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Nato bombs Serbian state television headquarters
It's 25 years since Nato bombed the Serbian television headquarters in Belgrade

The Iraqi journalist who hurled his shoes at George Bush
Iraqi journalist Muntadhar al-Zaidi threw his shoes at the President of the United States.

Saving lives on D-Day
Charles Norman Shay was honoured for saving men from drowning on Omaha Beach on D-Day

The woman whose weather report changed the date of D-Day
Maureen Flavin’s weather report forecast a storm and changed the course of WW2 history

Tetris: The birth of an all-time favourite
The game was created by a Russian and marketed by an American during the Cold War

‘Panda diplomacy’: China gifts pandas to Taiwan
Giant pandas, Tuan Tuan and Yuan Yuan, were sent to Taiwan from China as a gift in 2008

The commercial that changed advertising: 1984
Forty years ago, a revolutionary advert played at America’s Super Bowl

The Flint water crisis
In 2014, a city in Michigan was exposed to dangerous levels of lead in its water supply

The first Aboriginal MP
In August 1971, the first Aboriginal MP took his place in the Australian Senate.

The first ever quintuplets
Ninety years ago, five girls were born and exhibited to the world