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First reports of Ebola
Ebola's first documented outbreak emerged in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 1976

JFK’s Ich Bin Ein Berliner speech
On 26 June 1963, United States President John F Kennedy gave a speech in Berlin

My dad played golf on the moon
In 1971 Alan Shepard played golf on the moon

The Empire Windrush arrives
On 22 June 1948, the Empire Windrush docked at Tilbury in England

Anti-gay police raid at Tasty nightclub
On 7 August 1994, police raided Tasty, a gay nightclub in downtown Melbourne, Australia

The Somali pilot ordered to bomb his own country
Somali fighter pilot Ahmed Mohamed Hassan faced a terrible choice in 1988

Uprising in East Germany
On 16 June 1953 East German workers went on strike in protest at Soviet rule

Ming Smith makes history at MoMA
MoMA bought photos from an African-American woman for the first time in 1979.

Sir Don McCullin’s photo of a US marine
In 1968, British photographer travelled to Vietnam for his second ever war assignment

Malick Sidibé: Mali’s star photographer
Malick Sidibé photographed life in Mali after its independence from France in 1960.