The sergeants' coup in Suriname

Sixteen army sergeants seized power in the South American country in 1980

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Fikret Alić

In 1992, a photograph of a starving man in a Bosnian concentration camp stunned the world

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Chasing the world’s biggest tornado

In May 2013, the widest tornado ever recorded hit the US state of Oklahoma

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Trying to unite Africa

On 25 May 1963, leaders of 32 newly-independent African nations came together

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The deadliest glacial avalanche in the world

On 31 May 1970, the Huascarán avalanche destroyed the town of Yungay, in Peru

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Edmund Hillary conquers Everest

In 1953 Edmund Hillary became the first human to reach the top of Mount Everest

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Tenzing Norgay conquers Everest

In 1953, Tenzing Norgay reached the summit of Mount Everest

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Tragedy on Everest

Michael Groom is one of the survivors of a tragic climbing expedition to Mount Everest

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The first Indian woman to conquer Everest

In May 1984, Bachendri Pal became the first Indian woman to stand on top of the world

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Inuit children taken from families

In 1960s, the Canadian government took academically gifted Inuit children from the homes

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Facial reconstruction: From mummy to murder

In 1975, Richard Neave invented a method to rebuild the face of an Egyptian mummy

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Fighting slavery in Niger

In 2005, Ilguilas Weila organised a ceremony to free 7,000 enslaved people in Niger

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Last communist march before Hitler

On 25 January 1933 the last legal communist march was held in Berlin

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1955 Le Mans disaster

In June 1955, more than 80 people were killed and 100 injured at the Le Mans 24-hour race

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Lee Miller in Hitler's bath

In 1945 the war correspondent Lee Miller was photographed in Adolf Hitler's bath

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A Great Day in Harlem: The story behind the iconic jazz photo

In 1958, aspiring photographer Art Kane captured 57 jazz legends in one immortal image

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Malick Sidibé: Mali’s star photographer

Malick Sidibé photographed life in Mali after its independence from France in 1960.

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Sir Don McCullin’s photo of a US marine

In 1968, British photographer travelled to Vietnam for his second ever war assignment

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Ming Smith makes history at MoMA

MoMA bought photos from an African-American woman for the first time in 1979.

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Uprising in East Germany

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

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The Somali pilot ordered to bomb his own country

Somali fighter pilot Ahmed Mohamed Hassan faced a terrible choice in 1988

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Anti-gay police raid at Tasty nightclub

On 7 August 1994, police raided Tasty, a gay nightclub in downtown Melbourne, Australia

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The Empire Windrush arrives

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

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My dad played golf on the moon

In 1971 Alan Shepard played golf on the moon

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JFK’s Ich Bin Ein Berliner speech

On 26 June 1963, United States President John F Kennedy gave a speech in Berlin

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First reports of Ebola

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

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Sampoong department store disaster

On 29 June 1995 the Sampoong Department Store in South Korea collapsed killing 502 people

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The 'graveyard' for communist statues

Communist statues in Hungary's capital Budapest were moved to Memento Park in 1993

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I made Lady Gaga's meat dress

In 2010 Lady Gaga attended the MTV Video Music Awards in a dress made out of beef

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The trial of John Demjanjuk

In 1986, John Demjanjuk was accused of being ‘Ivan the Terrible’

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