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The Miss World Protest

Feminist protesters storm the Miss World beauty pageant, Ghanaian WW2 veterans shot dead by Briton, Halley's Comet probe, the British miners' strike and Transcendental Meditation.

Feminist protesters storm the stage at the Miss World beauty pageant in 1970. Also, Ghanaian WW2 veterans shot by British police in 1948, the Soviet probe sent to Halley's Comet in 1986, the British miners' strike, and the rise of Transcendental Meditation in the West.

Photo: Fox Photos/Hulton Archive/Getty Images

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Sun 9 Mar 2014 02:06GMT
麻豆社 World Service Online

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