Moslem unity, which brought him close to death, was being
helped across the gardens of Birla House to attend a prayer meeting when
a young man stepped from the crowd and shot him three times.  PARIS - 15
people died when a DC4 airliner crashed on a flight from Brussels.
0748
                "DISASTER AS PLANES COLLIDE IN MID AIR"
Thirty nine people died in Britain's worst air disaster in decades, as
two passenger aircraft collided over a hospital in Middlesex.  Both
aircraft, an RAF Transport Command York and a Scandinavian Airliner were
circling, hoping for a break in the weather when they collided over
Mount Vernon Hospital. U.K. - The worlds first turbine propelled air
craft, the Vickers Viscount, made its maiden flight. LONDON - The King 
opens the Olympic Games. BRITAIN - Oxfam opens its first charity shop.
0149
               "SEVEN INCH RECORD PUTS AMERICA IN A SPIN"
The new "micro groove" seven inch record, made of unbreakable vinylite,
have just become available in America from two competing manufacturers,
Columbia Records and RCA Victor.  But buyers of the new format records
will have to buy new equipment to play them on.  MANCHESTER - Margaret
Allen is hanged for murder, the first women to be executed in Britain
for 12 years.  WEST INDIES - A British Tudor IV airliner disappears
between Bermuda and Jamaica with 20 people on board.
0749
               "JET AIRLINER FLIES AT 500 MILES PER HOUR"
Years of secret development work came to fruition as the worlds first
Jet airliner, the De Havilland Comet, made its first flight.  "BRITISH
FRIGATE MAKES DASH FOR FREEDOM" - In a daring 140 mile dash under the
cover of darkness along the flooded YangTse river, the British frigate,
Amethyst, reached safety, four months after she was shelled and trapped
by advancing Communist troops.  ROME - The Pope says that any Catholic
aiding Communism faces excommunication.
0150
AMERICA - President Truman gives the go-ahead to the American Atomic
Energy Commission to research and produce the hydrogen bomb, expected to
be 100 to 1,000 times more powerful than the Atomic bomb dropped on
Hiroshima.  "ORWELL NOT WELL ENOUGH TO ENJOY PROFITS OF GLOOM" - George
Orwell, who died this month, was too ill with tuberculosis to enjoy the
fame and fortune that came to him with his inspired allegory, "Animal
Farm" in 1945.  He retreated to the remote Scottish island of Jura and
had just enough strength to write "1984" between stays in a sanatorium.
0750
                  "BRITISH DEBUT BY SINATRA A SELL OUT"
Frank Sinatra made his British debut to an ovation at the London
Palladium that was besieged by fans.  He has just ousted Bing Crosby as
the highest paid singer in America, by signing a radio contract worth
one million dollars.  BRITAIN - figures show that production of
television sets has jumped by 250 percent this year.  LONDON - J.
Sainsbury's first self service shop has opened in Croydon.  BRITAIN -
Churchill warns of a Third World War.  
0151
              "AMERICA TESTS NUCLEAR BOMB IN NEVADA DESERT"
A large part of the sky across the South West of the United States was
lit up by the flash of a nuclear explosion, as the second bomb test in
two days went ahead in the Nevada desert.  In Las Vegas, 45 miles from
the boundry of the test ground, observers saw a five second flash and
felt a wind blowing through the streets of the city. KOREA - The Chinese
launch a heavy assault north of Seoul crossing the 38th Parallel, but 
the UN slow down the joint Chinese and North Korean offensive.
0751
                 "KING OF JORDAN ASSASSINATED AT MOSQUE"
King Abdullah of Jordan was shot dead in Jerusalem outside the Mosque of
Omar, one of Islam's holiest shrines.  His assassin was a local tailor
and a member of the Sanctuary of Struggle, an organisation long opposed
to the King.  "TURPIN SHOCKS WORLD CHAMP TO WIN" - Randolph Turpin, the
British and European middle weight champion, caused one of Boxing's
greatest upsets at London's Earls Court, by battering the great Sugar
Ray Robinson to a points defeat to take the World Crown.
0152
             "EISENHOWER THROWS HAT INTO PRESIDENTIAL RING"
General Dwight D.  Eisenhower, Supreme Commander in Europe and America's
most popular war leader, is prepared to run for President.He said he
would stick to his job of resisting the Communist threat in Europe, and
not take any part in the primary election run up to the main election.
He gave his blessing however, to the "Eisenhower for President" campaign
that has started.  U.K.  - Sir Robert Watson Watt wins a £50,000
government price for his "initiation of radar".
0752
                 "SEVENTEEN YEAR OLD WINS AT WIMBLEDON"
Maureen Connoly, "Little Mo" to all her American fans, has won the
Wimbledon singles title at her first attempt at the age of 17, the
youngest All England Champion.  "ARGENTINA CRIES FOR EVITA" - Argentina
learnt that Eva Peron was dead.  "Our spiritual leader is gone" cried
the radio announcer.  The First Lady has succumbed to ovarian cancer at
the age of only 33.  CHICAGO - Eisenhower wins the Republican
nomination, with Senator Richard Nixon as his running mate.
0153
               "CAR FERRY SINKS OFF THE COAST OF IRELAND"
A total of 128 people were feared drowned after the cargo doors burst
open on an Irish Sea car ferry, the Princess Victoria.  The 2,694 ton
British Rail ferry had just entered the open sea off Stranraer when the
mountainous waves, caused by the weekend storms, smashed in through the
cargo doors, and the ship soon developed a list to starboard.  44 people
survived the disaster.  LONDON - A plea from 200 MP's for Derek Bentley
to be reprieved is rejected and he is hanged at Wandsworth Prison.
0753
ENGLAND - John Reginald Halliday Christie was sentenced to death for the
murder of four women, one of them his wife, Ethel, at 10 Rillington
Place, Nottinghill, London, all four had been strangled.  Three of the
bodies had been hidden behind a false wall and the fourth, his wife, was
under the floorboards.  He had attempted intercourse with three of them,
all prostitutes, after making them unconscious with coal gas.  KOREA -
The war in Korea is over, after 3 years of bloody fighting which cost
over two million lives.  The armistice was signed at Panmunjon.
