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Back to SearchGuatemala's outspoken bishop
On 26 April 1998 leading human rights campaigner, Bishop Juan Gerardi, was attacked and killed in his home, just two days after presenting the conclu…
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Discovering the secrets of DNA
James Watson and Francis Crick first published their discoveries about the structure of DNA on 25 April 1953.
Their findings were to revolutionise our…
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Althea McNish: 'I designed fabrics for the Queen'
In 1966, the artist Althea McNish designed fabrics for the Queen's tour of the West Indies when she visited Trinidad and Tobago.
Althea, who was born …
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The Russian man who pretended to be a dog
In 1994, Russian conceptual artist Oleg Kulik posed naked, pretending to be a guard dog, attacking passers by in Moscow.
He was protesting conditions…
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Smoky the World War II dog hero
In 1944, Bill Wynne who was serving with the U.S. Army during World War II, adopted a tiny Yorkshire terrier called Smoky.
When Bill caught dengue f…
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Roselle the 9/11 guide dog
After the 9/11 terror attacks in 2001, a New York guide dog called Roselle was hailed as a hero for helping her owner safely down 78 flights of stair…
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The world's first labradoodle
In 1989, Australian dog breeder Wally Conron was tasked with finding a suitable dog for a blind woman in Hawaii whose husband was allergic to pet hai…
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The first dog in space
Laika the Russian stray was the first dog to orbit the Earth. She was sent into space on a flight in 1957 which had been timed to mark the anniversar…
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Richard Dimbleby describes Belsen
The BBC’s Richard Dimbleby was the first reporter to enter the liberated Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.
His report describing the unimaginable hor…
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I led the hunt for the Boston Marathon bombers
On 15 April 2013, brothers Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev set off two bombs at the Boston Marathon and killed three people.
After the attack they disa…
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