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Rosalind Franklin: DNA pioneer

The scientist produced an X-ray photograph in 1952, that helped show the structure of DNA

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The Bolivian Water War

How Bolivians in the city of Cochabamba fought against the 鈥渓easing of the rain鈥�

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Discovering the ancient city of Thonis-Heracleion

In 2000 Franck Goddio made one of the greatest ever underwater discoveries

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The independence of Zambia

How Zambia became independent in 1964

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The invention of bubble tea

Chun Shui Tang tea house in Taiwan began selling bubble tea in 1987

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Kennedy鈥檚 nail-biter election victory

In 1960, John F Kennedy became the youngest person to be elected United States president.

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The Paris heatwave

In 2003, Paris was overwhelmed by the hottest European heatwave for 500 years

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The Mumbai attacks

In 2008, 10 gunmen killed more than 100 people in Mumbai鈥檚 busiest hot spots

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Cabbage Patch Kids

Christmas 1983 saw frenzied shoppers buy three million Cabbage Patch Kids

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The bird that defied extinction

In 1977, the white-winged guan was rediscovered in Peru after a century

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Cameroon鈥檚 mysterious lake deaths

In 1986, remote parts of Cameroon were turned into ghost villages overnight

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Tanzania adopts Swahili to unite the country

Tanzania's leader, Julius Nyerere, made Swahili the official language in the early 1960s

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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

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La Haine: The film that shocked France

How Mathieu Kassovitz's critique of policing shocked French society

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Thousands of Danish brains in plastic buckets

In 1945, a collection that would amass 9,479 brains was started

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A Greek coup: The day the colonels took power

In 1967, army officers seized power in Greece in a US-backed coup

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鈥楾he disappeared鈥� of Argentina

In 1977 a woman became one of thousands who disappeared from the streets of Buenos Aires

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The release of DOOM

In 1993, a controversial sci-fi video game called DOOM was released

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Murder of the Romanovs

In 1918, the Russian royal family were killed by the Bolsheviks

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Yeltsin speaks at the reburial of the Romanovs

In 1998, the Russian president condemned the Soviet violence that killed Tsar Nicholas II

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Anna Akhmatova: The poet who defied a regime

How the great poet kept writing even through the darkest days of Soviet history

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Vatican citizen Emanuela Orlandi disappears

In 1983, a suspected kidnapping led to scandal

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The funeral of Nelson Mandela

In 2013, South Africa's first black president was buried in his ancestral village

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Tsunami devastates Samoa

In 2009 a tsunami killed 149 people. Lumepa Hald tells the story of destruction and loss

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The assassination of King Faisal

In 1975, the king of Saudi Arabia was shot by his nephew

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The mysterious death of Pablo Neruda

In 1973, the poet and prominent communist tried to flee persecution in Chile

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Al Jazeera Three: Imprisoned in Egypt

There was an international outcry in 2014 when three journalists were imprisoned in Egypt

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'The bad boy of Welsh politics'

In 1969, the singer Dafydd Iwan campaigned for official recognition of the Welsh language

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Inventing Nutella

How the chocolate and hazelnut spread was created in 1946

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Kiwi: How New Zealand hijacked China's fruit

How the Chinese gooseberry became the kiwi and one of New Zealand鈥檚 biggest exports

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