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* 18 Jan - New Cross Fire: Ten young
black people are killed and thirty are
injured in an arson attack on a house
in New Cross, London.
* 20 Jan - Ronald Reagan becomes 40th
president of the United States.
* 25 Jan - The Limehouse Declaration:
Four Labour Members of Parliament,
Shirley Williams, Roy Jenkins, William
Rodgers and David Owen, announce plans
to form a separate political party-
the Social Democratic Party.
* 25 Jan - The death toll of the New
Cross fire reaches 11 when another
victim dies in hospital.
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