1998: Witchcraft was blamed when a bolt of lightening killed all 11 members of a soccer team in the African Congo village of Bena Tshadi during a game in which both teams were evenly matched 1-1. 1998: a superbly preserved granite sphinx with the head of Cleopatra’s father was winched up by divers in Alexandra Harbour, Egypt after 1,600 years in the sea. 1996: Archaeologists in Slovenia announced they had found a flute-like object played by...

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1998: 77 year-old JOHN GLENN become the oldest astronaut in the world when he blasted off from NASA’S lauch site in Florida in space shuttle DISCOVERY, on its nine day flight to study the sun. (Glenn was the first American to orbit the Earth in 1962) 1996: 2,000 sheep went on the march in central Madrid, Spain, as shepherds called for traditional livestock pathways to be preserved. 1990: JACQUES DEMY, French film director died. 1986: Big Bang...

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2002: in 2002 Irish actor RICHARD HARRIS died in London after suffering from Hodgkin’s Disease. 1998: in 1998 PRINCE CHARLES and CAMILLA PARKER BOWLES issued their first joint statement rejecting any suggestion that they collaborated with author PENNY JUNOR on her biography CHARLES:VICTIM OR VILLAIN? which sought to shift the blame for the Prince’s failed marriage on to DIANA. 1993: in 1993 at Prestwick Airport in Scotland, one hundred ELVIS PRESLEY fans watched the presentation...

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1996: in 1996 a year-long study into a mysterious outbreak of black spots on hundreds of Cypriot school children revealed they were caused by jabbing themselves with pencils. 1993: in 1993 American president BILL CLINTON and wife HILLARY were reported to be planning a death pact to allow them to switch off the life support machine if one of them became terminally ill. 1989: in 1989 American TV preacher JIM BAKKER was given a 45-year jail...

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