0154
                  "COMETS ARE GROUNDED AFTER SECOND CRASH"
All British Overseas Airways Corporation Comet jets were grounded
following the mystery crash of a Comet into the Mediterranean off Elba
with the loss of 35 lives.  U.K.  - Flashing indicator lights become
legal on motor vehicles in Britain.  ROME - Pope Pius XII warns that
television is a potential threat to family life.  SAN FRANCISCO -
Marilyn Munroe marries ex baseballer Joe DiMaggio.  U.K.  - 23 die in an
accident on frozen ice as wintry weather grips Britain.
0754
                "SINO-FRENCH PACT ENDS THE INDOCHINA WAR"
Agreement was reached in Geneva to bring peace to IndoChina.  The main
provision of the treaty calls for the division of Vietnam along the 17th
Parallel, with the Communist Viet Minh controlling the North and Emperor
Bao Dai controlling the South.  "MAIDEN FLIGHT FOR THE NEW BOEING 707" -
America entered the era of jet air transport, when the four engined
Boeing 707 made its maiden flight from Seattle. U.S. - Recording of
"That's all right mama", the first single by Elvis Presley.
0155
                    "WHITES INFURIATED BY MAU MAU AMNESTY"
Mau Mau terrorists in Kenya were offered an amnesty.  They were told
that, if they surrendered immediately, they would not be hanged, though
they may be held in detention.  The news brought a bitter reaction from
the colony's Europeans.  Humphrey Slade, leader of the moderate group on
the Legislative Council said:  "This means that men who have disem-
bowelled babies before their mothers eyes, men who have eaten the brains
of their human victims, will not even be prosecuted".
0755
                  "CAMPBELL BREAKS WATER SPEED RECORD"
Donald Campbell broke the world water speed record on Ullswater, when he
made two runs over the lake on his turbo jet hydroplane Bluebird at an
average speed of 202.32 miles per hour.  LONDON - Ruth Ellis is hanged.
AMERICA - The film maker Walt Disney, the man who brought the world
Mickey Mouse, saw his dream of a "Never Never Land" for children and
adults alike come to life with the opening of Disneyland, twenty two
miles outside Los Angeles.
0156
                    "BRITISH TROOPS SENT TO CYPRUS"
Newly arrived British Paratroopers were patrolling the streets of
Nicosia and Limassol as tension mounted in Cyprus.  The British
government has rushed in reinforcements following the murder of a
Turkish policeman outside his home in Paphos, awakening the threat of
serious inter-communal trouble.  MONACO - Prince Rainier III announces
his engagement to actress Grace Kelly.  U.K.  - The Astronomer Royal
says the idea of space travel is "Bilge".
0756
               "BRITISH FURY AS NASSER SIEZES SUEZ CANAL"
Egyptians were dancing in the streets after hearing their president,
Colonel Nasser, announce that he has nationalised the Anglo-French
controlled Suez Canal Company.  Nasser said if the imperialist powers
did not like what he had done they could "Choke to death on their own
fury".  AMERICA - The wreckage of two missing airliners was found in the
Grand Canyon.  LONDON - The House of Lords overwhelmingly voted against
the abolition of Capital Punishment.
0157
              "BRITISH TROOPS DRIVE THE YEMEMIS FROM ADEN"
Invading Yemeni troops were sent fleeing from Aden by a combined force
of British soldiers and RAF planes firing rockets and cannons.  The
raiders were sent fleeing into scrubland over the border.  Other Yemeni
troops were removed from a nearby village which they had tried to
invade.  "TOUGH GUY BOGART DEFEATED BY CANCER" - Humphrey Bogart, most
peoples favourite screen tough guy, died at his home from throat cancer,
aged 56.  MONACO - Princess Grace has her first child, Caroline.
0757
                   "FIRST BLACK WINS A WIMBLEDON TITLE"
In a powerful display of controlled tennis in which she did not lose a
single set, Althea Gibson of the United States became Wimbledon's first
black champion, beating Darlene Hard 6-3,6-2. U.S. - Twenty year old 
Harvard student Prince karim is declared Aga Khan on the death of his 
grandfather.  OMAN - British troops moved in to suppress an uprising 
against the Sultan.  U.K.  - Stirling Moss wins the British Grand Prix 
at Aintree.
0158
                "HILLARY BEATS FUCHS IN NEW POLAR TREK"
A British Polar expedition, led by Dr Vivian Fuchs, reached the South
Pole by an overland route only to be greeted by New Zealand rivals who
had beaten them by 17 days. Hillary's party were the first to reach the
pole since Captain Robert Falcon Scott 46 years ago. FASHION - A shy
young student was acclaimed the rightful heir to Dior. Rapturous scenes
greeted the 1st Paris collection of 23 year old Yves St Laurent. Crowds
became so dense he had to make a "royal" appearance on the balcony.
0758
               "SUPERPOWERS JOSTLE IN MIDDLE EAST CRISIS"
The Middle East flared into sudden and dangerous crisis this month in a
chain of events which saw the monarchy in Iraq bloodily overthrown,
British Paratroopers landed in Jordon, American Marines wading ashore in
Beirut and Russia impotently rattling her sabre in the United Nations.
The crisis started with a coup by a group of young Iraqi army officers.
WASHINGTON - The National Aeronautical and Space Administration, NASA,
is created.  CYPRUS - 31 people have died in a week of violence.
0159
                  "FIDEL'S GUERRILLAS SWEEP INTO POWER"
The rebel leader Fidel Castro proclaimed a new government for Cuba, with
Santiago de Cuba, the provisional capital.  "RACING DRIVER MIKE HAWTHORN
KILLED" - Mike Hawthorn, the 29 year old British Racing driver, who had
just retired after becoming world champion, has been killed, driving his
own sports car, in Surrey.  "AMERICA AND USSR RACE FOR THE MOON" - As a
Soviet Lunik spacecraft flew past the Moon into orbit around the Sun,
American space experts say they too are planning to put a man into orbit
0759
                "BILLIE HOLLIDAY HAS SUNG HER LAST BLUES"
Billie Holliday, one of the greatest blues singers ever has died at the
age 44.  VIETNAM - An Anti Communist rebellion breaks out.  "ST LAURENT
REVEALS THE KNEES HE HATES" - Yves St.  Laurent set aside his well known
dislike of knees, and raised the hemlines in Paris.  His new collection,
aimed primarily at women, with its puffed skirts and high, built up hair
styles, has been condemned as mere fancy dress by some critics who claim
that Dior's influence is waning.
