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The assassination of King Faisal
In 1975, the king of Saudi Arabia was shot by his nephew
Tsunami devastates Samoa
In 2009 a tsunami killed 149 people. Lumepa Hald tells the story of destruction and loss
The funeral of Nelson Mandela
In 2013, South Africa's first black president was buried in his ancestral village
Vatican citizen Emanuela Orlandi disappears
In 1983, a suspected kidnapping led to scandal
Anna Akhmatova: The poet who defied a regime
How the great poet kept writing even through the darkest days of Soviet history
Yeltsin speaks at the reburial of the Romanovs
In 1998, the Russian president condemned the Soviet violence that killed Tsar Nicholas II
Murder of the Romanovs
In 1918, the Russian royal family were killed by the Bolsheviks
The release of DOOM
In 1993, a controversial sci-fi video game called DOOM was released
‘The disappeared’ of Argentina
In 1977 a woman became one of thousands who disappeared from the streets of Buenos Aires
A Greek coup: The day the colonels took power
In 1967, army officers seized power in Greece in a US-backed coup
