The siege of Leningrad

Hundreds of thousands of civilians died of starvation during the siege of Leningrad.

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The North Sea Flood

On the last day of January 1953 high tides and storms brought a huge flood to Holland.

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Greensboro Lunch Counter Sit-ins

A simple non-violent action to protest against racial segregation in restaurants and shops

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Death of Sid Vicious

The last days of punk icon, Sid Vicious, in New York in 1979

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Revolution in Iran

The first week of February 1979 saw a revolution unfolding in Iran

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Sarajevo marketplace massacre

On February 5 1994 there was an attack on a marketplace in the Bosnian capital, Sarajevo

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Duvalier flees Haiti

Twenty-five years ago today, the President of Haiti Jean-Claude Duvalier fled the country

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Shot down in Iraq

It is 20 years since international forces united to drive Iraq out of Kuwait

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The Docklands bomb

On 9 February 1996, a bomb exploded in London bringing an IRA ceasefire to an end

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A communist in the US

On 9 February 1950 Senator Joseph McCarthy began his hunt for communists in the US

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The death of Pushkin

In February 1837 the great Russian poet - Alexander Pushkin died

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Assassination of Rafik Hariri

On February 14 2005, Lebanese politician Rafik Hariri was assassinated

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Fall of Singapore

The British colony of Singapore fell to Japanese forces on this day in 1942

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The death of Captain Cook

In February 1779 the British seafarer Captain Cook was beaten to death in Hawaii

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Dolly the Sheep

What was the first cloned mammal like and why did she die young?

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The Lindbergh kidnapping

On 1 March 1932, the baby son of one of the most famous men in America went missing

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Algeria emergency

How Algeria's experiement with democracy ended in civil war and a state of emergency.

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People Power in the Philippines

How people power brought down President Marcos of the Philippines in 1986.

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Apartheid in the 1950s

The mood across South Africa in the 1950s as the Apartheid laws were being put in place

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Khrushchev's Secret Speech

How Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev secretly denounced Stalin as a tyrant

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Nicaraguan elections

It is 21 years since the left-wing Sandinista government in Nicaragua lost power

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Assassination of Malcolm X

How black leader Malcolm X was assassinated in New York in February 1965.

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Libya 1969 coup

It is over 40 years since Colonel Gaddafi took power in Libya in a military coup

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The Krakow Ghetto

In March 1941 the Nazi authorities in Krakow moved the city's Jews into a ghetto

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Rhodesian republic

In 1970, the white minority thought they could rule Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe, for ever

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Witness: Weathermen radicals in the USA

The inside story of how three Weatherman revolutionaries died in New York in March 1970

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Ivory Coast civil war

How a brutal civil war broke out in Ivory Coast in 2002.

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Political Activist Rosa Luxemburg

A revolutionary theorist and feminist icon, Lenin called her the Eagle of the Revolution

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Zeebrugge ferry disaster

Survivors recall when a Belgian ferry capsized and killed more than 190 people

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Dunblane school shooting

The lasting emotional impact of a gun attack at a small Scottish school in 1996

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