08 Jan	Dozens die as plane crashes on motorway
23 Jan	Many killed in Tajik earthquake
12 Feb	Belfast lawyer Finucane murdered
14 Feb	Ayatollah sentences author to death
15 Feb	Soviet troops pull out of Afghanistan
20 Feb	IRA bombs Tern Hill barracks
04 Mar	Six die in Purley rail crash
20 Mar	Senior RUC men die in gun attack
24 Mar	Exxon Valdez creates oil slick disaster
27 Mar	Millions of Russians go to the polls
06 Apr	Dockers' 'jobs for life' scrapped
15 Apr	Football fans crushed at Hillsborough
24 May	Yorkshire Ripper's wife wins damages
04 Jun	Massacre in Tiananmen Square
05 Jun	Election boost for Solidarity
16 Jun	Hungary reburies fallen hero Imre Nagy
05 Jul	Irangate colonel avoids prison
14 Jul	Paris in 200-year-old revolutionary fervour
25 Jul	Diana opens Landmark Aids Centre
01 Aug	Britain's oldest person turns 112
18 Aug	Man U sold in record takeover deal
20 Aug	Marchioness river crash 'kills 30'
25 Aug	Voyager spacecraft reaches Neptune
22 Sep	Ten dead in Kent barracks bomb
02 Oct	Anglican anger over united church
17 Oct	Earthquake hits San Francisco
18 Oct	East Germany leader ousted
19 Oct	Guildford Four released after 15 years
07 Nov	Protests force out East German rulers
09 Nov	Berliners celebrate the fall of the Wall
17 Nov	Police crush Prague protest rally
18 Nov	Protesters demand reform in Bulgaria
24 Nov	New era for Czechoslovakia
03 Dec	Malta summit ends Cold War
05 Dec	Thatcher beats off leadership rival
18 Dec	Labour's union U-turn
20 Dec	US forces oust General Noriega
22 Dec	Brandenburg Gate re-opens
25 Dec	Romania's 'first couple' executed