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Biggest Story - Soviet Army finally quits Afghanistan

1989

The Soviet Union's nine year military occupation of Afghanistan ended today as the final armoured column of Red Army forces set off home from the capital, Kabul. The USSR agreed two years ago as part of the Geneva accords that the last of its forces would be gone by February 15 this year. These last 120,000 troops are now making their way up the Salang Highway, watchful for ambush by US-backed 'mujahideen guerrillas.'
The Russians have left large amounts of arms behind for the government forces. Afghan President Najibullah, who continues to rule under emergency powers, said today that a life-or-death struggle with the guerrillas would now begin.

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Greece declares war on Turkey, 1878


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Births

Neil Gwynne, English Actress, 1650

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Perigord, French foreign minister to Napolean, 1754

Havelock Ellis, English Psychologist, 1859

James Joyce, Irish Novelist, 1882

Jascha Heifitz, Russian Violinist, 1901

Jussi Bjorling, Swedish operatic tenor, 1911

Stan Getz, American Jazz - Tenor sax player, 1927

Elaine Stritch, American stage and screen, 1927 



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