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Key Anniversaries 2006
0 26 July 1956
Egypt seizes Suez Canal

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0 30 July 1966
Football glory for England

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0 12 January 1976
Crime writer Agatha Christie dies

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0 28 January 1986
Seven dead in space shuttle disaster

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0 13 March 1996
Massacre in Dunblane school gym


 
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