1472 Episodo

  1. The assassination of King Faisal

    Publicado: 19/12/2023
  2. Tsunami devastates Samoa

    Publicado: 18/12/2023
  3. The funeral of Nelson Mandela

    Publicado: 15/12/2023
  4. Vatican citizen Emanuela Orlandi disappears

    Publicado: 14/12/2023
  5. Anna Akhmatova: The poet who defied a regime

    Publicado: 13/12/2023
  6. Yeltsin speaks at the reburial of the Romanovs

    Publicado: 12/12/2023
  7. Murder of the Romanovs

    Publicado: 11/12/2023
  8. The release of DOOM

    Publicado: 8/12/2023
  9. ‘The disappeared’ of Argentina

    Publicado: 7/12/2023
  10. A Greek coup: The day the colonels took power

    Publicado: 6/12/2023
  11. La Haine: The film that shocked France

    Publicado: 4/12/2023
  12. World's first solar-heated home

    Publicado: 1/12/2023
  13. Tanzania adopts Swahili to unite the country

    Publicado: 30/11/2023
  14. The bird that defied extinction

    Publicado: 28/11/2023
  15. Cabbage Patch Kids

    Publicado: 27/11/2023
  16. The Mumbai attacks

    Publicado: 24/11/2023
  17. The Paris heatwave

    Publicado: 23/11/2023
  18. Kennedy’s nail-biter election victory

    Publicado: 22/11/2023
  19. The invention of bubble tea

    Publicado: 21/11/2023
  20. The independence of Zambia

    Publicado: 20/11/2023

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