Iraq War: 'Most wanted' playing cards

In April 2003, playing cards were given to US troops to help them identify Iraqi targets

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Iraq War: The capture of Saddam Hussein

On 13 December 2003, Saddam Hussein was captured by United States forces

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Iraq War: US security guards killed my son

In 2007, private US Blackwater security guards opened fire on Iraqi civilians

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Kieu Chinh: A real Hollywood story

In 1974, actress Kieu Chinh found herself on a farm cleaning up after chicken

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Alcatraz: The strangest escape

Three prisoners escaped from the maximum security US jail, Alcatraz in June 1962

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DDLJ: India’s longest running movie

The longest running film in India was released in 1995

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The man who lived in an airport

From 1988, Mehran Karimi Nasseri, from Iran, spent 18 years living in a Paris airport

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Keiko: Freeing 'Free Willy'

In 1998, Keiko the Hollywood killer whale was released back into the wild

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The windmill that revolutionised wind power

In 1978, a group of volunteers in Denmark built their own wind turbine to power a school

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How Bengaluru became India’s Silicon Valley

Narayana Murthy, founder of Infosys, describes the city's technology revolution

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Godfather of manicures

In 1975, Minh Nguyen left behind his macho military life and re-trained as a manicurist

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The first photo sent from a phone

In 1997, French engineer Philippe Kahn shared the first ever photo from a mobile phone

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A Brief History of Time

A Brief History of Time, written by Prof Stephen Hawking, was published in March 1988

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Escaping national service in Eritrea

The story of one young Eritrean woman’s attempt to escape compulsory national service

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Pan-European picnic

In 1989, a picnic was held as demonstration for European integration

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Awaji Kannon: One of the world's tallest statues

In 1982, a Japanese businessman unveiled the World Peace Giant Kannon in Japan

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Beto Perez: 'I created Zumba by accident'

In 2001, Colombian born choreographer Beto Perez created Zumba and it was all by accident

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The Good Friday Agreement referendum

In 1998, a referendum was held in Northern Ireland and Ireland on the Belfast Agreement

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Emperor Tewodros II

In 1868, Tewodros II of Ethiopia prepared to make a last stand against the British army

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The universal recycling symbol

In 1970, American student Gary Anderson designed a logo for recycled paper products

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Mass grave at Sernyky

An archaeologist travels to Ukraine to excavate a mass grave from World War Two

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I led the hunt for the Boston Marathon bombers

On 15 April 2013, two brothers set off bombs at the Boston Marathon

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Richard Dimbleby describes Belsen

Richard Dimbleby was the first broadcaster to report from Belsen concentration camp

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The first dog in space

Laika orbited Earth in 1957

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The world's first labradoodle

In 1989, Wally Conron created the world's first labradoodle

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Roselle the 9/11 guide dog

In 2001, Roselle helped his owner escape from the World Trade Center

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Smoky the World War II dog hero

In 1944, Bill Wynne adopted a Yorkie believed to be one of the first therapy dogs

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The Russian man who pretended to be a dog

In 1994, Oleg Kulik posed as a dog to protest conditions in post-Soviet Russia

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Althea McNish: 'I designed fabrics for the Queen'

In 1966, Althea McNish designed fabrics for the Queen's visit to Trinidad

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Discovering the secrets of DNA

James Watson and Francis Crick published their discoveries about DNA on 25 April 1953

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Guatemala's outspoken bishop

Human rights campaigner Bishop Juan Gerardi was bludgeoned to death on 26 April 1998

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The Met Gala goes global

In 1995, Anna Wintour became chair of the Met Gala and changed it forever

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The fight to televise the Queen's Coronation

How BBC bosses battled with the government for the right to film inside Westminster Abbey

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The king under the car park

In 2012, the lost grave of King Richard III was found under a car park in Leicester

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Jean-Bédel Bokassa's coronation

Jean-Bédel Bokassa crowned himself Emperor of the Central African Republic in 1977

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The 'execution' of Oliver Cromwell

In 1661 in England, the body of Oliver Cromwell was dug up for ritual execution

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Last King of Bulgaria

In June 2001, Bulgaria’s former King Simeon II won the country’s parliamentary election

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The removal of Scotland's Stone of Destiny

In 1950, four young Scottish students took the 'Stone of Destiny' from Westminster Abbey

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United States bomb the Chinese embassy in Belgrade

On 7 May 1999, US bombs damaged the embassy and relations between China and the West

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The sinking of the SS Tilawa: the ‘Indian Titanic’

Hundreds died when an passenger ship was hit by Japanese torpedoes in 1942

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The last commercial flight out of Kai Tak

In 1998, the last commercial flight left Hong Kong's Kai Tak airport

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Warsaw Ghetto uprising

In May 1943, the uprising in the Jewish Ghetto in Warsaw in Poland came to an end

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World War II victory in North Africa

It is 80 years since the Allies in World War II declared victory in North Africa

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Singapore executes Filipina maid

The execution of Flor Contemplacion caused a crisis between the Philippines and Singapore

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German child evacuees of World War Two

Thousands of German children during World War Two were sent to camps in the countryside

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The Dambusters

Eighty years ago a daring raid destroyed dams in Germany's Ruhr Valley

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Creating New Zealand's national walking trail

Geoff Chapple's vision was to create New Zealand's national walking trail

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Pippi Longstocking

In Stockholm in 1941, Astrid Lindgren made up a story for her daughter about a young girl

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The sergeants' coup in Suriname

Sixteen army sergeants seized power in the South American country in 1980

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Fikret Alić

In 1992, a photograph of a starving man in a Bosnian concentration camp stunned the world

