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Around the world in 20 days
The record-breaking balloon flight
Drama in the British parliament
Prime Minister Jim Callaghan's desperate attempts to survive a no-confidence vote in 1979
The first home pregnancy test
A female designer working for a pharmaceutical company came up with the idea in the 1960s
The rise of Viktor Orban
Viktor Orban, now the populist Hungarian Prime Minister led a democratic movement in 1988
Autism and the MMR vaccine
How a British doctor misled the world by linking the MMR vaccine with autism.
The discovery of the Aztec Moon Goddess
How an accidental discovery in Mexico led to the uncovering of the Aztecs´ Great Temple.
The first democratic elections in the USSR
Soviet citizens voted in democratic elections for the first time in March 1989.
The millionaire Nazi war criminal
How the Dutch art collector Pieter Menten was exposed as a war criminal in the 1970s
How Little America was built in Afghanistan
In the 1950s, US engineers were sent to Afghanistan to build a dam.
Slaughterhouse-Five
In March 1969, American author Kurt Vonnegut published his cult anti-war novel.
