成人快手

The UN Baghdad bomb

The bomb that destroyed the UN headquarters in Baghdad in 2003.

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Stealing the Mona Lisa

The theft of the Mona Lisa from the museum of the Louvre in Paris in August 1911

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Dr Spock: Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care

Dr Spock's Baby and Child Care, the book that revolutionised child care.

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South African Student Sit-in Against Apartheid Injustice

White students in apartheid South Africa stage a sit-in protest against racial injustice.

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Woodstock Festival 1969

A pivotal moment in American popular culture - the Woodstock festival of 1969.

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Child evacuees from the Spanish Civil War

How thousands of Basque children were evacuated to Britain during the Spanish Civil War.

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Cameroon's Lake Nyos Disaster

How villagers awoke to find hundreds of friends and neighbours mysteriously dead

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The Freedom Riders

The story of an extraordinary act of courage by the civil rights leader Martin Luther King

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Drop City

The hippy commune in Colorado in the Summer of Love, 1967.

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Libya's Coup - 1969

The coup that brought Colonel Gaddafi to power in Libya.

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The Scoop of the Century

The scoop of the century on the eve of World War II.

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The Women of Greenham Common

How an anti-nuclear march turned into a peace camp based outside a US airbase in the UK

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Assassination of Hendrik Verwoerd

It is 45 years since the South African Prime Minister was killed in Parliament.

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Great Fire of London

In 1666, a fire destroyed much of the city of London. Two diarists recorded what happened.

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An Azerbaijani View of the Demise of the Soviet Union

How the collapse of the Soviet Union played out in the life of a teenager in Azerbaijan.

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The Assassination of Ahmed Shah Massood

Two days before 9/11, al-Qaeda killed an Afghan anti-Taliban leader.

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The 1980 Turkey coup

On 12 September 1980, the military took control of Turkey.

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White Australia Policy

In the 1960s non-white immigrants were not welcome in Australia.

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Translator at Nuremberg

The trials of senior Nazis began in the autumn of 1945.

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Lehman Brothers

On 15 September 2008, the US investment bank Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy.

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Black Wednesday

On 16 September 1992, Britain lost billions in foreign currency reserves in a single day.

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The Death of Dag Hammarskjold

The Secretary General of the UN was killed in a plane crash 50 years ago.

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Arafat at the United Nations

In November 1974 the Palestinian leader was allowed to speak at the UN.

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Assassination of Orlando Letelier

The Chilean politician was killed by a bomb in Washington DC, 35 years ago.

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The Cultural Revolution in China

In the mid 1960s young people in China were encouraged to criticise their elders.

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The Death Of Samuel Doe

He was the President of Liberia and in September 1990 he died a very violent death.

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The Cod Wars

Almost 40 years ago Britain and Iceland came to blows over fishing rights.

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Frank Zappa

He was one of the most innovative musicians in the USA in the 1960s.

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Kidnap of US Ambassador in Brazil

In September 1969 left-wing activists kidnapped Charles Burke Elbrick in Rio de Janeiro.

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Babi Yar

On 29 September 1941, the organised massacre of Ukrainian Jews began.

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