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Donny Osmond shares his memories of teen hysteria in 1973
The first Bosphorus Bridge
In 1973, the first bridge connecting Europe and Asia was completed
The 1980 Turkey coup
On 12 September 1980, the military took control of Turkey
The 1993 MAD hijack
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Turkey: Gezi Park protests
In 2013 protests in Istanbul’s Gezi Park led to civil unrest across Turkey
The billion dollar bid to stop oil drilling in the Amazon
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The discovery of the HIV virus
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Inventing the black box
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Che Guevara’s daughter: A Cuban doctor in Angola
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Ycuá Bolaños supermarket fire
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Debbie McGee in Iran
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The Pakistani teens who became disco superstars
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Destruction of Mostar Bridge
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The hippo and the tortoise
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The invention of the EpiPen
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Rosalind Franklin: DNA pioneer
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The Bolivian Water War
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Discovering the ancient city of Thonis-Heracleion
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The independence of Zambia
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The invention of bubble tea
Chun Shui Tang tea house in Taiwan began selling bubble tea in 1987
Kennedy’s nail-biter election victory
In 1960, John F Kennedy became the youngest person to be elected United States president.
The Paris heatwave
In 2003, Paris was overwhelmed by the hottest European heatwave for 500 years
The Mumbai attacks
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Cabbage Patch Kids
Christmas 1983 saw frenzied shoppers buy three million Cabbage Patch Kids
The bird that defied extinction
In 1977, the white-winged guan was rediscovered in Peru after a century
Cameroon’s mysterious lake deaths
In 1986, remote parts of Cameroon were turned into ghost villages overnight
Tanzania adopts Swahili to unite the country
Tanzania's leader, Julius Nyerere, made Swahili the official language in the early 1960s
World's first solar-heated home
In 1948, the Dover Sun House, in the US, was the first home to be heated by solar power
