The 1980 Turkey coup

On 12 September 1980, the military took control of Turkey

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The 1993 MAD hijack

In 1993, a Nigerian Airways flight from Lagos to Abuja was hijacked

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'The streets of Harare were littered with money'

Professor Gift Mugano describes when Zimbabwe’s inflation hit 89.7 sextillion per cent

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Turkey: Gezi Park protests

In 2013 protests in Istanbul’s Gezi Park led to civil unrest across Turkey

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The billion dollar bid to stop oil drilling in the Amazon

In 2010 a $3.6billion fund began to stop oil drilling in Ecuador’s Yasuni national park

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The discovery of the HIV virus

In 1983, scientists at the Pasteur Institute in Paris first discovered the HIV virus

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Inventing the black box

In 1962 a prototype of the cockpit flight recorder was tested in Australia

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Che Guevara’s daughter: A Cuban doctor in Angola

In 1986 Dr Aleida Guevara travelled from Cuba to treat children in communist Angola

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Freddie Mercury 'marries' Jane Seymour

The actress Jane Seymour shares what it was like being rock star Freddie Mercury's bride

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Ycuá Bolaños supermarket fire

More than 300 people died in Paraguay's capital in 2004

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Debbie McGee in Iran

Showbiz star, Debbie McGee describes being caught up in the Iranian revolution in 1978

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The Pakistani teens who became disco superstars

How Nazia and Zoheb Hassan changed South-East Asian pop with their album, Disco Deewane

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Destruction of Mostar Bridge

On 9 November 1993 the historic bridge was destroyed during the Bosnian War

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The hippo and the tortoise

In 2004, a hippo and a tortoise became friends. Their story gained worldwide fame

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The invention of the EpiPen

How engineer Sheldon Kaplan and his team made the EpiPen, the lifesaving allergy device

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Eyjafjallajökull: The volcano that stopped a continent

In 2010, a cloud of volcanic ash brought Europe’s planes back to earth

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Rosalind Franklin: DNA pioneer

The scientist produced an X-ray photograph in 1952, that helped show the structure of DNA

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The Bolivian Water War

How Bolivians in the city of Cochabamba fought against the “leasing of the rain”

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Discovering the ancient city of Thonis-Heracleion

In 2000 Franck Goddio made one of the greatest ever underwater discoveries

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The independence of Zambia

How Zambia became independent in 1964

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The invention of bubble tea

Chun Shui Tang tea house in Taiwan began selling bubble tea in 1987

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Kennedy’s nail-biter election victory

In 1960, John F Kennedy became the youngest person to be elected United States president.

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The Paris heatwave

In 2003, Paris was overwhelmed by the hottest European heatwave for 500 years

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The Mumbai attacks

In 2008, 10 gunmen killed more than 100 people in Mumbai’s busiest hot spots

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Cabbage Patch Kids

Christmas 1983 saw frenzied shoppers buy three million Cabbage Patch Kids

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The bird that defied extinction

In 1977, the white-winged guan was rediscovered in Peru after a century

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Cameroon’s mysterious lake deaths

In 1986, remote parts of Cameroon were turned into ghost villages overnight

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Tanzania adopts Swahili to unite the country

Tanzania's leader, Julius Nyerere, made Swahili the official language in the early 1960s

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World's first solar-heated home

In 1948, the Dover Sun House, in the US, was the first home to be heated by solar power

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La Haine: The film that shocked France

How Mathieu Kassovitz's critique of policing shocked French society

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