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The "Wild Lily" protests in Taiwan
In 1990, Taiwan’s students took to the streets in their thousands to demand democracy.
The end of Stalinist rule in Albania
In 1990 Albania’s communist government agreed to allow independent political parties.
Marcel Proust
The great French writer ed by one of his friends and by his faithful maid.
Mozambique's Eduardo Mondlane: From professor to freedom fighter
The leader of Mozambique's fight against colonial rule ed by his daughter
The sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff
In January 1945, nearly 10,000 people died in the worst maritime disaster in history.
India's freedom fighter: Subhas Chandra Bose
The man who campaigned against colonial rule, allying himself with Hitler during WW2
Kazakhstan's nuclear legacy
The secret plan to clear a huge nuclear testing site after the fall of the Soviet Union.
Malick Sidibé: Mali's superstar photographer
How a Malian photographer's pictures of Mali's swinging '60s and '70s amazed the world.
Costa Concordia
The dramatic story of the cruise ship which sunk in the Mediterranean, killing 32 people.
The first silicone breast implants
How a Texas woman became the first in the world to have the popular cosmetic procedure.
The rise of Boko Haram
How a small Nigerian Islamist group launched a brutal insurgency
The first bicycle-sharing scheme
How a Dutch engineer invented a scheme to share bikes and cut pollution in the 1960s.
The Stanford Prison Experiment
The story of the famous psychology study, the Stanford Prison Experiment, of 1971
Martin Luther King Jr. Day
The story of Coretta Scott King’s campaign to have her late husband honoured in the US.
A Cold War love affair
The story of a West German woman who crossed the Iron Curtain for love.
British troops in Northern Ireland
The British army was sent to keep the peace in 1969; it stayed for nearly four decades.
Bloody Sunday
How British paratroopers opened fired on a civil rights march in Northern Ireland in 1972
The Grand Hotel Bombing
The IRA tried to kill Margaret Thatcher and her cabinet in October 1984.
IRA gun-running in America
How an undercover FBI agent bust an IRA gun-running operation in New York in 1981
The Good Friday Agreement
The frantic last-minute negotiations that led to a peace deal for Northern Ireland.
Kazakhstan's new capital
The story of Kazakhstan's new capital
The murder of US journalist Daniel Pearl
The reporter who was killed by Islamist extremists in Pakistan while investigating 9/11.
The day the world looked up
In 2012 a rare astronomical event occurred when Venus flew past the Sun
The first Emirati female teacher
The trailblazing story of the first Emirati born teacher
The Death of King George VI
How Britain marked the death of its wartime monarch and the accession of Queen Elizabeth
The demise of the Soviet Union
How the leaders of Ukraine, Russia and Belarus plotted to break up the USSR in 1991.
The invention of Google Maps
How the revolutionary online mapping service was created in 2005.
Shoe designer Manolo Blahnik
How the Spaniard became a legend in the world of ultra-fashionable shoes.
Ukraine's 'Maidan Revolution'
Throughout the winter of 2013/14 protesters camped out in the centre of Kyiv
The 1972 mass killings in Burundi
In 1972 Burundi’s Tusti led army massacred Hutu civilians following a Hutu led uprising
The first LGBT film in war-torn Yugoslavia
How the ground-breaking film "Marble Ass" was made amid war in the former Yugoslavia
