Jackie Robinson

Jackie Robinson was the first black Major League Baseball player

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Yuri Gagarin

The first man in space became a hero and a poster boy for Soviet achievement

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Windscale - Britain's worst nuclear accident

In 1957 a nuclear reactor in the north of England caught fire

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The Hama massacre 1982

In 1982 people in the Syrian city of Hama rose up against the Assad regime

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Grace Kelly and Prince Ranier

She was a Hollywood superstar - he was Prince of a tiny European state

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Bay of Pigs Invasion

Cuban exiles, backed by the US government, tried to invade Cuba and overthrow Castro

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Waco siege

How a man from northern England lost his entire family in the siege of Waco in 1993

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Gandhi's Salt March protest

How Gandhi's Salt March in 1930 showed the power of peaceful protest in India

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Romanian family history

One family's extraordinary story kept hidden for decades by the communist secret police

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Wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer

Witness takes you back to the wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer

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The Hitler diaries hoax

In 1983 a German magazine believed it had found Hitler's wartime diary.

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The bombing of Guernica

It was one of the worst atrocities of the Spanish Civil War.

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Rock against Racism 1978

How an anti-racism concert in London in 1978 influenced a generation

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Dennis Tito - The first space tourist

Ten years ago an American businessman called Dennis Tito became the first space tourist

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Ukraine Famine

How famine devastated Ukraine in the 1930s

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Fall of Berlin

The experiences of one German woman after Berlin fell to the Red Army in 1945

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Al-Qaeda 1998 Embassy Bombings in Africa

Following Osama Bin Laden's death, we recall al-Qaeda's attacks in Africa in 1998

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Festival of Britain

It is 60 years since the opening of the Festival of Britain

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Four minute mile

In 1954 a record was broken when a young British athlete ran a mile in under four minutes

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Victory in Europe Day

On May 8 1945, Winston Churchill announced the end of the war in Europe.

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Ulrike Meinhof

In May 1976 the German left-wing extremist Ulrike Meinhof killed herself in prison

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Italian Bombing of Libya - 1911

The letters of an Italian pilot reveal how he carried out the first air raid in history

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The death of President Tito

President Tito of Yugoslavia was one of the great characters of post-war Europe

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Peter the Wild Boy

Nearly 300 years ago a feral child was brought to the court of King George I in London.

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Easter Rising in Ireland

Eye-witness accounts of the Irish rebellion against British rule at Easter 1916.

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The fall of Berlin

The Red Army took control of the German capital Berlin, in May 1945

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The Irish pirate Queen

Over 400 years ago an Irish woman pirate met Queen Elizabeth I

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Crimean Tatars

In May 1944 the Tatar people of Crimea were forced into exile by the Soviet army

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Leopold and Loeb

In May 1924 two rich and educated teenage boys killed an acquaintance in Chicago

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The Irish Contraceptive Train

A group of women challenged a ban on contraception and took a train to get them

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