Witness History: Archive 2012
By BBC World Service
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The story of our times told by the people who were there.
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The Death of Steve Biko
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Oct 04, 2013 |
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John Howard Griffin: Black Like Me
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Oct 03, 2013 |
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The Los Angeles Riots
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Oct 02, 2013 |
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The Stolen Generation
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Oct 01, 2013 |
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African Troops During WWII
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Oct 01, 2013 |
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Pong and the birth of the computer game
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Dec 31, 2012 |
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Big Brother - the beginning of reality TV
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Dec 28, 2012 |
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Maitatsine
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Dec 27, 2012 |
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Vietnam War - Christmas bombing campaign
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Dec 26, 2012 |
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The Execution of the Ceauşescus
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Dec 25, 2012 |
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Dusty Plays South Africa
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Dec 24, 2012 |
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Mad cow disease - CJD
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Dec 21, 2012 |
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Libya and Weapons of Mass Destruction
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Dec 20, 2012 |
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The last men on the moon
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Dec 19, 2012 |
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Piltdown Man
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Dec 18, 2012 |
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The M Room
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Dec 17, 2012 |
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Discovering Cleopatra's Palace
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Dec 14, 2012 |
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Marsha Hunt and the 1960s
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Dec 13, 2012 |
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Archive of Terror
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Dec 12, 2012 |
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The Origin of Nollywood
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Dec 10, 2012 |
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Landing in Red Square
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Dec 07, 2012 |
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The Montreal massacre
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Dec 06, 2012 |
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Great London Smog of 1952
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Dec 05, 2012 |
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Witness: The Bodyline Tour
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Dec 04, 2012 |
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The Bhopal gas disaster
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Dec 03, 2012 |
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First Successful Sex Change
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Nov 30, 2012 |
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Iran Hostage Crisis - The Canadian Story
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Nov 29, 2012 |
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Eric Hebborn - Forger Extraordinary
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Nov 28, 2012 |
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Isabelle Dinoire: The World's First Face Transplant
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Nov 27, 2012 |
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The Secret Soviet Naval Mutiny
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Nov 26, 2012 |
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The Trojan Room Coffee Pot
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Nov 23, 2012 |
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Lee Harvey Oswald and the USSR
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Nov 22, 2012 |
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The death of the Kabaka of Buganda
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Nov 21, 2012 |
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Windsor Castle Fire
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Nov 20, 2012 |
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Shoot
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Nov 19, 2012 |
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Cesar Chavez - Yes we can!
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Nov 16, 2012 |
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The Lost Tribe Hoax
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Nov 15, 2012 |
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China's one-child policy
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Nov 14, 2012 |
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Colombia mudslide
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Nov 13, 2012 |
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Baby Fae and the Baboon Heart Transplant
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Nov 12, 2012 |
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Edgar Feuchtwanger: Adolf Hitler's Neighbour
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Nov 09, 2012 |
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Mutiny on the Bounty
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Nov 08, 2012 |
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The death of Leonid Brezhnev
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Nov 06, 2012 |
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The Crate Escape
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Nov 05, 2012 |
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Lebensborn Babies
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Nov 02, 2012 |
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Vietnam Photographer
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Nov 01, 2012 |
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Garbage, the City and Death by Fassbinder
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Oct 31, 2012 |
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Russian Revolution
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Oct 30, 2012 |
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Howl
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Oct 29, 2012 |
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Cuban Missile Crisis: The Showdown
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Oct 26, 2012 |
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The Iran-Iraq War
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Oct 25, 2012 |
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The Moscow Theatre Siege
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Oct 24, 2012 |
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The Wall Street Crash
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Oct 24, 2012 |
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Cuban Missile Crisis: The Missiles
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Oct 22, 2012 |
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The Guggenheim Bilbao
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Oct 19, 2012 |
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Colombia Peace Talks
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Oct 17, 2012 |
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The Greek Civil War
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Oct 16, 2012 |
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Cuban Missile Crisis: The Photos
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Oct 15, 2012 |
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Modern art in Tehran
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Oct 12, 2012 |
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Search for the Loch Ness Monster
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Oct 11, 2012 |
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Solzhenitsyn and the Nobel Prize
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Oct 10, 2012 |
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Che in Congo
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Oct 09, 2012 |
