The Guinness Book of Records

The first edition of one of the world's best-selling books was published in August 1955.

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Hurricane Katrina

In August 2005 a massive hurricane hit the city of New Orleans in the USA.

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Uri Geller and the Bending Spoon

In 1976, a US magazine tested a psychic's claim that he could bend metal with his mind.

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The Auschwitz Cellist

How the cellist Anita Lasker-Wallfisch survived the Holocaust by playing music.

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Russia's First DJ

Russia's first radio DJ, Seva Novgorodsev, went on air at the height of the Cold War

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The Heyday of Somali Music

The remarkable story of Maryam Mursal, one of the superstars of 1970s Somali music .

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The King of Highlife

E.T Mensah's Highlife music took Africa by storm in the 1950s

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Noel Coward Plays Vegas

The English singer, actor and playwright was invited to do a show in Las Vegas

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The Monkees

The Monkees were the world's first 'manufactured' boy band - created especially for TV.

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Musicians of the Iranian Revolution

In 1978, Iran's top musicians took a stand against the Monarchy

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The Leningrad Symphony

In 1942 starving musicians in besieged Leningrad performed Shostakovich's Symphony

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The Disappearing Sea

In 1990, the first international conference was held on the shrinking of the Aral Sea

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Sri Lanka Killings

In 1995 during Sri Lanka's brutal civil war Tamil rebels attacked a Sinhalese village.

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Iceland's Women Strike

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

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The birth of the United Nations

In October 1945, the United Nations was born, in the hope of preventing future wars

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The Nuclear Spy Alan Nunn May

In 1945 the English physicist was exposed as a nuclear spy for the Soviet Union.

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The First Lady of Cuban Ballet

World-famous prima ballerina Alicia Alonso talks about founding Cuba's National Ballet

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The Great Depression: Harry Leslie Smith Remembers

Harry Leslie Smith grew up in England during the Great Depression of the 1930s

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A Jewish Homeland in Siberia

In 1930 the USSR created a Jewish Region in Siberia, a homeland for Soviet Jews

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The Jarrow Crusade

In 1936 men from the North of England marched to London to protest at mass unemployment.

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Britain's Executioner - Albert Pierrepoint

Archive interviews with Britain's most famous hangman, who executed more than 400 people.

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The Green March

In November 1975 a huge crowd of Moroccans marched into a Spanish colony in the desert

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The Battle of El Alamein

In 1942, the Allies launched an offensive in Egypt that helped shape the course of WW2

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The Russian Revolution: Alexander Kerensky

Alexander Kerensky, overthrown by Lenin in 1917, comments on the Russian Revolution

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The Amman Bombings

On 9 November 2005, nearly 60 people were killed in Jordan's worst terror attack

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India Anti-Sikh Riots

Following the assassination of Indira Gandhi, India was gripped by anti-Sikh riots

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The Fall of the Taliban

On 13 November 2001, the Taliban administration collapsed in Afghanistan

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Kenya’s Torture Chambers

In 1986 the Kenyan government began a programme of secretly torturing suspected opponents

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Fire: Bollywood Explores Lesbian Love

Indian film star Shabana Azmi recalls playing a lesbian in the controversial film, Fire

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Attack on the US Embassy in Islamabad

In late November 1979 a mob set fire to the US Embassy in Islamabad

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