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Tank Man
A photo of a man confronting a tank in China caught the world's imagination in 1989
The mothers of Argentina's disappeared
The women who began protesting after their children were taken away by soldiers
The Galileo project
A mission to study the planet Jupiter finally came to an end on 21st September 2003
How Liberia wrote off its debts
Hoe Liberia negotiated to write off billions of dollars of debt.
How Liberia negotiated to write off billions of dollars of debt.
When Nelson Mandela went to Detroit
Shortly after his release from prison the South African freedom fighter toured the USA
Blackwater killed my son
How US private security guards opened fire on civilians in Baghdad, killing 17 people
Bush v Gore: The 'hanging chads' US election of 2000
The US presidential election of 2000 was one of the closest and most contested in history
The death of Gamal Abdel Nasser
The charismatic Egyptian president dominated Arab politics for almost two decades
The Mafia trial of Italy’s former Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti
A trial which shone a light on links between Italian politicians and the Mafia
The founding of Google
In 1998 the world's most popular search engine was launched by two PHD students
Operation Breakthrough: Fighting to save three whales
Three gray whales got caught in the ice off Alaska in October 1988
The house by the lake
The summer house by a lake which witnessed much of 's 20th century history
The voyage of the Empire Windrush
A ship carrying hundreds of migrants from the Caribbean set sail for Britain in 1948
Britain's first black woman headteacher
Yvonne Conolly was made head of a London primary school in 1969.
Fighting racism on the dancefloor
New laws were used to stop clubs from banning black and ethnic minority people in 1978
Desmond's - a sitcom that changed Britain
The story of our times told by the people who were there.
The Battle of Lewisham
How anti-racists stopped a far-right march in South London in 1977.
The launch of CNN
1980 saw the launch of the first TV station dedicated to 24 hour news.
The end of the Lebanese Civil War
On October 13th 1990 the fifteen year long conflict in Lebanon finally came to an end
The last of the Kazakh herders
Many of the nomadic herders in Kazakhstan left the USSR and moved to China in the 1920s
The US Voting Rights Act of 1965
The landmark legislation was introduced to ensure the rights of African Americans to vote
Saddam Hussein's big movie project
Behind the scenes at the Iraqi-funded, Clash of Loyalties
Why Portugal decriminalised all drugs
In the grip of a drugs crisis, the country took a radical approach in 2001.
Joan Littlewood, 'mother of modern British theatre'
The working class woman who shook up the British theatre establishment
The Cutter Incident
How mistakes with the initial production of polio vaccine made thousands of children ill.
The missing victims of apartheid
How a South African team is searching for those who disappeared during apartheid rule
Nasa's pioneering black women
The mathematicians who worked behind the scenes on the American space programme
When JFK won the US presidency
The US election of 1960 was a close race between John F Kennedy and Richard Nixon.
Shirley Chisholm - the black woman who tried to be president
The pioneering politician who launched a run for the US presidency in 1972.
