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Arrested for "immorality" in South Africa

Dr Zureena Desai was arrested in South Africa for breaking the Immorality Act

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South Africa鈥檚 first inter-racial marriage

For almost 40 years, marriage between people from different ethnic backgrounds was banned

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The Estonia ferry disaster

In 1994 the Estonia ferry sank off Finland in one of Europe's biggest shipping tragedies

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Kristallnacht: The night of broken glass

In 1938, the Nazis launched a violent anti-Jewish attack, known as Kristallnacht

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Cambodia war crimes

Kerry Hamill mistakenly sailed into Cambodian waters and was killed by the Khmer Rouge

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South Africa鈥檚 nuclear weapons

In 1989, South Africa became the first country to make and then dismantle nuclear weapons

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The speech that inspired the Law of the Sea

In November 1967, the Maltese diplomat, Arvid Pardo, gave a historic speech at the UN

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The longest plane hijacking in Latin America

In 1973, two men pretending to be Colombian guerrillas hijacked a plane for 60 hours

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Eliza: When chatbots started

1966 saw the invention of Eliza, which is said to be the first chatbot

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WABOT-1: The first humanoid robot

Scientists at Waseda University in Japan built the world's first humanoid robot in 1973

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The world's first general purpose electronic computer

In 1946, one of the world鈥檚 first electronic computers was unveiled in the USA.

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How the QR code was invented

In 1994 Japanese engineer Masahiro Hara designed a square of data, now known as a QR code

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'Robocops鈥� in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Handmade robots were installed in DRC's capital city Kinshasa to direct traffic

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