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Chasing the world’s biggest tornado

In May 2013, the widest tornado ever recorded hit the US state of Oklahoma

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Trying to unite Africa

On 25 May 1963, leaders of 32 newly-independent African nations came together

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The deadliest glacial avalanche in the world

On 31 May 1970, the Huascarán avalanche destroyed the town of Yungay, in Peru

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Edmund Hillary conquers Everest

In 1953 Edmund Hillary became the first human to reach the top of Mount Everest

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Tenzing Norgay conquers Everest

In 1953, Tenzing Norgay reached the summit of Mount Everest

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Mallory’s body discovered on Everest

In 1999 the body of the British mountaineer, George Mallory, was found on Mount Everest

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Tragedy on Everest

Michael Groom is one of the survivors of a tragic climbing expedition to Mount Everest

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The first Indian woman to conquer Everest

In May 1984, Bachendri Pal became the first Indian woman to stand on top of the world

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Inuit children taken from families

In 1960s, the Canadian government took academically gifted Inuit children from the homes

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Facial reconstruction: From mummy to murder

In 1975, Richard Neave invented a method to rebuild the face of an Egyptian mummy

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Fighting slavery in Niger

In 2005, Ilguilas Weila organised a ceremony to free 7,000 enslaved people in Niger

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Last communist march before Hitler

On 25 January 1933 the last legal communist march was held in Berlin

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1955 Le Mans disaster

In June 1955, more than 80 people were killed and 100 injured at the Le Mans 24-hour race

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Lee Miller in Hitler's bath

In 1945 the war correspondent Lee Miller was photographed in Adolf Hitler's bath

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A Great Day in Harlem: The story behind the iconic jazz photo

In 1958, aspiring photographer Art Kane captured 57 jazz legends in one immortal image

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Malick Sidibé: Mali’s star photographer

Malick Sidibé photographed life in Mali after its independence from France in 1960.

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Sir Don McCullin’s photo of a US marine

In 1968, British photographer travelled to Vietnam for his second ever war assignment

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Ming Smith makes history at MoMA

MoMA bought photos from an African-American woman for the first time in 1979.

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Uprising in East Germany

On 16 June 1953 East German workers went on strike in protest at Soviet rule

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The Somali pilot ordered to bomb his own country

Somali fighter pilot Ahmed Mohamed Hassan faced a terrible choice in 1988

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Anti-gay police raid at Tasty nightclub

On 7 August 1994, police raided Tasty, a gay nightclub in downtown Melbourne, Australia

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The Empire Windrush arrives

On 22 June 1948, the Empire Windrush docked at Tilbury in England

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My dad played golf on the moon

In 1971 Alan Shepard played golf on the moon

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JFK’s Ich Bin Ein Berliner speech

On 26 June 1963, United States President John F Kennedy gave a speech in Berlin

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First reports of Ebola

Ebola's first documented outbreak emerged in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 1976

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Sampoong department store disaster

On 29 June 1995 the Sampoong Department Store in South Korea collapsed killing 502 people

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The 'graveyard' for communist statues

Communist statues in Hungary's capital Budapest were moved to Memento Park in 1993

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I made Lady Gaga's meat dress

In 2010 Lady Gaga attended the MTV Video Music Awards in a dress made out of beef

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The trial of John Demjanjuk

In 1986, John Demjanjuk was accused of being ‘Ivan the Terrible’

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Longest-serving democratically elected communist government

A democratically elected communist government came to power in eastern India in 1977

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The National Health Service begins

The UK’s National Health Service started on 5 July 1948

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When tourism came to the Maldives

In February 1972 the first group of tourists arrived in the Maldives

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A right royal night out

Princess Diana, Kenny Everett and Freddie Mercury went on a night out in London in 1988

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Invention of the ballpoint pen

In 1938 a Hungarian journalist László Bíró invented the ballpoint pen

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Inventing Rubik’s Cube

In 1974, a Hungarian architect, Ernő Rubik invented his bestselling puzzle

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Aibo: The world’s first robot dog

The world's first robot dog called Aibo, sold out in just 20 minutes in 1999

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When disposable nappies were invented

The story of how disposable nappies were invented.

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Creating the first emoji

In 1999, Japanese designer Shigetaka Kurita created a global phenomena - the first emoji

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Tamoxifen: Breast cancer ‘wonder drug’

How the drug tamoxifen became a global success in breast cancer treatment

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The ‘Barricades’ of Latvia

More than 500,000 people barricaded the streets of Riga in January 1991

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Japan surrenders in China

The signing of the Japanese surrender documents at the Forbidden City in Beijing in 1945.

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The birth of Barbie

Ruth Handler created the Barbie doll which was first sold in 1959

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The US singer who became the Soviet Union’s Red Elvis

In 1966, American Dean Reed was the first western rock star to tour the Soviet Union

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Escaping the Nazis in Greece

Yeti Mitrani and her family escaped deportation from Greece by the Nazis in 1943

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Brain: The first personal computer virus

In 1986 a computer virus was developed accidentally by two brothers in Pakistan

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The Pope’s controversial Nicaragua visit

Pope John Paul II angered supporters of the Sandinista government during a 1983 trip

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The 1960 coup against Haile Selassie

There was an attempt to overthrow the Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie in December 1960

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Mr Bigg's: The birth of Nigeria's iconic takeaway

It’s been 50 years since Mr Bigg's was first launched in Nigeria

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José Mujica: Prison break to president

Uruguay's former president recounts his revolutionary past as a member of the Tupamaros

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