成人快手

Tokyo Rose - The Most Hated Woman in America

In 1949 Iva Toguri was falsely accused of making Japanese propaganda during World War Two

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Hurricane Mitch

In 1998 Central America was hit by Hurricane Mitch - more than 18,000 people died

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The Assassination of Indira Gandhi

On 31 October 1984, Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was shot by her bodyguards

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The Samaritans Helpline

In 1953 the first phone helpline for people considering suicide was set up in London

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Degenerate Art and the Nazis

In 1937, the Nazis staged an exhibition to ridicule modern art - it was seen by millions

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Waterford Kamhlaba multi-racial school

In 1963 southern Africa's first multi-racial school opened in Swaziland.

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The Green March in the Sahara

In 1975 hundreds of thousands of Moroccans marched into disputed territory in the desert.

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The Death of Dylan Thomas

In November 1953 Welsh poet Dylan Thomas died in New York aged just thirty-nine.

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Canada's Biggest Peacetime Evacuation

In 1979 a train carrying tonnes of dangerous chemicals crashed in Canada

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Armistice Day 1918

On November 11th 1918 at 11am, the guns of World War One finally fell silent.

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Dustbowl Storms in the US

In November 1933, one of the first big dust-storms hit central United States

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Death in the Boxing Ring

In 1982, the boxer Deuk-Koo Kim died of brain damage after a world title fight

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Baby Fae and the Baboon Heart Transplant

In 1984 doctors in California tried a revolutionary operation on a two-week-old baby.

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Yemen Civil War

Red Cross doctors tried to help casualties from both sides in Yemen in the 1960s.

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The Jonestown Massacre

In November 1978 an American cult leader ordered more than 900 people to kill themselves.

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Lee Harvey Oswald in the USSR

Before he shot President Kennedy, Oswald spent two and a half mysterious years in Minsk

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The Execution of Ken Saro-Wiwa

In 1995, writer Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight Ogoni rights activists were executed in Nigeria

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Birmingham Pub Bombings

In 1974, bombs exploded at two busy pubs in Birmingham, killing 21 - the IRA were blamed

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Making Doctor Who

On 23 November 1963, the first episode of Doctor Who was shown.

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Death in the Boxing Ring

In November 1982, the boxer Deuk-Koo Kim died of brain damage after a world title fight.

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The Trojan Room Coffee Pot

How a preoccupation with coffee became the inspiration for the first webcam in 1993

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The First Panda in America

In 1936 socialite Ruth Harkness and her guide captured a panda cub and took it to the US

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How Child Road Deaths Changed the Netherlands

The 1970s road safety campaign which changed the face of the Netherlands.

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The Tehran Conference of World War Two

In November 1943 Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill all met together to discuss WW2

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Portugal Attacks Guinea

Portuguese soldiers raided the independent West African nation of Guinea in 1970

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Murder of Churchwomen in El Salvador

In December 1980 three US nuns and a layworker were killed in El Salvador

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Vietnamese Boat People

After the end of the Vietnam War in 1975, over a million people fled the country by boat.

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Psychiatry and Homosexuality in the USA

How Charles Silverstein challenged the view that homosexuality was a mental illness

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Prohibition in the USA

For 14 years it was illegal to sell alcohol in the USA - prohibition only ended in 1933

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The Rivonia Trial

In 1964, Nelson Mandela was put on trial for treason with seven other ANC activists

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