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China detains Hong Kong booksellers
In 2015 five booksellers were detained for selling material critical of China’s leaders
The discovery of Lyme disease
In 1975, a medical breakthrough led to the identification and naming of Lyme disease
The discovery of Mungo Man
On 26 February 1974, Dr Jim Bowler discovered a 42,000-year-old skeleton in Australia
Women Walk Home: Cyprus' forgotten peace march
In June 1987, hundreds of women took part in a peace march against the division of Cyprus
50 years since the Soweto Uprising
A former schoolgirl remembers the demonstration that sparked the Soweto Uprising in 1976
The Georgian exodus from Abkhazia
In 1993, separatist forces took Sukhumi, the capital of Abkhazia
Hussein of Jordan: The survivor king
In 1970 King Hussein of Jordan escaped unharmed after gunmen opened fire on his motorcade
The inspiration for Chekhov's Three Sisters
In 1897, Paul Shishkoff lived next door to the Russian playwright Anton Chekhov.
Picasso and the Surrealist summer
In 1937 some of the 20th Century's best known Surrealist artists are on holiday in France
Mstislav Rostropovich: Virtuoso cellist
In 1978, Rostropovich lost Soviet citizenship for “unpatriotic activity”
