成人快手

The Creation of Tetris

One of the most popular computer games ever was invented in Moscow in 1984

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US troops in Iraq

All US troops have now left Iraq. We take you back to when they first invaded in 2003.

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Birth of the Euro

How millions of Europeans celebrated the launch of the euro in 2002.

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The capture of the USS Pueblo

In January 1968 an American spy ship was captured by North Korean forces.

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The Hollywood blacklist

A list of radicals in the US entertainment industry was published more than 60 years ago.

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Project Stormfury

Fifty years ago the USA launched an ambitious attempt to control the weather.

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Charter 77

Taking you back 35 years when an opposition movement began in Czechoslovakia.

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Crossing the Rubicon

Over 2000 years ago Julius Caesar made a decision which changed European history.

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The death of Emperor Hirohito

When the Japanese Emperor died in 1989 it marked the end of an era.

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Zola and the Dreyfus affair

In 1898 the novelist Emile Zola took up the cause of a Jewish prisoner - Alfred Dreyfus.

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Perez de Cuellar goes to Baghdad

In January 1991 the UN Secretary General tried to avert the first Gulf War.

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Folsom Prison Blues

In January 1968 the country legend Johnny Cash recorded a concert in a high-security jail.

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Vietnam draft pardon

In January 1977 President Jimmy Carter said draft dodgers could come home.

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The Great Brinks Robbery

In 1950 a Boston gang stole over $2.5m and they almost got away with it.

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The Warsaw ghetto

On 18 January 1943 German soldiers began a final drive to empty the Polish capital of Jews

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Roe v Wade

In January 1973 abortion was legalised across the USA.

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The Wannsee conference

It is 70 years since senior Nazi officials met to plan the killing of European Jews.

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Jackson Pollock

It is one hundred years since the great American abstract painter was born.

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Japanese soldier in hiding

In January 1972 a Japanese soldier was found in the jungle of Guam.

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The rise of Hitler

On 25 January 1933 the last legal communist march was held in Berlin.

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The Challenger disaster

In January 1986 a space shuttle launch went horribly wrong.

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The sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff

It was the worst maritime disaster in history.

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Bloody Sunday

It is 40 years since 13 civil rights marchers were killed in Northern Ireland.

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Dickens in America

How a visit to America in 1842 became a turning-point in the career of Charles Dickens.

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Diane Blood

Winning the chance to conceive a child using sperm from her dead husband

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The Hama massacre

It is 30 years since thousands of Syrians were killed by their own army.

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Umm Kulthum

The great Egyptian singer was buried 37 years ago.

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Death of King George VI

How Britain mourned the death of King George VI in 1952.

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Drugs in Mexico

On 7 February 1985 a US drug enforcement agent was abducted in Guadalajara.

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Charonne Metro deaths

It is 50 years since nine French peace protestors died during a demonstration in Paris.

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