Glittering Sasquatch

Coming up as stories in the programme:

2006: The first action in the Mexican drug war began as President Felipe Calderon ordered Mexican soldiers and Federal Police units into the state of Michoacan.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_drug_war

1899: Second Boer War: In the Battle of Magersfontein, Boers defeated British forces trying to relieve the Siege of Kimberley.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Boer_War

861: The Abbasid caliph al-Mutawakkil was assassinated by his guards, beginning the Anarchy at Samarra.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbasid_Caliphate