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The world's first civil union
In 1989, Denmark became the first country to celebrate same-sex civil unions
The first sex worker strike
When 200 French sex workers took refuge in a church in Lyon, it started a movement.
Nixon in China
The historic visit by the American president which normalised US relations with China.
The Navajo Code Talkers in World War 2
The Native American soldiers who talked in a secret code, helping the Allies to victory
The death of Trayvon Martin
The black Florida teenager killed by a Neighbourhood Watch volunteer while buying sweets.
The 2014 annexation of Crimea
A personal of how Russia took over the Crimean peninsula in 2014
Economic 'shock therapy' in Russia
Chaos and hardship hit Russia when free-market reforms were introduced overnight in 1992
Putin's war in Chechnya
An eyewitness of the Russian invasion of the breakaway republic in 1999
Boris Yeltsin's surprise resignation
How the Russian president quit and apologised to the nation in a New Year's Eve address.
The takeover of NTV in Russia
How NTV journalists tried in vain to keep their station out of President Putin's control.
Russia's war in Georgia in 2008
First-hand s of Russia's battle with another former Soviet republic in 2008.
Anna Akhmatova - Voice of Russia
How the great poet kept writing even through the darkest days of Soviet history.
Gloria Steinem and Ms Magazine
The launch of the first magazine in America owned, run and written by women
The Australian women who protested against the Vietnam war
The Fairlea Five were jailed in 1971 for campaigning against military conscription.
Iranian Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi
The Iranian human rights lawyer who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2003: Dr Shirin Ebadi
The Wages for Housework campaign
How feminists in Italy began an international campaign for payment for housework in 1972.
The Frauenkirche - Dresden's symbol of war and reconstruction
The story of the painstaking project to rebuild Dresden's historic baroque church.
Chandigarh: India's city of the future
How the modernist architect Le Corbusier designed a city for newly-independent India
Teheran's Freedom Tower
The vast monument built for the Shah, but now a centrepiece for protests in Iran.
Zaha Hadid's Cincinnati Arts Center
The ground-breaking building was the first American museum to be designed by a woman
The Shard
The building of the controversial London skyscraper, designed by Italian Renzo Piano.
The Chernobyl nuclear disaster
In 1986, a reactor exploded in Soviet Ukraine causing the worst nuclear accident ever.
The Budapest Memorandum
The security "assurances" offered to Ukraine after it gave up its nuclear weapons in 1994
The Holodomor: Ukraine's great famine
Several million people died in the 1930s in what became known as The Holodomor
Ukraine's Babi Yar massacre
The mass killing of Ukrainian Jews by Nazi during World War Two.
Soviet holidays in Crimea
Artek, on the Black Sea coast, was the Soviet Union's most popular children's camp.
The 'Snow Revolution' against Vladimir Putin
A decade ago protestors tried to stop the Russian leader tightening his grip on power
The black stunt performers who took on Hollywood
The battle to fight prejudice behind-the-scenes in the American film industry.
Afghanistan's women's newspaper
Aina-E-Zan, or Women's Mirror, was launched in 2002 at a time of hope for Afghan women.
Selling Van Gogh's Sunflowers
How one of the Dutch artist's masterpieces was auctioned for a world record in 1987.
Escaping a Maoist cult
Aravindan Balakrishnan ran a cult in London for 30 years; then two of its fled.
