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Bluebird during the record-breaking attempt

1964: Campbell speeds to double record

Donald Campbell breaks the world water speed record, the only man to break both land and water speed records in the same year.

1999: Putin takes over as Yeltsin resigns
Boris Yeltsin has resigned as Russian president and says Prime Minister Vladimir Putin will take over immediately.

1987: Zeebrugge heroes honoured
People who displayed heroism during the Zeebrugge ferry disaster are recognised in the New Year's Honours List.

1951: Churchill sets sail for talks with Truman
The British Prime Minister sets off on his trip to America aboard the Queen Mary after more than 24 hours delay.

Fireworks over Canary wharf with Millennium Dome to right of pic

1999: UK prepares to celebrate millennium
Britain gears up to join a global party with a spectacular array of revelries to welcome in the third millennium.

Around this Day

28 December

Top Story 1980: Green light for breakfast television

29 December

Top Story 1998: Six die as huge waves smash into yachts

30 December

Top Story 1994: Gunman kills two women at abortion clinic

1 January

Top Story 1995: Serial killer West found hanged

2 January

Top Story 1971: Sixty-six die in Scottish football disaster

3 January

Top Story 1980: Afghan leader defends Soviet invasion

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