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Pro-Communist demonstrators outside Russia's Parliament building in Moscow1993: Hardline Communists riot in Moscow

Demonstrators who back rebel ministers occupying Moscow's parliament in defiance of President Boris Yeltsin clash with police.


Mexican troops crouch in the Tlatelolco during the violence1968: Student riots threaten Mexico Olympics
More than 25 people die during a gun battle in Mexico City just 10 days before the Olympics Games are due to begin.

Archbishop Dr Robert Runcie and Pope John Paul II1989: Anglican anger over united church
Anglican rebels disrupt a church service in Rome attended by the Archbishop of Canterbury in protest at plans for closer ties with the Catholic church.

One of the surviving sextuplets in an incubator1968: Birth of sextuplets stuns Britain
A woman gives birth to six babies in what is being hailed as the first recorded case of live sextuplets in Britain.

Roy Hattersley (left) and Neil Kinnock1983: 'Dream ticket' wins Labour leadership
Neil Kinnock becomes the new leader of the Labour party, with Roy Hattersley joining him as deputy.

1974: Cannabis 'causes brain damage'
Experiments on monkeys in America reveal how smoking cannabis can cause brain damage.
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