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The death of poet Federico Garcia Lorca
Why was the great poet Lorca murdered at the start of the Spanish Civil War?

The 1953 Iran coup
The US-backed coup which brought the Shah of Iran to power in 1953

India's Partition - Part Two
When India gained independence it was split into two new countries - India and Pakistan

India's Partition - Part One
When India gained independence it was split into two new countries, India and Pakistan

The Kursk disaster
It's exactly 10 years since the Russian nuclear submarine Kursk sank in the Barents sea.

Battle of Britain
An RAF pilot remembers his part in winning the Battle of Britain in 1940.

The invasion of Kuwait
The invasion of Kuwait by Iraqi tanks and troops in August 1990

African Embassy bombings
The simultaneous bomb attacks on two United States embassies in Africa in 1998.

Hiroshima
The dropping of the atomic bomb devastated Hiroshima in the last days of World War II.

Ugandan Asians
In the summer of 1972 the Ugandan leader Idi Amin expelled his country's Asian community