0160
                      "CIVIL WAR FEAR IN ALGERIA"
As France trembled on the edge of civil war, President De Gaulle
appeared in General's uniform on television to order his army to break
the French settler insurrection in Algiers. He described it as "a foul
blow against France". U.S. - Early this month, senator John Kennedy of
Massachusetts tossed his hat into the ring of Presidential hopefuls. He
has campaign offices throughout the USA, headed by his brother. kennedy
has two obstacles to overcome; his inexperience and his Catholicism.
0760
                "KENNEDY LAUNCHES IDEA OF A NEW FRONTIER"
Senator John F.  Kennedy touched many chords of American history when he
said the nation must move to a "New frontier", but the new frontier of
which i speak is not a set of promises, it is a set of challenges.
"CHICHESTER IN RECORD SOLO ATLANTIC TRIP" - The solo Atlantic sailor 
Francis Chichester sailed into New York in Gypsy Moth 11, setting a new 
record of 40 days for the crossing from Plymouth.  MOSCOW - U 2 pilot 
Gary Powers who was shot down by the Russians is indicted as a spy.
0161
             "KENNEDY SWORN IN AS YOUNGEST AMERICAN PRESIDENT"
In a biting wind on a snow covered Capitol Hill, power passed from the
oldest ever US President ever to the youngest.  John F. Kennedy, aged 43
took the oath as 35th President on the family Bible. "CONTRACEPTIVE PILL
GOES ON SALE IN BRITAIN" - After careful trials with combined female 
hormones, a progestogen-oestrogen mixture, Conovid, is now available for
women as an oral contraceptive. AMERICA - A chimpanzee ascends 150 miles
above the earth in an 18 minute test flight of the Mercury space capsule
0761
                  "EAST GERMANS FLOOD INTO WEST BERLIN"
Fears that the Communist regime in East Germany is about to cut the
links between East and West Germany, and assume control of all access to
West Berlin, follow the signing of a separate peace treaty with Russia,
and have led to a massive flood of refugees leaving the East.  AMERICA -
Ernest Hemingway was found shot through the head by his own 12-bore
shotgun.  His wife issued a statement that he was killed accidentally
while cleaning the gun.  
0162
Yves St. Laurent, the wonder boy of fashion, has opened his own couture
house in Paris. His successful first show there comes only two years
after commentators were ready to write off his clothes as "fancy dress".
BRITAIN - Despite their success on Liverpool's music scene, the Beatles
were rejected this month by the recording company, Decca, who's experts
believe they will never make it to the music charts.  Manager Brian
Epstein and his proteges are considering producing their first album
themselves. HOLLAND - 93 people are killed in a train collision.
0762
                    "FIRST HOVERCRAFT ENTERS SERVICE"
The world's first passenger hovercraft service opened across the estuary
of the River Dee in Britain. PACIFIC - American H-Bomb test lights up 
the sky from Hawaii to New Zealand.  U.K.  - American frogman, Fred 
Baldasare becomes the first person to swim the English Channel under
water.  EUROPE - 200 million viewers watch American TV live by satellite
for the first time. FRANCE - After 132 years of French rule an Algeria, 
President Charles De Gaulle proclaimed Algeria independent.
0163
                 "DE GAULLE BLOCKS BRITISH ENTRY TO EEC"
President De Gaulle got on his high horse and practically closed the
door on Britain's Common Market entry.  De Gaulle told a Paris news
conference that Britain neither thinks nor acts like a Continental
nation and is not yet qualified for full membership of the European
Economic Community.  BERLIN - Khrushchev says a nuclear war would kill
800 million and warns that Russia has a 100 megaton bomb. AMERICA - A
fire in the Empire State building in New York damages seven floors.
0763
                      "DOCTOR WARD TAKES OVERDOSE"
Dr Stephen Ward, who claimed he was the victim of a campaign of villainy
and that the authorities were determined to destroy him for his part on
the Profumo affair was in hospital after an apparent suicide attempt at
the end of his vice trial.  He was still in a coma when the jury
returned a verdict of guilty on two charges of living on immoral
earnings.  MOSCOW - A partial nuclear test ban treaty is agreed by
Britain, the United States and the Soviet Union. 
0164
                "POPE VISITS THE CRADLE OF CHRISTIANITY"
Exuberant Jerusalem crowds broke through the cordons of the Jerusalem
security forces and literally swept Pope Paul VI off his feet.  "RAG AND
BONE MEN TOP OF TV RATINGS" - "Steptoe and Son", the comedy series about
a family rag and bone business, has been declared Britain's most popular
television show. U.S. - Jacqueline Kennedy appeared on television to
thank the nation for its sympathy following the assassination of
President Kennedy. U.K. - The Great Train Robbers go on trial.
0764
U.S.  - President Lyndon Johnson showed his determination to complete
the work begun by former President Kennedy, before his assassination, to
end racial discrimination.  He signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the
most sweeping civil rights law in the history of the United States.
LONDON - Appeal court quashes 25 year jail sentences against 2 convicted
Great Train Robbers. U.S. - NASA tests its first successful rocket 
engine. WASHINGTON - Government announces plans to send 5,000 American
advisers to Vietnam.  NEW YORK  - The National Guard quells race riots.
0165
                  "WORLD BIDS SAD FAREWELL TO CHURCHILL"
Sir Winston Churchill was buried in a village churchyard near the family
ancestral home in Oxfordshire.  This is how he wanted it, a simple grave
side ceremony; he was 90.  IRAN - Premier Hassan Ali Mansour dies from 
an assassins bullet.  LAOS - Two American planes were shot down. U.S. - 
Lyndon B. Johnson is sworn in as the 36th President. Thirty people are 
killed when a US air force jet crashes into a house. HOLLAND - Protests 
greet Princess Beatrix's announcement that she is to marry a German.
0765
                 "FORMER BOXING CHAMPION FOUND MURDERED"
Freddie Mills, the former light-heavyweight champion of the world, has
been found shot dead in a car in London's Soho district, he was 43.
WASHINGTON - Martin Luther King calls for an end to the Vietnam war.
President Johnson predicts that the situation in Vietnam will get worse
and orders more troops to Vietnam.  LONDON - The Lords unexpectedly
approves a bill to abolish hanging by a majority of 100.  Edward Heath
is elected as Tory Leader.
