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Back to SearchThe US invasion of Panama
In December 1989, more than 20,000 US soldiers descended on the tiny Central American country of Panama.
The Americans sought to remove the country’…
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The invention of the shopping trolley
In 1937, American supermarket owner Sylvan Goldman came up with a way to get his customers to spend more.
He introduced his 'folding basket carriers' …
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The Calais 'Jungle' migrant camp
In 2015, Europe was in the grip of a migrant crisis, as more than one million people fled regions including the Middle East. Many set their sights on…
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Africa’s stolen Metis children
In 1953, in what was then the Belgian Congo, four-year-old Marie-José Loshi was forcibly removed from her family’s village and taken more than 600km …
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Surviving Chile's tsunami
In 2010, an 8.8 magnitude earthquake struck the coast of Chile.
It shook the central and southern parts of the country for more than three minutes, c…
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Denmark’s Inuit children experiment
In 1951, a group of 22 Inuit children from Greenland were sent to live with foster parents in Denmark. It was part of a social experiment aimed at im…
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The Nellie massacre
The Nellie massacre on 18 February 1983 was the worst bloodshed in the country since Indian independence in 1947. It is estimated that 3,000 people d…
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Discovering the structure of haemoglobin
What was it in September of 1959 that caused an Austrian scientist to rush out from his lab and buy children's modelling clay?
Austrian born Dr Max Pe…
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Assassination of Malcolm X
Sixty years ago, on 21st February 1965, the controversial black leader, Malcolm X, was assassinated in Harlem, New York as he was preparing to speak…
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Murder at the Berlin Wall
On 29 March 1974, Czesław Kukuczka stormed into the Polish embassy in East Berlin, threatening to detonate a bomb unless he was allowed to escape to …
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