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Mongolian revolution

In 1990, a peaceful revolution brought democracy to Mongolia

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The Nazi occupation of Jersey

A woman who risked her life to hide a Russian prisoner during World War Two

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Returning to District Six

Zahra Nordien returned to District Six decades after being expelled during apartheid

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Soviet fashionista

Slava Zaitsev was the first designer to design high fashion pieces in the Soviet Union

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Felix Baumgartner's huge leap

In 2012, Felix Baumgartner jumped from space back to earth

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Una Marson and the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Caribbean Service

The ´óÏó´«Ã½'s first black producer, Una Marson, and the beginnings of the Caribbean Service

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The ´óÏó´«Ã½ broadcasting through the Iron Curtain

Transmitting independent broadcasts through the Iron Curtain between 1947 and 1991

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Colombia's 'false positives' killings

When Colombia's military murdered thousands of innocent civilians

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Grozny siege

In December 1994, Russian forces began the siege of Chechnya’s capital Grozny

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Chile mine rescue

In 2010, 33 miners were trapped underground for 69 days in the San José mine in Chile

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Creating ciabatta bread

In 1982, rally driver Arnaldo Cavallari created ciabatta bread in Adria, in Italy

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Inventing Chicken Manchurian

Chef Nelson Wang created Chicken Manchurian in 1975

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Malta's bread strike

In February 1977 the bakers of Malta went on an unprecedented strike

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Inventing instant noodles

In 1958 Japanese entrepreneur, Momofuku Ando, invented instant noodles

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The birth of the Slow Food Movement

In 1986, protests against McDonalds in Rome led to an anti-fast food revolution.

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One team in Tallinn

In 1996, Scotland played in a football match where the opposition hadn't turned up

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Arctic African

Tété-Michel Kpomassie, ran away from his village in Togo and went to live in Greenland.

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When America banned silicone breast implants

In 1992, the US Government suspended all procedures involving silicone breast implants

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The man Pinochet wanted dead

In 1973, Miguel Enriquez led resistance against the dictatorship in Chile

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Pussy Riot’s cathedral protest

In 2012, a punk protest took place in one of Moscow's main cathedrals

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Plastics in oceans

In 1971 Edward Carpenter discovered plastic floating about in the Atlantic Ocean

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Dutch North Sea flood

In 1953, a storm combined with high tides breached sea defences in the Netherlands

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Paul Robeson and the transatlantic phone line

In 1957, Paul Robeson used a new undersea phone line to perform a transatlantic concert.

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Galápagos Islands’ sea cucumber dispute

A demand for sea cucumbers set off a confrontation between fishermen and conservationists

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World’s first tidal power station

French President Charles De Gaulle opened the power station in 1966.

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Miracle on the Hudson

On 15 January 2009, US Airways Flight 1549 landed in the Hudson River in New York

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Europe's horse meat scandal

In 2013, horse meat was discovered in beef products across Europe

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Kosovo’s house schools

In the 1990s a generation of Albanians got their education crammed into private homes

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France's nuclear tests in Algeria

Between 1960 and 1966, France carried out 17 nuclear tests in the Algerian Sahara

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Swine flu vaccine and narcolepsy

In 2009 a vaccine designed to stop swine flu appeared to trigger a sleep disorder

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