0166
                  "AMERICAN TROOPS LAUNCH BIG OFFENSIVE"
The "Iron Triangle", a Viet Cong jungle stronghold 20 miles NorthEast of
Saigon, was attacked by 8,000 American troops in the biggest US
offensive so far.  "AIR CRASH:  ONE OF OUR H-BOMBS IS MISSING" - The
nightmare of a nuclear accident became a reality when an American B-52
bomber, carrying nuclear weapons collided with a K-C 135 fuel tanker
aircraft in mid air over Spain.  FRANCE - 117 died when an air India
airliner crashed into Mont Blanc.
0766
                     "RACE RIOTS FLARE UP IN AMERICA"
America is scarred with racial unrest.  The streets of Chicago, New York
and Cleveland have all seen deaths and injuries as black gangs clash
with police.  "MAN IS CHARGED WITH MURDER OF 8 NURSES" - Corazon Amurse,
the sole survivor of the mass slaying of eight student nurses in
Chicago, identified 24 year old Richard Speck as the murderer.  The
nurses all shared a dormitory at the South Chicago Community Hospital,
Miss Amurso escaped death by hiding under a bed.
0167
                "FLASH FIRE KILLS ASTRONAUTS ON LAUNCH PAD"
Three American astronauts died in a a fire which swept through their
spacecraft during a launch pad rehearsal.  "Gus" grissom, Ed White and
Roger Chaffee were in their Apollo spacecraft when the fire, probably
started by a spark from faulty electrical equipment, was boosted by the
pure oxygen atmosphere of the capsule and engulfed its interior within
minutes.  The ground crew were unable to open the hatch.  U.S.  - Jack
Ruby, killer of Lee Harvey Oswald died of a blood clot in the lung.
0767
                      "EUROPEANS FLEE FROM BIAFRA"
Some 2,000 Britons and 800 Americans are fleeing from Biafra in cars and
canoes as Nigerian Federal troops step up their two pronged drive into
the breakaway Eastern region.  "BRITISH CYCLIST DIES ON TOUR DE FRANCE" 
- Tommy Simpson, a 29 year old British cyclist died after collapsing
unconscious by the roadside only three miles from the towering summit of
the Ventoux mountain during the Tour De France. U.K. - The bill to 
legalise abortion has been cleared by the commons.
0168
                 "NORTH KOREANS SEIZE AMERICAN SPY SHIP"
North Korean patrol boats attacked, boarded and captured the Pueblo, an
American "spy ship", killing and wounding a number of her crew.  The
North Koreans accused the Pueblo of "provocative acts" within their 12
mile limit.  "AMERICANS LOSE ANOTHER BOMBER" - A US B-52 bomber carrying
four nuclear bombs crashed into the ice off Greenland while trying to 
make an emergency landing. The US Defence Department said the bombs were
not armed, and there was no chance of an explosion at the crash site.
0768
              "PAPAL ENCYCLICAL SAYS NO TO BIRTH CONTROL"
Pope Paul dashed the hopes of many of the worlds 530 million Catholics
by refusing to make any concessions to liberal opinion on birth control.
In an Encyclical entitled Humanae Vitae (Of Human Life), he declared
that any form of artificial birth control was against the divine will.
SPORT - Billy Jean King wins her third Wimbledon title, and Dutch racer
Jan Janssen wins the Tour De France.  U.K.  - Lone Yachtsman Alec Rose,
aged 59 returns home to Portsmouth after sailing around the world.
0169
IRELAND - Violence flared in Derry at the end of a 73 mile Civil Rights
march from Belfast.  Police used water cannons to disperse several
hundred Catholics who had trapped their arch opponent, the Reverand Ian
Paisley and his supporters, in the city's Guildhall.  CZECHOSLOVAKIA -
Jan Palach, aged 21, died in hospital two days after he set fire to
himself in Wenceslas Square in protest against the Russian invasion.
Before he died, he said "My act has fulfilled its purpose, but let
nobody else do it".  LONDON  - 50 died in a plane crash near Gatwick.
0769
                  "THE FIRST MAN SETS FOOT ON THE MOON"
Man has set foot on the moon for the first time.  American astronaut
Neil Armstrong, commander of the Apollo II, watched by hundreds of
millions of television viewers around the world, stepped off the ladder
of the Lander module, Eagle, onto the moon. "That's one small step for 
man, one giant step for mankind" he said. U.S. - A young girl drowned 
when Senator Edward kennedy crashed his car near Chappaquiddick. He is
expected to appear in court for failing to report the accident
0170
                "FIRST JUMBO LANDS AT HEATHROW AIRPORT"
A giant jet airliner,known as a "Jumbo Jet",landed at Heathrow
Airport.Owned by Pan Am,it weighs 350 tons and carries 362 passengers -
twice as many as a Boeing 707. "HONG KONG FLU KILLS 2850 IN ONE WEEK" -
Influenza due to the Hong Kong A2 virus killed 4,000 people in Britain
in the space of one month.  U.K.  - The age of majority is reduced from
21 to 18.  LONDON - Karl Marx's grave in Highgate is daubed with
Swastikas and damaged in a bid to blow it up. 
0770
ULSTER - A fierce gun battle between 1,500 British troops and IRA
snipers continued in Belfast after a night of violence in which two
civilians and a sniper, were killed and ten soldiers wounded.  Bombs
have been exploding throughout the city .  SPAIN - A British Comet
airliner carrying 112 holiday makers and crew crashes, killing all on
board.  U.K.  - Damages totalling £485,000 have been awarded to 28
Thalidomide children.  LONDON - Prime Minister Heath declares a state of
emergency as dockers stage the first national strike since 1926.
0171
                    "MANSON CONVICTED OF TATE MURDERS"
"You won't outlive this old man" was cult murderer Charles Manson's
response to the judge when a Los Angeles jury found him and three others
guilty of the murders of the pregnant actress, Sharon Tate and four
others at her Beverly Hills home in August,1969.  SCOTLAND - Two hundred
football fans were crushed as crowd barriers at the Ibrox Park stadium
in Glasgow collapsed; By the time the rescuers had forced a path through
the terracing to reach the heap of bodies, 66 people were dead.
