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Orelhão: Brazil's iconic egg-shaped telephone booth
In 1971, a female Chinese architect called Chu Ming Silveira created Orelhão
Kielland disaster
In 1980, 123 men died when a platform capsized in Norway's biggest industrial disaster
The Irish shopworkers strike against apartheid
In 1984, 11 Dunnes store workers walked out after refusing to handle South African goods
Boko Haram massacre in Gwoza
In 2014, Boko Haram drove into Gwoza in Nigeria and began an assault that killed hundreds
Nato bombs Serbian state television headquarters
It's 25 years since Nato bombed the Serbian television headquarters in Belgrade
The Iraqi journalist who hurled his shoes at George Bush
Iraqi journalist Muntadhar al-Zaidi threw his shoes at the President of the United States
Saving lives on D-Day
Charles Norman Shay was honoured for saving men from drowning on Omaha Beach on D-Day
The woman whose weather report changed the date of D-Day
Maureen Flavin’s weather report forecast a storm and changed the course of WW2 history
Tetris: The birth of an all-time favourite
The game was created by a Russian and marketed by an American during the Cold War
‘Panda diplomacy’: China gifts pandas to Taiwan
Giant pandas, Tuan Tuan and Yuan Yuan, were sent to Taiwan from China as a gift in 2008