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Great London Smog of 1952

How the worst smog in living memory lasted five days and killed thousands of Londoners.

• 9 mins

The Montreal massacre

On 6 December 1989, a college shooting in Canada left 14 women dead.

• 9 mins

Landing in Red Square

A German teenager managed to evade Soviet defences to land in Moscow's Red Square.

• 9 mins

The Origin of Nollywood

The story of the 1992 film which launched Nigeria's hugely successful movie industry

• 9 mins

Operation Restore Hope

In December 1992 US Marines landed on the beaches of Somalia.

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Archive of Terror

How a huge cache of papers showed the true extent of torture across 1970s South America.

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Marsha Hunt and the 1960s

In the late 1960s a young black American woman rolled up in 'Swinging' London.

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Discovering Cleopatra's Palace

Twenty years ago underwater excavations began which unearthed a 2000 year old palace.

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The M Room

How exiles from the Nazis helped British intelligence listen in on German prisoners-of-war

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Piltdown Man

In 1912, Britain's top palaeontologists were hoaxed by a "missing link" in human evolution

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The last men on the moon

The story of the last US space mission to the moon 40 years ago

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Libya and Weapons of Mass Destruction

In December 2003 Colonel Gaddafi announced Libya was giving up trying to make WMD

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Mad cow disease - CJD

In the 1990s it became clear that a brain disease could be passed from cows to humans.

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Dusty Plays South Africa

The British popstar Dusty Springfield went on tour in apartheid South Africa in 1964

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The Execution of the Ceau艧escus

On December 25th 1989, Nicolae and Elena Ceau艧escu were executed by firing squad.

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Vietnam War - Christmas bombing campaign

40 years ago the US launched its heaviest aerial bombardment of the Vietnam War.

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Maitatsine

In 1980 thousands died in the Nigerian city of Kano in an uprising by an Islamic sect.

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Big Brother - the beginning of reality TV

In December 1999 a young Dutch man won the first ever Big Brother reality TV show.

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Pong and the birth of the computer game

It is 40 years since a video game was invented which would change the way we play.

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Donald Woods flees South Africa

It is 35 years since the South African newspaper editor was forced into exile.

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The Keeling Curve

Meticulously recorded levels of CO2 in the atmosphere show how our climate is changing

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Waiting for Godot

How Samuel Beckett's existentialist masterpiece revolutionised the theatre 60 years ago.

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Donald Campbell's Fatal Crash

In January 1967 the record-breaking driver was killed at the helm of his jetboat Bluebird

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Fighting in the Iran-Iraq War.

An Iraqi doctor remembers serving in one of the longest wars of the 20th Century.

• 14 mins

Operation No Living Thing

In January 1999, a combined rebel force invaded the capital of Sierra Leone, Freetown.

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Johnny Cash plays Folsom Prison

It is 45 years since the Country and Western star played his first gig in a jail.

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Tito on Vis

In 1944 the Yugoslav partisan leader found sanctuary on a tiny island in the Adriatic.

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Festival in the Desert

In 2001 a festival held in the Sahara desert launched Tuareg music on the world scene

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The Boxing Day tsunami and Aceh

When the earthquake and tsunami of December 2004 hit Indonesia, over 130,000 people died.

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Baby Fae and the baboon's heart

In 1984 doctors tried to save a baby girl's life by giving her a heart transplant.

• 14 mins