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When Maldives' ministers met underwater
On 17 October 2009, the Maldives’ top government officials donned their scuba gear for the world’s first underwater cabinet meeting.
Fish float...
Bataclan attack in Paris
On 13 November 2015, 90 people were shot dead by gunmen at the Bataclan theatre in France during an Eagles of Death Metal concert.
A further 40...
Prosecuting Nazis at the Nuremberg Trials
In November 1945, the first major war crimes trial in history opened in the German city of Nuremberg.
Senior Nazis who had committed atrocities...
Birth of the G7
In November 1975, a summit took place at Rambouillet, France, where the heads of six of the world’s most industrialised nations and their finance mini...
Breaking the sound barrier
On 14 October 1947, American Chuck Yeager became the first pilot to fly faster than the speed of sound.
Despite having two broken ribs, Chuck r...
Discovering the largest dinosaur ever
In 2012, a shepherd uncovered a bone belonging to a new species of dinosaur on a ranch in Patagonia, in Argentina.
A team from the Museum of Pal...
The ‘father of e-books’
In 1971, an American historical document typed out on a university computer played a vital role in the digital revolution of electronic books. It beca...
The creation of Miffy
It's 70 years since Miffy was created.
The little rabbit with two dots for eyes and an X for a mouth went on to feature in 32 books translated i...
President Clinton is impeached
In 1999, the US Senate chamber in Washington DC was turned into a court to put President Bill Clinton on trial, after he admitted lying about an affai...
The brains behind Thunderbirds
In 1965, a groundbreaking children's show using cutting-edge puppets first blast onto television screens.
Thunderbirds was set in 2065 and foll...
Emerante de Pradines: Haiti’s musical trailblazer
Emerante de Pradines was a Haitian singer, dancer and folklorist who became the first person from her country to sign a record deal. She was dedicated...
Orson Welles broadcasts The War of the Worlds
The night before Halloween in 1938, 23-year-old Orson Welles and his Mercury Theatre on the Air performed a radio adaptation of HG Wells’s The War of...
Srebrenica massacre
It's 30 years since a massacre of Bosnian Muslims during the war in the former Yugoslavia.
The Srebrenica massacre, recognised by the United Na...
The invention of the balloon-expandable stent
An estimated 2 million stents are implanted into people’s hearts around the world each year – making it one of the key treatments for heart disease....
Death of a priest
The 1977 murder of Father Rutilio Grande sent shockwaves through El Salvador. The 48-year-old Jesuit priest was an outspoken champion of the poor in t...
The man who invented the scratch card
In May 1974, scratch cards went on sale for the first time in the US State of Massachusetts.
Free giveaway and coupon games from stores had be...
The discovery that led to weight loss injections and treatments for diabetes
In the 1980s, scientists made a discovery that would eventually lead to the development of drugs now used worldwide to treat diabetes and to help peop...
The UK’s first black-owned music studio
Sonny Roberts, a Jamaican carpenter, arrived in Britain in the 1950s. It was a time of racial disharmony, including the Notting Hill riots and the mur...
Wangari Maathai: The first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize
In 2004, the Kenyan ecologist Wangari Maathai became the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize.
Wangari Maathai founded the Green Bel...
The strike that shook up India's tea industry
In September 2015, thousands of women tea pickers went on strike at one of India’s biggest tea producers.
They had picked more tea than ever tha...
The birth of the Excel spreadsheet
In September 1985, Microsoft introduced Excel, an electronic spreadsheet program that revolutionised the way we organise and analyse data.
With...