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In 1984 General Buhari's military regime launched an unusual campaign to clean up Nigeria

The story of a survivor of Ravensbruck, the Nazis' concentration camp for women

How the Royal Navy stopped Jewish refugee ships trying to reach Palestine in the 1940s.

In the 1990s the Cuban economy came close to collapse after Soviet aid dried up

A nightclub in the British city of Birmingham was forced to lift its racial restrictions

In November 1971 a hijacker parachuted from a US plane with a $200,000 ransom

In late November 1979 a mob set fire to the US Embassy in Islamabad

How the CIA secretly funded the hugely influential cultural magazine Encounter.

Erica Jong, a feminist author from New York, talks about her novel on female sexuality

Indian film star Shabana Azmi recalls playing a lesbian in the controversial film, Fire

In 1986 the Kenyan government began a programme of secretly torturing suspected opponents

On 13 November 2001, the Taliban administration collapsed in Afghanistan

In November 1991 Indonesian troops opened fire on independence activists in East Timor

Romany of the 麻豆社 was a pioneer naturalist broadcaster of Roma Gypsy origin

Following the assassination of Indira Gandhi, India was gripped by anti-Sikh riots

On 9 November 2005, nearly 60 people were killed in Jordan's worst terror attack

In November 1975 a huge crowd of Moroccans marched into a Spanish colony in the desert

Alexander Kerensky, overthrown by Lenin in 1917, comments on the Russian Revolution

In 1942, the Allies launched an offensive in Egypt that helped shape the course of WW2

Archive interviews with Britain's most famous hangman, who executed more than 400 people.

In 1936 men from the North of England marched to London to protest at mass unemployment.

In 1930 the USSR created a Jewish Region in Siberia, a homeland for Soviet Jews

Harry Leslie Smith grew up in England during the Great Depression of the 1930s

World-famous prima ballerina Alicia Alonso talks about founding Cuba's National Ballet