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2001: Nepal royal family massacred
The heir to the throne of Himalayan kingdom of Nepal massacres the royal family before turning the gun on himself. |
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1993: Serb attack on football match kills 11 Serb forces shell a football match in Bosnia killing 11 people, including four children. |
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1979: End of white rule in Rhodesia Rhodesia formally ends nearly 90 years of white minority rule and declares it will now be known as Zimbabwe-Rhodesia |
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1958: De Gaulle returns to tackle Algeria France's General Charles de Gaulle is invited back to the helm as the crisis in Algeria threatens to bring civil war to France itself. |
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1985: Hippies clash with police at Stonehenge More than 300 people are arrested as police intercept a convoy of hippies going to Stonehenge. |
1970: British Prime Minister hit by flying egg
The Prime Minister, Harold Wilson, has been hit in the face with an egg thrown by a Young conservative demonstrator.
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