The creation of YouTube

In April 2005, the first video was posted onto YouTube

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Coca-Cola’s ‘New Coke'

On 23 April 1985, Coca-Cola changed the secret formula of its fizzy drink

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Staging Othello in apartheid South Africa

Dame Janet Suzman recalls directing Shakespeare's classic in 1987

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The death of Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler's secretary recalls his last days in 1945

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Exercise Tiger: Disastrous D-Day rehearsal

In April 1944, a German fleet sank two allied ships. Around 749 US servicemen died.

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Doi Moi: Vietnam's economic miracle

Radical reforms introduced in 1986 lifted millions out of poverty

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Surviving the fall of Saigon in 1975

When South Vietnam fell, most people couldn’t escape

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The Cu Chi tunnels of the Vietnam War

The story of North Vietnam’s underground tunnel network in South Vietnam

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Ten countries join the EU in one night

On 1 May 2004, the European Union went through its biggest ever enlargement

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Snake: Popularising mobile gaming

In 1998, the Snake game made its debut on mobile phones.

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Conclave: How a new pope is chosen

In 2005, Pope Benedict XVI was elected to be the next head of the Catholic Church

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The invention of the automatic electric rice cooker

In 1955, entrepreneur and engineer Yoshitada Minami, revolutionised rice cooking.

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Sinking of the Lusitania

During World War One, the British ocean liner was sunk by a German submarine

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VE Day celebrations

The scenes of celebration in London on VE Day 1945

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Rescuing Palmyra’s treasures from the Islamic State group

In 2015 Khalil Hariri risked his life to save centuries-old archaeology in Syria

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Intervision Song Contest

In 1980, Finnish singer Marion Rung won Intervision, the USSR's answer to Eurovision

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Tesla and Edison: Electricity rivals

In 1915, two rival electricity pioneers were told they would share a Nobel Prize

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The founding of the Warsaw Pact

On 14 May 1955, eight Soviet countries met to sign the Warsaw Pact.

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Mexico’s soda tax: Confronting soft drink giants

In 2013 a new tax was approved in one of the world’s biggest consumers of fizzy drinks

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Sweden’s shocking sugar experiment

In the 1940s vulnerable hospital patients were fed sugar to see if their teeth decayed

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Lunch atop a Skyscraper

In 1932, a photo was taken showing 11 ironworkers eating lunch at the top of a skyscraper

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Nigerian photographer’s iconic 'Hairstyles' series

J. D. 'Okhai Ojeikere, known as Nigeria’s top photographer gained international acclaim

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Martín Chambi: Peru's pioneering documentary photographer

Chambi's dramatic black and white photographs showed indigenous people in a new light.

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The founding of Magnum Photos

On 22 April 1947, a group of famous war photographers founded the agency.

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Vivian Maier: Secret street photographer

The secret street photography of a US nanny in the 1950s and 1960s

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