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Pro-Communist demonstrators outside Russia's Parliament building in Moscow 1993: Hardline Communists riot in Moscow

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

One of the surviving sextuplets in an incubator 1968: 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 Kinnock 1983: 'Dream ticket' wins Labour leadership
Neil Kinnock becomes the new leader of the Labour party, with Roy Hattersley joining him as deputy.

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

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