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Yasser Arafat’s speech to the United Nations was a landmark for Palestinians.
In November 1970 Bangladesh was hit by one of the worst natural disasters of modern times.
Our history programme Witness re the end of the First World War - Armistice Day.
When the Berlin Wall was built by East , August 1961.
How the Miss World competition led to deadly riots in Nigeria.
How a flood in Florence in 1966 put many of Europe's most precious artworks at risk.
US citizen Barry Rosen was held hostage for 444 days at the US Embassy in Tehran.
In 1917, a young girl watches the Russian Revolution unfold outside her window.
Witness is our new history programme. Today, a race with a difference across the Outback.
The night that Irish bombers tried to blow up the British Government in 1984.
