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Story behind the photo of Kim Phuc running from napalm attack
On the 8th June 1972 one of the most iconic photographs of the Vietnam War was taken of Phan Thị Kim Phúc, a nine-year-old girl from the South Vietnamese village of Trang Bang.

The German naval bombardment of Scarborough in WW1
Shortly after 8am on the 16th December 1914, the German Imperial Navy attacked the British seaside towns of Scarborough, Hartlepool and Whitby.

The sinking of the Lusitania and its role in the First World War
The British ship RMS Lusitania sank after being attacked by the German U-boat U-20 off the coast of Ireland on 7 May 1915.