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Chimps In Space!
Chimps In Space!

Episode 452

Before Yuri Gagarin, before Alan Shepard… a chimp called Ham was blasted into space for six-and-a-half minutes of weightlessness on 31st January, 196…

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Hannah Hauxwell: Britain’s First Reality Star
Hannah Hauxwell: Britain’s First Reality Star

Episode 451

Running a remote Yorkshire farm, with no flushing toilet and no electricity is an unlikely route to TV stardom, but 46 year-old spinster Hannah Hauxw…

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Let’s Embalm Lenin
Let’s Embalm Lenin

Episode 449

The corpse of Vladimir Lenin, founder of the Soviet Union, was placed on display in Moscow's Red Square on 27th January, 1924 - where, astonishingly,…

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Brides on the Move
Brides on the Move

Episode 448

Rerun. Sometimes termed ‘The Diaper Run’ due to the large number of babies on-board, the S.S. Argentina set sail from Southampton to New York City on…

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The Nellie Bly Express
The Nellie Bly Express

Episode 447

Pioneering journalist Nellie Bly returned from her 72-day trip around the world on 25th January, 1890. The final leg of the journey was upon a charte…

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27 Years in the Jungle
27 Years in the Jungle

Episode 446

Japanese ‘holdout’ Shoichi Yokoi had been hiding out in the jungles of Guam since the Second World War when he was discovered by hunters on 24th Janu…

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Rock N Roll’s Big Night
Rock N Roll’s Big Night

Episode 445

The Rock And Roll Hall of Fame welcomed its first inductees in a star-studded event at the Waldorf Astoria, New York on 23rd January, 1986. But the c…

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Lalli and the Axe
Lalli and the Axe

Episode 443

According to Finnish legend, a peasant farmer named Lalli murdered the Christian missionary Bishop Henry on the ice of lake Köyliönjärvi on January 2…

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Introducing the BlackBerry
Introducing the BlackBerry

Episode 442

Rerun. Research In Motion were once the world’s most popular maker of smartphones, but when they launched the BlackBerry 850 on 19th January, 1999, t…

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The 17th Century UFO
The 17th Century UFO

Episode 441

One of earliest recorded UFO sightings in America happened on 18th January, 1644 in the Massachusetts Bay Colony when lights rose out of the water ne…

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