0771
SOUTH AFRICA - Surgeon Christian Barnard carries out the first Heart and
Lung transplant.  SPACE - American Astronauts go for a drive on the Moon
in their Lunar Buggy.  FRANCE - Riot police on the Riviera order
hundreds of topless women to put their bikini tops back on.  MOROCCO -
King Hassan crushes a coup attempt.  YUGOSLAVIA - Tito is re-elected for
another term.  WIMBLEDON - John Newcombe beats Stan Smith in the men's
singles finals.  LONDON - The British government announces that helmets
are to become compulsory for motorcyclists.
0172
                  "PARATROOPERS FIRE ON DERRY MARCHERS"
An end to the conflict in Northern Ireland seemed further away than ever
after a civil rights march turned into a riot and British Para's opened
fire in Derry's Bogside, killing 13 men and youths and wounding a
further 17.Opposition MP's described the killings as a "Bloody Sunday"
by the British Army.  "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY GROWS TO TEN" - The six became
ten with the signing of the treaty of Brussels which will bring Britain,
Ireland, Denmark and Norway into the European Community.
0772
           "NO GO AREAS IN ULSTER SMASHED BY BRITISH TROOPS"
In a dawn action codenamed "Operation Motorman" 12,000 British troops,
supported by tanks and bulldozers smashed Ulster's "no go areas".
WASHINGTON - John Mitchell resigns as President Nixon's campaign
manager.  NEW DELHI - India agrees to withdraw its troops, occupying
5,000 square miles of Pakistan.  LONDON - Home Secretary, William
Whitelaw admits that he secretly met IRA leaders.  ULSTER - 11 died and
130 were injured in a terrorist bomb attack.
0173
               "PEACE TREATY BRINGS VIETNAM WAR TO AN END"
A ceasefire is to be declared in Vietnam.  An agreement to stop the
killing has been hammered out at the Paris peace talks.  President Nixon
said it was an agreement to bring peace to Vietnam and south east Asia
with honour.  WASHINGTON - Gordon Liddy and James McCord Junior, were
convicted of conspiring to spy on the Democratic Party headquarters in
the Watergate building during the campaign to re-elect Nixon for a
second term.
0773
               "SENATE IS TOLD THAT NIXON BUGGED HIMSELF"
A middle level White House aide revealed that President Nixon installed
listening devices in the Oval office.  The revelation makes it certain
that a massive legal battle will follow to try and get access to the
tapes. U.S. - The Everly Brothers split on stage in California when Phil
smashed his guitar and stormed off. U.K. - Eleven year battle over 
Thalidomide compensation ends with a £20 million court settlement. SOUTH
PACIFIC - There is an Atom Bomb test by France near Mururoa Atoll.
0174
            "HEIRESS PATTY HEARST SEIZED BY REVOLUTIONARIES"
Patty Hearst, the 19 year old heiress who was kidnapped from her San
Francisco apartment, is in the hands of an extremist left wing group,
the self styled Symbionese Liberation Army. "BOMB RIPS TROOP BUS APART 
ON M62" - Eleven people were murdered when an explosion blew apart a 
coach carrying servicemen and their families on the M62 near Bradford.
SOUTH AFRICA - Doctor Christiaan Barnard performed the first heart 
transplant without removal of the organs.
0774
                 "NIXON MUST HAND OVER TAPES TO COURT"
The Supreme Court of America, ruled by eight votes to one, that in the
case of the US versus Nixon, the President must hand over the additional
tape recordings which have been demanded by the special prosecutor who
wants them as evidence in the trial of six former Nixon aides.
ARGENTINA - President Juan Domingo Peron, aged 78, died after a 16 day
illness.  He handed power over to his wife, who is now the first women
president of Argentina, or of any other South American Country.
0175
BELFAST - I.R.A.  call an end to 25 day ceasefire.  CANADA - 13 murdered
in a Montreal tavern; multiple killers suspected.  MALAYSIA - Ali wins
15 round decision over Joe Bugner.  PHNOM PENH - The Kmer Rouge launched
a new assault in its five year war as the Communist forces begin a siege
of the Cambodian capital.  ANGOLA - Portugal agrees to give Angola its
freedom after 13 years of fighting.  AUSTRALIA - 17 people die when a
ship rams the Tasman Bridge in Hobart, Tasmania.  LONDON - The
Government abandons the latest Channel Tunnel proposal.
0775
              "HANDSHAKES IN SPACE AS AMERICA GREETS RUSSIA"
The symbolic Russian-American joint spaceflight, Soyuz and Apollo docked
140 miles above the Atlantic.  The commanders, Tom Stattford and Alexei
Leonov, shook hands through the hatches of their spacecraft and
exchanged greeting in each others languages.  During the next two days
the crews, moved from one spacecraft to another and appeared on
television together.  LONDON - The prosecution in the Birmingham bomb
trial concedes the 6 accused were assaulted by police while in custody.
0176
               "FIRST S.A.S. UNITS GO TO NORTHERN IRELAND"
British troops from the elite Special Air Service Regiment were ordered
into the "Bandit Country" of South Armagh where 15 Protestants and
Catholics died in sectarian attacks this month. "AGATHA CHRISTIE, THE 
QUEEN OF CRIME FICTION, DIES" - Dame Agatha Christie, the Queen of the 
Detective story ,died at the age of 85, just after publishing Poirot's 
last case, "Curtain".  SAUDI ARABIA - 82 died when a Lebanese airliner 
crashed.  U.K.  - Hurricane force winds left 22 dead.
0776
           "EARTHMEN GET FIRST CLOSE LOOK AT THE RED PLANET"
America's Viking spaceprobe landed on Mars and sent back to Earth the
first close up pictures of the planet's surface.  CHINA - The world's
most violent earthquake devastated the city of Tangshan.  The city was
hit by tremors registering over 8.1 on the Richter scale.  Hundreds of
people are feared dead in the ruined city.  "BORG BECOMES WIMBLEDON
IDOL" - To the delight of the teenage girls who mobbed his every move,
Borg became the youngest Champion for 45 years.
0177
"Let's do it" were murderer Gary Gilmore's last words before becoming
the first convict to be executed in the United States for ten years.  He
was executed by firing squad at the Utah State prison warehouse, ending
a campaign across America against the return of the death penalty.
