Nato - the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation - was formed in 1949 by 12 countries, including the...
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Nato - the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation - was formed in 1949 by 12 countries, including the...
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Britain's first beach for nudists
In 1980, the seaside town of Brighton opened a very unusual attraction. It was the first British...
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Since its adoption as a first aid method, the Heimlich Manoeuvre has saved untold numbers of...
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In 1967 a dam was built in Mirpur, Pakistan, that would spur a huge global migration. Water...
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In 1985, the British band Wham! became the first Western pop act to play in China. Around 12,000...
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Discovering the Terracotta Army
It's 50 years since a chance find by Chinese farmers led to an astonishing archaeological...
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The 'comfort women' of World War Two
Between 1932 and 1945, hundreds of thousands of women and girls across Asia were forced into...
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Surviving re-education in China’s Cultural Revolution
In 1968, Jingyu Li and her parents were among hundreds of thousands of Chinese people sent to...
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Pinyin: The man who helped China to read and write
In 1958, a brand new writing system was introduced in China called Pinyin. It used the Roman...
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The last eruption of Mount Vesuvius
The Mount Vesuvius eruption that buried Pompeii in 79AD is well known, but far fewer people know...
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Winifred Atwell: The honky-tonk star who was Sir Elton John’s hero
Winifred Atwell was a classically-trained pianist from Trinidad who became one of the...
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Paraguay adopts its second language
In 1992, Guarani was designated an official language in Paraguay’s new constitution, alongside...
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Finding the longest set of footprints left by the first vertebrate
In 1992 off the coast of Ireland, a Swiss geology student accidentally discovered the longest set...
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11M: The day Madrid was bombed
A regular morning turned into a day of nightmares for Spanish commuters on 11 March 2004. In the...
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MH370: The plane that vanished
On 8 March 2014, a plane carrying 239 passengers and crew disappeared. What happened to missing...
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Rehabilitating Kony's child soldiers in Uganda
In 2002, a Catholic nun arrived in Gulu, a town in northern Uganda, to help set up a sewing...
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The Carnation Revolution in Portugal
25 April is Freedom Day in Portugal. Five decades ago on that date, flowers filled the streets of...
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French child evacuees of World War Two
In August and September 1939, tens of thousands of children began to be evacuated from Paris....
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Uruguay was one of the first countries in the world to introduce anti-smoking laws. But in 2010,...
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The Whisky War: Denmark v Canada
In 1984, a diplomatic dispute broke out between Canada and Denmark over the ownership of a tiny...
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