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South Africa's first free elections

After Apartheid all South Africans regardless of race finally won the right to vote.

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Sri Lanka: A journalist's editorial from the grave

The assassination of newspaper editor, Lasantha Wickramatunga, in 2009 shocked the world

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The al-Yamamah arms deals

A record series of arms sales by the UK to Saudi Arabia began in the 1980s

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Ellen comes out

Ellen DeGeneres came out as a lesbian on primetime American television in April 1997.

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Rupert Brooke

The English poet whose death at the start of World War One was mourned by millions

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The Arctic African

Why a boy ran away from West Africa to live in the Arctic in the 1960s.

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The sinking of the Belgrano

The Argentine ship was sunk by a British submarine during the Falklands war

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The Malayan Emergency

The struggle against a Communist insurgency in Malaya in the 1950s

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Jack Ma: The founder of Alibaba

The Chinese billionaire set up his online shopping site in 1999

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The siege of Dien Bien Phu

The French surrender at the siege of Dien Bien Phu ended their colonial rule of Vietnam

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The Bauhaus

The groundbreaking school of art and design was founded in 1919

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The war on drugs

The first 'war on drugs' was launched by US President Richard Nixon in 1971.

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Strictly Come Dancing

One of the most successful TV formats in the world started back in May 2004

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The Karakoram highway

The road between Pakistan and China took 20 years to complete

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Predicting the financial crash

The economists who predicted the 2008 financial crash but whose warnings were ignored

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The final days of Sri Lanka's civil war

How the army finally crushed Tamil Tiger rebels after 25 years of bloody civil war

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China's One Child policy

The Chinese Communist Party started ruthlessly enforcing birth control in the early 1980s

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Hitler's stolen children

During WW2 the Nazis abducted blonde blue-eyed children to build an Aryan master race

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Walking the Great Wall of China

Three friends set off on an epic trek along the Great Wall of China in May 1984

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The asteroid that killed the dinosaurs

The Chicxulub impact crater was discovered in 1978.

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Fighting Uganda's anti-gay laws

When MPs tried to toughen the laws against homosexuality, LGBT activists took a stand.

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How environmental campaign group Greenpeace was formed

The story of how environmental campaign group Greenpeace was formed

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The Acid Survivors Foundation

The Bangladesh charity dedicated to treating the survivors of acid attacks.

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The death of Jawaharlal Nehru

The man who led India to independence died on May 27th 1964

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Bokassa's massacre of the children

How protests by young people led to Jean-Bédel Bokassa's fall from power in C.A.R

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Tiananmen Square escape

Dan Wang was the most wanted student leader after the Tiananmen Square crackdown in 1989.

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Behind the scenes on Sesame Street

The inside story of one of the most popular children's TV shows ever made

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Six Degrees - the first online social network

Andrew Weinreich founded the first online social network in 1997.

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Vikings in York

Archaeologists uncovered perfectly preserved domestic Viking life in York in the 1970s

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D-Day

Eyewitness accounts of the Allied landings in Normandy during WW2 on 6 June 1944.

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