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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
How the air fryer was invented
In 2006, Dutch inventor Fred van der Weij cooked up an idea for a new kitchen device
The day Celia Cruz returned to Cuba
Cuban salsa singer Celia Cruz's only return to the island in 43 years of exile.
The 1968 Mexico City massacre
The massacre in Mexico City in October 1968, 10 days before the Olympics
Italy's 'poison ships'
In 1988, a ship carrying toxic waste arrived in Manfredonia, Italy
Arrested for playing football in Brazil
For nearly 40 years, women in Brazil were banned from playing football
Cyprus 1974: The Greek coup
How a coup in Cyprus led to the division of the island’s communities
Cyprus 1974: The Final Landing
In July 1974, Captain Adamos Marneros landed the last flight at Nicosia Airport in Cyprus
Cyprus 2003: Crossing the ceasefire line
In April 2003, people in Cyprus crossed the ceasefire line for the first time in 29 years
The missing people of Cyprus
Between 1963 and 1974, more than 2,000 people in Cyprus went missing
How Ayia Napa became a clubbing capital
In the 1990s, Ayia Napa, in Cyprus, went from quiet fishing village to party resort
The 1924 Paris Olympics
The last time Paris held the Olympic Games was 100 years ago in 1924
The first Olympic ‘mascot’
The creation of Shuss for the 1968 Winter Games in Grenoble,
