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The Attempt on Ronald Reagan's Life
On March 30th 1981 a man tried to assassinate US President Ronald Reagan.
The Back to Africa Movement
In the late 1800s, African Americans from Arkansas began moving to Liberia in West Africa.
The Harold Wilson Plot
In March 1976, the British prime minister Harold Wilson unexpectedly resigned. Why?
Romania's Orphans
In 1990 the terrible conditions inside Romania's orphanages first came to light.
Virginia Woolf
On March 28th 1941 the British novelist Virginia Woolf took her own life.
The Easter Rising
How Irish rebels tried to start a revolution against British rule at Easter 1916.
Battle of Tora Bora
After the Taliban fell in Afghanistan, the hunt for Osama bin Laden began in earnest.
Iraqi Shia Uprising - 1991
At the end of the First Gulf War thousands of Iraqis rose up against Saddam Hussein
The Death of Jan Palach
In 1969, a student set himself alight in protest at the crushing of the Prague Spring.
The Fall of Emperor Tewodros II
In 1868 Tewodros II of Ethiopia prepared to make a last stand against the British army.
