05 Jan	Israel ends major Ethiopian rescue mission
10 Jan	Safety concerns over electronic trike
10 Jan	Gas blast kills eight in Putney
29 Jan	Thatcher snubbed by Oxford dons
16 Feb	Falklands' row civil servant resigns
03 Mar	Miners call off year-long strike
08 Mar	Beirut car bomb kills dozens
11 Mar	Gorbachev becomes Soviet leader
11 May	Fans killed in Bradford stadium fire
31 May	English teams banned after Heysel
01 Jun	Hippies clash with police at Stonehenge
02 Jun	Uefa bans English clubs from Europe
23 Jun	Air India jet crashes killing 329
25 Jun	Police hunt IRA resort bombs
30 Jun	Beirut ordeal ends for US hostages
04 Jul	Teenage genius gets a first
07 Jul	Boris Becker wins Wimbledon at 17
10 Jul	Rainbow Warrior sinks after explosion
13 Jul	Live Aid makes millions for Africa
13 Aug	Heart-lung transplant makes history
15 Aug	Virgin voyage ends in disaster
23 Aug	West German spy chief defects to East
26 Aug	Budd smashes 5,000m record
28 Aug	East Germans charged with espionage
04 Sep	Titanic wreck captured on film
14 Sep	USSR expels 25 in tit-for-tat spy row
15 Sep	Europe wins Ryder Cup
19 Sep	Mexico suffers devastating earthquake
28 Sep	Riots in Brixton after police shooting
01 Oct	Riots erupt in Toxteth and Peckham
06 Oct	Policeman killed in Tottenham riots
07 Oct	Gunmen hijack Italian cruise liner
03 Nov	Agents plead guilty in Rainbow Warrior trial
09 Nov	America welcomes Charles and Diana
13 Nov	Volcano kills thousands in Colombia
15 Nov	Anglo-Irish agreement signed
19 Nov	Superpower summit 'off to good start'
24 Nov	Commandoes storm hijacked plane
27 Nov	Kinnock moves against Militant
29 Nov	'Gas blast' kills five in Glasgow
21 Nov	Superpowers aim for 'safer world'
18 Dec	Drug traffickers' appeal rejected
27 Dec	Gunmen kill 16 at two European airports