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Ramayan - India's TV Epic

It is 25 years since the final episode of one of India's biggest ever TV programmes

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Gorkhaland

The sisters whose lives were devastated during the campaign for Gorkhaland in India

• 9 mins

Vietnam - US Prisoner of War

In August 1964, Everett Alvarez was shot down by communist North Vietnamese forces.

• 15 mins

Malaysian Hostage Crisis

In August 1975, Japanese Red Army militants took 53 people hostage in Kuala Lumpur

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Beverly Johnson - Vogue's First Black Covergirl

It wasn't until 1974 that American Vogue put a black model on its cover for the first time

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The Great Pacific Garbage Patch

In 1997, a patch of plastic waste was discovered in the middle of the Pacific Ocean

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Burma's 1988 Protests

In August 1988 protests demanding an end to military rule in Burma were met with violence

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Bombing of Nagasaki

Survivors remember the atomic explosion over the Japanese city in 1945

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The Opening of Euro Disney

Twenty-one years ago, Disney finally opened a park near Paris after years of negotiations.

• 15 mins

Conflict in Congo

The Congolese student who saw war come to his small hometown of Uvira

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Scientists Flee Nazi Germany

How the rise of Hitler forced great physicists such as Max Born out of 1930s Germany

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The Battle of the Potato Beetle

In 1950, East Germany claimed American planes were dropping beetles over their fields.

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The Omagh Bombing

In August 1998, 29 people died in a massive car bombing in Omagh, Northern Ireland.

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Stanley Kubrick

Set designer Sir Ken Adam recalls working with the famously difficult director

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The Nepali Royal Massacre

In 2001, the Crown Prince of Nepal killed nine people and then turned the gun on himself.

• 15 mins

Saddam Hussein's 'Human Shields'

The British family who were held as 'human shields' in Iraq before the First Gulf War

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Prague Spring

The student who appealed for the world's help when Soviet tanks invaded Czechoslovakia

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The Assassination of Benigno Aquino

On August 21 1983, the opposition leader, Benigno Aquino, was shot dead in the Philippines

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Legionnaires' Disease

In August 1976 more than 200 people developed a mystery illness at a hotel in Philadelphia

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Brazil Protests: Caras Pintadas

In 1992, a huge wave of protests forced President Collor of Brazil from office.

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The Ballerina and the Coup

In 1959, Dame Margot Fonteyn was part of a bizarre plot to overthrow the Panama government

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Krakatoa

In 1883, the Indonesian volcano caused one of the world's biggest disasters

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The Sherri Finkbine Abortion Case

How one Arizona couple's campaign for a termination split America in 1962

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I Have a Dream

Martin Luther King made his historic plea for racial equality at the March on Washington

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Aboriginal Strike

The first ever strike by Australian Aborigines to help free them from virtual slavery

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Women Murdered in Mexico

In 1993 young women began disappearing in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez.

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Eritrea's Long War

A doctor who took part in Eritrea's 30 year struggle for independence from Ethiopia

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Jack The Ripper

In September 1888, the most famous serial killer in history stalked the streets of London.

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Fleeing from Laos

In 1973 the American war against communism in Laos ended leaving their allies behind

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Special Operations Executive

During WWII Britain set up a secret organisation to wage war in Nazi occupied Europe

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