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Ivory Coast civil war
How a brutal civil war broke out in Ivory Coast in 2002.
Witness: Weathermen radicals in the USA
The inside story of how three Weatherman revolutionaries died in New York in March 1970
Rhodesian republic
In 1970, the white minority thought they could rule Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe, for ever
The Krakow Ghetto
In March 1941 the Nazi authorities in Krakow moved the city's Jews into a ghetto
Libya 1969 coup
It is over 40 years since Colonel Gaddafi took power in Libya in a military coup
Assassination of Malcolm X
How black leader Malcolm X was assassinated in New York in February 1965.
Nicaraguan elections
It is 21 years since the left-wing Sandinista government in Nicaragua lost power
Khrushchev's Secret Speech
How Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev secretly denounced Stalin as a tyrant
Apartheid in the 1950s
The mood across South Africa in the 1950s as the Apartheid laws were being put in place
People Power in the Philippines
How people power brought down President Marcos of the Philippines in 1986.