Rank #1: The Break-Up of the Soviet Union

Photo: The leaders of Ukraine and Belorussia, alongside Russian leader Boris Yeltsin, at the ceremony formally dissolving the USSR in December 1991, Credit: AP
Dec 31 2016
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Rank #2: The anti-nuclear protesters who won

Picture: demonstrators fight against police during a protest at the Wackersdorf construction site (Istvan Bajzat/DPA/PA Images)
Aug 03 2019
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Rank #3: The last days of Hitler

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Feb 09 2019
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Rank #4: D-Day

Photo: The photo titled 'The Jaws of Death' shows a landing craft disembarking US troops on Omaha beach, 6th June 1944 ( Robert Sargent / US COAST GUARD)
Jun 08 2019
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Rank #5: The fall of the Berlin Wall

(Photo: East Germans climbing onto the top of the Berlin Wall at the Brandenburg Gate after the opening of the East German border was announced in Berlin. November 9, 1989. Credit: REUTERS/Staff/Files)
Oct 26 2019
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Rank #6: The Munich Air Disaster

(Photo: Plane wreckage at Munich airport - AFP/Getty Images)
Feb 10 2018
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Rank #7: The End of World War One

Photo: Crowds in London celebrate the signing of the Armistice on 11th November 1918 (Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)
Nov 10 2018
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Rank #8: Psychological Warfare

Photo:Viet Cong guerrillas on patrol during the Vietnam War, 2nd March 1966: (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)
Jul 22 2017
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Rank #9: When France Said 'Non' to Britain Joining Europe

Photo: Charles de Gaulle, President of France, at a press conference on 14th January 1963 at which he said Britain was not ready to join the European Economic Community, now the EU (Credit: Central Press/Getty Images)
Jan 13 2018
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Rank #10: The Malayan Emergency

Photo: A photograph taken by a British sergeant on patrol in the Malayan jungle.. (Copyright: Keystone/Getty Images)
May 04 2019
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Rank #11: The Hate Crime That Changed American Law

(Photo: Matthew Shepard with his parents, Judy and Dennis, on holiday at Yellowstone National Park. Courtesy of the Matthew Shepard Foundation)
Oct 07 2017
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Rank #12: The outbreak of World War Two

(Image: German citizens in Gdansk (also known as Danzig) welcoming German troops during the invasion of Poland on September 3rd 1939 . Credit:EPA/National Digital Archive Poland.)
Sep 07 2019
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Rank #13: The birth of the People's Republic of China

Photo: An officer reads a newspaper to soldiers while they are waiting for the announcement of the foundation of the People's Republic of China on Tiananmen Square on October 1, 1949 in Beijing, China. (Credit: Visual China Group via Getty Images)
Oct 05 2019
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Rank #14: The 1918 'Spanish' flu pandemic

(Photo: An American policeman wearing a mask to protect himself from the outbreak of Spanish flu. Credit:Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)
Mar 14 2020
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Rank #15: The Second World War in Japan

Picture: Mushroom cloud over Nagasaki after bombing by atomic bomb on 9th August 1945 ( US Air Force photo/PA)
Aug 08 2020
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Rank #16: The book that warned of an end to civilisation

Plus, why East German punks were targeted by the secret police in the 1980s, a top UN negotiator remembers how peace was won in El Salvador in 1991, the first black sitcom in Britain and the launch of the Chippendales - the first male strip show for women - in 1979.
Photo: Front cover of 'The Limits to Growth' published in 1972.
Jan 04 2020
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Rank #17: Smiling Buddha: India's First Nuclear Test

Photo: A crater marks the site of the first Indian underground nuclear test conducted 18 May 1974 at Pokhran in the desert state of Rajasthan. (PUNJAB PHOTO/AFP/Getty Images)
Jul 14 2018
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Rank #18: US presidential history special

Photo: US President John F. Kennedy giving his first State of the Union address to Congress in January 1961. (Credit: NASA/SSPL/Getty Images)
Oct 31 2020
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Rank #19: Vatican II: Reforming the Catholic Church

(Photo; Pope John XXIII at the Vatican. Credit: Getty Images)
Jan 26 2019
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Rank #20: Nike and the Sweatshop Problem

PHOTO: Nike worker Cicih Sukaesih telling her story in America in 1996 (courtesy of Jeff Ballinger)
Aug 19 2017
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