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The war on drugs
President Richard Nixon was the first US President to try to wipe out illegal drug use
The Tulsa Race Massacre
In 1921, a white mob destroyed an affluent African-American neighbourhood.
Rock concert for Chernobyl
The first charity rock concert ever held in the USSR raised money for Chernobyl survivors
Amilcar Cabral: An African liberation legend
Amilcar Cabral led the armed struggle against Portuguese colonial rule in West Africa
The first Arab woman pilot
Egyptian Lotfia Elnadi made history when she gained her pilot licence in 1933
The strike that shocked India
The Indian railway workers’ strike of 1974 prompted mass arrests and a state of emergency
Fighting forced marriage in war
Why a court in Sierra Leone ruled that forced marriage was a crime against humanity.
Saving the world's wetlands
Iran hosted the first convention to save the world's wetlands in1971.
When Egypt said 'enough'
Years before the Arab Spring swept the Middle East Egyptians were protesting in Cairo
Striking in South Korea in 1980
Strikes and protests against South Korea's military government came to a head in May 1980
