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Escape from the KGB

How Soviet double agent Oleg Gordievsky escaped from under the noses of the KGB in 1985

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Haile Selassie visits Jamaica

In 1966, the Emperor of Ethiopia made a state visit to the Caribbean island of Jamaica.

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The Lillehammer Hit

In July 1973 a Moroccan waiter was shot dead by an Israeli hit-squad in Norway

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Black July

In 1983 violence erupted between the Sinhala majority and the Tamil minority in Sri Lanka

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Alcoholics Anonymous

In the summer of 1935 Alcoholics Anonymous was founded in Akron, Ohio

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Abducted by Joseph Kony

The woman forced to bear the children of the leader of the Lord's Resistance Army

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The End of the Korean War

On July 27 1953 the Korean War came to an end and thousands of prisoners were released

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The Sinking of the USS Indianapolis

July 1945 - a US warship sinks in the Pacific; its crew face days in shark-infested waters

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IRA Decommissioning

In July 2005 the IRA in Northern Ireland promised to put its weapons out of use.

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The Sinking of the USS Indianapolis

In July 1945 hundreds of US sailors were left adrift for days in shark infested waters

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The Disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa

The controversial American union leader, Jimmy Hoffa, was last seen alive on July 30 1975

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Ramayan - India's TV Epic

It is 25 years since the final episode of one of India's biggest ever TV programmes

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Gorkhaland

The sisters whose lives were devastated during the campaign for Gorkhaland in India

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Vietnam - US Prisoner of War

In August 1964, Everett Alvarez was shot down by communist North Vietnamese forces.

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Malaysian Hostage Crisis

In August 1975, Japanese Red Army militants took 53 people hostage in Kuala Lumpur

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Beverly Johnson - Vogue's First Black Covergirl

It wasn't until 1974 that American Vogue put a black model on its cover for the first time

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The Great Pacific Garbage Patch

In 1997, a patch of plastic waste was discovered in the middle of the Pacific Ocean

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Burma's 1988 Protests

In August 1988 protests demanding an end to military rule in Burma were met with violence

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Bombing of Nagasaki

Survivors remember the atomic explosion over the Japanese city in 1945

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The Opening of Euro Disney

Twenty-one years ago, Disney finally opened a park near Paris after years of negotiations.

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Conflict in Congo

The Congolese student who saw war come to his small hometown of Uvira

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Scientists Flee Nazi Germany

How the rise of Hitler forced great physicists such as Max Born out of 1930s Germany

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The Battle of the Potato Beetle

In 1950, East Germany claimed American planes were dropping beetles over their fields.

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The Omagh Bombing

In August 1998, 29 people died in a massive car bombing in Omagh, Northern Ireland.

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Stanley Kubrick

Set designer Sir Ken Adam recalls working with the famously difficult director

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The Nepali Royal Massacre

In 2001, the Crown Prince of Nepal killed nine people and then turned the gun on himself.

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Saddam Hussein's 'Human Shields'

The British family who were held as 'human shields' in Iraq before the First Gulf War

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Prague Spring

The student who appealed for the world's help when Soviet tanks invaded Czechoslovakia

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The Assassination of Benigno Aquino

On August 21 1983, the opposition leader, Benigno Aquino, was shot dead in the Philippines

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Legionnaires' Disease

In August 1976 more than 200 people developed a mystery illness at a hotel in Philadelphia

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