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Laika, the first dog in space

The Russian stray was the first dog to be sent into orbit around the earth

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Valentina Tereshkova, cosmonaut

The Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova was the first woman to be sent into space

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The Moon Landing

In July 1969, Apollo 11 commander Neil Armstrong took the first steps on the Moon.

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Apollo 13

The Moon mission that almost ended in tragedy after an explosion on board the spaceship.

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The Beagle 2 mission to Mars

A failed attempt to search for signs of life on Mars

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Mamma Mia!

The story of the hit musical Mamma Mia! from the woman who created it

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LGBT 'cooperative' marriages in China

How LGBT people in China started arranging fake marriages to hide their sexuality

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The Chappaquiddick Incident

The car accident involving US Senator Edward Kennedy which left a young woman dead

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When Tunisia led on women's rights

When Tunisia introduced divorce, abortion and votes for women ahead of much of the world.

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Humanity's earliest ancestor

A fossilised skull found in Chad is thought to be the earliest-known ancestor of humans

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The death of David Kelly

The weapons inspector's death deepened the row over the UK's part in the invasion of Iraq

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The treasures of Sutton Hoo

A huge hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold was discovered in southern England in 1939.

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The anti-nuclear protesters who won

The eight year protest campaign which stopped a nuclear plant at Wackersdorf in Germany.

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The Warsaw uprising

On August 1st 1944, Polish resistance fighters rose up against German occupying forces

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The invasion of Kuwait

Thousands of Iraqi troops and tanks began pouring into Kuwait on 2 August 1990

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The mass exodus of Algeria's 'Pieds Noirs'

How thousands of French families fled from Algeria as it won independence

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Under the North Pole

In 1958 the nuclear submarine USS Nautilus travelled under the North Pole.

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Criminals in the community

How Britain pioneered Community Service as an alternative to prison in the 1970s

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British troops take to the streets of Northern Ireland

In August 1969 the British Army was deployed on the streets of Londonderry

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The Yangtze Incident

How a British warship escaped from Chinese Communists on the Yangtze river in 1949

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The division of Kashmir

The October 1947 crisis which led to the partition of Kashmir between India and Pakistan.

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The daily disposable contact lens

How the contact lens became cheap enough to throw away after a day

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The warnings before 9/11

Throughout 2001 the US authorities were given warnings that a terror attack was imminent

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Catching 'Carlos the Jackal'

How the CIA tracked down one of the world's most wanted men

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Dr Seuss: the man who taught America to read

The Dr Seuss books revolutionised reading in America in the 1950s.

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The first human Cyborg

In 1998 a transponder was implanted into the body of British scientist, Kevin Warwick.

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Finding El Salvador's missing children

The search for hundreds of children kidnapped by the Salvadoran army during the civil war

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I helped liberate Paris from the Nazis

A former member of the French resistance remembers the drama of August 1944

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The return of the wolf

Wolves were reintroduced to Yellowstone decades after they were wiped out in the US.

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The death of Brazil's Getulio Vargas

How the influential Brazilian leader took his own life rather than submit to the military

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