Labour's share crashed to 209 seats.
Sir Alec Douglas-Home became Conservative party leader and prime minister following the resignation of Harold Macmillan on health grounds. Margaret Thatcher, party leader since 1975, became Britain's first female prime minister with a majority of 43 seats. Has China's housing bubble burst?
Euro coins first hit the streets of the 12 'eurozone' countries on 1 January 2002. Under American pressure, the canal was handed back to Egypt and the invasion force was withdrawn. For further background, see history of Italy and list of Prime Ministers of Italy. Nineteen mainly Saudi Arabian terrorists used hijacked planes to destroy the twin towers of the World Trade Centre in New York and part of the Pentagon building in Washington. These were the first Games since Berlin in 1936. The Conservatives had 376 seats (42.3 % of the vote), Labour 229 (30.8%) and Alliance 22 (22.5%). Peter Blake's collage for the album cover has become iconic. Senator from Massachusetts. A timeline of Important events from British History from the Romans to the present day. The Humber Bridge was built between 1972 and 1980.
In 1989, while working at CERN, the European Particle Physics Laboratory in Switzerland, Tim Berners-Lee came up with the idea of the World Wide Web, a new way of using existing internet technology to share information.
Civil partnerships between same-sex couples were introduced in the 2004 Civil Partnership Act and came into law in December 2005.
Hurricane Katrina, of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season, was the costliest hurricane - as well as one of the five deadliest, in the history of the United States. In return for the loan, the IMF demanded cuts in government spending. He was succeeded as prime minister by Anthony Eden, who had also served as Churchill's Foreign Secretary and was widely recognised as his 'heir apparent'. Ten men, including Sands, starved themselves to death, while 61 people were killed outside the prison in related violence. Fifty two people were killed and more than 700 injured. See also the list of Prime Ministers of Australia 16th century. Check our encyclopedia for a gloss on thousands of topics from biographies to the table of elements.Learn more about the mythic conflict between the Argives and the Trojans.Learn about one of the world's oldest and most popular religions.Read about major events in U.S. History from before 1600 through the present, including presidential elections, the Civil Rights Movement, and more.Test your knowledge with Infoplease trivia and quizzes. Three days after the invasion, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher sent a naval task force to liberate the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic.
Winston Churchill was by now 80 and his health was declining.
Margaret Thatcher, party leader since 1975, became Britain's first female prime minister with a majority of 43 seats.
The British were unable to prevent the resulting inter-communal violence which resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths. New Atheism is the name given to the ideas promoted by a collection of modern atheist writers who have advocated the view that "religion should not simply be tolerated but should be countered, criticized, and exposed by rational argument wherever its influence arises." Learn more about the world with our collection of regional and country maps.Brush up on your geography and finally learn what countries are in Eastern Europe with our maps.Not sure about the geography of the middle east?
The tests led to a debate in Britain about the dangers of nuclear weapons, and to the foundation in 1958 of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND). On 11th March 2011, a 9.0-magnitude quake and subsequent tsunami hit the east of Japan, killing over 15,000 and leaving another 9,000 missing. The Conservatives were re-elected with 379 seats and an enormous majority of 144 seats.