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Title | Date published | ||
How America 'lost' China | 2019-06-13 | ||
Christo and Jeanne-Claude wrap the Reichstag | 2019-06-12 | ||
The first anti-psychotic drug | 2019-06-11 | ||
The end of the war in Kosovo | 2019-06-10 | ||
The Gurkha soldiers fight for equality | 2019-06-07 | ||
Broadcasting D-Day | 2019-06-06 | ||
The Little Prince | 2019-06-05 | ||
D-Day | 2019-06-04 | ||
Vikings in York | 2019-06-03 | ||
Six Degrees - the first online social network | 2019-05-31 | ||
Behind the scenes on Sesame Street | 2019-05-30 | ||
Tiananmen Square escape | 2019-05-29 | ||
Bokassa's massacre of the children | 2019-05-28 | ||
The death of Jawaharlal Nehru | 2019-05-27 | ||
The Acid Survivors Foundation | 2019-05-24 | ||
How environmental campaign group Greenpeace was formed | 2019-05-23 | ||
Fighting Uganda's anti-gay laws | 2019-05-22 | ||
The asteroid that killed the dinosaurs | 2019-05-21 | ||
Walking the Great Wall of China | 2019-05-20 | ||
Hitler's stolen children | 2019-05-17 |