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Holmes’ sweet home
A floor plan of the famous detective’s flat is fleshed out using details picked up from canon
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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
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