On 11 September 1951, a Czech train was hijacked and driven into West Germany
Published on Tuesday, 24th June 2025.
In 1949, the Gratitude Train arrived in the US, 49 wagons of thank you gifts from France
Published on Monday, 23rd June 2025.
On 20 June 1975 the film premiered, launching summer blockbusters and scaring beachgoers
Published on Friday, 20th June 2025.
The signing of a peace agreement that marked the end of World War One took place in 1919
Published on Thursday, 19th June 2025.
In 1964, a civil rights swimming protest ended when acid was poured into the pool
Published on Wednesday, 18th June 2025.
Polly Sheppard, a survivor of the 2015 Charleston shooting, describes how it unfolded
Published on Tuesday, 17th June 2025.
In 1977, in the former East Germany, tens of thousands of women and girls were abused
Published on Monday, 16th June 2025.
In 1985, five European politicians agreed to scrap border checks between their countries
Published on Friday, 13th June 2025.
In 1987 the US President called on the Soviet Union leader to take down the Berlin Wall
Published on Thursday, 12th June 2025.
In 2012, Lonesome George, the last tortoise of his species died
Published on Wednesday, 11th June 2025.
The Sino-Indian war in 1962, left a lasting legacy on Indian families of Chinese descent
Published on Tuesday, 10th June 2025.
How an Irish priest saved thousands of allied prisoners of war and Jews in Rome in WW2
Published on Monday, 9th June 2025.
1948 saw the start of a “utopian” town of houses designed by America’s greatest architect
Published on Friday, 6th June 2025.
In 1992, astronomer Alex Wolszczan discovered the first planets outside our solar system
Published on Thursday, 5th June 2025.
In 1960, the diary of a poor Brazilian mum became an international bestseller.
Published on Wednesday, 4th June 2025.
In 2000, twins Frederik and Gerrit started building Miniatur Wunderland
Published on Tuesday, 3rd June 2025.
Jim Comes to Jo’burg, also known as African Jim, launched Dolly Rathebe’s career in 1949
Published on Monday, 2nd June 2025.
In 1985, police and hippies clashed at the ancient stone circle of Stonehenge, in England
Published on Friday, 30th May 2025.
In 2006 police raided the popular but controversial file-sharing website The Pirate Bay
Published on Thursday, 29th May 2025.
Achebe's English language novel from 1958 about life in Nigeria before colonialism
Published on Wednesday, 28th May 2025.
In 2015 Canadian rockstar Gord Downie was given months to live, he went on one last tour
Published on Tuesday, 27th May 2025.
The story of how one of the most iconic tunes in sport was created in 1992
Published on Monday, 26th May 2025.
The secret street photography of a US nanny in the 1950s and 1960s
Published on Friday, 23rd May 2025.
On 22 April 1947, a group of famous war photographers founded the agency.
Published on Thursday, 22nd May 2025.
Chambi's dramatic black and white photographs showed indigenous people in a new light.
Published on Wednesday, 21st May 2025.
J. D. 'Okhai Ojeikere, known as Nigeria’s top photographer gained international acclaim
Published on Tuesday, 20th May 2025.
In 1932, a photo was taken showing 11 ironworkers eating lunch at the top of a skyscraper
Published on Monday, 19th May 2025.
In the 1940s vulnerable hospital patients were fed sugar to see if their teeth decayed
Published on Friday, 16th May 2025.
In 2013 a new tax was approved in one of the world’s biggest consumers of fizzy drinks
Published on Thursday, 15th May 2025.
On 14 May 1955, eight Soviet countries met to sign the Warsaw Pact.
Published on Wednesday, 14th May 2025.
In 1915, two rival electricity pioneers were told they would share a Nobel Prize
Published on Tuesday, 13th May 2025.
In 1980, Finnish singer Marion Rung won Intervision, the USSR's answer to Eurovision
Published on Monday, 12th May 2025.
In 2015, Khalil Hariri risked his life to save centuries-old archaeology in Syria.
Published on Friday, 9th May 2025.
The scenes of celebration in London on VE Day 1945
Published on Thursday, 8th May 2025.
During World War One, the British ocean liner was sunk by a German submarine
Published on Wednesday, 7th May 2025.
In 1955, entrepreneur and engineer Yoshitada Minami, revolutionised rice cooking
Published on Tuesday, 6th May 2025.
In 2005, Pope Benedict XVI was elected to be the next head of the Catholic Church
Published on Monday, 5th May 2025.
In 1998, the Snake game made its debut on mobile phones.
Published on Friday, 2nd May 2025.
On 1 May 2004, the European Union went through its biggest ever enlargement
Published on Thursday, 1st May 2025.
The story of North Vietnam’s underground tunnel network in South Vietnam
Published on Wednesday, 30th April 2025.
When South Vietnam fell, most people couldn’t escape
Published on Tuesday, 29th April 2025.
Radical reforms introduced in 1986 lifted millions out of poverty
Published on Monday, 28th April 2025.
Adolf Hitler's secretary recalls his last days in 1945
Published on Friday, 25th April 2025.
Dame Janet Suzman recalls directing Shakespeare's classic in 1987
Published on Thursday, 24th April 2025.
On 23 April 1985, Coca-Cola changed the secret formula of its fizzy drink
Published on Wednesday, 23rd April 2025.
In April 2005, the first video was posted onto YouTube
Published on Tuesday, 22nd April 2025.
In April 1944, a German fleet sank two allied ships. Around 749 US servicemen died.
Published on Monday, 21st April 2025.
23 April 1996, saw the first World Book Day. It originated from a Spanish tradition
Published on Friday, 18th April 2025.
Aki Ra laid hundreds of landmines for the Khmer Rouge, but began clearing them in 1992
Published on Thursday, 17th April 2025.
In April 1975 the four-year rule of the brutal Khmer Rouge began in Cambodia
Published on Wednesday, 16th April 2025.
In 1993, a lightbulb moment led to the invention of the first white light emitting diode
In 2005, nine Australians were caught trying to smuggle heroin out of Indonesia
Published on Monday, 14th April 2025.
In December 1989, environmentalists met to secure the future of Germany’s ‘Green Belt’
Published on Friday, 11th April 2025.
On 19 April 1995, a huge truck bomb killed 168 people in a US government building
Published on Thursday, 10th April 2025.
In 2003 the Women of Liberia Mass Action for Peace began protests calling for peace
Published on Wednesday, 9th April 2025.
In February 1933, the home to the German Parliament in Berlin was burned down
Published on Tuesday, 8th April 2025.
In 1995, a United Nations mission to restore peace in Somalia ended in disaster
Published on Monday, 7th April 2025.
In May 1960 a Norwegian toy-maker unveiled a life-sized, life-like training manikin
Published on Friday, 4th April 2025.
The US President spoke at the newly constructed Berlin Wall at the height of the Cold War
Published on Thursday, 3rd April 2025.
In 1976 Jenette Kahn became the first female head of DC Comics, home of the superheroes
Published on Wednesday, 2nd April 2025.
In 1951, Harry Coover noticed a chemical he was working with was sticking to everything
Published on Tuesday, 1st April 2025.
In 1908, the first Kolmanskop diamond was found. It's now abandoned, buried in the desert
Published on Monday, 31st March 2025.
In 1966, Ethiopian musician Mulatu Astatke recorded a new genre of music, Ethio-jazz
Published on Friday, 28th March 2025.
A specially commissioned portrait of Nelson Mandela by Harold Riley was unveiled in 2005
Published on Thursday, 27th March 2025.
In 1991, a Yugoslav People’s Army commander died in mysterious circumstances
Published on Wednesday, 26th March 2025.
President Goodluck Jonathan's call to Muhammadu Buhari to concede election defeat in 2015
Published on Tuesday, 25th March 2025.
General David Galtier who led the search operation recalls the 2015 crash
Published on Monday, 24th March 2025.
In October 2012, a visionary letter about the European Space Agency was sent into space
Published on Friday, 21st March 2025.
In July 1975, Russian cosmonauts and American astronauts met in space and shook hands
Published on Thursday, 20th March 2025.
Richard Nixon's contingency speech in case the moon landing astronauts never made it home
Published on Wednesday, 19th March 2025.
On 18 March 1965, cosmonaut Alexei Leonov became the first person to spacewalk
Published on Tuesday, 18th March 2025.
On 23 October 2004, Brazil launched its first rocket following a devastating accident
Published on Monday, 17th March 2025.
In March 2015, 22 people were killed when two gunmen stormed the building
Published on Friday, 14th March 2025.
In 1997, a Gambian woman started an environmental initiative
Published on Thursday, 13th March 2025.
On 12 March 1990, hundreds of wheelchair users crawled up the steps of the US Capitol
Published on Wednesday, 12th March 2025.
South Africa’s first musical with an all-black cast opened to critical acclaim in 1959
Published on Tuesday, 11th March 2025.
The Global Positioning System, also known as GPS, was created in the late 1970s
Published on Monday, 10th March 2025.
In 1965, the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was brought in to end racial discrimination
Published on Friday, 7th March 2025.
In 1987, rugged pickup trucks provided a turning point in the decades-long war in Chad
Published on Thursday, 6th March 2025.
In 1989, more than 20,000 US soldiers descended on the tiny Central American country
Published on Wednesday, 5th March 2025.
In 1937, American supermarket owner Sylvan Goldman wanted his customers to spend more.
Published on Tuesday, 4th March 2025.
In 2015, thousands of migrants lived in a squalid camp in France known as the "Jungle"
Published on Monday, 3rd March 2025.
In 1953, Marie-José Loshi was forcibly taken from her family because of her skin colour
Published on Friday, 28th February 2025.
In 2010, an earthquake struck the coast of Chile triggering a tsunami
Published on Thursday, 27th February 2025.
In 1951, 22 Inuit children from Greenland were sent to live with families in Denmark
Published on Wednesday, 26th February 2025.
In 1983, an estimated 3,000 people were massacred in Assam, India
Published on Tuesday, 25th February 2025.
Dr Max Perutz made one of the greatest scientific discoveries of the 20th century
Published on Monday, 24th February 2025.
In 1965, the controversial black leader, Malcolm X, was assassinated in New York
Published on Friday, 21st February 2025.
In March 1974, Polish man Czesław Kukuczka was shot by a Stasi officer at the Berlin Wall
Published on Thursday, 20th February 2025.
The election of Evo Morales in 2005 was a historic first for the South American country
Published on Wednesday, 19th February 2025.
In 2010, one of the oldest languages died after the death of its last remaining speaker
Published on Tuesday, 18th February 2025.
In 2013, a Thai couple locked lips for 58 hours and 35 minutes in a world record attempt
Published on Monday, 17th February 2025.
