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The Columbine school shooting

Mass murder in the US, the first play on Broadway by a black woman, and space tourism.

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The al Yamamah arms deals

The controversial Anglo-Saudi deal, South Africa's historic election, the first "Vegan"

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The Malayan Emergency

Battling a communist insurgency in the 50s, sinking the Belgrano and the "Arctic African"

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The war on drugs

US efforts to deal with illegal drugs in 1971, plus the rise of Jack Ma in China.

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The final days of Sri Lanka's civil war

The last battles of a brutal conflict plus how the Nazis stole children.

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Fighting Uganda's anti-gay laws

LBGT activism in Uganda, the start of Greenpeace, Bangladesh acid attacks, and dinosaurs.

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Tiananmen Square

Remembering Tiananmen Square, the internet's first social network, and Sesame Street

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D-Day

Eyewitness accounts of the Normandy landings, Vikings in England and the Little Prince

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The first anti-psychotic drug

A mental health breakthrough, the end of the Kosovan war, and a trailblazing gay wedding.

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The assassination of Medgar Evers

An American civil rights hero, a Chinese online star and the psychoanalyst CG Jung

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The Stonewall riot

The riot that inspired the gay rights movement; genocide against the Kurds; and Catch-22

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Surviving Cambodia's 'Killing Fields'

Life under the Khmer Rouge in the 1970s, kidnapped by the Contras and the first Walkman.

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Kenya's ivory inferno

Highlighting the threat from poaching, solving the common cold, plus China and the tampon

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Exploring space

To mark the Apollo 11 Moon landing, personal accounts of landmarks in space exploration.

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When Tunisia led on women's rights

Liberation for Tunisia's women in the 1950s; gay and lesbian fake marriages in China

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The anti-nuclear protesters who won

The protest which stopped the construction of a nuclear reprocessing plant in Germany.

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The mass exodus of Algeria's 'Pieds Noirs'

Why French returnees from the colony of Algeria were ostracised after independence.

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The division of Kashmir

How Kashmir was separated, the warnings about 9/11, Carlos the Jackal and Dr Seuss.

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The return of the wolf

Restoring the wolf in the US, the liberation of Paris and El Salvador's lost children

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The Kindertransport children

Children fleeing the Nazis, a breakthrough in criminal forensics, plus Nina Simone

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The outbreak of World War Two

Eyewitness account of the Nazi invasion of Poland and the first all-female peacekeepers.

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Conflict timber in Liberia's civil war

How the timber industry fuelled a brutal civil war in West Africa.

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The Cambridge spy network

The distinguished British art historian exposed as a former Soviet spy.

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Fighting the Islamic State group online

The Mosul historian who battled IS online, plus growing up black under Hitler

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The birth of the People's Republic of China

70 years of communist China, we hear from Mao's friends, followers and critics.

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Black British history

Some landmark moments in British Black history to mark Black History Month in the UK.

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An environmental history special

A pioneer of climate change science, UK's nuclear accident, the man who fed the world

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The fall of the Berlin Wall

A look at events across Europe in 1989 that led to the wall coming down in Germany.

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'Jane' - the underground abortion service

The secret 1960s US abortion network and the battle to protect the Barrier Reef.

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Britain's secret propaganda war

'Fake news' in WW2, why Indian police blinded detainees and the Berlin Wall rock concert

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