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India’s 1998 nuclear tests
Nalini Malani made an artwork protesting against India's nuclear tests

Julia Gillard speaks out on sexism
In 2012, Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard made a landmark speech on misogyny

The ‘Three Marias’
In 1974, a judge decided if three Portuguese women should be jailed for writing a book

The discovery that led to Covid vaccines
In 2005, Dr Katalin Karikó published research that eventually won her the Nobel Prize

Gloria Steinem: The start of Ms. Magazine
In 1972, Gloria Steinem co-founded Ms. Magazine in the United States

The Iran-Contra Affair
In 1986, Oliver North was accused of orchestrating the illegal sale of weapons to Iran

The end of the US HIV travel ban
In 2010, a travel and immigration ban stopping people with HIV entering the US was lifted

The deepest man-made hole in the world
In the 1970s and 1980s, scientists in Russia managed to dig a 12,000-metre deep hole

Thich Quang Duc: Buddhist monk who set himself on fire
In June 1963, Thich Quang Duc set himself alight in protest against the government

Strictly Come Dancing
Television extravaganza Strictly Come Dancing debuted in 2004 in the UK