LONDON - Seven IRA bombs explode in the West End.  SYDNEY - Eighty
people were killed in a train crash.  FRANCE - Authorities release Abu
Daoud, the PLO terrorist leader and founder of "Black September".

0777
ISRAEL - Israeli and American relations were plunged into crisis when
Menachem Begin snubbed President Carter.  The new right wing Prime
Minister gave his official blessing to the creation of three Israeli
settlements on the occupied West Bank of the Jordan, despite a plea from
President Carter not to do so.  AMERICA - Looting and vandalism was rife
as the city of New York was blacked out by a massive power cut.  "MEDAL
OF FREEDOM AWARDED TO MARTIN LUTHER KING" - President Carter gave Martin
Luther King's widow a medal of freedom, awarded to him posthumously.
0178
An Air India Boeing 747 exploded in mid air, killing 213 people.
Experts are investigating the cause of the disaster.  SOUTH AFRICA -
Donald Woods, the South African newspaper editor who was banned from
continuing his work after he attacked the government over the death of
Steve Biko, the black leader, has escaped to lesotho, hitchhiking over
300 miles and then swimming a flooded river.  LONDON - An Arab gunman
murdered Said Hammani, the PLO's London representative.  He was shot 3
times in the head as he sat alone in his West End office.
0778
                    "FIRST TEST TUBE BABY IS BORN"
The worlds first test tube baby, weighing in at just under six pounds,
has been delivered by a Caesarean operation at Oldham District General
Hospital in Manchester.  "EXPLOSION IN SPANISH CAMPSITE KILLS 200" -
About 200 holiday makers were killed when a liquid gas tanker exploded
in the middle of a crowded camp site.  "BORG GETS A WIMBLEDON HAT TRICK"
- With a straight sets victory over Jimmy Connors, Bjorn Borg became the
first man this century to record a hat trick of titles at Wimbledon.
0179
                "49 DEAD AS OIL TANKER EXPLODES IN IRELAND"
An oil tanker, unloading its 120,000 ton cargo at Bantry, was ripped
apart by a series of explosions killing 49 people.  The blasts rocked
the town.  IRAN - The Shah of Iran fled from his capital, driven into
exile by supporters of the Ayatollah Khomeini, who has masterminded the
downfall of the "Peacock Throne" from his own exile in France.  VIETNAM
- Vietnamese army forces have crushed the lightly armed troops of the
Kmer Rouge regime in Cambodia and have occupied the capital.
0779
                   "SANDINISTAS VICTORIOUS IN NICARAGUA"
In Nicaragua, General Anastasio Somozo Debayle, whose family have ruled
the country since 1933, finally gave in to Sandinista rebels.  He
resigned and flew into exile.  INDONESIA - Over 750 people are feared
dead after a Tidal wave hit the island of Lomblen, there was no warning
of the impending disaster.  IRAN - The Ayatollah Khomeini bans the
broadcasting of music, saying it corrupts the youth of the country.
WIMBLEDON - Bjorn Borg and Martina Navratilova are this years Champions.
0180
            "MOSLEMS PROTEST AGAINST INVASION OF AFGHANISTAN"
As the number of Soviet troops in Afghanistan following last month's
invasion climbed to over 80,000, the Moslem world sharply rebuked the
Kremlin and called for a Soviet withdrawal saying it was a flagrant
violation of international law.  KENYA - Naturalist Joy Adamson, author
of "Born Free", is killed, apparently by a lion or tiger.  INDIA - Mrs
Ghandi wins the general election.  TOKYO - Paul McCartney is deported
after spending nine days in jail, suspected of importing Marijuana.
0780
MOSCOW - Russian Premier Brezhnev opens the 22nd Olympic Games.  EGYPT -
The deposed Shah of Iran died of cancer in Cairo after living the last
18 months of his life in exile.  He is to be buried in a Cairo mausoleum
after a state funeral which President Sadat said would show "All honours
and due respect" but without any of the worlds leaders being present.
AMERICA - Ex Actor Ronald Reagan was chosen by the Republican party as
its presidential candidate.  BRITAIN - Unemployment stands at 1,896,634,
the highest unemployment figures since 1936.
0181
                    "HOSTAGES RELEASED BY IRANIANS"
After 444 days of captivity the American hostages taken by Iranian
"Students" who stormed the U.S embassy in Tehran have been released.
"YORKSHIRE RIPPER CHARGED WITH MURDERS" - A long distance lorry driver 
was charged with murder by police investigating the Yorkshire Ripper 
killings. Peter Sutcliffe, made a five minute court appearance at Dews-
bury, accused of killing Jacqueline Hill, a Leeds student.  NEW  YORK - 
Mark Chapman pleads insanity to the charge of murdering John Lennon.
0781
                 "THE WORLD WATCHES THE ROYAL WEDDING"
Over 700 million TV viewers worldwide watched the Prince of Wales marry
Lady Diana Spencer, the Kindergarten helper, at St.  Paul's Cathedral.
                "BORG'S WINNING STREAK ENDED BY McENROE"
Bjorn Borg's record breaking run at Wimbledon is over.  After a string
of 41 victories stretching back to 1976, Borg finally fell to the man he
beat in last years final, John McEnroe.  ROME - Mehmet Ali Agca is
jailed for life for trying to kill the Pope.
0182
               "PLANE CRASHES IN SIGHT OF THE WHITE HOUSE"
Over 78 people died when a passenger plane crashed on take off from
Washington's National Airport, slicing into cars and trucks before it
plunged over a bridge into the frozen Potomac River, it is believed many
of those killed froze to death in the icy water.  "SPAIN CALLS OF SEIGE
OF GIBRALTAR" - Spain has agreed to lift its 12 year seige of Gibraltar
in return for talks on the colony's future.  The deal means that Spain
will no longer demand the return of "The Rock".
0782
               "BEIRUT BLASTED BY ISRAELI BOATS AND PLANES"
Israel kept up its pressure on Beirut when its aircraft blasted
Palestinian positions in the shattered city.  Gunboats cruising off the
once fashionable Corniche Coast joined tanks and guns in the hills
ringing the Lebanese capital in the bombardment.  Over 120 people have
been killed.  FRANCE - Forty six children died in a coach collision near
Dijon. LONDON - A bomb exploded in Hyde Park killing 2 Guardsmen and 7 
horses from the Blues and Royals.
