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When Buckingham Palace Opened Its Doors

Buckingham Palace lets in the public for the first time in 1993; the US accused of dropping potato beetles on East German fields; Burma's violent uprising in 1988.

Buckingham Palace lets in the public for the first time in 1993; East German farmers fight potato beetles supposedly dropped by the USA; Burma erupts in a violent uprising in 1988; Yitzhak Rabin becomes the first Israeli leader to visit Jordan officially; two villages, in Armenia and in Azerbaijan, swap homes to avoid ethnic violence.

Photo: Buckingham Palace. Credit: BBC.

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Sun 12 Aug 201823:06GMT
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