The Pill

The pill meant reliable, convenient family planning - and sexual freedom

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The Bermuda Triangle

The story of the Bermuda Triangle began when five US Navy planes went missing in 1945.

• 10 mins

Pearl Harbour

It is 70 years since Japanese planes attacked the US Navy base in Hawaii.

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Economic crisis in Argentina

It is 10 years since the height of the financial crisis in Argentina.

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The Mozote massacre

In December 1981 hundreds of peasants were killed by the army in El Salvador.

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The Treaty of Rome

We take you back to the beginnings of the European project.

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Manuel Noriega

Twenty years ago the leader of Panama Manuel Noriega, was removed from power by the USA.

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ANC Bomb

The ANC party took its first violent action in 1961, a bomb at municipal offices in Durban

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Kazakh uprising

In December 1986 Kazakhs began protesting against Moscow's rule.

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Bangladesh wins independence

An inside account of the moment Bangladesh won independence from Pakistan in 1971.

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Spice Girls

Christmas 1996 and the Spice Girls are number one. 'Girl Power' is taking over the world.

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The British Miners' strike

Christmas 1984 - a time of hardship for the protesters against the closure of coal mines

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Concert for Bangladesh

In 1971 the first big rock benefit gig was organised by former Beatle, George Harrison.

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Billy Graham

How the world's best known evangelist began preaching internationally.

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The Christmas Truce

On Christmas Eve 1914, during World War I, British and German soldiers stopped fighting.

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The sinking of the Scharnhorst

She was one of Germany's greatest battleships during World War II.

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The release of Sakharov

In December 1986 the Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov was allowed to return to Moscow.

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Enid Blyton and the BBC

The difficult relationship between the BBC and the children's writer, Enid Blyton.

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The Creation of Tetris

One of the most popular computer games ever was invented in Moscow in 1984

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US troops in Iraq

All US troops have now left Iraq. We take you back to when they first invaded in 2003.

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Birth of the Euro

How millions of Europeans celebrated the launch of the euro in 2002.

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The capture of the USS Pueblo

In January 1968 an American spy ship was captured by North Korean forces.

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The Hollywood blacklist

A list of radicals in the US entertainment industry was published more than 60 years ago.

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Project Stormfury

Fifty years ago the USA launched an ambitious attempt to control the weather.

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Charter 77

Taking you back 35 years when an opposition movement began in Czechoslovakia.

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Crossing the Rubicon

Over 2000 years ago Julius Caesar made a decision which changed European history.

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The death of Emperor Hirohito

When the Japanese Emperor died in 1989 it marked the end of an era.

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Zola and the Dreyfus affair

In 1898 the novelist Emile Zola took up the cause of a Jewish prisoner - Alfred Dreyfus.

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Perez de Cuellar goes to Baghdad

In January 1991 the UN Secretary General tried to avert the first Gulf War.

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Folsom Prison Blues

In January 1968 the country legend Johnny Cash recorded a concert in a high-security jail.

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