成人快手

Norway's EU referendum

In November 1994, Norwegians voted in a referendum not to join the European Union

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Berlin's Rubble Women

At the end of WW2 much of Germany's capital had been destroyed. Women helped clear it up.

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The Coronation of Jean-B茅del Bokassa

On 4 December 1977 Jean-B茅del Bokassa was crowned Emperor of the Central African Republic

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The Armenian Earthquake

A catastrophic earthquake hit northern Armenia on December 7th 1988, hear from a survivor

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Adopted By The Man Who Killed My Family

Ramiro Osorio Cristales was five when his family was massacred by the Guatemalan army.

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Angela Merkel's Rise to Power

Angela Merkel rose to power in German politics after the fall of her mentor, Helmut Kohl.

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Cicely Saunders And The Modern Hospice Movement

The British woman who revolutionised the treatment of dying patients around the world.

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When China Joined the WTO

China had to open up its strict communist system to join the World Trade Organisation

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Apollo 8

How the first mission to orbit the Moon captured the world's imagination in December 1968

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Englandspiel: The Deadly WW2 Spy Game

How Britain sent dozens of Dutch agents to their deaths in Nazi-occupied Netherlands

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China and Japan at War

Japanese troops reached the Chinese city of Nanjing in December 1937.

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The US Apologises for Wartime Internment

Japanese Americans win an apology and compensation for World War II internment.

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Theatre in the Sahara

Theatre director Peter Brook led a troupe of actors across the Sahara desert in 1972

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Hacking The First Computer Password

Scientists at MIT in the 1960s had to share computer time - but some people wanted more.

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The Woman Who Wrote Mary Poppins

Writer PL Travers created a children's classic when she invented a magical nanny.

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Stopping The 'Shoe Bomber'

How a passenger helped subdue shoe-bomber Richard Reid on an American Airlines flight.

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Scotland's Stone of Destiny

On Christmas Eve 1950 four students took the 'Stone of Destiny' from Westminster Abbey

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UFO Sightings: The Rendlesham Forest Incident

At Christmas 1980 strange objects and lights were seen over a military base in England.

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The Soviet Afghan War Begins

The world held its breath in December 1979 as Soviet troops poured into Afghanistan

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Trautonium: A Revolution in Electronic Music

Meet the trautonium, the early electronic instrument promoted by the Nazis.

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When Animals Go To War

In December 1943, a British charity created gallantry medals for animals serving in war.

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Rebels Rout The Army In El Salvador

The storming of the El Paraiso base by Marxist rebels in December 1983.

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Brazil's Marijuana Summer

In 1987 thousands of tin cans full of marijuana washed up on the beaches in Rio.

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Barbara Cartland - Queen of Romance

The romantic fiction writer is thought to have sold hundreds of millions of books

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Ceausescu's 'House of the People'

The vast building that symbolised the excesses of Romania's brutal former dictator

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Vikings in North America

The Canadian discovery that proved Vikings had crossed the Atlantic 1000 years ago

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The Doomsday Seed Vault

In 2008, the first global seed vault was opened to safeguard the world's crops

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Fidel Castro Takes Havana

The end of the US-backed dictator and the start of communist rule in Cuba in January 1959

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When Stalin Rounded Up Soviet Doctors

Hundreds of Soviet doctors were imprisoned or shot in the last year of Stalin's rule.

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Diary of Life in a Favela

The poor black single mother who stunned Brazil with a book about her life in 1960.

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