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Title | Date published | ||
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 |