Eva Peron - or Evita - was an icon in 1940s Argentina, famous for her populist rhetoric
Published on Friday, 14th February 2025.
In 1992, Australia's Prime Minister addressed atrocities inflicted upon Indigenous people
Published on Thursday, 13th February 2025.
In 1992, Mary Fisher set out to fight the prejudice faced by those with HIV and Aids
Published on Wednesday, 12th February 2025.
In 1961, the US President ended his time in the White House with a famous speech
Published on Tuesday, 11th February 2025.
Dolores Ibárruri was dubbed La Pasionaria for her fiery speeches in the Spanish civil war
Published on Monday, 10th February 2025.
In 1989, dark comedy Heathers was released and changed the teen movie genre
Published on Friday, 7th February 2025.
In 1998, a strange phenomenon turned the world’s most colourful coral reefs deathly white
Published on Thursday, 6th February 2025.
In the early 1990s, around 50,000 Cubans were struck down with sight loss
Published on Wednesday, 5th February 2025.
In June 1944, 642 people were killed in Oradour, France
Published on Tuesday, 4th February 2025.
In 1966, the Frenchman upended philosophy with his theory of "deconstruction"
Published on Monday, 3rd February 2025.
An estimated 500 million people in China watched English lessons on television in 1981
Published on Friday, 31st January 2025.
In 1968, more than 50,000 teachers went on strike in New York City, in the USA
Published on Thursday, 30th January 2025.
In the aftermath of World War Two, children fled East Prussia in order to survive
Published on Wednesday, 29th January 2025.
On 23 August 1989, approximately two million people joined hands to form a human chain
Published on Tuesday, 28th January 2025.
In 1988, during the Troubles in Northern Ireland, three people were killed at a funeral
Published on Monday, 27th January 2025.
In 1995 Microsoft released a new operating system after a $300 million marketing campaign
Published on Friday, 24th January 2025.
On 29 November 1995, China exerted its influence over Tibetan Buddhism's leadership
Published on Thursday, 23rd January 2025.
On 27 March 1995, the former head of the fashion house was shot dead in Milan, Italy
Published on Wednesday, 22nd January 2025.
In 1995, the doomsday cult, Aum Shinrikyo, launched a chemical attack on the Tokyo metro
Published on Tuesday, 21st January 2025.
In September 1995, US newspapers controversially published a terrorist's manifesto.
Published on Monday, 20th January 2025.
The first African lifestyle magazine Drum, was first printed in 1951
Published on Friday, 17th January 2025.
Thomas Keneally stumbled across the story of Oskar Schindler while buying a briefcase
Published on Thursday, 16th January 2025.
On 17 January 1995, an earthquake devastated the city of Kobe, in Japan
Published on Wednesday, 15th January 2025.
In 1978, former first lady Betty Ford sought help for addiction
Published on Tuesday, 14th January 2025.
In 1933, President Roosevelt enacted the New Deal to drag the US out of depression
Published on Monday, 13th January 2025.
In 2015, ship spotter Yörük Işık saw Russian military trucks on a ship going to Syria
Published on Friday, 10th January 2025.
The Swedish diplomat saved thousands of Hungarian Jews during World War Two
Published on Thursday, 9th January 2025.
In the 1970s, Norwegian Tor Sornes invented the hotel key card
Published on Wednesday, 8th January 2025.
On 7 January 2015, 12 people were shot dead at a satirical magazine in France
Published on Tuesday, 7th January 2025.
In 2011, Japanese tidying expert Marie Kondo's first book was published.
Published on Monday, 6th January 2025.
In 2000, two Polish students started creating a smart speaker which sounded human
Published on Friday, 3rd January 2025.
In 1950, Klaus Fuchs admitted passing top secret nuclear secrets to the Soviet Union
Published on Thursday, 2nd January 2025.
During the Great Depression, cartoonist Robert Ripley made millions from freaky facts
Published on Wednesday, 1st January 2025.
In 2004, a deadly tsunami swept away entire communities around the Indian Ocean
Published on Tuesday, 31st December 2024.
On 26 December 2004, communities around the Indian Ocean were swept away by a tsunami
Published on Monday, 30th December 2024.
The sitcom Dinner for One, recorded in 1963, has become a German New Year's Eve tradition
Published on Friday, 27th December 2024.
In the 1990s, a diplomatic dispute broke out between Japan and South Korea over kimchi
Published on Thursday, 26th December 2024.
Cristeta Comerford was the first woman and person of colour to the White House's top chef
Published on Wednesday, 25th December 2024.
A turning point in Indian culinary history
Published on Tuesday, 24th December 2024.
In 1990, the cookery programme MasterChef launched on BBC TV
Published on Monday, 23rd December 2024.
On 6 November 1999, voters in Australia were asked if they wanted to become a republic
Published on Friday, 20th December 2024.
In 1981, the communist government of Poland declared martial law to suppress civil unrest
Published on Thursday, 19th December 2024.
In 1974, the BBC launched the world's first teletext service
Published on Wednesday, 18th December 2024.
In 1972, 16 people survived for two months in the Andes mountains after a plane crash
Published on Tuesday, 17th December 2024.
In 2014, one of Pakistan’s worst terror attacks took place at Peshawar Army School
Published on Monday, 16th December 2024.
In the 1980s, Leonardo Renato Aulder pioneered a movement in Panama with his friends
Published on Friday, 13th December 2024.
In 1999 the Panama Canal was handed over from US to Panamanian rule.
Published on Thursday, 12th December 2024.
In WW2, a Japanese American troop was one of the most decorated army units in US history
Published on Wednesday, 11th December 2024.
In 1953, Fidel Castro attempted to revolutionise Cuba by attacking military barracks
Published on Monday, 9th December 2024.
Nalini Malani made an artwork protesting against India's nuclear tests
Published on Friday, 6th December 2024.
In 2012, Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard made a landmark speech on misogyny
Published on Thursday, 5th December 2024.
In 1974, a judge decided if three Portuguese women should be jailed for writing a book
Published on Wednesday, 4th December 2024.
In 2005, Dr Katalin Karikó published research that eventually won her the Nobel Prize
Published on Tuesday, 3rd December 2024.
In 1972, Gloria Steinem co-founded Ms. Magazine in the United States
Published on Monday, 2nd December 2024.
In 2010, a travel and immigration ban stopping people with HIV entering the US was lifted
Published on Friday, 29th November 2024.
In the 1970s and 1980s, scientists in Russia managed to dig a 12,000-metre deep hole
Published on Thursday, 28th November 2024.
In June 1963, Thich Quang Duc set himself alight in protest against the government
Published on Wednesday, 27th November 2024.
In 1986, Oliver North was accused of orchestrating the illegal sale of weapons to Iran
Published on Tuesday, 26th November 2024.
Television extravaganza Strictly Come Dancing debuted in 2004 in the UK
Published on Monday, 25th November 2024.
In 1993, a new sport was born. Its founders called it the Ultimate Fighting Championship
Published on Friday, 22nd November 2024.
It’s 70 years since William Golding’s acclaimed novel was published
Published on Thursday, 21st November 2024.
In 1999, Macau was handed back to China after more than 400 years as a Portuguese colony
Published on Wednesday, 20th November 2024.
How the Syrian army turned one neighbourhood near Damascus into a bombed-out wasteland
Published on Tuesday, 19th November 2024.
Between 2002 and 2005, Naghmeh Panahi set up a network of 'house churches' in Iran
Published on Monday, 18th November 2024.
The naturist movement began in Germany at the end of the 19th Century
Published on Friday, 15th November 2024.
In 2013, the gender of a six-year-old from Argentina was legally changed
Published on Thursday, 14th November 2024.
In November 1989, 65 miners were rescued from the Mahabir Coal Mine, in India
Published on Wednesday, 13th November 2024.
In a 1974 referendum, the Greek people voted two to one in favour of becoming a republic
Published on Tuesday, 12th November 2024.
In 2013, 11 people were killed by members of a militant group at Nanga Parbat base camp
Published on Monday, 11th November 2024.
In 1948, the first stored-program computer the ‘Baby’ was invented
Published on Friday, 8th November 2024.
Polish aid worker Irena Sendler saved 2,500 Jewish children from the Warsaw ghetto in WW2
Published on Thursday, 7th November 2024.
In 1971, the Shah of Iran, celebrated 2,500 years of the Persian Empire
Published on Wednesday, 6th November 2024.
Former empress Farah Pahlavi and social scientist Rouhi Shafi speak about leaving Iran
Published on Tuesday, 5th November 2024.
In 1979, Barry Rosen was held hostage after the US embassy in Tehran was stormed
Published on Monday, 4th November 2024.
In 2003, illusionist Roy Horn was attacked by a tiger live on stage.
Published on Friday, 1st November 2024.
In 1996, an electronic voting system in Brazil was used for the first time
Published on Thursday, 31st October 2024.
In 2002, the 'Ken Burns effect' was created.
Published on Wednesday, 30th October 2024.
Jean Batten was nicknamed the Queen of the Skies for her pioneering flights of the 1930s
Published on Tuesday, 29th October 2024.
Experiments by John Flamsteed in the 17th Century led to the time zone being created
Published on Monday, 28th October 2024.
In 1974, Gary Gygax created the fantasy roleplay game.
Published on Friday, 25th October 2024.
Outspoken supporter of Angolan independence, Bonga Kwenda was forced into exile in 1972
Published on Thursday, 24th October 2024.
In 1984, a news report on a famine in Ethiopia led to a global fundraising campaign
Published on Wednesday, 23rd October 2024.
In 1986, Argentinian geologist Eduardo Olivero discovered a new kind of Ankylosaurus
Published on Tuesday, 22nd October 2024.
In 2013, Kavitha Emmanuel began campaigning to stop skin lightening in India
Published on Monday, 21st October 2024.
After the Six Day War in 1967, 14 ships were stuck on the Great Bitter Lake
Published on Friday, 18th October 2024.
In 1969, Dyke and Dryden started one the most successful black British businesses
Published on Thursday, 17th October 2024.
Dr Waheed Arian escaped poverty and war in Afghanistan to begin a new life in the UK
Published on Wednesday, 16th October 2024.
In 2003, demonstrators stormed the parliament building in Tbilisi, holding flowers
Published on Tuesday, 15th October 2024.
In 2014, more than 500,000 Taiwanese people protested against a new trade deal with China
Published on Monday, 14th October 2024.
Handmade robots were installed in DRC's capital city Kinshasa to direct traffic
Published on Friday, 11th October 2024.
