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The first woman in space

In June 1963 Soviet Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova went into orbit.

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Ultrasound

It's 55 years since a picture of a foetus inside the womb was first published.

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War Requiem by Benjamin Britten

It is regarded as one of the most important pieces in 20th Century English music.

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Smoking and Lung Cancer

It took until the 1950s for researchers to connect smoking with lung cancer

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JFK in Ireland

Novelist Colm Toibin recalls US President John F Kennedy's visit to Ireland in June 1963

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Iraq's Sectarian Violence

The recent surge in violence in Iraq has echoes of the sectarian conflict in 2006-07

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The Battle of Gettysburg

It is 150 years since the Battle of Gettysburg, a turning point in the American Civil War

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Chilean Students Set on Fire

In July 1986 two students were set on fire by Chilean government soldiers

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Penguin Rescue

The mission to save thousands of African penguins from an oil spill in July, 2000

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Ludwig Wittgenstein

How the publication of Philosophical Investigations in 1953 revolutionised philosophy

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Yasser Arafat Arrives in Gaza

When the Palestinian leader was allowed to return from exile to the Gaza strip in 1994

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The Crate Escape

In the summer of 1984 a Nigerian exile living in London was kidnapped in a crate.

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The Death of Jean Moulin

The day the leader of the French Resistance was killed by German forces on July 08, 1943

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Iran Student Protest

The Iranian student who became an unwitting symbol of the anti-government protests in 1999

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The Death of Thich Quang Duc

In June 1963, a Buddhist monk set himself on fire in central Saigon

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Skylab Falls to Earth

The day when fragments of the US space station Skylab hit an Australian town in 1979

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Disco Demolition Night

How a disgruntled Chicago DJ hosted an anti-disco event which turned into a riot in 1979

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The Soviet Gulag

Hear one man's story of life in a Soviet labour camp during Stalin's rule.

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Women's Baseball in WWII

In 1943, the first and only professional women's baseball league was launched in the US

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The Hong Kong Handover

Former Governor General, Chris Patten, remembers the day the territory returned to China.

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Freeze

In 1988 a group of students put on an exhibition called Freeze. It changed British art.

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The Birth of Second Life

It is ten years since the launch of Philip Rosedale's online virtual world Second Life

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Escape from the KGB

How Soviet double agent Oleg Gordievsky escaped from under the noses of the KGB in 1985

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Haile Selassie visits Jamaica

In 1966, the Emperor of Ethiopia made a state visit to the Caribbean island of Jamaica.

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The Lillehammer Hit

In July 1973 a Moroccan waiter was shot dead by an Israeli hit-squad in Norway

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Black July

In 1983 violence erupted between the Sinhala majority and the Tamil minority in Sri Lanka

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Alcoholics Anonymous

In the summer of 1935 Alcoholics Anonymous was founded in Akron, Ohio

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Abducted by Joseph Kony

The woman forced to bear the children of the leader of the Lord's Resistance Army

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The End of the Korean War

On July 27 1953 the Korean War came to an end and thousands of prisoners were released

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The Sinking of the USS Indianapolis

July 1945 - a US warship sinks in the Pacific; its crew face days in shark-infested waters

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