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Yeltsin speaks at the reburial of the Romanovs
In 1998, the Russian president condemned the Soviet violence that killed Tsar Nicholas II
Murder of the Romanovs
In 1918, the Russian royal family were killed by the Bolsheviks
The release of DOOM
In 1993, a controversial sci-fi video game called DOOM was released
鈥楾he disappeared鈥� of Argentina
In 1977 a woman became one of thousands who disappeared from the streets of Buenos Aires
A Greek coup: The day the colonels took power
In 1967, army officers seized power in Greece in a US-backed coup
Thousands of Danish brains in plastic buckets
In 1945, a collection that would amass 9,479 brains was started
La Haine: The film that shocked France
How Mathieu Kassovitz's critique of policing shocked French society
World's first solar-heated home
In 1948, the Dover Sun House, in the US, was the first home to be heated by solar power
Tanzania adopts Swahili to unite the country
Tanzania's leader, Julius Nyerere, made Swahili the official language in the early 1960s
Cameroon鈥檚 mysterious lake deaths
In 1986, remote parts of Cameroon were turned into ghost villages overnight
