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South Africa’s first inter-racial marriage
9 mins; September 26, 2024
Arrested for "immorality" in South Africa
9 mins; September 25, 2024
Why Tupac was fired from Menace II Society
8 mins; September 24, 2024
India's Mars Orbiter Mission
10 mins; September 23, 2024
Designing the Google logo
10 mins; September 20, 2024
The discovery of New Zealand’s first dinosaur
9 mins; September 19, 2024
India’s plague outbreak
9 mins; September 18, 2024
Camouflaging Leningrad
9 mins; September 17, 2024
The invention of the CT scanner
10 mins; September 16, 2024
When Italy gave back Ethiopia’s stolen obelisk
8 mins; September 13, 2024
Abebech Gobena: Africa's 'Mother Teresa'
8 mins; September 12, 2024
Ardi: The oldest skeleton of a human ancestor
8 mins; September 11, 2024
Emperor Haile Selassie in Bath
9 mins; September 10, 2024
Emperor Haile Selassie overthrown
9 mins; September 09, 2024
Giant Gonzalez: from NBA star to WWE wrestler
9 mins; September 06, 2024
Apollo 13
10 mins; September 05, 2024
The end of the Irish marriage bar
10 mins; September 04, 2024
Ramesses II's 'mummy makeover'
9 mins; September 03, 2024
I led the 'Umbrella' protests
8 mins; September 02, 2024
The woman who spoke to the space station
9 mins; August 30, 2024
Guatemala's disappeared
9 mins; August 29, 2024
Waris Dirie
8 mins; August 28, 2024
The writer of Mary Poppins
9 mins; August 27, 2024
Canada’s first UFO landing pad
8 mins; August 26, 2024
Spain's La Tomatina
9 mins; August 23, 2024
India’s first female bartender
9 mins; August 22, 2024
Argentina's five presidents in two weeks
10 mins; August 22, 2024
Nazis in Egypt
9 mins; August 20, 2024
The celebrity murder case that divided France
9 mins; August 19, 2024
Saving lives after the 2002 Bali bombings
10 mins; August 16, 2024
How the CIA caught 'Carlos the Jackal'
9 mins; August 15, 2024
Sukarno: The founding father of Indonesian independence
8 mins; August 14, 2024
The last ever Olympic art competition
10 mins; August 13, 2024
Clara Nunes: Queen of Samba
9 mins; August 12, 2024
The first televised US presidential debate
9 mins; August 09, 2024
President Richard Nixon resigns
8 mins; August 08, 2024
Ronald Reagan and the Moral Majority
8 mins; August 07, 2024
Bush v Gore: The election decided in the Supreme Court
8 mins; August 06, 2024
The Situation Room photograph
9 mins; August 05, 2024
Ice Bucket Challenge
10 mins; August 02, 2024
The 1965 Freedom Riders of Australia
9 mins; August 01, 2024
Finding a home for Bulgaria's dancing bears
8 mins; July 31, 2024
Yazidi genocide: A rescue mission on Mount Sinjar
9 mins; July 30, 2024
The man who smuggled punk rock across the Berlin Wall
9 mins; July 29, 2024
The first cold chain vaccination storage system
9 mins; July 26, 2024
Building the Moscow Metro
8 mins; July 25, 2024
Olympics: Zamzam Farah at London 2012
10 mins; July 24, 2024
The first Olympic ‘mascot’
9 mins; July 23, 2024
The 1924 Paris Olympics
9 mins; July 22, 2024
How Ayia Napa became a clubbing capital
9 mins; July 19, 2024
The missing people of Cyprus
9 mins; July 18, 2024
Cyprus 2003: Crossing the ceasefire line
9 mins; July 17, 2024
Cyprus 1974: The Final Landing
9 mins; July 16, 2024
Cyprus 1974: The Greek coup
9 mins; July 15, 2024
Arrested for playing football in Brazil
10 mins; July 12, 2024
Italy's 'poison ships'
9 mins; July 11, 2024
The 1968 Mexico City massacre
9 mins; July 10, 2024
The day Celia Cruz returned to Cuba
9 mins; July 09, 2024
How the air fryer was invented
10 mins; July 08, 2024
Conservative wipe-out in Canada
9 mins; July 05, 2024
Fight the Power: The song that became an anthem of protest
8 mins; July 04, 2024
Georgia’s political crisis
9 mins; July 03, 2024
Executed in Stalin’s Great Terror in Georgia
9 mins; July 02, 2024
Subway Art: The graffiti bible
8 mins; July 01, 2024
I designed Hello Kitty
8 mins; June 29, 2024
The first CIA-backed coup in Latin America
9 mins; June 27, 2024
Dignitas: Founding an assisted dying society
10 mins; June 26, 2024
Sagrada Familia: Completing Gaudi’s vision
10 mins; June 25, 2024
The expulsion of the Sudeten Germans
9 mins; June 24, 2024
Kawarau Bridge: The first bungee jumping site in New Zealand
9 mins; June 21, 2024
The first mega cruise ship
10 mins; June 20, 2024
The beginning of Benidorm
9 mins; June 19, 2024
How Cancún became a tourist destination
9 mins; June 18, 2024
The first budget transatlantic flights
9 mins; June 17, 2024
Orelhão: Brazil's iconic egg-shaped telephone booth
8 mins; June 14, 2024
Kielland disaster
9 mins; June 13, 2024
The Irish shopworkers strike against apartheid
10 mins; June 12, 2024
Boko Haram massacre in Gwoza
9 mins; June 11, 2024
Nato bombs Serbian state television headquarters
8 mins; June 10, 2024
The Iraqi journalist who hurled his shoes at George Bush
10 mins; June 07, 2024
Saving lives on D-Day
9 mins; June 06, 2024
The woman whose weather report changed the date of D-Day
9 mins; June 05, 2024
Tetris: The birth of an all-time favourite
8 mins; June 04, 2024
‘Panda diplomacy’: China gifts pandas to Taiwan
10 mins; June 03, 2024
The commercial that changed advertising: 1984
10 mins; May 31, 2024
The Flint water crisis
9 mins; May 30, 2024
The first Aboriginal MP
10 mins; May 29, 2024
The first ever quintuplets
9 mins; May 28, 2024
Carlos Lamarca: From army captain to Brazil's 'most wanted'
10 mins; May 27, 2024
How Air Jordans were created
10 mins; May 24, 2024
Imelda Marcos's famous shoe collection
10 mins; May 23, 2024
Adi Dassler's sports shoe obsession
9 mins; May 22, 2024
How a Brazilian flip-flop took over the world
10 mins; May 21, 2024
Bata: Pioneering shoemakers
8 mins; May 20, 2024
When Cuban spy Ana Montes was caught
10 mins; May 17, 2024
Baghdad heavy metal
9 mins; May 16, 2024
How nuclear testing changed politics in French Polynesia
9 mins; May 15, 2024
The creation of the state of Israel
9 mins; May 14, 2024
The ‘Catastrophe’ for Palestinians
9 mins; May 13, 2024
Princess Diana at the Taj Mahal
9 mins; May 10, 2024
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