Baby Fae and the Baboon Heart Transplant

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

• 9 mins

Yemen Civil War

Red Cross doctors tried to help casualties from both sides in Yemen in the 1960s.

• 9 mins

The Jonestown Massacre

In November 1978 an American cult leader ordered more than 900 people to kill themselves.

• 9 mins

Lee Harvey Oswald in the USSR

Before he shot President Kennedy, Oswald spent two and a half mysterious years in Minsk

• 9 mins

The Execution of Ken Saro-Wiwa

In 1995, writer Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight Ogoni rights activists were executed in Nigeria

• 9 mins

Birmingham Pub Bombings

In 1974, bombs exploded at two busy pubs in Birmingham, killing 21 - the IRA were blamed

• 9 mins

Making Doctor Who

On 23 November 1963, the first episode of Doctor Who was shown.

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Death in the Boxing Ring

In November 1982, the boxer Deuk-Koo Kim died of brain damage after a world title fight.

• 14 mins

The Trojan Room Coffee Pot

How a preoccupation with coffee became the inspiration for the first webcam in 1993

• 9 mins

The First Panda in America

In 1936 socialite Ruth Harkness and her guide captured a panda cub and took it to the US

• 9 mins

How Child Road Deaths Changed the Netherlands

The 1970s road safety campaign which changed the face of the Netherlands.

• 9 mins

The Tehran Conference of World War Two

In November 1943 Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill all met together to discuss WW2

• 9 mins

Portugal Attacks Guinea

Portuguese soldiers raided the independent West African nation of Guinea in 1970

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Murder of Churchwomen in El Salvador

In December 1980 three US nuns and a layworker were killed in El Salvador

• 9 mins

Vietnamese Boat People

After the end of the Vietnam War in 1975, over a million people fled the country by boat.

• 9 mins

Psychiatry and Homosexuality in the USA

How Charles Silverstein challenged the view that homosexuality was a mental illness

• 9 mins

Prohibition in the USA

For 14 years it was illegal to sell alcohol in the USA - prohibition only ended in 1933

• 9 mins

The Rivonia Trial

In 1964, Nelson Mandela was put on trial for treason with seven other ANC activists

• 9 mins

Apartheid in the 1950s

Following the death of Nelson Mandela we remember the system he was fighting against

• 9 mins

The ANC's Armed Struggle

In 1961 the African National Congress decided to take up arms against Apartheid

• 9 mins

The Soweto Uprising

In 1976 South African police opened fire on schoolchildren protesting in Soweto.

• 9 mins

South Africa Wins the Rugby World Cup

When South Africa hosted - and won - the Rugby World Cup in 1995 it unified the country

• 9 mins

International Space Station

Bob Cabana and Sergei Krikalev were the first on board the International Space Station.

• 9 mins

The Kidnapping of Frank Sinatra Jr

In December 1963 the 19-year-old son of Frank Sinatra was kidnapped for a ransom

• 9 mins

Indonesia Invades East Timor

Days after declaring independence East Timor was invaded by Indonesia in 1975

• 9 mins

The Assassination of Spain's Prime Minister

On December 20 1973, the Spanish PM Luis Carrero Blanco, was killed by a massive bomb.

• 9 mins

Lockerbie Bombing

In 1988 a bomb, hidden in the hold, exploded when the airliner was above Scotland

• 9 mins

Murder in the Amazon

Remembering the Brazilian environmental campaigner Chico Mendes, shot dead in 1988

• 9 mins

The MP Who Faked His Own Death

British MP John Stonehouse faked his own death in Miami and reappeared in Australia

• 9 mins

Grand Theft Auto

A controversial new computer game designed in Scotland became a surprise hit in 1997

• 9 mins