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The islands Japan and Russia can’t agree on

In 1947, thousands of Japanese people were taken from their island homes by Soviet troops

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The woman who smuggled HIV into Bulgaria in her handbag

Virologist Professor Radka Argirova was the first to test people for HIV in Bulgaria

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Miss World protest

In 1970, feminists stormed the stage at the Miss World pageant in London

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Quebec’s 1995 referendum

In 1995, the people of Quebec voted on whether to become independent from Canada

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Demolishing the Babri Masjid

Hindu extremists demolished a mosque in the Indian city of Ayodhya

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The killing of Jean Charles de Menezes

In 2005, the unarmed Brazilian man was shot dead by police in London

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'The Dismissal' of Gough Whitlam

In 1975, the Prime Minister was sacked in Australia's biggest constitutional crisis

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Creating Teletubbies

The story of the inspiration behind one of the most popular kids TV shows of all time

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Mongolian revolution

In 1990, a peaceful revolution brought democracy to Mongolia

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The Nazi occupation of Jersey

A woman who risked her life to hide a Russian prisoner during World War Two

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Returning to District Six

Zahra Nordien returned to District Six decades after being expelled during apartheid

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Soviet fashionista

Slava Zaitsev was the first designer to design high fashion pieces in the Soviet Union

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Felix Baumgartner's huge leap

In 2012, Felix Baumgartner jumped from space back to earth

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Una Marson and the Â鶹Éç Caribbean Service

The Â鶹Éç's first black producer, Una Marson, and the beginnings of the Caribbean Service

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The Â鶹Éç broadcasting through the Iron Curtain

Transmitting independent broadcasts through the Iron Curtain between 1947 and 1991

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Colombia's 'false positives' killings

When Colombia's military murdered thousands of innocent civilians

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Grozny siege

In December 1994, Russian forces began the siege of Chechnya’s capital Grozny

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Chile mine rescue

In 2010, 33 miners were trapped underground for 69 days in the San José mine in Chile

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Creating ciabatta bread

In 1982, rally driver Arnaldo Cavallari created ciabatta bread in Adria, in Italy

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Inventing Chicken Manchurian

Chef Nelson Wang created Chicken Manchurian in 1975

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Malta's bread strike

In February 1977 the bakers of Malta went on an unprecedented strike

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Inventing instant noodles

In 1958 Japanese entrepreneur, Momofuku Ando, invented instant noodles

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The birth of the Slow Food Movement

In 1986, protests against McDonalds in Rome led to an anti-fast food revolution.

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One team in Tallinn

In 1996, Scotland played in a football match where the opposition hadn't turned up

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Arctic African

Tété-Michel Kpomassie, ran away from his village in Togo and went to live in Greenland.

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When America banned silicone breast implants

In 1992, the US Government suspended all procedures involving silicone breast implants

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The man Pinochet wanted dead

In 1973, Miguel Enriquez led resistance against the dictatorship in Chile

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Pussy Riot’s cathedral protest

In 2012, a punk protest took place in one of Moscow's main cathedrals

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Plastics in oceans

In 1971 Edward Carpenter discovered plastic floating about in the Atlantic Ocean

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Dutch North Sea flood

In 1953, a storm combined with high tides breached sea defences in the Netherlands

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