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Economic 'shock therapy' in Russia 2022-02-28
The 2014 annexation of Crimea 2022-02-25
The death of Trayvon Martin 2022-02-24
The Navajo Code Talkers in World War 2 2022-02-23
Nixon in China 2022-02-22
The first sex worker strike 2022-02-21
The world's first civil union 2022-02-18
Bollywood's pioneering lesbian drama 2022-02-17
The Berlin Patient 2022-02-16
"Don't ask, don't tell" in the US Armed Forces 2022-02-15
The first LGBT film in war-torn Yugoslavia 2022-02-14
The 1972 mass killings in Burundi 2022-02-11
Ukraine's 'Maidan Revolution' 2022-02-10
Shoe designer Manolo Blahnik 2022-02-09
The invention of Google Maps 2022-02-08
The demise of the Soviet Union 2022-02-07
The first Emirati female teacher 2022-02-03
The day the world looked up 2022-02-02
The murder of US journalist Daniel Pearl 2022-02-01
The Good Friday Agreement 2022-01-28
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