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In August 1976, two US soldiers were killed in the zone between North and South Korea.

In August 1986 the first Studio Ghibli film hit Japanese cinema screens.

In 1963 a third of schools in the US had to change their rules on Bible reading.

How the great poet and dramatist was murdered at the start of the Spanish Civil War.

After WW2, many Soviet citizens who had ended up outside the USSR, refused to go home.

In 1998, al-Qaeda killed more than 200 people in attacks on US embassies in East Africa.

Nearly two thousand years ago, Masada in Israel was the site of a mass suicide.

Philippe Petit recalls his daring feat high above the New York streets in August 1974

In August 1981 over 11,000 air traffic controllers were fired after two days on strike.

The Middle East's oldest arts festival, in Baalbek in Lebanon, started 60 years ago

It's 65 years since JD Salinger's classic novel The Catcher in the Rye was published

Jacqueline Du Pre makes one of the most famous classical recordings of the 20th Century

In August 1966 14 people were shot dead in America's first mass shooting at a university

The story of Russian spy Alexandr Ogorodnik and his CIA handler, Marti Peterson.

In 1976, one of the deadliest earthquakes in history hit the city of Tangshan in China

In the summer of 1951 art historian John Richardson met Pablo Picasso for the first time.

In 1954 CIA-backed officers overthrew Guatemala's elected government.

In 1981 police used CS gas for the first time in mainland Britain to control race riots

In 1913, a Russian Jew, Mendel Beilis, was falsely accused of a murder.

In 1958 the Nigerian writer published his first book, revolutionising African literature.

The film star and martial arts legend died suddenly in Hong Kong in 1973.

In July 1995 Bosnian Serb troops murdered thousands of Bosnian Muslim men and boys.

In July 1966, the US government health insurance programme Medicare came into force.

In the 1970s Dutch Elm disease killed millions of Elm trees in England, France and the US