Space Shuttle Challenger – 1986

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Spend billions of dollars, utilize the cutting-edge design and engineering capabilities of the world’s most technologically advanced nation and what…

Bangladesh Tube Wells – 1970

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Bangladesh is a desperately poor country, with most of its 140 million citizens living in abject poverty. The former East…

Introduction of Nile Perch to Lake Victoria – 1950s-1960s

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Lake Victoria is Africa’s largest lake - and home to one of the world’s largest freshwater fish. The man-sized Nile…

Notting Hill Race Riots – 1958

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Britain has long been a haven for immigrants. This enriches the nation, though not without difficulties along the way. Echoes…

Introduction of Cats to Marion Island – 1949

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Far from land in the sub-Antarctic region of the Indian Ocean lie the Prince Edward Islands. There are just two…

Bethnal Green Disaster – 1943

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The eastern extension to London’s Central Line was under construction in the 1930s, but was incomplete when World War II…

Introduction to Australia of the Cane Toad – 1935-1936

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It was Puerto Rico’s fault. The Caribbean island introduced the Giant Neotropical Toad (officially Bufo marinus) from nearby Central America…

Assassination of Franz Ferdinand – 1914

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Life looked sweet for 49-year-old Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Este in 1914. He had married for love and the starchy…

The 1913 Massacre

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Michigan’s Copper Country was in turmoil from July 1913, as miners struck for union recognition, shorter hours, extra pay and…

Captain Scott’s Polar Assault – 1912

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He was famous following the Discovery Expedition, but Robert Falcon Scott’s burning ambition - to be first at the South…