Britain's Landslide 1945 Election

In July 1945 Labour won a surprise victory, defeating war-time leader Winston Churchill

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Chilean Students Set on Fire

Chilean soldiers attacked and burnt two students during protests in July 1986.

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Scouts in the Warsaw Uprising

On 1 August 1944, the Warsaw Uprising against the Nazi occupation of Poland began

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First Inter-racial Kiss on TV

In July 1964, a white actor and a black actress, kissed, live, on a British TV show

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Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho

In August 1960 the controversial Oscar-nominated psychological thriller was released

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Afghanistan's First Coup

In July 1973 military officers staged a coup which toppled the monarchy in Afghanistan

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First Cochlear Implant

In August 1978 an Australian doctor successfully fitted a multi-channel cochlear implant.

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The Plot to Kill Iranian Writers

In August 1996 in Iran, there was a plot to kill 21 writers on a bus jouney to Armenia

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The Bombing of Hiroshima

A Japanese schoolgirl tells her story of surviving the US nuclear attack on Hiroshima

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Singapore Independence

Singapore leaves the Federation of Malaysia and becomes an independent sovereign state

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The Great Iraqi Defection

In 1995 two of the Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein's son-in-laws defected to Jordan.

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The World's Most Valuable T-Rex

Peter Larson tells us how his team discovered the most complete T-Rex fossil in the world

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Devil's Island

A convict's experience of the notorious French penal colony in South America.

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The Man Who Published Harry Potter

In 1996 struggling author JK Rowling finds a publisher at last for wizard Harry Potter.

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The Inuit Children Experiment

Helen Thiesen recalls being taken from her family in Greenland and sent to live in Denmark

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Child Prisoners of the Japanese

The story of one young American girl held prisoner by the Japanese during WW2.

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Korea Divided

In August 1945 Korea is split along the 38th parallel.

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The Tolpuddle Martyrs

How six English farmworkers defied the authorities to form a trade union in 1834.

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The Dieppe Raid

The disastrous raid by Allied forces on the German occupied French port of Dieppe in WW2.

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The Assassination of Leon Trotsky

Esteban Volkov recalls the murder of his grandfather, Leon Trotsky, in Mexico in Aug 1940

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Charles Rennie Mackintosh

In August 1915 the Scottish architect was arrested on suspicion of spying.

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A Bizarre Poisoning Plot in Oregon

A clash between a religious commune and the locals leads to the mass poisoning of a town.

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Mass Executions in Iran

In the summer of 1988 thousands of political prisoners were suddenly executed in Iran.

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The Assassination of Benigno Aquino

On 21 Aug 1983, the opposition leader, Benigno Aquino, was shot dead in the Philippines

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Latinos Protest Against Vietnam

How a Mexican-American march against the Vietnam War descended into chaos in 1970.

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The Destruction of Iraq's Marshes

A look at the destruction of southern Iraq's great marshes, overseen by Saddam Hussein.

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The Guinness Book of Records

The first edition of one of the world's best-selling books was published in August 1955.

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Hurricane Katrina

In August 2005 a massive hurricane hit the city of New Orleans in the USA.

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Uri Geller and the Bending Spoon

In 1976, a US magazine tested a psychic's claim that he could bend metal with his mind.

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The Auschwitz Cellist

How the cellist Anita Lasker-Wallfisch survived the Holocaust by playing music.

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