In 1994 Japanese engineer Masahiro Hara designed a square of data, now known as a QR code
Published on Thursday, 10th October 2024.
In 1946, one of the world’s first electronic computers was unveiled in the USA.
Published on Wednesday, 9th October 2024.
Scientists at Waseda University in Japan built the world's first humanoid robot in 1973
Published on Tuesday, 8th October 2024.
1966 saw the invention of Eliza, which is said to be the first chatbot
Published on Monday, 7th October 2024.
In 1973, two men pretending to be Colombian guerrillas hijacked a plane for 60 hours
Published on Friday, 4th October 2024.
In November 1967, the Maltese diplomat, Arvid Pardo, gave a historic speech at the UN
Published on Thursday, 3rd October 2024.
In 1989, South Africa became the first country to make and then dismantle nuclear weapons
Published on Wednesday, 2nd October 2024.
Kerry Hamill mistakenly sailed into Cambodian waters and was killed by the Khmer Rouge
Published on Tuesday, 1st October 2024.
In 1938, the Nazis launched a violent anti-Jewish attack, known as Kristallnacht
Published on Monday, 30th September 2024.
In 1994 the Estonia ferry sank off Finland in one of Europe's biggest shipping tragedies
Published on Friday, 27th September 2024.
For almost 40 years, marriage between people from different ethnic backgrounds was banned
Published on Thursday, 26th September 2024.
Dr Zureena Desai was arrested in South Africa for breaking the Immorality Act
Published on Wednesday, 25th September 2024.
In 1993, the Hughes brothers released their debut movie
Published on Tuesday, 24th September 2024.
India placed a satellite into orbit around Mars on its first attempt in 2014
Published on Monday, 23rd September 2024.
Brazilian artist and designer, Ruth Kedar’s story of designing the Google logo.
Published on Friday, 20th September 2024.
The discovery of New Zealand's first dinosaur by Joan Wiffen
Published on Thursday, 19th September 2024.
In 1994, hundreds of thousands of people fled the city of Surat
Published on Wednesday, 18th September 2024.
In 1941, landmarks were painted and covered in the Russian city during World War Two
Published on Tuesday, 17th September 2024.
In 1971, the CT scanner was invented by Allan Cormack and Godfrey Hounsfield
Published on Monday, 16th September 2024.
The Axum Obelisk was looted by Italian soldiers in 1937 on the orders of Benito Mussolini
Published on Friday, 13th September 2024.
In 1980, Abebech Gobena founded an orphanage in Ethiopia to save children from starvation
Published on Thursday, 12th September 2024.
In 1994, a college student discovered a 4.4 million-year-old skeleton in Ethiopia
Published on Wednesday, 11th September 2024.
In 1936, the Emperor of Ethiopia Haile Selassie was exiled in Bath in the UK
Published on Tuesday, 10th September 2024.
In September 1974, a military junta launched a coup against Ethiopia's monarchy
Published on Monday, 9th September 2024.
Jorge Gonzalez was the first Argentinian in an NBA draft. How did he end up wrestling?
Published on Friday, 6th September 2024.
In 1970, a Moon mission almost ended in tragedy after an explosion on board the spaceship
Published on Thursday, 5th September 2024.
Until 1973, married women in Ireland were banned from working in state jobs.
Published on Wednesday, 4th September 2024.
In 1976, the mummy of Ramesses II was flown from Egypt to Paris for a makeover
Published on Tuesday, 3rd September 2024.
In September 2014, Nathan Law led Hong Kong's 'Umbrella' Protests
Published on Monday, 2nd September 2024.
Maggie Iaquinto was the first amateur radio enthusiast to contact Russian cosmonauts
Published on Friday, 30th August 2024.
Jeremias Tecu's two brothers are among the thousands who disappeared in Guatemala
Published on Thursday, 29th August 2024.
In 1987, Waris Dirie had her first photo-shoot and became a supermodel sensation
Published on Wednesday, 28th August 2024.
It's 60 years since the Disney film was released, based on writer PL Travers's book
Published on Tuesday, 27th August 2024.
In 1967, the town of St Paul built Canada's first alien UFO landing pad
Published on Monday, 26th August 2024.
In 1945, a spat between teenage boys was the seed for the world's largest tomato fight
Published on Friday, 23rd August 2024.
In 2001, Argentina went through a remarkable political crisis
Published on Thursday, 22nd August 2024.
The story of the woman who became known as India’s first female bartender
Egypt recruited thousands of Nazis after World War Two
Published on Tuesday, 20th August 2024.
French actress Marie Trintignant was killed by the rock star Bertrand Cantat in 2003.
Published on Monday, 19th August 2024.
'Spray-on skin' was used to treat burns victims after bombings on the Indonesian island.
Published on Friday, 16th August 2024.
One of the world’s most wanted men had been on the run for decades.
Published on Thursday, 15th August 2024.
In 1945, the nationalist leader declared independence for Indonesia
Published on Wednesday, 14th August 2024.
From 1912 until 1948, you could win medals in art at the Olympic Games
Published on Tuesday, 13th August 2024.
The Brazilian singer who earned the title Queen of Samba
Published on Monday, 12th August 2024.
In 1956, US presidential candidates sent female representatives to the first debate on TV
Published on Friday, 9th August 2024.
In 1974, Richard Nixon became the first US president in history to resign
Published on Thursday, 8th August 2024.
In 1979, the Moral Majority was launched and changed the course of US politics
Published on Wednesday, 7th August 2024.
The US presidential election of 2000 was one of the most contested in history
Published on Tuesday, 6th August 2024.
The story behind the Situation Room photograph during the raid to kill Bin Laden in 2011
Published on Monday, 5th August 2024.
The ice bucket challenge became a worldwide phenomenon in 2014
Published on Friday, 2nd August 2024.
The students who challenged the discrimination of Australia's indigenous people
Published on Thursday, 1st August 2024.
In 1998, it became illegal to make bears dance in Bulgaria
Published on Wednesday, 31st July 2024.
How Yazidis in Iraq fled to Mount Sinjar to escape genocide in August 2014
Published on Tuesday, 30th July 2024.
How punk rock band Die Toten Hosen secretly played a concert in East Berlin.
Published on Monday, 29th July 2024.
In 1974, Ghana pioneered a new system, to help immunise against serious diseases
Published on Friday, 26th July 2024.
How the Moscow Metro was built using more than 10,000 Russian workers.
Published on Thursday, 25th July 2024.
Somali sprinter Zamzam Farah at the London 2012 Olympics
Published on Wednesday, 24th July 2024.
The creation of Shuss for the 1968 Winter Games in Grenoble, France
Published on Tuesday, 23rd July 2024.
The last time Paris held the Olympic Games was 100 years ago in 1924
Published on Monday, 22nd July 2024.
In the 1990s, Ayia Napa, in Cyprus, went from quiet fishing village to party resort
Published on Friday, 19th July 2024.
Between 1963 and 1974, more than 2,000 people in Cyprus went missing
Published on Thursday, 18th July 2024.
In April 2003, people in Cyprus crossed the ceasefire line for the first time in 29 years
Published on Wednesday, 17th July 2024.
In July 1974, Captain Adamos Marneros landed the last flight at Nicosia Airport in Cyprus
Published on Tuesday, 16th July 2024.
How a coup in Cyprus led to the division of the island’s communities
Published on Monday, 15th July 2024.
For nearly 40 years, women in Brazil were banned from playing football
Published on Friday, 12th July 2024.
In 1988, a ship carrying toxic waste arrived in Manfredonia, Italy
Published on Thursday, 11th July 2024.
The massacre in Mexico City in October 1968, 10 days before the Olympics
Published on Wednesday, 10th July 2024.
Cuban salsa singer Celia Cruz's only return to the island in 43 years of exile.
Published on Tuesday, 9th July 2024.
In 2006, Dutch inventor Fred van der Weij cooked up an idea for a new kitchen device
Published on Monday, 8th July 2024.
In Canada's 1993 election, the governing party was routed, ending up with just two seats
Published on Friday, 5th July 2024.
In 1989, Public Enemy provided the soundtrack for Spike Lee's movie, Do The Right Thing
Published on Thursday, 4th July 2024.
In 1991, the newly independent country found itself on the verge of a civil war
Published on Wednesday, 3rd July 2024.
In the 1930s, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin executed hundreds of thousands without trial
Published on Tuesday, 2nd July 2024.
In 1984, Henry Chalfant and Martha Cooper released an iconic photography book
Published on Monday, 1st July 2024.
In 1974, a Japanese artist created a character who is now worth more than $80 billion
Published on Saturday, 29th June 2024.
President Jacobo Arbenz of Guatemala was overthrown in a revolt sponsored by the US
Published on Thursday, 27th June 2024.
In 1998, Swiss lawyer Ludwig Minelli set up the controversial organisation Dignitas
Published on Wednesday, 26th June 2024.
How architects carried on building Barcelona's basilica after the death of designer Gaudi
Published on Tuesday, 25th June 2024.
Sudeten Germans were expelled by the Czechoslovak government after World War Two
Published on Monday, 24th June 2024.
In 1988 AJ Hackett brought bungee jumping to paying customers
Published on Friday, 21st June 2024.
In 1988, the world’s largest passenger ship set sail on her maiden voyage from the USA
Published on Thursday, 20th June 2024.
How one man grew a sleepy Spanish town into one of the world’s biggest holiday resorts
Published on Wednesday, 19th June 2024.
In 1969, Antonio Enríquez Savignac started building Cancún
Published on Tuesday, 18th June 2024.
In 1955, an Icelandic airline slashed the cost of flying across the Atlantic
Published on Monday, 17th June 2024.
In 1971, a Chinese architect called Chu Ming Silveira created Orelhão
Published on Friday, 14th June 2024.
In 1980, 123 men died when a platform capsized in Norway's biggest industrial disaster
Published on Thursday, 13th June 2024.
In 1984, 11 Dunnes store workers walked out after refusing to handle South African goods
Published on Wednesday, 12th June 2024.
In 2014, Boko Haram drove into Gwoza in Nigeria and began an assault that killed hundreds
Published on Tuesday, 11th June 2024.
It's 25 years since Nato bombed the Serbian television headquarters in Belgrade
Published on Monday, 10th June 2024.
Iraqi journalist Muntadhar al-Zaidi threw his shoes at the President of the United States.
Published on Friday, 7th June 2024.
Charles Norman Shay was honoured for saving men from drowning on Omaha Beach on D-Day
Published on Thursday, 6th June 2024.
Maureen Flavin’s weather report forecast a storm and changed the course of WW2 history
Published on Wednesday, 5th June 2024.
