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Riverdance

Irish dance sensation Riverdance debuted at the 1994 Eurovision Song Contest in Dublin

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Citizen Kane

Archive interviews with Orson Welles about one of the greatest films of all time

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Marcus Garvey

In 1916 Marcus Garvey arrived in the US urging black people to unite in a new nation.

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Paris Protests of 1968

How student protests and workers' strikes threatened to bring down France's government.

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Dien Bien Phu

The French surrender at the siege of Dien Bien Phu ended their colonial rule of Vietnam

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Kia Ora: Maori Rights Breakthrough in New Zealand

Telephone operator Naida Glavish became known for saying good morning to callers in Maori

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The Execution of Anne Boleyn

In May 1536 the Queen of England was executed on the orders of her husband, Henry VIII

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Hands Across America

The day millions of Americans formed a human chain to try to end poverty and homelessness

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The Israeli Airlift of Ethiopian Jews

In 1991 14000 Ethiopian Jews were airlifted to Israel during Operation Solomon

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Yeltsin And The Chechen Rebels

In 1996, a Chechen rebel delegation negotiated peace with Russia's President Yeltsin.

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The Thalidomide Trial

In May 1968, executives of the German company that made the drug thalidomide go on trial

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The Assassination of Trujillo

On May 30th 1961 Rafael Trujillo, the dictator in the Dominican Republic, was shot dead.

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Karakoram Highway

In 1979 the Karakoram Highway between Pakistan and China was opened to the public

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Concordski Plane Crash

In June 1973 Russia's supersonic rival to Concorde crashed at the Paris Air Show

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Tanzania's Ujamaa policy

In the late 1960s Tanzania experimented with a new form of socialism called Ujamaa.

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Date Rape

In 1991 Katie Koestner went public with her experience of date rape and divided America.

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The Arrest of James Earl Ray

How the man convicted for killing Martin Luther King was detained in London in June 1968.

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Ritalin

The drug Ritalin was developed in the 1940s - it's now used to treat ADHD.

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Restoring 'The Last Supper'

In 1999 Italian art experts completed an ambitious restoration of da Vinci's masterpiece.

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Iraq's Secret Nuclear Programme

In 1981 Israel destroyed Iraq's nuclear reactor; it began Iraq's secret nuclear programme

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The Battle for Mixed Race Marriage in the US

How a white man and a black woman won the right to marry in America in the 1960s

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When TV Came to Bhutan

In June 1999 the tiny Himalayan kingdom broadcast its first TV programme

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Moral Majority

In June 1979 the Moral Majority was launched and changed the course of American politics

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The Eruption of Mount Pinatubo

In 1991 one of the largest volcanic eruptions of recent times occurred in the Philippines

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Smoking and Lung Cancer

It was not until the 1950s that the link was proven between cigarettes and lung cancer

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The Fall of Paris

In June 1940, most of the residents of Paris fled as German soldiers occupied the city

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Black in the USSR

Robert Robinson, a black American engineer, spent 43 years in the USSR against his will.

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Jackass Penguin Rescue

An oil spill in June 2000 threatened tens of thousands of African penguins.

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Space Crash

Michael Foale was on board the Mir space station when a resupply vessel crashed into it

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The Bobbitt Story

On 23 June 1993 a young wife cut off her husband's penis in a frenzied attack

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