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Debbie McGee in Iran
Showbiz star, Debbie McGee describes being caught up in the Iranian revolution in 1978
The Pakistani teens who became disco superstars
How Nazia and Zoheb Hassan changed South-East Asian pop with their album, Disco Deewane
Destruction of Mostar Bridge
On 9 November 1993 the historic bridge was destroyed during the Bosnian War
The hippo and the tortoise
In 2004, a hippo and a tortoise became friends. Their story gained worldwide fame
The invention of the EpiPen
How engineer Sheldon Kaplan and his team made the EpiPen, the lifesaving allergy device
Eyjafjallajökull: The volcano that stopped a continent
In 2010, a cloud of volcanic ash brought Europe’s planes back to earth
Rosalind Franklin: DNA pioneer
The scientist produced an X-ray photograph in 1952, that helped show the structure of DNA
The Bolivian Water War
How Bolivians in the city of Cochabamba fought against the “leasing of the rain”
Discovering the ancient city of Thonis-Heracleion
In 2000 Franck Goddio made one of the greatest ever underwater discoveries
The independence of Zambia
How Zambia became independent in 1964
The invention of bubble tea
Chun Shui Tang tea house in Taiwan began selling bubble tea in 1987
Kennedy’s nail-biter election victory
In 1960, John F Kennedy became the youngest person to be elected United States president.
The Paris heatwave
In 2003, Paris was overwhelmed by the hottest European heatwave for 500 years
The Mumbai attacks
In 2008, 10 gunmen killed more than 100 people in Mumbai’s busiest hot spots
Cabbage Patch Kids
Christmas 1983 saw frenzied shoppers buy three million Cabbage Patch Kids
The bird that defied extinction
In 1977, the white-winged guan was rediscovered in Peru after a century
Cameroon’s mysterious lake deaths
In 1986, remote parts of Cameroon were turned into ghost villages overnight
Tanzania adopts Swahili to unite the country
Tanzania's leader, Julius Nyerere, made Swahili the official language in the early 1960s
World's first solar-heated home
In 1948, the Dover Sun House, in the US, was the first home to be heated by solar power
La Haine: The film that shocked
How Mathieu Kassovitz's critique of policing shocked French society
Thousands of Danish brains in plastic buckets
In 1945, a collection that would amass 9,479 brains was started
A Greek coup: The day the colonels took power
In 1967, army officers seized power in Greece in a US-backed coup
‘The disappeared’ of Argentina
In 1977 a woman became one of thousands who disappeared from the streets of Buenos Aires
The release of DOOM
In 1993, a controversial sci-fi video game called DOOM was released
Murder of the Romanovs
In 1918, the Russian royal family were killed by the Bolsheviks
Yeltsin speaks at the reburial of the Romanovs
In 1998, the Russian president condemned the Soviet violence that killed Tsar Nicholas II
Anna Akhmatova: The poet who defied a regime
How the great poet kept writing even through the darkest days of Soviet history
Vatican citizen Emanuela Orlandi disappears
In 1983, a suspected kidnapping led to scandal
The funeral of Nelson Mandela
In 2013, South Africa's first black president was buried in his ancestral village
Tsunami devastates Samoa
In 2009 a tsunami killed 149 people. Lumepa Hald tells the story of destruction and loss
The assassination of King Faisal
In 1975, the king of Saudi Arabia was shot by his nephew