The game was created by a Russian and marketed by an American during the Cold War
Published on Tuesday, 4th June 2024.
Giant pandas, Tuan Tuan and Yuan Yuan, were sent to Taiwan from China as a gift in 2008
Published on Monday, 3rd June 2024.
Forty years ago, a revolutionary advert played at America’s Super Bowl
Published on Friday, 31st May 2024.
In 2014, a city in Michigan was exposed to dangerous levels of lead in its water supply
Published on Thursday, 30th May 2024.
In August 1971, the first Aboriginal MP took his place in the Australian Senate.
Published on Wednesday, 29th May 2024.
Ninety years ago, five girls were born and exhibited to the world
Published on Tuesday, 28th May 2024.
Hero or traitor? Carlos Lamarca deserted the Brazilian army to fight the military regime
Published on Monday, 27th May 2024.
The story of how Nike signed basketballer Michael Jordan and launched Air Jordans
Published on Friday, 24th May 2024.
In 2001, more than 700 pairs of Imelda Marcos’ shoes became museum exhibits in Marikina
Published on Thursday, 23rd May 2024.
How an argument between the Dassler brothers led to the creation of Adidas and Puma
Published on Wednesday, 22nd May 2024.
Havaianas has become one of the country's most successful and best-known exports
Published on Tuesday, 21st May 2024.
A Czech company called Bata pioneered assembly line shoemaking
Published on Monday, 20th May 2024.
The story of Cuban spy Ana Montes who was arrested in 2001
Published on Friday, 17th May 2024.
The story of heavy metal in Iraq during the dictatorship of Saddam Hussein
Published on Thursday, 16th May 2024.
In 2004, protests against nuclear testing saw a change in how French Polynesia was ruled
Published on Wednesday, 15th May 2024.
In 1948, the state of Israel was declared
Published on Tuesday, 14th May 2024.
In 1948, tens of thousands of Palestinians were expelled from their homes
Published on Monday, 13th May 2024.
The story of a princess, an Indian palace and a photograph which gained worldwide fame
Published on Friday, 10th May 2024.
The 2009 attempt to give all Indian citizens a unique digital ID
Published on Thursday, 9th May 2024.
In 1963, Dr Jose Barraquer Moner performed the first eye surgery to fix short-sightedness.
Published on Wednesday, 8th May 2024.
A thirst for caffeine led to an unusual global collaboration in the 1980s
Published on Tuesday, 7th May 2024.
Behind the scenes on one of the biggest TV comedies of all time
Published on Monday, 6th May 2024.
In 1990, the Channel Tunnel between Britain and France was connected
Published on Friday, 3rd May 2024.
Ordinary people saw inside the home of Ukraine’s ousted president in February 2014
Published on Thursday, 2nd May 2024.
In 1936, Dale Carnegie wrote the self help book - How to Win Friends and Influence People
Published on Wednesday, 1st May 2024.
The study aimed to test whether 'ordinary' people were capable of committing evil acts
Published on Tuesday, 30th April 2024.
One man has dedicated his life to finding the victims of Paraguay's dictatorship
Published on Monday, 29th April 2024.
Oliver Tambo returned to South Africa in 1990 after 30 years in exile.
Published on Friday, 26th April 2024.
Brenda Fassie was a popular South African pop star, dubbed the 'Madonna of the townships'
Published on Thursday, 25th April 2024.
The campaign to return Sarah Baartman to South Africa nearly 200 years after her death
Published on Wednesday, 24th April 2024.
In 1976, an uprising was sparked when demonstrating children were gunned down
Published on Tuesday, 23rd April 2024.
The last whites-only vote in South Africa was held in 1992
Published on Monday, 22nd April 2024.
The first African-American woman to lead a World War Two battalion
Published on Friday, 19th April 2024.
In 2014, an avalanche in the Khumbu Icefall killed 16 sherpas on Mount Everest
Published on Thursday, 18th April 2024.
In 2014, Sierra Leone was devastated by Africa's biggest Ebola outbreak on record
Published on Wednesday, 17th April 2024.
In 2008, India and Bangladesh were reconnected by train after 43 years
Published on Tuesday, 16th April 2024.
In May 2001, 52 men were arrested in a gay nightclub floating on the River Nile
Published on Monday, 15th April 2024.
Hiroo Onoda spent 30 years fighting in the jungle, believing the war was still going on
Published on Friday, 12th April 2024.
How General Franco kept the hand of St Teresa of Avila for spiritual guidance.
Published on Thursday, 11th April 2024.
In 1994, an undercover operation was launched to recover the Scream painting
Published on Wednesday, 10th April 2024.
In 1962, Thessaly’s Lake Karla was drained by the Greek government
Published on Tuesday, 9th April 2024.
Bombings in Uganda in 2010 killed 74. Many were football fans watching the World Cup
Published on Monday, 8th April 2024.
The lives of 14 black American footballers are changed forever in a fight against racism
Published on Saturday, 6th April 2024.
In 1999, a delicious new tradition was born in Sweden's kitchens
Published on Friday, 5th April 2024.
The story of how a Viking inspired wireless technology.
Published on Thursday, 4th April 2024.
Fifty years ago Sweden introduced gender neutral parental leave
Published on Wednesday, 3rd April 2024.
In 1958, Swedish engineer Nils Bohlin invented the three-point safety belt for cars
Published on Tuesday, 2nd April 2024.
In 1974, Swedish act Abba won the Eurovision song contest
Published on Sunday, 31st March 2024.
April 1994 was the start of the Rwandan genocide. One hundred days of atrocities followed
Published on Friday, 29th March 2024.
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was formed to block the Soviet Union's expansion
Published on Thursday, 28th March 2024.
In 1980, a seaside town opened a beach where people could strip off as they pleased
Published on Wednesday, 27th March 2024.
How the life-saving method to stop choking was developed
Published on Tuesday, 26th March 2024.
In 1967, the Mangla Dam was built in Mirpur spurring a huge global migration
Published on Monday, 25th March 2024.
How Wham! became the first Western pop act to perform in communist China
Published on Friday, 22nd March 2024.
In 1974, Chinese farmers stumbled upon an astonishing archaeological site
Published on Thursday, 21st March 2024.
Hundreds of thousands of Asian women were forced into sex slavery in the 1930s and 1940s
Published on Wednesday, 20th March 2024.
Thousands of people were sent to re-education camps during China’s cultural revolution
Published on Tuesday, 19th March 2024.
In 1958, Zhou Youguang introduced a new writing system in China
Published on Monday, 18th March 2024.
Vesuvius is famous for burying Pompeii but it last erupted in 1944, during World War II.
Published on Friday, 15th March 2024.
The forgotten story of Winifred Atwell, the pianist from Trinidad who broke sales records
Published on Thursday, 14th March 2024.
How Guarani was officially recognised in Paraguay’s new constitution
Published on Wednesday, 13th March 2024.
In 1992 a student found a set of fossilised footprints from the earliest vertebrate
Published on Tuesday, 12th March 2024.
Nearly 200 died when Spanish commuter trains were bombed in 2004
Published on Monday, 11th March 2024.
Ghyslain Wattrelos' wife and two children were on MH370, the plane that disappeared.
Published on Friday, 8th March 2024.
In 2002, a nun was sent to northern Uganda to help those suffering from a bloody conflict
Published on Thursday, 7th March 2024.
In 1974, a 41-year regime was overthrown in a day
Published on Wednesday, 6th March 2024.
In World War Two, tens of thousands of children left Paris to escape the threat of bombs
Published on Tuesday, 5th March 2024.
In 2010, Uruguay was taken to court by a tobacco company for its trailblazing smoking ban
Published on Monday, 4th March 2024.
Beginning in 1984, a dispute over an island was marked by geniality, and bottles of booze
Published on Friday, 1st March 2024.
In 1987, the looting of an ancient pyramid led to an extraordinary golden discovery
Published on Thursday, 29th February 2024.
The Torah scrolls stolen by the Nazis, rescued by an London Jewish community.
Published on Wednesday, 28th February 2024.
The hugely popular Soviet holiday camp, Artek
Published on Tuesday, 27th February 2024.
In 2014, Russia took over the Crimean peninsula
Published on Monday, 26th February 2024.
In 2003, Whistler Blackcomb won its bid to host the Winter Olympics
Published on Friday, 23rd February 2024.
A memorial for the ashes of Christopher Columbus opened in the Dominican Republic in 1992
Published on Thursday, 22nd February 2024.
The 2009 murder of Vicky Hernandez forced recognition of transgender rights in Honduras
Published on Wednesday, 21st February 2024.
In 1975, 90% of all women in Iceland took part in a massive nationwide protest
Published on Tuesday, 20th February 2024.
Soviet scientist Vladimir Demikhov shocked the world with his two-headed dog experiments
Published on Monday, 19th February 2024.
In 1972, a Danish brewery created Supermalt
Published on Friday, 16th February 2024.
How Gort in the west of Ireland became home to so many Brazilians
Published on Thursday, 15th February 2024.
Since the 1990s the Juliet Club has answered letters to the Shakespearian heroine
Published on Wednesday, 14th February 2024.
In 1974, a kidnapped socialite joined forces with her captors
Published on Tuesday, 13th February 2024.
In 1940 a rescue operation helped Allied servicemen escape from Nazi-occupied France
Published on Monday, 12th February 2024.
In 1973 a fashion show was held in France which the media dubbed the Battle of Versailles
Published on Friday, 9th February 2024.
Rosa Parks' refusal to give up her bus seat helped end segregation in the United States
Published on Thursday, 8th February 2024.
She overcame poverty, health problems and racism to become one of Peru’s greatest singers
Published on Wednesday, 7th February 2024.
In 2003, human rights lawyer Hauwa Ibrahim defended Amina Lawal from death by stoning
Published on Tuesday, 6th February 2024.
In 1986, Charlotte Mensah went to work in the UK's first luxury Afro-Caribbean hair salon
Published on Monday, 5th February 2024.
Cyberia, billed as the World's first internet cafe opened in London in 1994
Published on Thursday, 1st February 2024.
In 2008, seeds began arriving at a frozen vault designed to save the world’s food supply
Published on Wednesday, 31st January 2024.
In 1980, poor rural workers occupied land owned by the rich and violent clashes followed
Published on Tuesday, 30th January 2024.
How Brazilian priest Leonardo Boff was punished for his writing on liberation theology
Published on Monday, 29th January 2024.
During the Cold War a high-ranking Polish colonel passed Soviet secrets to the CIA
Published on Friday, 26th January 2024.
Sándor Szűcs was hanged for trying to escape communist Hungary with his lover
Published on Thursday, 25th January 2024.