0183
SPORT - Bjorn Borg, still in his prime at 26, has left the Tennis world
reeling after he announced his retirement from competition.  He is
widely regarded as the greatest tennis player ever with eleven Grand
Slam titles.  ITALY - 25 members of the Red Brigade are sentenced to
life in prison for the murder of Aldo Moro, the former Premier and
Italian statesman.  BRITAIN - A policeman and 2 police women die trying
to save a man who jumped into the sea to save his dog.  BOLIVIA - Klaus
Barbie the notorious wartime SS Chief of Lyons, is arrested.
0783
Mehmet Alia Agca, the Turkish terrorist who is serving a life sentence
for the attempted murder of Pope John Paul II in May 1981, claimed that
KGB and agents of the Bulgarian secret service were behind the plot in
which the Pope was badly wounded.  "NIVEN, THE PERFECT ENGLISHMAN, IS
DEAD" - Actor David Niven died of a muscle wasting disease at his home
in Switzerland aged 73.  He had lost the use of his left hand but was
debonair to the end.  ECUADOR - 119 people died when an airliner flew
into a mountain.  U.K.  - 20 die in Britain's worst helicopter crash.
0184
                    "75 DEAD IN TUNISIAN FOOD RIOTS"
Habib Bourguiba, hero of Tunisia's independence struggle, and the
country's president for the last 27 years, allowed his Prime Minister to
increase the price of bread by 125 percent.  This resulted in a revolt
from the people, and after a week of rioting the death toll reached 75.
BRITAIN - At least 6 people died in hurricane force winds and a further
17 are feared dead after abandoning the stricken freighter "Radiant Med"
in the wind lashed waters off Guernsey.  
0784
                    "KILLER MASSACRES 20 AT McDONALDS"
A gunman massacred 20 people and wounded 16 others at a McDonalds
hamburger restaurant in California.  Before being shot dead himself by
police marksmen he said his motive for the killings was a grudge against
the San Ysidro community after he was fired from his job a security
guard.  U.K.  - 11 day old Holly Roffey becomes the worlds youngest
heart transplant patient.  SCOTLAND - At least 13 people died when a
crowded Edinburgh to Glasgow train crashed near Falkirk.
0185
AFRICA - 390 people were killed when an Ethiopian train fell into a 
ravine. NEW YORK - Bernhardt Goetz, who has admitted shooting four black
youths on the New York subway, is to face an illegal weapons charge, a 
grand jury decided. Goetz claimed he acted in self defence after being 
threatened by the youths.  Many New Yorkers regard Goetz at a hero, they
are sick of being intimidated by muggers. LONDON - Eight died when a gas
explosion wrecked a bloack of flats in Putney, South London. PHILLIPINES
- 26 are charged in Manila for the murder of Benigno Aquino.
0785
                       "LIVE AID ROCKS THE WORLD"
Bob Geldolf, the man who last Christmas brought together superstars of
pop music to help Ethiopia's hungry has done it again, on an inter-
national scale.  Two massive concerts - one in Wembley and one in
Philadelphia, have raised a staggering £40 million, all to help Africa's
famine stricken poor. ITALY - Over 260 people are feared dead after 
floods from a burst dam engulfed a village in the Italian Dolomites.
Over 55 million gallons of water poured from the dam.
0186
                   "SPACE SHUTTLE EXPLODES ON TAKE OFF"
The American Space Shuttle Challenger exploded after lift off, killing
its crew of seven. Among them was Christa McAuliffe, a school teacher
selected as the first to fly in the citizen in space programme. LONDON -
Michael Heseltine resigns over a row within the government over Westland
Helicopters. MOSCOW - President Gorbachev proposes a 15 year timetable 
to eliminate all nuclear arms by the end of the century. NEW DELHI - 3 
Sikhs sentenced to death for murder of Mrs Ghandi.
0786
AMERICA - The Statue of Liberty celebrated her 100th birthday by
re-opening her newly refurbished doors to visters.  ATLANTIC - Divers
who have found the wreck of the Titanic on the Atlantic sea bed say that
the unsinkable liner was not sunk by an enormous gash in the hull caused
by an iceberg but simply buckled on impact, with the rivets popping
"silently but lethally" out of place.  U.K.  - A report says 20 percent
of children are now born outside of marraige.  N.IRELAND - 100 are
injured in Orange Day clashes between Protestants and Catholics.
0187
                    "ENVOY WAITE KIDNAPPED IN BEIRUT"
Fears are beginning to be expressed about the safety of Terry Waite, the
special envoy of the Archbishop of Canterbury, who is in Beirut
negotiating for the release of foreign hostages held by supporters of
the Hezbollah "Party of God".  BEIJING - Thousands of students march on
Tien An Men Square in the biggest demonstration since 1976.  DUBLIN -
Doctor Fitzgerald's coalition government collapses. CENTRAL AMERICA - 96
die when a hotel collapses in Puerto Rico.
0787
                  "BARBIE GETS LIFE FOR HIS WAR CRIMES"
Applause and cheering broke out in court as the former SS officer Klaus
Barbie, the "Butcher of Lyons" was found guilty on all charges for his 
part in wartime atrocities. GREECE - The Greek government announced a 
state of emergency, as the death toll from a national heatwave rose to 
over 700. WEST GERMANY - 30 people died when a tanker lorry crashed into
a restaurant and burst into flames.  USSR - Six technicians at the 
Chernobyl nuclear plant go on trial for causing last years accident.
0188
U.K.  - Manchester nurses strike for better pay.  ISRAEL - Bloodshed 
worsens in Gaza uprising.  U.K.  - The Windscale cover up of 1957 is
revealed.  IRELAND - Peacemaker Sean McBride dies.  U.S.  - AIDS virus
spreads to New York babies. CENTRAL AMERICA - Nicaragua offers a cease-
fire to Contras.  USSR - Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev is reported to 
be relaxing control over Eastern Europe.  U.K.  - Margaret Thatcher 
becomes the longest continiously serving Prime Minister this century. 
U.S. - Medical research suggests Aspirin can prevent heart attacks.
0788
             "AMERICAN WARSHIP SHOOTS DOWN IRANIAN AIRLINER"
The US guided missile cruiser "Vincennes" shot down an Iranian airliner
on a regular flight over the Gulf.  All 286 people on board the Airbus
A300 died when it was blown apart by a direct hit from a missile.  NORTH
SEA - Over 150 are feared dead in an oil rig disaster. U.K. - The Church
of England General Synod voted for the ordination of women priests.
