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Flying through a volcano

How a British Airways jumbo jet flew through a volcanic ash cloud and survived

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The birth of the Sony Walkman

The portable tape player that brought music-on-the-move to millions was launched in 1979

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The Cape Town bombings

In the late 1990s there were more than 150 bomb attacks in the South African city

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Care in the Community

In the 1990s Britain closed down many of its long-stay hospitals and asylums

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The Dawson's Field hijacking

Barbara Mensch recalls how she was hijacked and held in Jordan in 1970

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Haiti's cholera outbreak

Haiti was cholera-free until UN peacekeepers brought it to the Caribbean country in 2010

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The birth of Reddit

In 2005 two young graduates created one of the internet's most popular websites.

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Banning alcohol in an Indian state

Punyavathi Sunkara recalls how the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh banned alcohol in 1995.

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Why the US rejected universal healthcare

After WW2 US President Harry Truman argued for healthcare for all but his plan failed.

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Resisting 'Europe's last dictator' in Belarus

Exiled dissident Nikolai Khalezin on the origins of the protest movement in Belarus

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The Mau Mau struggle against British rule

In the 1950s rebels took up arms to rid Kenya of colonial rule

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The Greensboro lunch counter sit-in

In 1960 four young black men began a protest against racial segregation in the USA.

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Tank Man

A photo of a man confronting a tank in China caught the world's imagination in 1989

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The mothers of Argentina's disappeared

The women who began protesting after their children were taken away by soldiers

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The Galileo project

A mission to study the planet Jupiter finally came to an end on 21st September 2003

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How Liberia wrote off its debts

Hoe Liberia negotiated to write off billions of dollars of debt.

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How Liberia wrote off its debts

How Liberia negotiated to write off billions of dollars of debt.

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When Nelson Mandela went to Detroit

Shortly after his release from prison the South African freedom fighter toured the USA

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Blackwater killed my son

How US private security guards opened fire on civilians in Baghdad, killing 17 people

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Bush v Gore: The 'hanging chads' US election of 2000

The US presidential election of 2000 was one of the closest and most contested in history

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The death of Gamal Abdel Nasser

The charismatic Egyptian president dominated Arab politics for almost two decades

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The Mafia trial of Italy’s former Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti

A trial which shone a light on links between Italian politicians and the Mafia

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The founding of Google

In 1998 the world's most popular search engine was launched by two PHD students

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Operation Breakthrough: Fighting to save three whales

Three gray whales got caught in the ice off Alaska in October 1988

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The house by the lake

The summer house by a lake which witnessed much of Germany's 20th century history

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The voyage of the Empire Windrush

A ship carrying hundreds of migrants from the Caribbean set sail for Britain in 1948

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Britain's first black woman headteacher

Yvonne Conolly was made head of a London primary school in 1969.

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Fighting racism on the dancefloor

New laws were used to stop clubs from banning black and ethnic minority people in 1978

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Desmond's - a sitcom that changed Britain

The story of our times told by the people who were there.

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The Battle of Lewisham

How anti-racists stopped a far-right march in South London in 1977.

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