The national hero was branded a traitor for collaborating with Japan during World War Two
Published on Wednesday, 24th January 2024.
Mildred Gillars became the first woman in American history to be convicted of treason.
Published on Tuesday, 23rd January 2024.
In 1939, Vidkun Quisling asked Hitler to invade Norway.
Published on Monday, 22nd January 2024.
In the early 2000s, a woman known as ‘Lady Tarzan’ fought India’s so called timber mafia
Published on Friday, 19th January 2024.
Bob Golding turned Ibadan Zoo into one of Nigeria's biggest attractions in the 1970s
Published on Thursday, 18th January 2024.
Protests after Iran's 2009 election caused one man to be interrogated for 118 days
Published on Wednesday, 17th January 2024.
In 1975, unarmed Moroccans faced off against gun-carrying Spanish soldiers
Published on Tuesday, 16th January 2024.
In 1984, President Zuazo went on hunger strike, in an attempt to stabilise Bolivia
Published on Monday, 15th January 2024.
How one man's secret recordings revealed one of Spain's biggest corruption scandals
Published on Friday, 12th January 2024.
The first World Laughter Day took place in Mumbai, India in January 1998
Published on Thursday, 11th January 2024.
The Russian ballerina who defected to the west
Published on Wednesday, 10th January 2024.
The fate of Louis-Charles, imprisoned in 1795, was for years shrouded in rumour
Published on Tuesday, 9th January 2024.
In 2001, the Netherlands became the first country to legalise gay marriage
Published on Monday, 8th January 2024.
In 1989, a huge solar flare ground life to a halt in Quebec
Published on Friday, 5th January 2024.
In 1937, the Hindenburg burst into flames during mooring, killing 35 people on board.
Published on Thursday, 4th January 2024.
In 1999, skydiver Jari Kuosma developed the first commercial wingsuit
Published on Wednesday, 3rd January 2024.
In 1985, news broke of a major environmental discovery: a hole in the earth’s ozone layer
Published on Tuesday, 2nd January 2024.
In 1990, a space probe's photograph of Earth captured the enormity of space
Published on Monday, 1st January 2024.
In 1984, Ken Hom taught TV audiences to cook Chinese food for the first time
Published on Friday, 29th December 2023.
Exploring the different theories behind the creation of pad Thai
Published on Thursday, 28th December 2023.
In 1994, a tomato became the world's first genetically-engineered food on sale
Published on Wednesday, 27th December 2023.
How the Chinese gooseberry became the kiwi and one of New Zealand’s biggest exports
Published on Tuesday, 26th December 2023.
How the chocolate and hazelnut spread was created in 1946
Published on Monday, 25th December 2023.
In 1969, the singer Dafydd Iwan campaigned for official recognition of the Welsh language
Published on Friday, 22nd December 2023.
There was an international outcry in 2014 when three journalists were imprisoned in Egypt
Published on Thursday, 21st December 2023.
In 1973, the poet and prominent communist tried to flee persecution in Chile
Published on Wednesday, 20th December 2023.
In 1975, the king of Saudi Arabia was shot by his nephew
Published on Tuesday, 19th December 2023.
In 2009 a tsunami killed 149 people. Lumepa Hald tells the story of destruction and loss
Published on Monday, 18th December 2023.
In 2013, South Africa's first black president was buried in his ancestral village
Published on Friday, 15th December 2023.
In 1983, a suspected kidnapping led to scandal
Published on Thursday, 14th December 2023.
How the great poet kept writing even through the darkest days of Soviet history
Published on Wednesday, 13th December 2023.
In 1998, the Russian president condemned the Soviet violence that killed Tsar Nicholas II
Published on Tuesday, 12th December 2023.
In 1918, the Russian royal family were killed by the Bolsheviks
Published on Monday, 11th December 2023.
In 1993, a controversial sci-fi video game called DOOM was released
Published on Friday, 8th December 2023.
In 1977 a woman became one of thousands who disappeared from the streets of Buenos Aires
Published on Thursday, 7th December 2023.
In 1967, army officers seized power in Greece in a US-backed coup
Published on Wednesday, 6th December 2023.
In 1945, a collection that would amass 9,479 brains was started
Published on Tuesday, 5th December 2023.
How Mathieu Kassovitz's critique of policing shocked French society
Published on Monday, 4th December 2023.
In 1948, the Dover Sun House, in the US, was the first home to be heated by solar power
Published on Friday, 1st December 2023.
Tanzania's leader, Julius Nyerere, made Swahili the official language in the early 1960s
Published on Thursday, 30th November 2023.
In 1986, remote parts of Cameroon were turned into ghost villages overnight
Published on Wednesday, 29th November 2023.
In 1977, the white-winged guan was rediscovered in Peru after a century
Published on Tuesday, 28th November 2023.
Christmas 1983 saw frenzied shoppers buy three million Cabbage Patch Kids
Published on Monday, 27th November 2023.
In 2008, 10 gunmen killed more than 100 people in Mumbai’s busiest hot spots
Published on Friday, 24th November 2023.
In 2003, Paris was overwhelmed by the hottest European heatwave for 500 years
Published on Thursday, 23rd November 2023.
In 1960, John F Kennedy became the youngest person to be elected United States president.
Published on Wednesday, 22nd November 2023.
Chun Shui Tang tea house in Taiwan began selling bubble tea in 1987
Published on Tuesday, 21st November 2023.
How Zambia became independent in 1964
Published on Monday, 20th November 2023.
In 2000 Franck Goddio made one of the greatest ever underwater discoveries
Published on Friday, 17th November 2023.
How Bolivians in the city of Cochabamba fought against the “leasing of the rain”
Published on Thursday, 16th November 2023.
The scientist produced an X-ray photograph in 1952, that helped show the structure of DNA
Published on Wednesday, 15th November 2023.
In 2010, a cloud of volcanic ash brought Europe’s planes back to earth
Published on Tuesday, 14th November 2023.
How engineer Sheldon Kaplan and his team made the EpiPen, the lifesaving allergy device
Published on Monday, 13th November 2023.
In 2004, a hippo and a tortoise became friends. Their story gained worldwide fame
Published on Friday, 10th November 2023.
On 9 November 1993 the historic bridge was destroyed during the Bosnian War
Published on Thursday, 9th November 2023.
How Nazia and Zoheb Hassan changed South-East Asian pop with their album, Disco Deewane
Published on Wednesday, 8th November 2023.
Showbiz star, Debbie McGee describes being caught up in the Iranian revolution in 1978
Published on Tuesday, 7th November 2023.
More than 300 people died in Paraguay's capital in 2004
Published on Monday, 6th November 2023.
The actress Jane Seymour shares what it was like being rock star Freddie Mercury's bride
Published on Friday, 3rd November 2023.
In 1986 Dr Aleida Guevara travelled from Cuba to treat children in communist Angola
Published on Thursday, 2nd November 2023.
In 1962 a prototype of the cockpit flight recorder was tested in Australia
Published on Wednesday, 1st November 2023.
In 1983, scientists at the Pasteur Institute in Paris first discovered the HIV virus
Published on Tuesday, 31st October 2023.
In 2010 a $3.6billion fund began to stop oil drilling in Ecuador’s Yasuni national park
Published on Monday, 30th October 2023.
In 2013 protests in Istanbul’s Gezi Park led to civil unrest across Turkey
Published on Friday, 27th October 2023.
Professor Gift Mugano describes when Zimbabwe’s inflation hit 89.7 sextillion per cent
Published on Thursday, 26th October 2023.
In 1993, a Nigerian Airways flight from Lagos to Abuja was hijacked
Published on Wednesday, 25th October 2023.
On 12 September 1980, the military took control of Turkey
Published on Tuesday, 24th October 2023.
In 1973, the first bridge connecting Europe and Asia was completed
Published on Monday, 23rd October 2023.
Donny Osmond shares his memories of teen hysteria in 1973
Published on Friday, 20th October 2023.
Lagos Fashion Week was launched in 2011 putting Nigerian style on the global map
Published on Thursday, 19th October 2023.
In the 1990s, hundreds of young women were murdered in a Mexican border town
Published on Wednesday, 18th October 2023.
In 2013, an eight-storey building in Bangladesh collapsed killing more than 1,000 people
Published on Tuesday, 17th October 2023.
In 1992, Cambodia held its first peace walk aimed at uniting a country torn apart by war
Published on Monday, 16th October 2023.
In 2013, acid attack survivors in India celebrated a landmark Supreme Court ruling
Published on Friday, 13th October 2023.
In 1966, Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah, one of Africa's most famous leaders was ousted from power
Published on Thursday, 12th October 2023.
Ghana's independence in 1957 was marked with a new flag designed by Theodosia Okoh
Published on Wednesday, 11th October 2023.
In 2004, Kenyan great grandfather Kimani Maruge became the oldest person to start school
Published on Tuesday, 10th October 2023.
On 24 May 2010, artist Yinka Shonibare unveiled his sculpture, Nelson’s Ship in a Bottle
Published on Monday, 9th October 2023.
In 2003, the Sarayaku community began a legal battle against an oil company
Published on Friday, 6th October 2023.
In 1978, a crude oil tanker was shipwrecked off the coast of France
Published on Thursday, 5th October 2023.
In 1956 commercial quantities of oil were discovered in Nigeria
Published on Wednesday, 4th October 2023.
In 1993 Kazakhstan partnered with Chevron and started drilling for oil
Published on Tuesday, 3rd October 2023.
In October 1973, Arab nations slashed oil production causing prices to sky rocket
Published on Monday, 2nd October 2023.
In 1998, the world’s first cat cafe opened in Taiwan
Published on Friday, 29th September 2023.
In 2013, a ship carrying more than 500 migrants sank off the coast of Lampedusa.
Published on Thursday, 28th September 2023.
The Latin American soap opera Kassandra helped keep peace in Bosnia
Published on Wednesday, 27th September 2023.
On 2 March 1969 Concorde took to the skies for the first time
Published on Tuesday, 26th September 2023.
In 1975, physicist Wally Hendrickson prevented nuclear disaster in Vietnam
Published on Monday, 25th September 2023.
Freddie 'Saddam' Maake tells the story of how he became known as 'Mr Vuvuzela'
Published on Friday, 22nd September 2023.
In 2013, a Somali militant group attacked the Westgate Mall in Nairobi
Published on Thursday, 21st September 2023.
In November 2013, George Kourounis descended into the 'Gates of Hell'
Published on Wednesday, 20th September 2023.
In 1978, campaigners won their fight to legalise abortion in Italy despite the opposition
Published on Tuesday, 19th September 2023.