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The Achille Lauro Hijacking
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Oct 08, 2012 |
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US Support for Nicaraguan Contras
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Oct 04, 2012 |
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Black Hawk Down
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Oct 03, 2012 |
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The Taliban take Kabul
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Oct 02, 2012 |
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German refugees in post-war Europe
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Oct 01, 2012 |
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Sharon at the al-Aqsa compound
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Sep 28, 2012 |
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IRA jail break
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Sep 27, 2012 |
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Ireland's Magdalene Laundries
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Sep 26, 2012 |
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West Side Story
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Sep 25, 2012 |
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The Hobbit
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Sep 21, 2012 |
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Blasphemy in Pakistan
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Sep 20, 2012 |
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Mules and the Mujahideen
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Sep 20, 2012 |
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Ethiopia's Korean War Hero
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Sep 18, 2012 |
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A Polish odyssey
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Sep 17, 2012 |
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The shooting of Tupac Shakur
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Sep 14, 2012 |
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Dingo Baby Trial
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Sep 13, 2012 |
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Phoolan Devi - Bandit Queen
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Sep 11, 2012 |
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Mo Farah
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Sep 10, 2012 |
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The "Last Indian"
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Sep 06, 2012 |
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Attack on Springboks in New Zealand
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Sep 06, 2012 |
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Cardinal Jozsef Mindszenty: 15 years in a foreign Embassy
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Sep 05, 2012 |
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The Riot in Chicago in 1968
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Sep 04, 2012 |
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Arnold Schwarzenegger and Mr Universe
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Sep 03, 2012 |
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The Death of Princess Diana
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Aug 31, 2012 |
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East Timor Referendum
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Aug 30, 2012 |
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The Death of Getulio Vargas
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Aug 29, 2012 |
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Bobby Fischer
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Aug 28, 2012 |
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The Great Train Robbery
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Aug 27, 2012 |
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Hurricane Andrew
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Aug 23, 2012 |
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Windies Make England Grovel
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Aug 22, 2012 |
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Assassination of Leon Trotsky
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Aug 21, 2012 |
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Jacqueline Du Pre
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Aug 20, 2012 |
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The Assassination of Ruth First
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Aug 17, 2012 |
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Elvis - The Comeback Special
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Aug 16, 2012 |
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The Last Viceroy of India
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Aug 15, 2012 |
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US Occupation of Japan
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Aug 14, 2012 |
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The Founding of Napster
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Aug 13, 2012 |
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The Plot To Kill Franco
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Aug 10, 2012 |
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Abebe Bikila the barefoot runner
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Aug 09, 2012 |
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Twenty-five years of Botox
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Aug 08, 2012 |
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Soviet Protest Pioneers
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Aug 08, 2012 |
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Bering Strait Swimmer
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Aug 07, 2012 |
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Omarska concentration camp
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Aug 06, 2012 |
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The Death of Marilyn Monroe
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Aug 03, 2012 |
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The Kon-Tiki adventure
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Aug 02, 2012 |
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USS Nautilus: Under the North Pole
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Aug 01, 2012 |
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The Battle of Passchendaele
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Aug 01, 2012 |
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Megan's law
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Jul 30, 2012 |
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The Farewell dossier
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Jul 26, 2012 |
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The Death of Evita Peron
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Jul 25, 2012 |
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The first IVF baby
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Jul 24, 2012 |
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Roosevelt in the Amazon
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Jul 23, 2012 |
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The arrest of Jack Mapanje
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Jul 20, 2012 |
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CIA mind control experiments
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Jul 19, 2012 |
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Miguel Angel Blanco
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Jul 18, 2012 |
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The Murder of Versace
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Jul 17, 2012 |
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New York Blackout
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Jul 16, 2012 |
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Ladysmith Black Mambazo
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Jul 13, 2012 |
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Angola Mercenaries
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Jul 12, 2012 |
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Bush House in wartime
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Jul 12, 2012 |
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Irving T Bush - Builder of Bush House
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Jul 11, 2012 |
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Telstar
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Jul 09, 2012 |
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London suicide bombings
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Jul 06, 2012 |
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Algerian independence
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Jul 05, 2012 |
