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* 4 Feb - Margaret Thatcher announces
that the government will sell half of
its shares in British Aerospace.
* 6 Feb - The Liverpool-registered
coal ship Nellie M is bombed and sunk
by an IRA unit driving a hijacked
pilot boat in Lough Foyle.
* 9 Feb - Shirley Williams resigns
from Labour's national executive
committee.
* 9 Feb - Actor Sir Laurence Olivier,
cancer researcher Sir Peter Medawar
and humanitarian Leonard Cheshire are
admitted into the Order of Merit in
the New Year's Honours list.
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