In 1933, Adolf Hitler ordered the sterilisation of people with disabilities
Published on Monday, 18th September 2023.
In 2005, an orchestra made up of young Arab and Israeli musicians performed in Ramallah
Published on Friday, 15th September 2023.
The final days of one of the most dramatic sieges of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Published on Thursday, 14th September 2023.
In 2000, the Israeli opposition leader visited the al-Aqsa Mosque compound
Published on Wednesday, 13th September 2023.
President Bill Clinton’s failed attempt to end the conflict in the Middle East.
Published on Tuesday, 12th September 2023.
How a couple in Oslo brokered peace in the Middle East
Published on Monday, 11th September 2023.
The musician's widow recounts his murder at the hands of Chile's army in 1973
Published on Friday, 8th September 2023.
On 11 September, General Augusto Pinochet deposed President Salvador Allende
Published on Thursday, 7th September 2023.
In 2003, Swedish politician Anna Lindh was attacked and killed in Stockholm
Published on Wednesday, 6th September 2023.
Bi Kidude was one of the first women from Zanzibar to sing in public without the veil
Published on Tuesday, 5th September 2023.
In 2013, campaigners were arrested for protesting against oil drilling in the Arctic
Published on Monday, 4th September 2023.
We hear from one of the first students to study overseas after the Cultural Revolution
Published on Friday, 1st September 2023.
An island expedition helped save Guadalupe's wildlife from extinction...and goats
Published on Thursday, 31st August 2023.
In August 2013, the army killed hundreds of protestors in Cairo
Published on Wednesday, 30th August 2023.
In June 2000, the first inter-Korean summit since the Korean War took place
Published on Tuesday, 29th August 2023.
How a protest by black activists in 1963 led to the UK's first anti-racism laws
Published on Monday, 28th August 2023.
In 1974, women campaigned to swim at the Forty Foot in Dublin, Ireland
Published on Friday, 25th August 2023.
How the collapse of Ireland's Celtic Tiger led to thousands of abandoned housing estates
Published on Thursday, 24th August 2023.
In 1959, the first Rose of Tralee festival was held in Ireland
Published on Wednesday, 23rd August 2023.
The Rural Electrification Scheme brought power to 300,000 homes in the Irish countryside
Published on Tuesday, 22nd August 2023.
In 1916, a group of Irish rebels launched an armed revolt against British rule
Published on Monday, 21st August 2023.
Ruby slippers used in the film 'The Wizard of Oz' were stolen in 2005.
Published on Friday, 18th August 2023.
The last performances of Judy Garland in January 1969
Published on Thursday, 17th August 2023.
In 2004, a chance encounter in Nigeria led to the return of two looted art treasures
Published on Wednesday, 16th August 2023.
It's 70 years since the US-backed coup which brought the Shah of Iran to power in 1953
Published on Tuesday, 15th August 2023.
Matt Berger tripped over a hominid fossil whilst exploring with his dad in South Africa
Published on Monday, 14th August 2023.
The success of graffiti artist Jean-Michel Basquiat
Published on Friday, 11th August 2023.
Journalist Claude Angeli broke the story that helped topple France's President in 1981
Published on Thursday, 10th August 2023.
The Jewish charity that helped people in the Bosnian war during the siege of Sarajevo
Published on Wednesday, 9th August 2023.
In 1963, thieves held up a Royal Mail train on its journey from Glasgow to London
Published on Tuesday, 8th August 2023.
How Brownie Wise inspired an army of US housewives to sell Tupperware at parties
Published on Monday, 7th August 2023.
In 2012 a dinosaur skeleton became the subject of a restraining order and a court case
Published on Friday, 4th August 2023.
In 1982 a Turkish worker in Germany built a treehouse against the Berlin Wall
Published on Thursday, 3rd August 2023.
In the early 1980s deaf children in Nicaragua invented a new sign language
Published on Wednesday, 2nd August 2023.
In 1982, Ashok Sahni discovered nests of dinosaur eggs for the first time in India
Published on Tuesday, 1st August 2023.
Uruguay's former president recounts his revolutionary past as a member of the Tupamaros
Published on Monday, 31st July 2023.
It’s been 50 years since Mr Bigg's was first launched in Nigeria
Published on Friday, 28th July 2023.
There was an attempt to overthrow the Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie in December 1960
Published on Thursday, 27th July 2023.
Pope John Paul II angered supporters of the Sandinista government during a 1983 trip
Published on Wednesday, 26th July 2023.
In 1986 a computer virus was developed accidentally by two brothers in Pakistan
Published on Tuesday, 25th July 2023.
Yeti Mitrani and her family escaped deportation from Greece by the Nazis in 1943
Published on Monday, 24th July 2023.
In 1966, American Dean Reed was the first western rock star to tour the Soviet Union
Published on Friday, 21st July 2023.
Ruth Handler created the Barbie doll which was first sold in 1959
Published on Thursday, 20th July 2023.
The signing of the Japanese surrender documents at the Forbidden City in Beijing in 1945.
Published on Wednesday, 19th July 2023.
More than 500,000 people barricaded the streets of Riga in January 1991
Published on Tuesday, 18th July 2023.
How the drug tamoxifen became a global success in breast cancer treatment
Published on Monday, 17th July 2023.
In 1999, Japanese designer Shigetaka Kurita created a global phenomena - the first emoji
Published on Friday, 14th July 2023.
The story of how disposable nappies were invented.
Published on Thursday, 13th July 2023.
In 1974, a Hungarian architect, Ernő Rubik invented his bestselling puzzle
Published on Tuesday, 11th July 2023.
In 1938 a Hungarian journalist László Bíró invented the ballpoint pen
Published on Monday, 10th July 2023.
Princess Diana, Kenny Everett and Freddie Mercury went on a night out in London in 1988
Published on Friday, 7th July 2023.
In February 1972 the first group of tourists arrived in the Maldives
Published on Thursday, 6th July 2023.
The UK’s National Health Service started on 5 July 1948
Published on Wednesday, 5th July 2023.
A democratically elected communist government came to power in eastern India in 1977
Published on Tuesday, 4th July 2023.
In 1986, John Demjanjuk was accused of being ‘Ivan the Terrible’
Published on Monday, 3rd July 2023.
In 2010 Lady Gaga attended the MTV Video Music Awards in a dress made out of beef
Published on Friday, 30th June 2023.
Communist statues in Hungary's capital Budapest were moved to Memento Park in 1993
Published on Thursday, 29th June 2023.
On 29 June 1995 the Sampoong Department Store in South Korea collapsed killing 502 people
Published on Wednesday, 28th June 2023.
Ebola's first documented outbreak emerged in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 1976
Published on Tuesday, 27th June 2023.
On 26 June 1963, United States President John F Kennedy gave a speech in Berlin
Published on Monday, 26th June 2023.
In 1971 Alan Shepard played golf on the moon
Published on Friday, 23rd June 2023.
On 22 June 1948, the Empire Windrush docked at Tilbury in England
Published on Thursday, 22nd June 2023.
On 7 August 1994, police raided Tasty, a gay nightclub in downtown Melbourne, Australia
Published on Wednesday, 21st June 2023.
Somali fighter pilot Ahmed Mohamed Hassan faced a terrible choice in 1988
Published on Tuesday, 20th June 2023.
On 16 June 1953 East German workers went on strike in protest at Soviet rule
Published on Monday, 19th June 2023.
MoMA bought photos from an African-American woman for the first time in 1979.
Published on Friday, 16th June 2023.
In 1968, British photographer travelled to Vietnam for his second ever war assignment
Published on Thursday, 15th June 2023.
Malick Sidibé photographed life in Mali after its independence from France in 1960.
Published on Wednesday, 14th June 2023.
In 1958, aspiring photographer Art Kane captured 57 jazz legends in one immortal image
Published on Tuesday, 13th June 2023.
In 1945 the war correspondent Lee Miller was photographed in Adolf Hitler's bath
Published on Monday, 12th June 2023.
In June 1955, more than 80 people were killed and 100 injured at the Le Mans 24-hour race
Published on Friday, 9th June 2023.
On 25 January 1933 the last legal communist march was held in Berlin
Published on Thursday, 8th June 2023.
In 1975, Richard Neave invented a method to rebuild the face of an Egyptian mummy
Published on Tuesday, 6th June 2023.
In 1960s, the Canadian government took academically gifted Inuit children from the homes
Published on Monday, 5th June 2023.
In May 1984, Bachendri Pal became the first Indian woman to stand on top of the world
Published on Friday, 2nd June 2023.
Michael Groom is one of the survivors of a tragic climbing expedition to Mount Everest
Published on Thursday, 1st June 2023.
In 1999 the body of legendary British mountaineer, George Mallory, was found on Everest.
Published on Wednesday, 31st May 2023.
In 1953, Tenzing Norgay reached the summit of Mount Everest
Published on Tuesday, 30th May 2023.
In 1953 Edmund Hillary became the first human to reach the top of Mount Everest
Published on Monday, 29th May 2023.
On 31 May 1970, the Huascarán avalanche destroyed the town of Yungay, in Peru
Published on Friday, 26th May 2023.
On 25 May 1963, leaders of 32 newly-independent African nations came together
Published on Thursday, 25th May 2023.
In May 2013, the widest tornado ever recorded hit the US state of Oklahoma
Published on Wednesday, 24th May 2023.
In 1992, a photograph of a starving man in a Bosnian concentration camp stunned the world
Published on Tuesday, 23rd May 2023.
Sixteen army sergeants seized power in the South American country in 1980
Published on Monday, 22nd May 2023.
In Stockholm in 1941, Astrid Lindgren made up a story for her daughter about a young girl
Published on Friday, 19th May 2023.
Geoff Chapple's vision was to create New Zealand's national walking trail
Published on Thursday, 18th May 2023.
Eighty years ago a daring raid destroyed dams in Germany's Ruhr Valley
Published on Wednesday, 17th May 2023.
Thousands of German children during World War Two were sent to camps in the countryside
Published on Tuesday, 16th May 2023.
The execution of Flor Contemplacion caused a crisis between the Philippines and Singapore
Published on Monday, 15th May 2023.
It is 80 years since the Allies in World War II declared victory in North Africa
Published on Friday, 12th May 2023.
In May 1943, the uprising in the Jewish Ghetto in Warsaw in Poland came to an end
Published on Thursday, 11th May 2023.
In 1998, the last commercial flight left Hong Kong's Kai Tak airport
Published on Wednesday, 10th May 2023.
Hundreds died when an passenger ship was hit by Japanese torpedoes in 1942
Published on Tuesday, 9th May 2023.
On 7 May 1999, US bombs damaged the embassy and relations between China and the West
Published on Monday, 8th May 2023.
