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Cuban Missile Crisis: The photos
The CIA expert whose job was to interpret photographs of missiles in Cuba

Cesar Chavez’s campaign for farm workers
How the leader of a labour movement became a US civil rights hero

Geisha mountain top strike
In 1937, geisha from Osaka sat on a mountain for a week until their union was recognised

Torturing strikers in South Korea
A strike for better work conditions became a divisive moment in South Korea's history

Disney animators' strike
In 1941, the animators at Walt Disney's studios went on strike for nine weeks over pay

UK’s ‘Winter of Discontent’
In 1979, British gravediggers went on strike over pay

The beginnings of Notting Hill Carnival
In 1959, Claudia Jones held a Caribbean party, planting the seeds for the famous carnival

The Harder They Come
Jimmy Cliff spoke about the film that brought reggae music to the world in 1972

The fall of Slobodan Milosevic
How the Yugoslavian president was forced from office in October 2000

The release of Gilad Shalit
Israeli solider Gilad Shalit was freed after being held hostage for more than five years