LONDON - PM Margaret Thatcher attacks the idea of a United Europe. 
OXFORD - Scientists start date testing a piece of the Turin Shroud.
0189
U.K.  - A British Midland 737 jet with 117 passengers and 8 flight crew
on board crashed on the M1 motorway less than half a mile from East
Midlands Airport when the pilot reported engine difficulties and was
forced to land.  47 people died in the crash and 78 were rescued. U.S. -
Five children died and 30 were wounded when a gunman launched an 
unprovoked attack on a crowded school playground in Stockton, California
. "AMERICAN NAVY SHOOTS DOWN LIBYAN JETS" - US Navy jets shot down two 
Libyan MiG-23 fighter jets when they approached in a hostile manner.
0789
                 "ARAB TERRORISTS HANG AMERICAN HOSTAGE"
An Arab terrorist group claims to have hanged a senior US marine officer
in retaliation for the kidnapping of a pro-Iranian guerrilla leader by
the Israelis.  LIBYA - A South Korean DC-10 crashes at Tripoli airport,
killing 78 people.  U.K.  - Britain has its sunniest summer of the
century so far.  FRANCE - A farmworker shoots dead 14 people including
most of his own family in the village of Luziol, near Besancon.  IRELAND
- Charles Haughey returns to power as Taoiseach (Prime Minister).
0190
           "AFTER 27 YEARS IN PRISON, NELSON MANDELA IS FREE"
Two thousand people cheered as Nelson Mandela walked free from Victor 
Verster prison near Capetown. He was jailed 27 years ago to life 
imprisonment for sabotage and plotting to overthrow the South African
Government. BRITAIN - Male workers at Nuclear power plants have been
advised by doctors no to have children due to new test which show an
increased risk of Leukaemia in their children. IRAQ - A British Journal-
ist was hanged by the Iraqi's after being accused of spying.
0790
        "THE WEST PREPARES FOR BATTLE AFTER IRAQ INVADES KUWAIT"  
The Western coalition countries have condemned Iraq after it invaded the
tiny country of Kuwait. Iraq had been massing tanks and aircraft on the
border for weeks. Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, claims that Kuwait have
stolen £2.4 billion worth of oil from disputed oilfields. ITALY - West
Germany win the World Cup, one which was marred by some of the most
blatant fouls seen in the competition. GERMANY - East and West Germany
were unified after 45 years, only 11 months since the Berlin wall fell.
0191
         "DESERT SHIELD BECOMES DESERT STORM AS GULF WAR BEGINS"
Baghdad shuddered under the impact of heavy bombs as waves of allied 
planes pounded the city, after the deadline for the withdrawl of Iraqi
troops from Kuwait passed. The Desert Storm land war took only 100 hours
to defeat the Iraqi forces, however a report shows that most allied 
troops died in 'friendly fire' incidents. S. AFRICA - Winnie Mandela, 
wife of Nelson, was sentenced to six years in prison for her complicity
in the murder of a black youth, she was released on bail pending appeal.
0791
           "EUROPEAN LEADERS MEET TO SEEK PEACE FOR YUGOSLAVIA"
Leaders of Yugoslavia and 4 of its neighbours met in Dubrovnik in an 
attempt to halt the seemingly inexorable slide into a full scale civil
war. BRITAIN - John McCarthy, a Briton who had been held hostage in the
Lebanon flew back into Britain to a hero's welcome. YOGOSLAVIA - It is 
reported that the fighting is intensifying. BRITAIN - Freddie Mercury,
singer from the group Queen, died of Aids. USSR - President Gorbachev
resignes from office as the Soviet Union is dissolved.
0192
AMERICA - Former Heavyweight Boxing Champion Mike Tyson was sentenced to
10 years imprisonment after being found guilty of rape. BRITAIN - Comic
genius Benny Hill died of a heart attack at the age of 68.
                  "LOS ANGELES IS RAVAGED BY RACE RIOTS"
58 people were murdered when black youths went on the rampage after a 
court found four white policemen, accused of beating a black motorist, 
Rodney King, not guilty. The President was forced to call in 5000 troops
to impose a dawn to dusk curfew.
0792
             "WORLD STUNNED BY SERBIAN CONCENTRATION CAMPS"
The world was shocked after pictures were shown of emaciated prisoners
being held in Serbian 'detention' camps. The film confirms reports of
murder, rape and mass brutality on civilians as the Serbains carry out
their 'ethnic cleansing' policy. U.K. - The Bank of England lost #15 
Billion as it struggled to maintain the value of the pound. AMERICA - 
Arkansas Governor, Bill Clinton is inaugerated as the 42nd President.
U.K. - A fire badly damages Windsor Castle destroying many treasures.
0193
U.K. - A Liberian registered oil tanker 'The Braer' runs aground in the 
Shetland Islands, spewing crude oil into the sea. LIVERPOOL - Two ten
year old boys were charged with the murder of two year old James Bulger,
Police had to protect them from the crowds outside the court. TEXAS - 
After a 51 day seige at Waco, cult members set fire to the compound when
the FBI prepared to enter it, it is estimated over 85 people died in the
fire. GENEVA - It is reported that the latest peace plan to stop the 
bloodshed in Yogoslavia has been ingnored.
0793
AMERICA - President Clinton is rocked by accusations of adultery and
missing funds whilst he was still the Governor of Arkansas, these are
only the latest problems for the President who has seen his popularity
fall to the lowest level of any president since the second world war.
Massive bush fires are raging towards Beverly Hills in Hollywood, where
many film stars have had to evacuate their homes, these fires come only
months after parts of America were devastated in massive flooding that
saw thousands of people homeless and a state of emergency declared.
0194
BRAZIL - Three days of mourning were announced after the death of Grand
Prix Racing Champion Ayrton Senna who died after colliding with a wall
at 190 mph during a race. U.K. - After over 100 years of planning the
Channel Tunnel opens, at a cost of 10 billion pounds. SOUTH AFRICA - The
first all colour elections take place, with black A.N.C leader Nelson 
Mandela becoming the first non white leader in South African history.
U.S. - There are demonstrations in an attempt to prevent the Government
of Singapore carrying out the caning of an American for Vandalism.
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