In 1950, four young Scottish students took the 'Stone of Destiny' from Westminster Abbey
Published on Friday, 5th May 2023.
In June 2001, Bulgaria’s former King Simeon II won the country’s parliamentary election
Published on Thursday, 4th May 2023.
In 1661 in England, the body of Oliver Cromwell was dug up for ritual execution
Published on Wednesday, 3rd May 2023.
Jean-Bédel Bokassa crowned himself Emperor of the Central African Republic in 1977
Published on Tuesday, 2nd May 2023.
In 2012, the lost grave of King Richard III was found under a car park in Leicester
Published on Monday, 1st May 2023.
How BBC bosses battled with the government for the right to film inside Westminster Abbey
Published on Friday, 28th April 2023.
In 1995, Anna Wintour became chair of the Met Gala and changed it forever
Published on Thursday, 27th April 2023.
Human rights campaigner Bishop Juan Gerardi was bludgeoned to death on 26 April 1998
Published on Wednesday, 26th April 2023.
James Watson and Francis Crick published their discoveries about DNA on 25 April 1953
Published on Tuesday, 25th April 2023.
In 1966, Althea McNish designed fabrics for the Queen's visit to Trinidad
Published on Monday, 24th April 2023.
In 1994, Oleg Kulik posed as a dog to protest conditions in post-Soviet Russia
Published on Friday, 21st April 2023.
In 1944, Bill Wynne adopted a Yorkie believed to be one of the first therapy dogs
Published on Thursday, 20th April 2023.
In 2001, Roselle helped his owner escape from the World Trade Center
Published on Wednesday, 19th April 2023.
In 1989, Wally Conron created the world's first labradoodle
Published on Tuesday, 18th April 2023.
Laika orbited Earth in 1957
Published on Monday, 17th April 2023.
Richard Dimbleby was the first broadcaster to report from Belsen concentration camp
Published on Friday, 14th April 2023.
On 15 April 2013, two brothers set off bombs at the Boston Marathon
Published on Thursday, 13th April 2023.
An archaeologist travels to Ukraine to excavate a mass grave from World War Two
Published on Wednesday, 12th April 2023.
In 1970, American student Gary Anderson designed a logo for recycled paper products
Published on Tuesday, 11th April 2023.
In 1868, Tewodros II of Ethiopia prepared to make a last stand against the British army
Published on Monday, 10th April 2023.
In 1998, a referendum was held in Northern Ireland and Ireland on the Belfast Agreement
Published on Friday, 7th April 2023.
In 2001, Colombian born choreographer Beto Perez created Zumba and it was all by accident
Published on Thursday, 6th April 2023.
In 1982, a Japanese businessman unveiled the World Peace Giant Kannon in Japan
Published on Wednesday, 5th April 2023.
In 1989, a picnic was held as demonstration for European integration
Published on Tuesday, 4th April 2023.
The story of one young Eritrean woman’s attempt to escape compulsory national service
Published on Monday, 3rd April 2023.
A Brief History of Time, written by Prof Stephen Hawking, was published in March 1988
Published on Friday, 31st March 2023.
In 1997, French engineer Philippe Kahn shared the first ever photo from a mobile phone
Published on Thursday, 30th March 2023.
In 1975, Minh Nguyen left behind his macho military life and re-trained as a manicurist
Published on Wednesday, 29th March 2023.
Narayana Murthy, founder of Infosys, describes the city's technology revolution
Published on Tuesday, 28th March 2023.
In 1978, a group of volunteers in Denmark built their own wind turbine to power a school
Published on Monday, 27th March 2023.
In 1998, Keiko the Hollywood killer whale was released back into the wild
Published on Friday, 24th March 2023.
From 1988, Mehran Karimi Nasseri, from Iran, spent 18 years living in a Paris airport
Published on Thursday, 23rd March 2023.
The longest running film in India was released in 1995
Published on Wednesday, 22nd March 2023.
Three prisoners escaped from the maximum security US jail, Alcatraz in June 1962
Published on Tuesday, 21st March 2023.
In 1974, actress Kieu Chinh found herself on a farm cleaning up after chicken
Published on Monday, 20th March 2023.
In 2007, private US Blackwater security guards opened fire on Iraqi civilians
Published on Friday, 17th March 2023.
On 13 December 2003, Saddam Hussein was captured by United States forces
Published on Thursday, 16th March 2023.
In April 2003, playing cards were given to US troops to help them identify Iraqi targets
Published on Wednesday, 15th March 2023.
In March 2003, millions of citizens tried to flee Iraq after the US invasion began
Published on Tuesday, 14th March 2023.
In March 2003, the Iraq War began as the United States bombed the capital, Baghdad
Published on Monday, 13th March 2023.
The journey from goddess to graduate in Nepal.
Published on Friday, 10th March 2023.
Monica McWilliams played a pivotal role in the Northern Ireland peace process
Published on Thursday, 9th March 2023.
In 2007, the UN deployed its first all-female contingent of peacekeepers in Liberia
Published on Wednesday, 8th March 2023.
In 1982, Rosario Ibarra became the first woman to stand for president in Mexico
Published on Tuesday, 7th March 2023.
She received numerous Hugos and Nebulas - top writing prizes for sci-fi writing
Published on Monday, 6th March 2023.
In 2003, Serbia's prime minister was assassinated in Belgrade
Published on Friday, 3rd March 2023.
In 1992, a zoologist opened one of the world's most remote museums, on an Atlantic island
Published on Thursday, 2nd March 2023.
In 2004, Jason deCaires Taylor built the worlds first underwater gallery in Grenada
Published on Wednesday, 1st March 2023.
In 2009, Rudolf Brazda returned to the former concentration camp he was in for being gay
Published on Tuesday, 28th February 2023.
Fifty years ago, indigenous American activists staged a protest against the US authorities
Published on Monday, 27th February 2023.
For the 2012 London Olympic Games the Queen appeared to jump out of a helicopter
Published on Friday, 24th February 2023.
A first-hand account of being sent to a Japanese internment camp in Shanghai as a child
Published on Thursday, 23rd February 2023.
In 1958, Stanislav Brebera invented Semtex, a malleable and odourless plastic explosive
Published on Wednesday, 22nd February 2023.
Mauritian musician Kaya, died in police custody on 21 February 1999, sparking rioting
Published on Tuesday, 21st February 2023.
In 1989, the Berlin Wall fell and Germany decided which city would be the new capital
Published on Monday, 20th February 2023.
On 17 February 1980, the first people climbed Everest in winter
Published on Friday, 17th February 2023.
In 1923 the sealed burial chamber of Tutankhamun was opened for the first time
Published on Thursday, 16th February 2023.
In February 1996, gamers in Japan were first introduced to Pokémon
Published on Wednesday, 15th February 2023.
In 1972, Denmark crowned its first queen in 600 years
Published on Tuesday, 14th February 2023.
In 1969, Italy erupted as thousands of workers went on strike
Published on Monday, 13th February 2023.
The resignation of Pope Benedict XVI
Published on Friday, 10th February 2023.
In April 1986, Pope John Paul II made a historic visit to a Rome synagogue
Published on Thursday, 9th February 2023.
Cardinal Albino Luciani became Pope John Paul I in 1978. He died 33 days later
Published on Wednesday, 8th February 2023.
In 1959, Pope John XXIII announced a council of all the world's bishops and cardinals
Published on Tuesday, 7th February 2023.
After the death of Pope John Paul II, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger became Pope Benedict XVI
Published on Monday, 6th February 2023.
In 1981, Leroy Anderson launched Europe’s first dedicated black music station
Published on Friday, 3rd February 2023.
In 1993, Burundi’s first democratically elected President was murdered
Published on Thursday, 2nd February 2023.
The US space shuttle Columbia broke up on its way back to Earth on 1 February 2003
Published on Wednesday, 1st February 2023.
Two former Prime Ministers describe how they split Czechoslovakia in two in 1993
Published on Tuesday, 31st January 2023.
Mordechai Chertoff was the editor on the Palestine Post when it was bombed in 1948
Published on Monday, 30th January 2023.
It took Karlheinz Brandenburg and his team more than a decade to perfect MP3 technology
Published on Friday, 27th January 2023.
Using archive recordings, Alex Last tells the story of Britain's most famous hangman
Published on Thursday, 26th January 2023.
In 2010, a plane carrying the Polish president, crashed and killed everyone on board
Published on Wednesday, 25th January 2023.
Yoshikuni Noguchi was a prison guard in Japan and witnessed the hanging of a prisoner
Published on Tuesday, 24th January 2023.
Paul McLoone recalls the time he was the voice of Martin McGuinness
Published on Monday, 23rd January 2023.
In 2009 a vaccine designed to stop swine flu appeared to trigger a sleep disorder
Published on Friday, 20th January 2023.
Between 1960 and 1966, France carried out 17 nuclear tests in the Algerian Sahara
Published on Thursday, 19th January 2023.
In the 1990s a generation of Albanians got their education crammed into private homes
Published on Wednesday, 18th January 2023.
In 2013, horse meat was discovered in beef products across Europe
Published on Tuesday, 17th January 2023.
On 15 January 2009, US Airways Flight 1549 landed in the Hudson River in New York
Published on Monday, 16th January 2023.
French President Charles De Gaulle opened the power station in 1966.
Published on Friday, 13th January 2023.
A demand for sea cucumbers set off a confrontation between fishermen and conservationists
Published on Thursday, 12th January 2023.
In 1957, Paul Robeson used a new undersea phone line to perform a transatlantic concert.
Published on Wednesday, 11th January 2023.
In 1953, a storm combined with high tides breached sea defences in the Netherlands
Published on Tuesday, 10th January 2023.
In 1971 Edward Carpenter discovered plastic floating about in the Atlantic Ocean
Published on Monday, 9th January 2023.
In 2012, a punk protest took place in one of Moscow's main cathedrals
Published on Friday, 6th January 2023.
In 1973, Miguel Enriquez led resistance against the dictatorship in Chile
Published on Thursday, 5th January 2023.
In 1992, the US Government suspended all procedures involving silicone breast implants
Published on Wednesday, 4th January 2023.
Tété-Michel Kpomassie, ran away from his village in Togo and went to live in Greenland.
Published on Tuesday, 3rd January 2023.
In 1996, Scotland played in a football match where the opposition hadn't turned up
Published on Monday, 2nd January 2023.
In 1986, protests against McDonalds in Rome led to an anti-fast food revolution.
Published on Friday, 30th December 2022.
In 1958 Japanese entrepreneur, Momofuku Ando, invented instant noodles
Published on Thursday, 29th December 2022.
