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The Birth of Second Life
It is ten years since the launch of Philip Rosedale's online virtual world Second Life
Escape from the KGB
How Soviet double agent Oleg Gordievsky escaped from under the noses of the KGB in 1985
Haile Selassie visits Jamaica
In 1966, the Emperor of Ethiopia made a state visit to the Caribbean island of Jamaica.
The Lillehammer Hit
In July 1973 a Moroccan waiter was shot dead by an Israeli hit-squad in Norway
Black July
In 1983 violence erupted between the Sinhala majority and the Tamil minority in Sri Lanka
Alcoholics Anonymous
In the summer of 1935 Alcoholics Anonymous was founded in Akron, Ohio
Abducted by Joseph Kony
The woman forced to bear the children of the leader of the Lord's Resistance Army
The End of the Korean War
On July 27 1953 the Korean War came to an end and thousands of prisoners were released
The Sinking of the USS Indianapolis
July 1945 - a US warship sinks in the Pacific; its crew face days in shark-infested waters
IRA Decommissioning
In July 2005 the IRA in Northern Ireland promised to put its weapons out of use.
In July 1945 hundreds of US sailors were left adrift for days in shark infested waters
The Disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa
The controversial American union leader, Jimmy Hoffa, was last seen alive on July 30 1975
Ramayan - India's TV Epic
It is 25 years since the final episode of one of India's biggest ever TV programmes
Gorkhaland
The sisters whose lives were devastated during the campaign for Gorkhaland in India
Vietnam - US Prisoner of War
In August 1964, Everett Alvarez was shot down by communist North Vietnamese forces.
Malaysian Hostage Crisis
In August 1975, Japanese Red Army militants took 53 people hostage in Kuala Lumpur
Beverly Johnson - Vogue's First Black Covergirl
It wasn't until 1974 that American Vogue put a black model on its cover for the first time
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch
In 1997, a patch of plastic waste was discovered in the middle of the Pacific Ocean
Burma's 1988 Protests
In August 1988 protests demanding an end to military rule in Burma were met with violence
Bombing of Nagasaki
Survivors the atomic explosion over the Japanese city in 1945
The Opening of Euro Disney
Twenty-one years ago, Disney finally opened a park near Paris after years of negotiations.
Conflict in Congo
The Congolese student who saw war come to his small hometown of Uvira
Scientists Flee Nazi
How the rise of Hitler forced great physicists such as Max Born out of 1930s
The Battle of the Potato Beetle
In 1950, East claimed American planes were dropping beetles over their fields.
The Omagh Bombing
In August 1998, 29 people died in a massive car bombing in Omagh, Northern Ireland.
Stanley Kubrick
Set designer Sir Ken Adam recalls working with the famously difficult director
The Nepali Royal Massacre
In 2001, the Crown Prince of Nepal killed nine people and then turned the gun on himself.
Saddam Hussein's 'Human Shields'
The British family who were held as 'human shields' in Iraq before the First Gulf War
Prague Spring
The student who appealed for the world's help when Soviet tanks invaded Czechoslovakia
The Assassination of Benigno Aquino
On August 21 1983, the opposition leader, Benigno Aquino, was shot dead in the Philippines
Legionnaires' Disease
In August 1976 more than 200 people developed a mystery illness at a hotel in Philadelphia
