US Support for Nicaraguan Contras

In October 1986 a CIA plane carrying arms to "contra" rebels was shot down in Nicaragua

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Fifty years of the Beatles

It is half a century since the Beatles released their first single.

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The Achille Lauro Hijacking

In 1985 a luxury cruise liner was held by Palestinian gunmen in the Red Sea.

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Che in Congo

In 1965 the Latin-American revolutionary went to fight with rebels in the Congo.

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Solzhenitsyn and the Nobel Prize

How the Soviet dissident smuggled his writing to the outside world.

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Search for the Loch Ness Monster

It is 25 years since the most in-depth and expensive survey of Loch Ness.

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Modern art in Tehran

It is 35 years since the opening of the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art.

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Cuban Missile Crisis: The Photos

CIA expert Dino Brugioni interpreted the ariel photographs of missiles in Cuba

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The Greek Civil War

British troops liberated Greece from the Nazis in October 1944.

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Colombia Peace Talks

The last serious attempt to end Colombia's long civil war was more than a decade ago.

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The death of Hanns Martin Schleyer

35 years ago a German industrialist was kidnapped and killed by the Baader Meinhof Gang.

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The Guggenheim Bilbao

It's 15 years since an extraordinary building was opened in a Spanish industrial city.

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Cuban Missile Crisis: The Missiles

The gradual build up of weaponry - Soviet built ballistic missiles and nuclear warheads

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The Moscow Theatre Siege

It is 10 years since Chechen rebels took an entire theatre full of people hostage.

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The Wall Street Crash

On 24 October 1929, the New York Stock Exchange began to plummet.

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The Iran-Iraq War

In the autumn of 1980 one of the longest wars of the 20th Century began.

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Cuban Missile Crisis: The Showdown

Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev finally offered to withdraw nuclear missiles from Cuba

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Howl

Allen Ginsberg first read his poem Howl, in San Francisco in October 1955.

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Russian Revolution

It is 95 years since the October Revolution which led to the creation of the Soviet Union.

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Garbage, the City and Death by Fassbinder

In 1985 a Frankfurt theatre attempted to stage a play by the controversial German writer.

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Vietnam Photographer

The great British war photographer Don McCullin remembers the Vietnam war.

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Lebensborn Babies

In the 1930s the Nazi party hatched a secret plan to breed an elite Aryan race.

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The Crate Escape

An incredible plot to kidnap, drug and repatriate Nigerian exile Umaru Dikko in 80s London

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The death of Leonid Brezhnev

One of the longest-serving leaders of the Soviet Union died on the 10 of November 1982.

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John Howard Griffin: Black Like Me

Over 50 years ago a white journalist tried living as a black man in America's Deep South.

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Mutiny on the Bounty

The original story of betrayal at sea - from contemporary eyewitness testimonies.

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Edgar Feuchtwanger: Adolf Hitler's Neighbour

The memories of a German Jew who grew up across the street from Adolf Hitler.

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Baby Fae and the Baboon Heart Transplant

In 1984 doctors in California tried a revolutionary operation on a two-week-old baby girl.

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Colombia mudslide

It's 27 years since over 20,000 people died when a volcano erupted in western Colombia.

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China's one-child policy

Created to tackle China's expanding population, but how was the one-child policy enforced?

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