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The Iran Hostage Rescue Mission

On 24 April 1980, the US launched a disastrous attempt to free its hostages in Iran

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The Mass Trespass on Kinder Scout

A 1932 protest which helped win the right to roam freely across the English countryside

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The Fall of Saigon

In 1975 US troops airlifted hundreds of people out of Saigon as the Vietnam War ended.

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The Sinking of the Lusitania

1,200 died when a German submarine torpedoed the passenger liner off Ireland in 1915

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Iran Hostage Rescue Mission

Rob Walker reports on an attempt to free hostages from the US embassy in Iran in 1980.

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The Murder of Archbishop Oscar Romero

Two witnesses give their account of the shooting of the archbishop of El Salvador.

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Italy in World War One

One soldier's diary account of the brutal Italian campaign fought in the Alps

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Australia's Rabbit Plague

How Australia battled a plague of rabbits which was destroying its agricultural economy.

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Protect and Survive

In May 1980 the British government published a booklet about how to survive nuclear war

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The Death of Ayatollah Khomeini

Chaos at the funeral of Iran's leader as millions gathered to mourn his death.

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Eichmann in Argentina

In 1960, leading Nazi Adolf Eichmann was abducted in Argentina and smuggled to Israel.

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Flying to Freedom

In June 1970 a group of mainly Jewish dissidents tried to escape from the USSR by plane

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Iran's Cultural Revolution

How Iran's Islamic hardliners shut down universities to drive out secular groups

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Britain's First Black Woman MP

In 1987 Diane Abbott became the first black woman elected to the British Parliament

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The Sinking of the USS Indianapolis

In July 1945, the American warship was torpedoed in the shark-infested Pacific Ocean.

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James Salter: Writer and Pilot

The acclaimed American author recalls his time as a US fighter pilot during the Korean War

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Poison Gas in WW1

Soldiers who witnessed gas attacks recount their experiences in archive recordings

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The Manhattan Project

The first ever nuclear weapon was detonated by scientists in the USA on 16 July 1945

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Ghiggia: Uruguay鈥檚 World Cup Hero

Alcides Ghiggia scored a famous goal for Uruguay in a match at Brazil鈥檚 Maracana stadium

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The Death of Walter Rodney

In 1980, the Guyanese opposition leader Dr Walter Rodney was killed in a bomb explosion.

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The Tulia Drug Bust

A drug sting in a small Texas town in 1999 went badly wrong and caused a national scandal

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The Inuit Children Experiment

Helen Thiesen recalls being taken from her family in Greenland and sent to live in Denmark

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The Dieppe Raid

The disastrous raid by Allied forces on the German occupied French port of Dieppe in WW2.

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The Destruction of Iraq's Marshes

A look at the destruction of southern Iraq's great marshes, overseen by Saddam Hussein.

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The Guinness Book of Records

The first edition of one of the world's best-selling books was published in August 1955.

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Hurricane Katrina

In August 2005 a massive hurricane hit the city of New Orleans in the USA.

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Uri Geller and the Bending Spoon

In 1976, a US magazine tested a psychic's claim that he could bend metal with his mind.

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The Auschwitz Cellist

How the cellist Anita Lasker-Wallfisch survived the Holocaust by playing music.

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Russia's First DJ

Russia's first radio DJ, Seva Novgorodsev, went on air at the height of the Cold War

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The Heyday of Somali Music

The remarkable story of Maryam Mursal, one of the superstars of 1970s Somali music .

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