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Japanese Murders in Brazil

Fanatics killed Japanese immigrants who accepted that Japan had surrendered in WW2.

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Britain's Little Blue Disability Car

For decades disabled people in the UK were offered tiny, three-wheeled, turquoise cars

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The Funeral of the Duke of Wellington

Recorded memories of the funeral in 1852 of the Duke of Wellington who defeated Napoleon.

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The 'Braceros', America's Mexican Guest Workers

How hundreds of thousands of Mexicans were hired to work legally in US farms.

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The Story Behind The Man Who Shot JFK

What did Lee Harvey Oswald do for two years in the Soviet city of Minsk?

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The Last Days of Yasser Arafat

The Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat died in November 2004

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The USSR Opens Up to the West

Four years after Stalin's death, Moscow threw a festival for 30,000 foreign students.

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The Destruction Of Iraq's Marshlands

When Iraq's marshes became a hiding place for rebels, Saddam Hussein destroyed them.

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The Antarctic Whale Hunters

Memories of the bloody Antarctic industry which left whales on the brink of extinction.

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The man who inspired Britain's first Aids charity

In 1982, Terrence Higgins became the first known British victim of HIV/AIDS.

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The Discovery of Dinosaur Eggs

The fossil find in 1923 in Mongolia helped to prove that dinosaurs hatched their young.

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Norway's EU referendum

In November 1994, Norwegians voted in a referendum not to join the European Union

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Berlin's Rubble Women

At the end of WW2 much of Germany's capital had been destroyed. Women helped clear it up.

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The Coronation of Jean-B茅del Bokassa

On 4 December 1977 Jean-B茅del Bokassa was crowned Emperor of the Central African Republic

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The Armenian Earthquake

A catastrophic earthquake hit northern Armenia on December 7th 1988, hear from a survivor

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Adopted By The Man Who Killed My Family

Ramiro Osorio Cristales was five when his family was massacred by the Guatemalan army.

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Angela Merkel's Rise to Power

Angela Merkel rose to power in German politics after the fall of her mentor, Helmut Kohl.

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Cicely Saunders And The Modern Hospice Movement

The British woman who revolutionised the treatment of dying patients around the world.

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When China Joined the WTO

China had to open up its strict communist system to join the World Trade Organisation

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Apollo 8

How the first mission to orbit the Moon captured the world's imagination in December 1968

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Englandspiel: The Deadly WW2 Spy Game

How Britain sent dozens of Dutch agents to their deaths in Nazi-occupied Netherlands

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China and Japan at War

Japanese troops reached the Chinese city of Nanjing in December 1937.

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The US Apologises for Wartime Internment

Japanese Americans win an apology and compensation for World War II internment.

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Theatre in the Sahara

Theatre director Peter Brook led a troupe of actors across the Sahara desert in 1972

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Hacking The First Computer Password

Scientists at MIT in the 1960s had to share computer time - but some people wanted more.

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The Woman Who Wrote Mary Poppins

Writer PL Travers created a children's classic when she invented a magical nanny.

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Stopping The 'Shoe Bomber'

How a passenger helped subdue shoe-bomber Richard Reid on an American Airlines flight.

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Scotland's Stone of Destiny

On Christmas Eve 1950 four students took the 'Stone of Destiny' from Westminster Abbey

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UFO Sightings: The Rendlesham Forest Incident

At Christmas 1980 strange objects and lights were seen over a military base in England.

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The Soviet Afghan War Begins

The world held its breath in December 1979 as Soviet troops poured into Afghanistan

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