Watergate Hotel, Washington D.C., United States of America

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Thomson, Andrew, producer

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Watergate: The Watergate complex was built in 1967 in north-west Washington DC, the super-block of hotel, offices and apartments became notorious around the globe in 1972, when it gave its name to ...

Watergate: The Watergate complex was built in 1967 in north-west Washington DC, the super-block of hotel, offices and apartments became notorious around the globe in 1972, when it gave its name to one of America's most significant political scandals. On the 17th June five men were arrested for breaking into the complex's headquarters of the democratic national committee. A few months later, along with masterminds of the break-in, E. Howard Hunt Jr. and G. Gordon Liddy, the five were indicted for conspiracy, burglary and violation of federal wiretapping laws. Clapham Junction Crash: For such a relatively small country the UK has certainly seen its fair share of railway tragedies, particularly around the greater London area. Unsurprisingly one of them was at Clapham Junction, one of the largest and busiest railway junctions in the UK, if not Europe. At 8.10 on the morning of Monday the 12th of December 1988 a packed commuter train travelling at around 65 kilometers per hour ran into the back of another one sitting in a cutting about 800 meters south of Clapham Junction Station. The impact caused the first train to veer to its right and collide with another oncoming empty train. Thirty-five people died in the accident, all of them in the first two carriages of the first train. The number of injured is unclear, but there were at least 100, though some reports put the number as high as over 400, 69 of them seriously.

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