The end of the Irish marriage bar

Until 1973, married women in Ireland were banned from working in state jobs.

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Apollo 13

In 1970, a Moon mission almost ended in tragedy after an explosion on board the spaceship

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Giant Gonzalez: from NBA star to WWE wrestler

Jorge Gonzalez was the first Argentinian in an NBA draft. How did he end up wrestling?

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Emperor Haile Selassie overthrown

In September 1974, a military junta launched a coup against Ethiopia's monarchy

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Haile Selassie in Bath

In 1936, the Emperor of Ethiopia Haile Selassie was exiled in Bath in the UK

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Ardi: The oldest skeleton of a human ancestor

In 1994, a college student discovered a 4.4 million-year-old skeleton in Ethiopia

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Abebech Gobena: Africa's 'Mother Teresa'

In 1980, Abebech Gobena founded an orphanage in Ethiopia to save children from starvation

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When Italy gave back Ethiopia’s stolen obelisk

The Axum Obelisk was looted by Italian soldiers in 1937 on the orders of Benito Mussolini

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The invention of the CT scanner

In 1971, the CT scanner was invented by Allan Cormack and Godfrey Hounsfield

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Camouflaging Leningrad

In 1941, landmarks were painted and covered in the Russian city during World War Two

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India’s plague outbreak

In 1994, hundreds of thousands of people fled the city of Surat

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The discovery of New Zealand’s first dinosaur

The discovery of New Zealand's first dinosaur by Joan Wiffen

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Designing the Google logo

Brazilian artist and designer, Ruth Kedar’s story of designing the Google logo.

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India's Mars Orbiter Mission

India placed a satellite into orbit around Mars on its first attempt in 2014

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Why Tupac was fired from Menace II Society

In 1993, the Hughes brothers released their debut movie

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South Africa’s first inter-racial marriage

For almost 40 years, marriage between people from different ethnic backgrounds was banned

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The Estonia ferry disaster

In 1994 the Estonia ferry sank off Finland in one of Europe's biggest shipping tragedies

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Kristallnacht: The night of broken glass

In 1938, the Nazis launched a violent anti-Jewish attack, known as Kristallnacht

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Cambodia war crimes

Kerry Hamill mistakenly sailed into Cambodian waters and was killed by the Khmer Rouge

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South Africa’s nuclear weapons

In 1989, South Africa became the first country to make and then dismantle nuclear weapons

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The speech that inspired the Law of the Sea

In November 1967, the Maltese diplomat, Arvid Pardo, gave a historic speech at the UN

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The longest plane hijacking in Latin America

In 1973, two men pretending to be Colombian guerrillas hijacked a plane for 60 hours

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Eliza: When chatbots started

1966 saw the invention of Eliza, which is said to be the first chatbot

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WABOT-1: The first humanoid robot

Scientists at Waseda University in Japan built the world's first humanoid robot in 1973

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The world's first general purpose electronic computer

In 1946, one of the world’s first electronic computers was unveiled in the USA.

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How the QR code was invented

In 1994 Japanese engineer Masahiro Hara designed a square of data, now known as a QR code

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'Robocops’ in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Handmade robots were installed in DRC's capital city Kinshasa to direct traffic

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The Sunflower Movement

In 2014, more than 500,000 Taiwanese people protested against a new trade deal with China

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The Rose Revolution in Georgia

In 2003, demonstrators stormed the parliament building in Tbilisi, holding flowers

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Fleeing Afghanistan alone as a child

Dr Waheed Arian escaped poverty and war in Afghanistan to begin a new life in the UK

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