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Star Trek: America's first interracial TV kiss

9/4/2026 • 10 min

In 1968, American television boldly went where it had never gone before, broadcasting what's claimed to be the country's first interracial kiss in a TV programme. The moment of passion was between Captain Kirk of the starship USS Enterprise and communications officer Lieutenant Uhura, in Star Trek. Nichelle Nichols played Uhura in the cult series, and she was … Play episode

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How the Star Wars toys were created
The hijacking of Pan Am Flight 73
Hurricane Luis hits Antigua
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Auschwitz: An SS officer’s photo album
Uruguay's water referendum
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Canada's controversial resettlement programme
The battle of Mandalay in WW2
Asha Bhosle: The world's most recorded artist
The tortoise and the hippo
Kenya's power-sharing deal
The last of the Mau Mau fighters
Treetops: The day a princess became a queen
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The origins of the all-inclusive holiday
When Taiwan’s ‘White Terror’ ended
Ashley Kriel: South Africa's anti-apartheid 'Che Guevara'
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City of God: The film that reshaped global cinema
The cellist who survived Auschwitz-Birkenau
'I organised the first Comic Con'
Sweden's summer shutdown
The last execution by garrote: Salvador Puig Antich
Creating Africa’s largest film festival
The first solar-powered flight around the world
Unveiling the face of Crazy Horse
How a Peruvian instrument revolutionised flamenco
Mexico’s ‘little old lady killer’
The British love of tea (from Here for The History)
A child's return to Franco's Spain
Birkin bag: Creating fashion’s iconic accessory
Turkey’s failed coup
Creating Canada’s largest territory
The Kiss of Life photo that earned a Pulitzer Prize
Dada: The birth of an art movement
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The immigrant workers who refused to pay rent in 1970s France
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Restoring the Statue of Liberty
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Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott
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