26 Jul	1952: Eva Peron dies
07 Sep	1952: Egyptian army ousts prime minister
05 Nov	1952: Landslide victory for Eisenhower
16 Mar	1953: Marshal Tito makes historic visit to London
08 Apr	1953: Seven years' hard labour for Kenyatta
24 Aug	1954: Brazilian president found dead
02 Dec	1954: US Senate condemns McCarthy
29 Feb	1956: Hopes for Mid East peace mission
18 Jun	1956: Truman rejects anti-Stalin talk
03 Jul	1956: Commonwealth heads honoured
03 Aug	1957: Rahman to lead independent Malaya
01 Jun	1958: De Gaulle returns to tackle Algeria
08 Jan	1959: De Gaulle becomes president
16 Feb	1959: Castro sworn in as Cuban PM
17 Feb	1959: Turkish leader involved in fatal crash
23 Feb	1959: Macmillan and Khrushchev talk peace
31 Aug	1959: Anglo-US TV debate makes history
17 May	1960: East-West summit in tatters after spy plane row
20 Jul	1960: Ceylon chooses world's first woman PM
26 Sep	1960: Kennedy and Nixon clash in TV debate
09 Nov	1960: Narrow victory for John F Kennedy
20 Jan	1961: John F Kennedy sworn in as US president
13 Feb	1961: Ex-Congo PM declared dead
27 May	1963: Kenyatta to be Kenya's first premier
22 Nov	1963: Kennedy shot dead in Dallas
12 Jun	1964: Nelson Mandela jailed for life
14 May	1964: Nasser and Khrushchev divert the Nile
15 Oct	1964: Khrushchev 'retires' as head of USSR
25 Oct	1964: President Kaunda takes power in Zambia
28 Sep	1964: Kennedy murder was 'no conspiracy'
03 Nov	1964: Election triumph for Lyndon B Johnson
28 Jul	1965: US orders 50,000 troops to Vietnam
11 Nov	1965: Rhodesia breaks from UK
07 Feb	1966: Hawaii hosts US-Vietnamese summit
05 Jun	1968: Robert Kennedy injured in shooting
06 Nov	1968: Nixon wins close contest for president
28 Apr	1969: President Charles de Gaulle resigns
25 Jul	1969: Kennedy pleads guilty over car crash
16 Jan	1970: Gaddafi takes over as Libya's premier
02 Mar	1970: Ian Smith declares Rhodesia a republic
19 Mar	1970: Willi and Willy meet in East Germany
01 Oct	1970: Mourners killed as Nasser is buried
10 Oct	1970: Canadian minister seized by gunmen
22 Apr	1971: Haitian dictator dies
07 Nov	1972: Nixon takes second term by landslide
30 Apr	1973: Nixon takes rap for Watergate scandal
31 May	1973: US Senate stops Cambodia bombing
14 Oct	1973: Thai army shoots protesters
25 Nov	1973: Army deposes 'hated' Greek president
01 Dec	1973: Israel's founding father dies
20 Dec	1973: Spanish prime minister assassinated
19 May	1974: Giscard d'Estaing voted French president
29 Jun	1974: First female president for Argentina
23 Jul	1974: Greek military rule gives in to democracy
08 Aug	1974: President Nixon to resign from office
21 Apr	1975: Vietnam's President Thieu resigns
12 Jun	1975: Gandhi found guilty of corruption
29 Oct	1975: Franco's 36-year reign ends
22 Jul	1977: Deng Xiaoping back in power
03 Feb	1978: Sadat in US for Mid East talks
10 May	1978: Italy mourns murdered statesman
22 Aug	1978: Kenya's founding father dies
01 Feb	1979: Exiled Ayatollah Khomeini returns to Iran
13 Mar	1979: Grenada leader ousted by coup
04 Apr	1979: Deposed Pakistani PM is executed
26 Oct	1979: South Korean President killed
07 Jan	1980: Gandhi returned by landslide vote
04 Nov	1980: Reagan beats Carter in landslide
23 Feb	1981: Rebel army seizes control in Spain
30 Mar	1981: President Reagan is shot
26 May	1981: Italy in crisis as cabinet resigns
06 Oct	1981: Egypt's President Sadat assassinated
10 Nov	1982: Brezhnev rumours sweep Moscow
23 Mar	1983: Reagan launches Cold War into space
20 Oct	1983: Grenada's prime minister 'assassinated'
29 Feb	1984: Trudeau resigns as Canada's PM
31 Oct	1984: Indian prime minister shot dead
01 Nov	1984: Violence follows Gandhi killing
11 Mar	1985: Gorbachev becomes Soviet leader
21 Aug	1983: Filipino opposition leader shot dead
26 Apr	1984: Reagan arrives in China
22 Feb	1986: Filipino coup leaders tell Marcos to go
28 Feb	1986: Swedish prime minister assassinated
08 Apr	1986: Eastwood voted mayor by landslide
17 Aug	1987: Hitler's deputy found dead
15 Oct	1987: Fiji one step closer to a republic
02 Nov	1988: Dead heat in Israel elections
14 Feb	1989: Ayatollah sentences author to death
18 Oct	1989: East Germany leader ousted
24 Nov	1989: New era for Czechoslovakia
25 Dec	1989: Romania's 'first couple' executed
02 Feb	1990: De Klerk dismantles apartheid in South Africa
12 Jul	1990: Yeltsin resignation splits Soviet Communists
08 Nov	1990: Ireland elects first woman president
21 May	1991: Bomb kills India's former leader Rajiv Gandhi
25 Dec	1991: Gorbachev resigns as Soviet Union breaks up
07 Feb	1992: Maastricht treaties make EU official
04 Nov	1992: Clinton beats Bush to the White House
02 Oct	1993: Hardline Communists riot in Moscow
10 May	1994: Mandela becomes SA's first black president
14 Oct	1994: Israelis and Arafat share peace prize
04 Nov	1995: Israeli PM shot dead
10 Jan	1996: King of Jordan in historic Tel Aviv visit
19 Jul	1996: 'War criminal' Karadzic resigns
06 Nov	1996: 'Comeback Kid' wins second term
19 Feb	1997: China's reformist Deng Xiaoping dies
15 Apr	1998: Former Cambodian dictator dies
07 Jul	1998: Chief's death sparks turmoil in Nigeria
26 Jan	1998: Clinton denies affair with intern
17 Aug	1998: Clinton admits Lewinsky affair
21 Sep	1998: Clinton's Grand Jury testimony released
25 Nov	1998: 'Corrupt' Turkish government falls
27 Feb	1999: Nigerians vote to break with military
02 Mar	2000: Pinochet escapes torture trial charges
06 Jul	2000: Prime Minister's son arrested for drunkenness
05 Oct	2000: Protesters storm Yugoslav parliament
06 Oct	2000: Milosevic quits, street celebrations continue
16 Jan	2001: DR Congo President Kabila shot
07 Nov	2001: Billionaire mayor for New York
30 May	2001: French ex-minister jailed over sleaze
16 Aug	2003: 'War criminal' Idi Amin dies
11 Sep	2003: Anna Lindh dies of stab injuries
08 Oct	2003: The Terminator takes on California
31 Oct	2003: End of Mahathir era in Malaysia
18 Nov	2003: High security as Bush visits UK
14 Dec	2003: Saddam Hussein captured
03 Nov	2004: George W Bush wins second term
11 Nov	2004: Veteran leader Yasser Arafat is dead
27 Dec	2004: Yushchenko wins Ukraine election re-run
09 Jan	2005: Abbas triumphs in Palestinian elections