The Monkey Trial

In 1925 the US was gripped by the Monkey Trial, a teacher tried for teaching evolution.

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Freeze

In 1988 a group of students put on an exhibition called Freeze. It changed British art.

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Spanish Civil War

Hear a veteran from the International Brigades, who fought fascism in Spain.

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Zimbabwe Olympics

How a white hockey team won gold for Zimbabwe at its first Olympics.

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Cyprus - A Divided Island

Turkey's invasion of Cyprus - as seen by both sides.

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Asbestos - Nellie Kershaw's story

The doctor's diagnosis which eventually led to the banning of asbestos in the UK.

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Suez canal

The day President Nasser announced that Egypt was nationalising the Suez canal.

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Detroit Riots

Riots in 1967 brought five days of chaos to the US city of Detroit.

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Castro Attempts Revolution in Cuba

Attacks on military barracks failed in 1953 but Castro's career as a revolutionary begins

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1948 Olympics

London was still recovering from World War II when it held the Olympic Games in 1948.

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Bob Dylan Goes Electric

Folk goes pop with Bob Dylan at the Newport festival in 1965.

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Atlantic Balloon Crossing

The British men who tried to become the first people to cross the Atlantic in a balloon.

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Trinidad Coup

It's 1990 and parliament on the Caribbean island of Trinidad has been seized.

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Mud Volcano

In 2006 a volcano of mud erupted on the Indonesian island of Java.

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Samantha Smith

Samantha Smith was 10 years old and all she wanted was world peace

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The Mississippi Burning Case

Three civil rights workers are killed in Mississippi while taking part in Freedom Summer

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Ugandan Asians

In the summer of 1972 the Ugandan leader Idi Amin expelled his country's Asian community

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Hiroshima

The dropping of the atomic bomb devastated Hiroshima in the last days of World War II.

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African Embassy bombings

The simultaneous bomb attacks on two United States embassies in Africa in 1998.

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The invasion of Kuwait

The invasion of Kuwait by Iraqi tanks and troops in August 1990

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Battle of Britain

An RAF pilot remembers his part in winning the Battle of Britain in 1940.

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The Kursk disaster

It's exactly 10 years since the Russian nuclear submarine Kursk sank in the Barents sea.

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India's Partition - Part One

When India gained independence it was split into two new countries, India and Pakistan

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India's Partition - Part Two

When India gained independence it was split into two new countries - India and Pakistan

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The 1953 Iran coup

The US-backed coup which brought the Shah of Iran to power in 1953

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The death of poet Federico Garcia Lorca

Why was the great poet Lorca murdered at the start of the Spanish Civil War?

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Coup against Gorbachev

In 1991, a coup attempt against President Gorbachev hastened the end of the Soviet Union.

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Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia

The Soviet Union and its allies invade Czechoslovakia and crush the Prague Spring

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The Baltic chain protest

How millions of people in the Baltic states held hands to protest against Soviet rule

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Woodstock Festival

How a trainee priest found his true vocation at the Woodstock music festival in 1969

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