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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The Lost Tribe Hoax

The Filipino stone-age cave dwellers who fooled the scientific community.

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Cesar Chavez - Yes we can!

How the Mexican-American trade union leader Cesar Chavez inspired Latinos in the 1960s.

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Shoot

In November 1971 a young American artist decided to get a friend to take a shot at him.

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Windsor Castle Fire

How a fire devastated Queen Elizabeth's weekend home in 1992.

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The death of the Kabaka of Buganda

In 1969 the first President of Uganda, Edward Mutesa, died in exile in London.

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Lee Harvey Oswald and the USSR

Lee Harvey Oswald had spent two years living in the USSR after serving there as a Marine

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The Trojan Room Coffee Pot

20 years ago the world's first webcam was set up - and it was pointed at a pot of coffee.

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The Secret Soviet Naval Mutiny

In November 1975, an incredible mutiny took place aboard a Soviet warship in the Baltic.

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Isabelle Dinoire: The World's First Face Transplant

In November 2005, doctors in France carried out the first ever face transplant.

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Eric Hebborn - Forger Extraordinary

The story of one of the most prolific art forgers of the 20th Century.

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Iran Hostage Crisis - The Canadian Story

In November 1979, Iranian revolutionaries stormed the US embassy in Tehran.

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First Successful Sex Change

The story of Christine Jorgensen who had surgery to change her sex from a man to a woman.

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