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Patty Hearst: Rebel heiress

In 1974, a kidnapped socialite joined forces with her captors

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The Juliet letters

Since the 1990s the Juliet Club has answered letters to the Shakespearian heroine

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The small Irish town known as 鈥楲ittle Brazil鈥�

How Gort in the west of Ireland became home to so many Brazilians

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Supermalt: The malt drink created after the Nigerian civil war

In 1972, a Danish brewery created Supermalt

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The Soviet scientist who made two-headed dogs

Soviet scientist Vladimir Demikhov shocked the world with his two-headed dog experiments

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Icelandic women's strike

In 1975, 90% of all women in Iceland took part in a massive nationwide protest

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Trans murder in Honduras

The 2009 murder of Vicky Hernandez forced recognition of transgender rights in Honduras

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Columbus Lighthouse

A memorial for the ashes of Christopher Columbus opened in the Dominican Republic in 1992

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Whistler: Creating one of the world鈥檚 biggest ski resorts

In 2003, Whistler Blackcomb won its bid to host the Winter Olympics

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Russia annexes Crimea

In 2014, Russia took over the Crimean peninsula

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Crimea's Soviet holiday camp

The hugely popular Soviet holiday camp, Artek

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The lost Czech scrolls

The Torah scrolls stolen by the Nazis, rescued by an London Jewish community.

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The discovery of the Lord of Sipan in Peru

In 1987, the looting of an ancient pyramid led to an extraordinary golden discovery

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The Whisky War: Denmark v Canada

Beginning in 1984, a dispute over an island was marked by geniality, and bottles of booze

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Uruguay v the tobacco giant

In 2010, Uruguay was taken to court by a tobacco company for its trailblazing smoking ban

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French child evacuees of World War Two

In World War Two, tens of thousands of children left Paris to escape the threat of bombs

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The Carnation Revolution in Portugal

In 1974, a 41-year regime was overthrown in a day

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Rehabilitating Kony's child soldiers in Uganda

In 2002, a nun was sent to northern Uganda to help those suffering from a bloody conflict

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MH370: The plane that vanished

Ghyslain Wattrelos' wife and two children were on MH370, the plane that disappeared.

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11M: The day Madrid was bombed

Nearly 200 died when Spanish commuter trains were bombed in 2004

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Finding the longest set of footprints left by the first vertebrate

In 1992 a student found a set of fossilised footprints from the earliest vertebrate

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Paraguay adopts its second language

How Guarani was officially recognised in Paraguay鈥檚 new constitution

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Winifred Atwell: The honky-tonk star who was Sir Elton John鈥檚 hero

The forgotten story of Winifred Atwell, the pianist from Trinidad who broke sales records

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The last eruption of Mount Vesuvius

Vesuvius is famous for burying Pompeii but it last erupted in 1944, during World War II.

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Pinyin: The man who helped China to read and write

In 1958, Zhou Youguang introduced a new writing system in China

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Surviving re-education in China鈥檚 Cultural Revolution

Thousands of people were sent to re-education camps during China鈥檚 cultural revolution

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The 'comfort women' of World War Two

Hundreds of thousands of Asian women were forced into sex slavery in the 1930s and 1940s

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Discovering the Terracotta Army

In 1974, Chinese farmers stumbled upon an astonishing archaeological site

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Wham! in China

How Wham! became the first Western pop act to perform in communist China

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Britain's Mirpuri migration

In 1967, the Mangla Dam was built in Mirpur spurring a huge global migration

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