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Charlie Hebdo attack

On 7 January 2015, 12 people were shot dead at a satirical magazine in France

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The invention of the hotel key card

In the 1970s, Norwegian Tor Sornes invented the hotel key card

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The mystery of Raoul Wallenberg

The Swedish diplomat saved thousands of Hungarian Jews during World War Two

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The Bosphorus boat spotter tracking Russian military trucks

In 2015, ship spotter Yörük Işık saw Russian military trucks on a ship going to Syria

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Franklin D Roosevelt’s New Deal

In 1933, President Roosevelt enacted the New Deal to drag the US out of depression

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Confronting Betty Ford’s addiction

In 1978, former first lady Betty Ford sought help for addiction

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Kobe earthquake

On 17 January 1995, an earthquake devastated the city of Kobe, in Japan

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'I wrote Schindler's List'

Thomas Keneally stumbled across the story of Oskar Schindler while buying a briefcase

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Drum: Africa’s revolutionary magazine

The first African lifestyle magazine Drum, was first printed in 1951

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Hunting the Unabomber

In September 1995, US newspapers controversially published a terrorist's manifesto

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