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  Falklands War

  Argentine troops seized the Falkland Islands - which they call Islas Malvinas - on April 2 1982. Britain first imposed a blockade around the island, and launched a counterattack on May 1. By the time the war ended, ...

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  Fall of the Berlin Wall

  Back in November 1989, I remember being delighted when the John Craven's Newsround showed the first images of East and West German citizens joining forces to tear down the infamous Berlin Wall. Of course, as a twelve year old child ...

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  Fall of the USSR

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  Funeral of Winston Churchill

  The first event I remember watching on T V Black and white of course! we didn't have T V saw it at my Grandparents house it was a Saturday morning ...