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The death of the Kabaka of Buganda

In 1969 the first President of Uganda, Edward Mutesa, died in exile in London.

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Lee Harvey Oswald and the USSR

Lee Harvey Oswald had spent two years living in the USSR after serving there as a Marine

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The Trojan Room Coffee Pot

20 years ago the world's first webcam was set up - and it was pointed at a pot of coffee.

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The Secret Soviet Naval Mutiny

In November 1975, an incredible mutiny took place aboard a Soviet warship in the Baltic.

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Isabelle Dinoire: The World's First Face Transplant

In November 2005, doctors in France carried out the first ever face transplant.

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Eric Hebborn - Forger Extraordinary

The story of one of the most prolific art forgers of the 20th Century.

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Iran Hostage Crisis - The Canadian Story

In November 1979, Iranian revolutionaries stormed the US embassy in Tehran.

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First Successful Sex Change

The story of Christine Jorgensen who had surgery to change her sex from a man to a woman.

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The Bhopal gas disaster

In December 1984 thousands of people in the Indian city were killed by a chemical leak.

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Witness: The Bodyline Tour

In 1932 a row between England and Australia over cricket became a diplomatic incident.

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Great London Smog of 1952

How the worst smog in living memory lasted five days and killed thousands of Londoners.

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The Montreal massacre

On 6 December 1989, a college shooting in Canada left 14 women dead.

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Landing in Red Square

A German teenager managed to evade Soviet defences to land in Moscow's Red Square.

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The Origin of Nollywood

The story of the 1992 film which launched Nigeria's hugely successful movie industry

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Operation Restore Hope

In December 1992 US Marines landed on the beaches of Somalia.

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Archive of Terror

How a huge cache of papers showed the true extent of torture across 1970s South America.

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Marsha Hunt and the 1960s

In the late 1960s a young black American woman rolled up in 'Swinging' London.

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Discovering Cleopatra's Palace

Twenty years ago underwater excavations began which unearthed a 2000 year old palace.

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The M Room

How exiles from the Nazis helped British intelligence listen in on German prisoners-of-war

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Piltdown Man

In 1912, Britain's top palaeontologists were hoaxed by a "missing link" in human evolution

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The last men on the moon

The story of the last US space mission to the moon 40 years ago

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Libya and Weapons of Mass Destruction

In December 2003 Colonel Gaddafi announced Libya was giving up trying to make WMD

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Mad cow disease - CJD

In the 1990s it became clear that a brain disease could be passed from cows to humans.

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Dusty Plays South Africa

The British popstar Dusty Springfield went on tour in apartheid South Africa in 1964

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The Execution of the Ceau艧escus

On December 25th 1989, Nicolae and Elena Ceau艧escu were executed by firing squad.

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Vietnam War - Christmas bombing campaign

40 years ago the US launched its heaviest aerial bombardment of the Vietnam War.

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Maitatsine

In 1980 thousands died in the Nigerian city of Kano in an uprising by an Islamic sect.

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Big Brother - the beginning of reality TV

In December 1999 a young Dutch man won the first ever Big Brother reality TV show.

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Pong and the birth of the computer game

It is 40 years since a video game was invented which would change the way we play.

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Donald Woods flees South Africa

It is 35 years since the South African newspaper editor was forced into exile.

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