The Gurkha soldiers fight for equality

A Nepalese regiment of the British army won the right to settle in Britain in 2009.

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The end of the war in Kosovo

Hundreds of thousands of Kosovans fled when NATO began bombing former Yugoslavia in 1999

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The first anti-psychotic drug

How a 1950s drug helped revolutionise the treatment of mental illness

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Christo and Jeanne-Claude wrap the Reichstag

How a huge public art project entranced post-Cold War Berlin

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How America 'lost' China

How an American war hero was sent to stop China becoming communist and failed.

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The first gay marriage in the USA

One gay couple in Minneapolis had a same-sex wedding back in the 1970's

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The death of Neda Soltan

How a young woman became a symbol of anti-government protest in Iran

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Carl Gustav Jung

One of the most influential figures in psychoanalysis died in June 1961

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The assassinaton of Medgar Evers

The American civil rights activist and war hero who was murdered in 1963 in Mississippi.

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Sister Lotus - early Chinese online star

Sister Lotus was an unlikely online celebrity because she was famous for being ordinary.

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The yoga teacher and the violinist

How violinist Yehudi Menuhin and yoga teacher BKS Iyengar helped bring yoga to the West

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The fat acceptance movement

The National Association to Aid Fat Americans, NAAFA, held its first meeting in June 1969

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Catch-22

The story behind Joseph Heller's acclaimed, satirical anti-war novel which sold millions

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The Stonewall Riot

How a protest outside New York's Stonewall Inn inspired the modern gay rights movement.

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The Anfal genocide

Saddam Hussein's war on the Kurds in the 1980s

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Defending a British serial murderer

The lawyer of serial killer Rosemary West recalls the gruesome details of the case

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The US judge accused of sexual harassment

How Supreme Court nominee Judge Clarence Thomas was publicly accused of sexual misconduct

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Germans kidnapped by Nicaragua's rebels

Two German left-wing activists recall their ordeal as hostages of Nicaragua's Contras

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Surviving Cambodia's 'Killing Fields'

The Khmer Rouge took power in 1975, starting their four year genocidal rule.

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The launch of the Walkman

The advent of music on the move in July 1979

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The indigenous fight to stop nuclear waste disposal

How a group of senior, indigenous Australian women fought to save their land.

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The secret diaries of 'Gentleman Jack'

The secret diaries of 19th-century Englishwoman Anne Lister, the 'first modern lesbian'

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China puts tampons on sale

Women in China got access to tampons for the first time in 1985

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The Common Cold Unit

The remarkable UK research centre where thousands went on holiday to catch a cold

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Cuba executes top military officers

Four army officers were sentenced to death for drug trafficking by the Castro government

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Kenya's ivory inferno

How a dramatic bonfire in Nairobi National Park highlighted the threat from poaching

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Laika, the first dog in space

The Russian stray was the first dog to be sent into orbit around the earth

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Valentina Tereshkova, cosmonaut

The Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova was the first woman to be sent into space

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The Moon Landing

In July 1969, Apollo 11 commander Neil Armstrong took the first steps on the Moon.

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Apollo 13

The Moon mission that almost ended in tragedy after an explosion on board the spaceship.

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