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When tourism came to the Maldives
In 1972 the first tourists arrived in the Maldives.
They stayed in humble lodgings in three houses, looked after by young Maldivians including Ahmed N…
2 years, 8 months ago
The National Health Service begins
On 5 July 1948, the UK’s National Health Service began as part of a series of reforms with the aim of supporting and protecting Britain's citizens fr…
2 years, 8 months ago
Longest-serving democratically elected communist government
In 1977 what was to become the world’s longest-serving democratically elected communist government came to power in eastern India.
Poverty and absolut…
2 years, 8 months ago
The trial of John Demjanjuk
In 1986 a car factory worker from the United States was accused of being ‘Ivan the Terrible’, a notorious concentration camp guard at Treblinka durin…
2 years, 8 months ago
I made Lady Gaga's meat dress
On 12 September 2010 Lady Gaga, won the MTV Video Music Award for Video of the Year.
She accepted the award in a dress made entirely out of beef.
13…
2 years, 8 months ago
The 'graveyard' for communist statues
The Hungarian city of Budapest's communist statue 'graveyard' opened on 29 June 1993.
Statues representing communism were not destroyed, instead they…
2 years, 8 months ago
Sampoong department store disaster
On 29 June 1995, the Sampoong Department Store in Seoul, South Korea, collapsed due to structural failures.
The disaster killed 502 people and injured…
2 years, 8 months ago
First reports of Ebola
In 1976 in a small Belgian missionary hospital in a village in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, then known as Zaire, people were dying from an u…
2 years, 8 months ago
JFK’s Ich Bin Ein Berliner speech
United States President John F Kennedy gave a speech in Berlin at the height of the Cold War on 26 June 1963.
It galvanised the world in support of We…
2 years, 8 months ago
My dad played golf on the moon
Alan Shepard played golf on the moon in 1971.
He became the first and only person to enjoy the sport on the lunar surface.
The astronaut golfer’s daugh…
2 years, 8 months ago