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Around the World in a Balloon

In 2002 Steve Fossett succeeded in flying solo around the world in a hot air balloon.

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No Sex in the USSR

Why a Russian woman blurted out "We have no sex in the USSR" on international TV.

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The Staffordshire Hoard

In 2009, a metal detectorist found the largest ever hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold and silver

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The First Tamil Suicide Bombing

In July 1987 Tamil separatist rebels attacked a Sri Lankan army camp.

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The birth of UKIP

In 1993, academic Dr Alan Sked started an anti-EU political party

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The Imprisonment of Irina Ratushinskaya

The dissident poet was sentenced to 7 years in a Soviet labour camp.

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The Rudolf Nureyev Phenomenon

In 1961, one of the world's best ballet dancers, Rudolf Nureyev, defected from the USSR.

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Castlemorton Common: Britain's Biggest Illegal Rave

In the summer of 1992 thousands of ravers and New Age travellers gathered for a festival.

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The Oka Crisis

Indigenous Canadians spent the summer of 1990 in a stand off with police.

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The Mont Blanc Tunnel

In July 1965 an 11-km tunnel dug deep beneath the Alps was opened to traffic

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Nintendo's Family Computer

The home gaming console was a breakthrough in the world of computer games.

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The Killing of Gianni Versace

In July 1997 the Italian fashion designer was shot on the steps of his Florida mansion.

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The Bonus Army

In summer 1932, thousands of American First World War veterans marched on Washington

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US Psychological Warfare in Vietnam

How American military PSYOP teams waged war in Vietnam in the 1960s

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The Welsh Language Act

In July 1967 there was a breakthrough for the Welsh language.

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Khrushchev's Soviet Housing Programme

In the 1960s, many Soviet families moved to a flat of their own for the first time.

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When homosexuality was a crime

Hear one man's story of living in fear before 1967 when Britain legalised homosexuality

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Chiang Kai Shek: The Man Who Lost China

The Chinese civil war remembered by the Nationalist leader's former chief aide.

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Pioneer North Sea Divers

In the 1970s, deep sea divers were at the sharp end of the North Sea oil boom

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The Death of Evita

Remembering Argentina's controversial First Lady Eva Peron, who died on July 26 1952.

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Surviving the "Auschwitz of the Balkans"

Croatian fascists killed Serbs, Jews and Roma people in Jasenovac camp during WW2.

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The Birth of the Water Baby

In 1977 a state hospital near Paris began quietly changing the way women gave birth.

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China's Crackdown on Falun Gong

In July 1999, the Chinese government banned the spiritual movement Falun Gong

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The Camp David Summit

In 2000 the US led a major effort to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

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Discovering The Great Pacific Garbage Patch

Charles Moore recalls how he came across the world's largest floating rubbish dump.

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The Murder of Naji al-Ali

The acclaimed Palestinian cartoonist was gunned down in London in 1987

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The Calcutta Killings of 1946

Exactly a year before Indian independence there were deadly riots in the city of Calcutta

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Florence Nightingale

The "lady with the lamp" died on August 13th 1910.

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Reagan's Bombing Joke

"We begin bombing in five minutes" said the US President in 1984. But he was only joking

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Germany's Nudists

How East Germans went naked on the beaches despite official communist party disapproval.

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