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How Air Jordans were created
The story of how Nike signed basketballer Michael Jordan and launched Air Jordans
Carlos Lamarca: From army captain to Brazil's 'most wanted'
Hero or traitor? Carlos Lamarca deserted the Brazilian army to fight the military regime
The first ever quintuplets
Ninety years ago, five girls were born and exhibited to the world
The first Aboriginal MP
In August 1971, the first Aboriginal MP took his place in the Australian Senate.
The Flint water crisis
In 2014, a city in Michigan was exposed to dangerous levels of lead in its water supply
The commercial that changed advertising: 1984
Forty years ago, a revolutionary advert played at America’s Super Bowl
‘Panda diplomacy’: China gifts pandas to Taiwan
Giant pandas, Tuan Tuan and Yuan Yuan, were sent to Taiwan from China as a gift in 2008
Tetris: The birth of an all-time favourite
The game was created by a Russian and marketed by an American during the Cold War
The woman whose weather report changed the date of D-Day
Maureen Flavin’s weather report forecast a storm and changed the course of WW2 history
Saving lives on D-Day
Charles Norman Shay was honoured for saving men from drowning on Omaha Beach on D-Day
The Iraqi journalist who hurled his shoes at George Bush
Iraqi journalist Muntadhar al-Zaidi threw his shoes at the President of the United States.
Nato bombs Serbian state television headquarters
It's 25 years since Nato bombed the Serbian television headquarters in Belgrade
Boko Haram massacre in Gwoza
In 2014, Boko Haram drove into Gwoza in Nigeria and began an assault that killed hundreds
The Irish shopworkers strike against apartheid
In 1984, 11 Dunnes store workers walked out after refusing to handle South African goods
Kielland disaster
In 1980, 123 men died when a platform capsized in Norway's biggest industrial disaster
Orelhão: Brazil's iconic egg-shaped telephone booth
In 1971, a Chinese architect called Chu Ming Silveira created Orelhão
The first budget transatlantic flights
In 1955, an Icelandic airline slashed the cost of flying across the Atlantic
How Cancún became a tourist destination
In 1969, Antonio Enríquez Savignac started building Cancún
The beginning of Benidorm
How one man grew a sleepy Spanish town into one of the world’s biggest holiday resorts
The first mega cruise ship
In 1988, the world’s largest enger ship set sail on her maiden voyage from the USA
Kawarau Bridge: The first bungee jumping site in New Zealand
In 1988 AJ Hackett brought bungee jumping to paying customers
The expulsion of the Sudeten Germans
Sudeten Germans were expelled by the Czechoslovak government after World War Two
Sagrada Familia: Completing Gaudi’s vision
How architects carried on building Barcelona's basilica after the death of designer Gaudi
Dignitas: Founding an assisted dying society
In 1998, Swiss lawyer Ludwig Minelli set up the controversial organisation Dignitas
The first CIA-backed coup in Latin America
President Jacobo Arbenz of Guatemala was overthrown in a revolt sponsored by the US
I designed Hello Kitty
In 1974, a Japanese artist created a character who is now worth more than $80 billion
Subway Art: The graffiti bible
In 1984, Henry Chalfant and Martha Cooper released an iconic photography book
Executed in Stalin’s Great Terror in Georgia
In the 1930s, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin executed hundreds of thousands without trial
Georgia’s political crisis
In 1991, the newly independent country found itself on the verge of a civil war
Fight the Power: The song that became an anthem of protest
In 1989, Public Enemy provided the soundtrack for Spike Lee's movie, Do The Right Thing
Conservative wipe-out in Canada
In Canada's 1993 election, the governing party was routed, ending up with just two seats
