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The Birth of the Water Baby

French obstetrician Dr Michel Odent encouraged women to use water to ease childbirth.

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Women in Britain get the right to vote

On 6th February 1918, women in Britain were given the right to vote for the first time

• 9 mins

The Hanafi Hostage Siege

How American Muslim gunmen took more than 100 people hostage in the US capital in 1977.

• 12 mins

The Munich Air Disaster

The 1958 plane crash that killed eight of Manchester United's famous "Busby Babes" team.

• 9 mins

The Killing of Vincent Chin

The brutal murder of a young Chinese-American man sparked a civil rights movement.

• 12 mins

Spying On South Africa's Nuclear Bomb

Renfrew Christie was jailed and tortured for passing details of the bomb to the ANC

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Camouflaging Leningrad in World War Two

Russian mountaineers disguised monuments in the city to protect them from enemy fire.

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The Bombing Of Korean Flight 858

In 1987, 115 people died in an attack ordered by North Korea to disrupt the Olympic Games

• 9 mins

Sartre and de Beauvoir

The love affair between Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir lasted for 50 years.

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Hull's 'Headscarf Revolutionaries'

The British fishermen's wives who fought for better safety standards in their industry

• 9 mins

Women's Rights In Iran

Iran's first ever Minister for Women's Affairs was appointed in 1975.

• 9 mins

Leonardo's Lost Notebooks

In 1967 two long-lost notebooks of the artist Leonardo da Vinci were discovered in Spain

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The Furies Collective: Lesbian Separatists

A group of US feminists set up a commune to live entirely without men in 1971.

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Vietnam War: The Battle for Hue

Communist forces overran the key city in 1968 triggering one of the war's biggest battles

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Ghana Must Go

Over a million African migrants, most of them Ghanaian, had to leave Nigeria in 1983

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Jimmy Swaggart's Fall From Grace

How one of America's most successful televangelists was caught with a prostitute

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The Boy in the Bubble

David Vetter was born with a disease which meant he lived inside a plastic bubble

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David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest

One of the biggest novels of the late twentieth century was published in February 1996.

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The Last Smallpox Outbreak

In India in 1974 thousands of people died in the world's last major smallpox epidemic

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The Angel of the North

The huge steel sculpture that has become an icon for the north-east of England.

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The Killing of Olof Palme

The Swedish Prime Minister was shot dead on a Stockholm street on February 28th 1986.

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M*A*S*H

The last episode of the iconic TV series broadcasts to record audiences across the US.

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China's Barefoot Doctors

How China's barefoot doctor scheme revolutionised rural healthcare.

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World War One: Russia at War

How Russia's disastrous war on the Eastern Front became a catalyst for revolution

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Wonder Woman

The first major female superhero was created by psychologist William Marston in 1941

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Deaf Rights Protest

Students at the world's first deaf-only University demand a deaf college President.

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The Life and Thought of Hannah Arendt

The life and thought of the leading 20th-century political thinker, Hannah Arendt

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Marie Stopes: Birth Control Pioneer

The first birth control clinic in Britain was opened in London in 1921 by Dr Marie Stopes

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Changing the Alphabet in Azerbaijan

After independence Azerbaijan changed from Russian Cyrillic script to Latin letters.

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The Moscow Show Trials

An eyewitness account of Stalin's purge of top Soviet leaders during the Great Terror.

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