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The Mosaic browser democratises the world wide web, 1993

Launched in 1993, the easy-to-use program changed web culture, making online advertising, shopping and academia possible and paving the way for the services we now take for granted

China sees its first bikini, November 1986

When the Communist party finally relented, thousands flocked to an international body-building contest in Shenzhen to watch the first Chinese women bare their bodies in the name of the sport

The launch of Cbeebies ends parental TV guilt

The BBC’s introduction of a pre-school digital channel in February 2002 made a mother confident enough to leave a child in front of the telly while she washes up or makes a phone call

‘Flaubert’s Parrot’ crosses the fiction/biography divide, 1984

In 1984, Julian Barnes’s book stormed the firmly guarded borders between fiction and biography

Dismissal of the Australian government, 1975

The sacking of Australia’s Labor party in 1975 remains a bedrock of modern republicanism

‘Boxers or briefs?’, April 20 1994

Bill Clinton’s willingness to answer the pesky question heralded the growing trivialisation of public office

John Lennon at the Free John Now Rally, December 10 1971

His first US performance after The Beatles split was a protest rally to demand the release of John Sinclair, a radical poet, hippy activist and founder of the White Panther Party

Lilian Baylis and the ballet dancers, 1926

Her endeavours as manager of the Old Vic and a meeting with Ninette de Valois in 1926 laid the foundation of The Royal Ballet

The new ‘Italian Miracle’, 1993

Silvio Berlusconi and his allies created a political party modelled on, and financed by, a commercial empire

JFK and the hatless presidency

Consistently appearing in public with his thick brown hair uncrowned, the 35th leader of the US, along with Elvis Presley and the 1960s finished off the hat era

The Battle of Wapping, 1986

Mariah Carey’s superhuman octaves

Ingmar Bergman and Michelangelo Antonioni die on the same day, 30 July 2007

The Armory show brings European avant-garde to America

How spaghetti fooled a nation, April 1 1957

‘West Side Story’ creates a new genre

Duran Duran kill New Romanticism, March 26 1983

Bill Clinton hits the right note, 1992

How the beautiful game brought us beautiful music, 1990

‘Who Moved My Cheese?’, 1998

The judgment of Paris, 1976

George Orwell slumming it in Paris and London, 1933

Uma Thurman changes the red carpet rules

Democracy Salons and the road to Tiananmen Square

Frederick Ashton sees Pavlova dance

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