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The Muslim Brotherhood - Hassan al-Banna
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Jul 04, 2012 |
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Mass Wedding in New York City
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Jul 03, 2012 |
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The Disappearance of Amelia Earhart
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Jul 02, 2012 |
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Bomber Command
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Jun 29, 2012 |
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Hong Kong Handover
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Jun 29, 2012 |
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Shakespeare's Globe
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Jun 28, 2012 |
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The football war
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Jun 26, 2012 |
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Anne Frank's Diary
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Jun 25, 2012 |
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Perestroika
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Jun 22, 2012 |
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France under Nazi occupation
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Jun 21, 2012 |
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The Berlin airlift
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Jun 20, 2012 |
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Dadaab refugee camp
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Jun 19, 2012 |
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The death of Roberto Calvi
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Jun 18, 2012 |
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James Joyce and Ulysses
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Jun 15, 2012 |
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The end of the Falklands conflict
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Jun 14, 2012 |
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President Karzai of Afghanistan
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Jun 13, 2012 |
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Rudolf Nureyev defects
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Jun 12, 2012 |
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The Pentagon Papers
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Jun 11, 2012 |
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Robert Kennedy's Funeral Train
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Jun 08, 2012 |
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Pollard Spy Case
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Jun 07, 2012 |
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The Pompidou centre
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Jun 06, 2012 |
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The Rosenhan Experiment
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Jun 05, 2012 |
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Queen Elizabeth II's Diamond Jubilee: Punk rock and the Queen
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Jun 01, 2012 |
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The Biafran war
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May 31, 2012 |
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The Lod airport massacre
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May 30, 2012 |
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La Penca bombing
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May 29, 2012 |
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The Dionne Quintuplets
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May 28, 2012 |
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Dutch School Siege
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May 25, 2012 |
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The Hacienda nightclub
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May 24, 2012 |
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The murder of Giovanni Falcone
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May 23, 2012 |
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Monkeys in Space
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May 22, 2012 |
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Star Wars - the film
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May 21, 2012 |
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Mount St Helens
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May 18, 2012 |
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The South Asia nuclear standoff
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May 17, 2012 |
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The execution of Anne Boleyn
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May 16, 2012 |
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The Anschluss
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May 15, 2012 |
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Michael Apted and the 7 Up TV series
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May 14, 2012 |
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The assassination of a Prime Minister
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May 11, 2012 |
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Paris 1968
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May 10, 2012 |
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The Psychiatrist and Rudolf Hess
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May 09, 2012 |
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Attack on Fela Kuti
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May 08, 2012 |
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The trial of Charles Manson
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May 07, 2012 |
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The General Strike
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May 04, 2012 |
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Suicide of gay footballer
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May 03, 2012 |
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The capture of President Izetbegovic
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May 01, 2012 |
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The right to die
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Apr 30, 2012 |
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Mass Trespass
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Apr 27, 2012 |
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Studio 54
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Apr 26, 2012 |
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Gallipoli
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Apr 25, 2012 |
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75 years since Guernica
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Apr 24, 2012 |
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The trial of Oscar Wilde
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Apr 23, 2012 |
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Rivers of Blood speech
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Apr 20, 2012 |
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Twenty-five years of the Simpsons
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Apr 19, 2012 |
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Auschwitz Convoy Escape
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Apr 18, 2012 |
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Japanese embassy hostage crisis
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Apr 17, 2012 |
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Dissidents Declared Insane
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Apr 16, 2012 |
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The sinking of the Titanic
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Apr 13, 2012 |
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Pulitzer Prize scandal
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Apr 12, 2012 |
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The death of Primo Levi
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Apr 11, 2012 |
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Fidel Castro in the USA
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Apr 10, 2012 |
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Eichmann on Trial
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Apr 09, 2012 |
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Good Friday Agreement
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Apr 06, 2012 |
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Sarajevo peace protests
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Apr 05, 2012 |
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Active Birth Movement
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Apr 04, 2012 |
