

The building cost £414 million, ten times the 1997 estimate in 2009 Barack Obama, the US president, was announced as the winner of the Nobel peace prize. He died in exile in 2005 in 2004 the Scottish parliament building in Edinburgh was formally opened by Queen Elizabeth II. Milton Obote became the first prime minister. The ship’s bell was presented to the insurer after a salvage operation in 1858 and is still rung to mark special occasions in 1899 the first petrol-driven bus service in London began operating between Kennington and Victoria in 1962 Uganda gained independence from the UK, after being a protectorate since 1894. Lloyd’s underwriters had insured the ship’s highly valuable cargo of gold and silver. In 1799 the frigate HMS Lutine sank off the Dutch coast. He was re-elected in 2006, serving until 2011.


She became Britain’s first female prime minister in 1979 and died on Apin 1990 the UK joined the exchange rate mechanism of the European Monetary System in 2003 Arnold Schwarzenegger, the film star and bodybuilder, was elected governor of California, with 48.7 per cent of the vote. Nearly 340 people were injured in 1959 Margaret Thatcher was elected to parliament as a Conservative Party MP for Finchley. In 1094 St Mark’s Basilica in Venice, Italy, was consecrated by Doge Vitale Falier, when the body believed to be of St Mark was placed in a marble tomb beneath the high altar in 1952, 108 passengers and four crew died when three trains collided at Harrow and Wealdstone, northwest London.
