成人快手

Peter the Wild Boy

Nearly 300 years ago a feral child was brought to the court of King George I in London.

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Easter Rising in Ireland

Eye-witness accounts of the Irish rebellion against British rule at Easter 1916.

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The fall of Berlin

The Red Army took control of the German capital Berlin, in May 1945

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The Irish pirate Queen

Over 400 years ago an Irish woman pirate met Queen Elizabeth I

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Crimean Tatars

In May 1944 the Tatar people of Crimea were forced into exile by the Soviet army

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Leopold and Loeb

In May 1924 two rich and educated teenage boys killed an acquaintance in Chicago

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The Irish Contraceptive Train

A group of women challenged a ban on contraception and took a train to get them

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Manchester United 1968

In May 1968 Manchester United Football club won its first European cup

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Chanel No. 5

In 1921 the most famous perfume ever, was launched in France

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Mariel Boatlift from Cuba

Mass exodus: how 125,000 Cubans left the island from Mariel harbour in 1980

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Amnesty at 50

It is half a century since the launch of the human rights group Amnesty International

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Pakistan nuclear test

It is 13 years since Pakistan first tested a nuclear weapon

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Assassination of Trujillo

It is 50 years since the assassination of Rafael Trujillo - Dominican Republic dictator

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Attack at Lod Airport

It is almost 40 years since an attack at the airport outside Tel Aviv

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The Massacre of Baghdad's Jews

The story of the massacre 70 years ago that led to the exodus of Baghdad's Jews

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Retreat from Dunkirk

One soldier's frank account of his chaotic World War Two retreat from Dunkirk

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The early days of HIV/Aids

The experience of a Ugandan-born woman diagnosed with HIV in the early days of the virus

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World's First Environment Conference

The man who first coralled the international community to hold an environment summit

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Imprisonment in Syria

As tensions in Syria worsen, we talk to a man who was jailed for opposing the Assad regime

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Attack on the Osirak reactor

It is 30 years since Israeli war planes destroyed a nuclear reactor in Iraq

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Mixed race marriage victory in US

How Mildred and Richard Loving fought to get mixed-race marriages legalised across the US

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Italian internees

When Italy joined WW2 in June 1940, British-Italian men were rounded up and interned

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OJ Simpson car chase

The LAPD detective who spoke to OJ Simpson as he was chased through Los Angeles in 1994

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Newspaper Editor Rachel Beer

The story of the rise and fall of the first ever female editor of a British newspaper

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East German Uprising

In June 1953 East German workers went on strike in protest at Soviet rule

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Nureyev defects to the West

On 16 June 1961 the great ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev cut his ties with the Soviet Union

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Rape of Nanjing

How the Japanese army went on the rampage in the Chinese city of Nanjing in 1937

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Australian evacuee

During WWII British children were sent away from the cities to escape German bombs

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The Voyage of the Empire Windrush

The story of the coming of the first West Indian migrants to Britain, back in 1948

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Operation Barbarossa

An eyewitness account of the launch of Nazi Germany's attack on the Soviet Union

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