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The Falklands War - Part Two
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Apr 03, 2012 |
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The Falklands War
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Apr 02, 2012 |
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Sudan's Lost Boys
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Mar 30, 2012 |
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Scott of the Antarctic
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Mar 29, 2012 |
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Manolo Blahnik
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Mar 28, 2012 |
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Apartheid attack
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Mar 27, 2012 |
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Pope John Paul II Visits Cuba
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Mar 26, 2012 |
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The US Peace Corps
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Mar 23, 2012 |
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How Little America was built in Afghanistan
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Mar 22, 2012 |
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Sarin gas attack in Tokyo
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Mar 21, 2012 |
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The bombardment of Baghdad
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Mar 20, 2012 |
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The Torrey Canyon disaster
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Mar 19, 2012 |
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The My Lai massacre
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Mar 16, 2012 |
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Farzad Bazoft
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Mar 15, 2012 |
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The Romans In Britain
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Mar 14, 2012 |
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World War II concerts
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Mar 13, 2012 |
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The Theremin
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Mar 12, 2012 |
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Stalin's Daughter
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Mar 09, 2012 |
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Discovery of Penicillin
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Mar 08, 2012 |
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The films of Andy Warhol
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Mar 07, 2012 |
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The Zeebrugge disaster
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Mar 06, 2012 |
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The Home Brew Computer Club
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Mar 05, 2012 |
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The first flight of Concorde
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Mar 02, 2012 |
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Gujarat riots
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Mar 01, 2012 |
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The assassination of Georgi Markov
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Feb 29, 2012 |
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The killing of Olof Palme
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Feb 28, 2012 |
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Mary Quant and the miniskirt
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Feb 27, 2012 |
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From the silent screen to talkies
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Feb 24, 2012 |
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The Damascus Spring
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Feb 23, 2012 |
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Moose Murders
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Feb 22, 2012 |
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Nixon in China
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Feb 21, 2012 |
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Sucked out of a Plane
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Feb 20, 2012 |
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Japanese internment
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Feb 17, 2012 |
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The bombing of Darwin
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Feb 16, 2012 |
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The Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan
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Feb 15, 2012 |
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Sister Dorothy Stang
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Feb 14, 2012 |
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Deep Blue versus Kasparov
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Feb 10, 2012 |
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50 years of Silicone Breast Implants
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Feb 09, 2012 |
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Charonne Metro deaths
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Feb 08, 2012 |
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Drugs in Mexico
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Feb 07, 2012 |
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Death of King George VI
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Feb 06, 2012 |
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Umm Kulthum
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Feb 03, 2012 |
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The Hama massacre
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Feb 02, 2012 |
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Diane Blood
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Feb 01, 2012 |
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Dickens in America
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Jan 31, 2012 |
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Bloody Sunday
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Jan 30, 2012 |
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The Challenger disaster
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Jan 26, 2012 |
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The rise of Hitler
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Jan 25, 2012 |
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Japanese soldier in hiding
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Jan 24, 2012 |
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Jackson Pollock
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Jan 23, 2012 |
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The Wannsee conference
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Jan 20, 2012 |
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Roe v Wade
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Jan 19, 2012 |
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The Warsaw ghetto
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Jan 18, 2012 |
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The Great Brinks Robbery
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Jan 17, 2012 |
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Vietnam draft pardon
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Jan 16, 2012 |
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Folsom Prison Blues
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Jan 13, 2012 |
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Perez de Cuellar goes to Baghdad
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Jan 12, 2012 |
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Zola and the Dreyfus affair
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Jan 11, 2012 |
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The death of Emperor Hirohito
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Jan 10, 2012 |
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Crossing the Rubicon
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Jan 09, 2012 |
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Charter 77
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Jan 06, 2012 |
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Project Stormfury
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Jan 05, 2012 |
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The Hollywood blacklist
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Jan 04, 2012 |
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The capture of the USS Pueblo
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Jan 03, 2012 |
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Birth of the Euro
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Jan 02, 2012 |