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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
The bird that defied extinction
In 1977, the white-winged guan was rediscovered in Peru after a century
Cabbage Patch Kids
Christmas 1983 saw frenzied shoppers buy three million Cabbage Patch Kids
The Mumbai attacks
In 2008, 10 gunmen killed more than 100 people in Mumbai鈥檚 busiest hot spots
The Paris heatwave
In 2003, Paris was overwhelmed by the hottest European heatwave for 500 years
