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On the night of March the 6th, 1987, the Townsend Thoresen car ferry "Herald of Free Enterprise" had just left the Belgian port of Zeebrugge, heading for Dover. Passengers were...
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On July the 21st, 1969, the moon finally gave up some of the secrets man had dreamed about for centuries. The world had been anticipating the event for months; the Americans had been working on the...
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As the mournful tones of Chopin's funeral march sounded over the streets of London, on February the second, 1901, a day of much symbolism brought the Victorian era to a close. Edward the...
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Margaret Thatcher: "The House meets this Saturday to respond to a situation of great gravity . We are here because for the first time for many years, British Sovereign territory has been...
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11th September 2001, 08:46 American Airlines Flight 11 crashed into the upper floors of the north tower of the World Trade Center in New York. Thousands of people were just starting their daily...
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June the 29th, 1958, the final of the World Cup in Stockholm - Sweden against Brazil - and a lesson in the skills of soccer few were to forget. Brazil were a goal down early on in the game, but what...
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December the 3rd, 1989 was the day the Cold War ended...officially, and the unlikely venue was the tiny island of Malta in the Mediterranean. Leaders of the two superpowers had agreed to meet there to...
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I'm Jim Shields, Professor of French Politics and Modern History, and Head of French Studies at Aston. My main area of expertise is French politics. My particular specialism is the history of...
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On June the 5th, 1967, Israeli forces launched an all out attack on Arab forces in the Sinai Desert, and so began the Six Day War. Tension between Israel and her Arab neighbours had been growing for...
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With the sound of gunfire and explosions that some said could be heard in Westminster, the battle of the Somme began on July the 3rd, 1916. It shook the world with its bloody carnage and, in the end,...
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