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The Spanish king reclaims his throne
10 mins; November 20, 2025
The death of Franco
10 mins; November 19, 2025
Angela Merkel suspends EU asylum rules
10 mins; November 18, 2025
Reagan and Gorbachev: The Geneva Summit
10 mins; November 17, 2025
When Maldives' ministers met underwater
10 mins; November 14, 2025
Bataclan attack in Paris
10 mins; November 13, 2025
Prosecuting Nazis at the Nuremberg Trials
11 mins; November 12, 2025
Birth of the G7
10 mins; November 11, 2025
Breaking the sound barrier
10 mins; November 10, 2025
Discovering the largest dinosaur ever
10 mins; November 07, 2025
The ‘father of e-books’
10 mins; November 06, 2025
The creation of Miffy
10 mins; November 05, 2025
President Clinton is impeached
10 mins; November 04, 2025
The brains behind Thunderbirds
10 mins; November 03, 2025
Emerante de Pradines: Haiti’s musical trailblazer
10 mins; October 31, 2025
Orson Welles broadcasts The War of the Worlds
10 mins; October 30, 2025
Srebrenica massacre
10 mins; October 28, 2025
The invention of the balloon-expandable stent
10 mins; October 28, 2025
Death of a priest
10 mins; October 27, 2025
The man who invented the scratch card
10 mins; October 24, 2025
GLP-1: A breakthrough for diabetes and obesity
10 mins; October 23, 2025
The UK’s first black-owned music studio
9 mins; October 22, 2025
Wangari Maathai: The first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize
8 mins; October 20, 2025
The British oil tanker sunk in Indonesia
10 mins; October 20, 2025
My aunt created The Moomins
10 mins; October 17, 2025
Helen Fielding: The creator of Bridget Jones
11 mins; October 16, 2025
The trial of Soviet writers Daniel and Sinyavsky
9 mins; October 15, 2025
Jorge Luis Borges: 'Father' of Latin American fiction
10 mins; October 14, 2025
Wallander and the rise of Nordic Noir
10 mins; October 13, 2025
How BRICS got its name
9 mins; October 10, 2025
Japan surrenders in Beijing
10 mins; October 09, 2025
The remote island that was evacuated to 10,000km away
10 mins; October 08, 2025
'I designed the Indian rupee symbol'
10 mins; October 07, 2025
The home video war
10 mins; October 06, 2025
The acquittal of OJ Simpson
10 mins; October 03, 2025
'I took the famous photo of JFK and his son'
10 mins; October 02, 2025
The strike that shook up India's tea industry
10 mins; October 01, 2025
The birth of the Excel spreadsheet
10 mins; September 30, 2025
The Cradock Four killings
10 mins; September 29, 2025
Guinea stadium massacre
10 mins; September 26, 2025
The secretary who made millions from her typos
9 mins; September 25, 2025
DDLJ: India’s longest-running film
10 mins; September 24, 2025
The birth of Médecins Sans Frontières
10 mins; September 23, 2025
The start of Scouting
10 mins; September 22, 2025
Omar Sharif stars in Lawrence of Arabia
10 mins; September 19, 2025
The Aswan High Dam
11 mins; September 18, 2025
Egypt criminalises sexual harassment
10 mins; September 17, 2025
Reforming Egypt’s divorce laws
10 mins; September 16, 2025
Mohamed Morsi: Egypt's first democratically elected president
10 mins; September 15, 2025
How the Philippines saved Jews during World War Two
10 mins; September 12, 2025
9/11: The generosity of Gander
10 mins; September 10, 2025
The story behind The Peter Principle book
10 mins; September 10, 2025
The Enabling Act
10 mins; September 09, 2025
Festac ’77: Nigeria’s largest festival of African arts and culture
10 mins; September 08, 2025
‘How I sold my clothes and created $5 billion Vinted empire'
10 mins; September 05, 2025
World's first womb transplant baby
10 mins; September 04, 2025
The Chindits
10 mins; September 03, 2025
The founding of USAID
10 mins; September 02, 2025
Discovering the Titanic
10 mins; September 01, 2025
John Lennon's final headline concerts
9 mins; August 29, 2025
The making of the Third Man: A film noir classic
9 mins; August 28, 2025
Washington DC’s Mount Pleasant riot
9 mins; August 27, 2025
Creating CAPTCHA
10 mins; August 26, 2025
The creation of the International Criminal Court
10 mins; August 25, 2025
Geneva Conventions
10 mins; August 22, 2025
The rise and fall of BlackBerry
9 mins; August 21, 2025
The book that changed Norway’s view of immigrants
10 mins; August 20, 2025
One man’s escape from McCarthyism
10 mins; August 19, 2025
Spot the Dog
10 mins; August 18, 2025
Pramoedya Ananta Toer: The banned author of Indonesia
10 mins; August 15, 2025
Jakarta’s ban on dancing monkeys
10 mins; August 14, 2025
Discovery of the 'Hobbit'
10 mins; August 13, 2025
Borobudur Temple
10 mins; August 12, 2025
The Santa Cruz Massacre
9 mins; August 11, 2025
1965 Singaporean independence
10 mins; August 08, 2025
Brazil’s biggest bank heist
10 mins; August 07, 2025
The Assam-Tibet earthquake
10 mins; August 06, 2025
When Stalin silenced Shostakovich
10 mins; August 05, 2025
Nagasaki bomb
10 mins; August 04, 2025
Trailer. 13 Minutes Presents: The Space Shuttle
3 mins; August 02, 2025
Japan's record-breaking rollercoaster
9 mins; August 01, 2025
Chuquicamata: Chile's abandoned mining town
10 mins; July 31, 2025
Cleveland Balloonfest '86
9 mins; July 30, 2025
Eta’s assassination of Juan Mari Jáuregui
10 mins; July 29, 2025
The Russian revolutionaries nearly stranded in London
10 mins; July 28, 2025
A Chorus Line
9 mins; July 25, 2025
The invention of Kevlar
10 mins; July 24, 2025
President Clinton plays the sax in Prague
9 mins; July 23, 2025
The killing of Jean Charles de Menezes
10 mins; July 22, 2025
Irawati Karve: India’s groundbreaking anthropologist
10 mins; July 21, 2025
Italo disco
10 mins; July 18, 2025
The 'Turbot War'
10 mins; July 17, 2025
Greece’s debt crisis
9 mins; July 16, 2025
The Iran nuclear deal
10 mins; July 15, 2025
The start of Voice of America
10 mins; July 14, 2025
The man who said ‘no’ to Disney
9 mins; July 11, 2025
Ni Una Menos women’s movement in Argentina
9 mins; July 10, 2025
Argentina’s national genetics bank created to identify stolen babies
10 mins; July 09, 2025
The mystery of Evita’s corpse
10 mins; July 08, 2025
Argentina’s 'trial of the juntas'
10 mins; July 07, 2025
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