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Shot down in Iraq
It is 20 years since international forces united to drive Iraq out of Kuwait
The Docklands bomb
On 9 February 1996, a bomb exploded in London bringing an IRA ceasefire to an end
A communist in the US
On 9 February 1950 Senator Joseph McCarthy began his hunt for communists in the US
The death of Pushkin
In February 1837 the great Russian poet - Alexander Pushkin died
Assassination of Rafik Hariri
On February 14 2005, Lebanese politician Rafik Hariri was assassinated
Fall of Singapore
The British colony of Singapore fell to Japanese forces on this day in 1942
The death of Captain Cook
In February 1779 the British seafarer Captain Cook was beaten to death in Hawaii
Dolly the Sheep
What was the first cloned mammal like and why did she die young?
The Lindbergh kidnapping
On 1 March 1932, the baby son of one of the most famous men in America went missing
Algeria emergency
How Algeria's experiement with democracy ended in civil war and a state of emergency.
People Power in the Philippines
How people power brought down President Marcos of the Philippines in 1986.
Apartheid in the 1950s
The mood across South Africa in the 1950s as the Apartheid laws were being put in place
Khrushchev's Secret Speech
How Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev secretly denounced Stalin as a tyrant
Nicaraguan elections
It is 21 years since the left-wing Sandinista government in Nicaragua lost power
Assassination of Malcolm X
How black leader Malcolm X was assassinated in New York in February 1965.
Libya 1969 coup
It is over 40 years since Colonel Gaddafi took power in Libya in a military coup
The Krakow Ghetto
In March 1941 the Nazi authorities in Krakow moved the city's Jews into a ghetto
Rhodesian republic
In 1970, the white minority thought they could rule Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe, for ever
Witness: Weathermen radicals in the USA
The inside story of how three Weatherman revolutionaries died in New York in March 1970
Ivory Coast civil war
How a brutal civil war broke out in Ivory Coast in 2002.
Political Activist Rosa Luxemburg
A revolutionary theorist and feminist icon, Lenin called her the Eagle of the Revolution
Zeebrugge ferry disaster
Survivors recall when a Belgian ferry capsized and killed more than 190 people
Dunblane school shooting
The lasting emotional impact of a gun attack at a small Scottish school in 1996
Madrid train bombings
On 11 March 2004, bomb attacks in Madrid left 191 people dead
Air strikes on Libya 1986
It is almost 25 years since the US decided to take military action against Libya
Three Mile Island
In March 1979, the US suffered its worst nuclear accident
Halabja
In March 1988 Iraqi forces attacked the Kurdish town of Halabja with chemical weapons
Ordination of Women Priests
Angela Berners-Wilson on her experiences that day, and her long fight to become a priest
Isherwood in Berlin
The English author Christopher Isherwood lived in Berlin throughout the 1930s.
Tokaimura nuclear accident
In September 1999 there was a nuclear accident at Tokaimura in Japan
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History as told by the people who were there