In February 1977 the bakers of Malta went on an unprecedented strike
Published on Wednesday, 28th December 2022.
Chef Nelson Wang created Chicken Manchurian in 1975
Published on Tuesday, 27th December 2022.
In 1982, rally driver Arnaldo Cavallari created ciabatta bread in Adria, in Italy
Published on Monday, 26th December 2022.
In 2010, 33 miners were trapped underground for 69 days in the San José mine in Chile
Published on Friday, 23rd December 2022.
In December 1994, Russian forces began the siege of Chechnya’s capital Grozny
Published on Thursday, 22nd December 2022.
When Colombia's military murdered thousands of innocent civilians
Published on Wednesday, 21st December 2022.
Transmitting independent broadcasts through the Iron Curtain between 1947 and 1991
Published on Tuesday, 20th December 2022.
The BBC's first black producer, Una Marson, and the beginnings of the Caribbean Service
Published on Monday, 19th December 2022.
In 2012, Felix Baumgartner jumped from space back to earth
Published on Friday, 16th December 2022.
Slava Zaitsev was the first designer to design high fashion pieces in the Soviet Union
Published on Thursday, 15th December 2022.
Zahra Nordien returned to District Six decades after being expelled during apartheid
Published on Wednesday, 14th December 2022.
A woman who risked her life to hide a Russian prisoner during World War Two
Published on Tuesday, 13th December 2022.
In 1990, a peaceful revolution brought democracy to Mongolia
Published on Monday, 12th December 2022.
The story of the inspiration behind one of the most popular kids TV shows of all time
Published on Friday, 9th December 2022.
In 1975, the Prime Minister was sacked in Australia's biggest constitutional crisis
Published on Thursday, 8th December 2022.
In 2005, the unarmed Brazilian man was shot dead by police in London
Published on Wednesday, 7th December 2022.
Hindu extremists demolished a mosque in the Indian city of Ayodhya
Published on Tuesday, 6th December 2022.
In 1995, the people of Quebec voted on whether to become independent from Canada
Published on Monday, 5th December 2022.
In 1970, feminists stormed the stage at the Miss World pageant in London
Published on Friday, 2nd December 2022.
Virologist Professor Radka Argirova was the first to test people for HIV in Bulgaria
Published on Thursday, 1st December 2022.
In 1947, thousands of Japanese people were taken from their island homes by Soviet troops
Published on Wednesday, 30th November 2022.
In 2000, an American personal trainer invented CrossFit
Published on Tuesday, 29th November 2022.
Journalist Kelly Hartog describes the moment terrorists targeted Israeli tourists in Kenya
Published on Monday, 28th November 2022.
In 1934, Percy Shaw invented cat's eyes, the reflective studs in the road
Published on Friday, 25th November 2022.
In 1998, Anwar Ibrahim was arrested and then jailed a year later
Published on Thursday, 24th November 2022.
In 1967, Swedish traffic swapped to driving on the right-hand side of the road
Published on Wednesday, 23rd November 2022.
Iran’s first ever minister for women’s affairs was appointed in 1975
Published on Tuesday, 22nd November 2022.
Published on Monday, 21st November 2022.
Kaltham Jaber's anthology of short stories was published in 1978
Published on Friday, 18th November 2022.
A young woman who became the first female teacher in the United Arab Emirates
Published on Thursday, 17th November 2022.
In 2003, a Qatari engineer came up with the idea for a robot jockey in camel racing
Published on Wednesday, 16th November 2022.
The tallest building in the world opened in 2010
Published on Tuesday, 15th November 2022.
A new country, the United Arab Emirates, was formed in 1971.
Published on Monday, 14th November 2022.
The thousands of children moved out of UK cities away from the risk of German bombs
Published on Friday, 11th November 2022.
Māori anti-racism activists disrupt the South African rugby tour of New Zealand in 1981
Published on Thursday, 10th November 2022.
It has been 20 years since the controversial Dutch politician was murdered
Published on Wednesday, 9th November 2022.
Activist Sue Lenaerts helped start up one of the first rape crisis centres in the US
Published on Tuesday, 8th November 2022.
Polynesians in 1970s New Zealand fight back against dawn raids by the police
Published on Monday, 7th November 2022.
In 1975, President Habyarimana introduced Umuganda, compulsory, weekly community work
Published on Friday, 4th November 2022.
Dame Carmen Callil, who died in October this year, founded a feminist publisher in 1972
Published on Thursday, 3rd November 2022.
A first-hand account of the 1980s campaign against the sex-selective abortion of girls
Published on Wednesday, 2nd November 2022.
In the 1970s, Albania’s Stalinist leader, Enver Hoxha, launched a series of purges
Published on Tuesday, 1st November 2022.
In 1985, a guide was written for young black men in the US who were stopped by the police
Published on Monday, 31st October 2022.
Former Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard's career-defining speech in 2012
Published on Friday, 28th October 2022.
In 2002, Amiera Osman Hamed was put on trial after being arrested for wearing trousers
Published on Thursday, 27th October 2022.
It is 20 years since Chechen rebels took an entire theatre full of people hostage
Published on Wednesday, 26th October 2022.
We hear what life was like during, and after the Iranian Revolution in 1979
Published on Tuesday, 25th October 2022.
The first ever Congress of Indigenous People of the Archipelago of Indonesia in 1999
Published on Monday, 24th October 2022.
In 1959, Cuba’s most famous ballet dancer formed Cuba’s National Ballet Company
Published on Friday, 21st October 2022.
In 1962, Fidel Castro banned professional boxing in Cuba, causing some amateurs to defect
Published on Thursday, 20th October 2022.
In 1961, Fidel Castro launched a campaign aimed to eradicate illiteracy in Cuba.
Published on Wednesday, 19th October 2022.
The final days of the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis in the Pentagon and the Kremlin
Published on Tuesday, 18th October 2022.
The CIA expert whose job was to interpret photographs of missiles in Cuba
Published on Monday, 17th October 2022.
How the leader of a labour movement became a US civil rights hero
Published on Friday, 14th October 2022.
A strike for better work conditions became a divisive moment in South Korea's history
Published on Wednesday, 12th October 2022.
In 1941, the animators at Walt Disney's studios went on strike for nine weeks over pay
Published on Tuesday, 11th October 2022.
In 1979, British gravediggers went on strike over pay
Published on Monday, 10th October 2022.
In 1959, Claudia Jones held a Caribbean party, planting the seeds for the famous carnival
Published on Friday, 7th October 2022.
Jimmy Cliff spoke about the film that brought reggae music to the world in 1972
Published on Thursday, 6th October 2022.
How the Yugoslavian president was forced from office in October 2000
Published on Wednesday, 5th October 2022.
Israeli solider Gilad Shalit was freed after being held hostage for more than five years
Published on Tuesday, 4th October 2022.
Manchester’s first racially inclusive nightclub
Published on Monday, 3rd October 2022.
Brothers Adi and Rudi Dassler would go on to create global firms Adidas and Puma.
Published on Friday, 30th September 2022.
King Henry VIII's warship, The Mary Rose, was raised from the seabed in October 1982
Published on Thursday, 29th September 2022.
Pablo Escobar's pet hippos were found roaming Colombian waterways in 2007
Published on Wednesday, 28th September 2022.
Death pardons and chasing diplomats with sticks
Published on Monday, 26th September 2022.
The Nationwide Festival of Light held by Christians protested against societal changes
Published on Friday, 23rd September 2022.
On 22 September 1980 the Iran-Iraq war began, one of the bloodiest in recent history
Published on Thursday, 22nd September 2022.
Popes rarely left the Vatican City in the 1960s, but in 1969, Pope Paul VI visited Uganda
Published on Wednesday, 21st September 2022.
A student discovered fossils in 1967 helping our understanding of the world's evolution
Published on Tuesday, 20th September 2022.
Published on Monday, 19th September 2022.
Witness History looks back on Queen Victoria's last days in 1901
Published on Friday, 16th September 2022.
Queen Elizabeth II first opened her home to the paying public on 7 August 1993
Published on Thursday, 15th September 2022.
How a fire devastated Queen Elizabeth II's weekend home in 1992
Published on Wednesday, 14th September 2022.
The Coronation Derby of 1953
Published on Tuesday, 13th September 2022.
Two Maids of Honour at the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II recall their memories
Published on Monday, 12th September 2022.
How the Fusca charmed Brazil
Published on Saturday, 10th September 2022.
The murder of eight homeless children outside the Candelaria church in Rio De Janeiro
Published on Thursday, 8th September 2022.
How Brazil opened a modernist capital city in 1960
Published on Wednesday, 7th September 2022.
In 2002 investigative journalist, Tim Lopes, was brutally killed by a Brazilian drug gang
Published on Tuesday, 6th September 2022.
The death of Brazil's president-elect Tancredo Neves.
Published on Monday, 5th September 2022.
The imprisonment and release of dissident poet Irina Ratushinskaya
Published on Friday, 2nd September 2022.
Reform in the Soviet Union, known as Perestroika, was launched in 1987
Published on Thursday, 1st September 2022.
Princess Diana dances at the White House with the star of Saturday Night Fever
Published on Wednesday, 31st August 2022.
The story of a Native American called Ishi who spent decades in hiding
Published on Tuesday, 30th August 2022.
On 16 August 2012, police shot dead 34 striking miners at a platinum mine in South Africa
Published on Monday, 29th August 2022.
In 1980 Indira Gandhi came into power in India, it became known as the "onion election"
Published on Friday, 26th August 2022.
In 1971, the US president, Richard Nixon, abandoned the gold standard.
Published on Thursday, 25th August 2022.
The first ever Gay Games were held 40 years ago
Published on Wednesday, 24th August 2022.
The siege of the Darayya, Syria, in which hundreds of people died
Published on Tuesday, 23rd August 2022.
How an American economist helped save Bulgaria from financial collapse.
Published on Monday, 22nd August 2022.
Rabindranath Tagore was one of India's greatest poets. He died in August 1941
Published on Friday, 19th August 2022.
The death of India's first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru
Published on Thursday, 18th August 2022.
The daughter of the last British viceroy in India remembers the transfer of power in 1947
Published on Wednesday, 17th August 2022.
Chandra Joashi was caught on the wrong side of the border during India's partition
Published on Tuesday, 16th August 2022.
Saleem was five when his family escaped to the new Muslim country of Pakistan in 1947
Published on Monday, 15th August 2022.
In June 1973, the nightclub Pacha opened in Ibiza and it changed the island forever
Published on Friday, 12th August 2022.
The Hale Bopp Comet was discovered in 1995 which resulted in advances in science
Published on Thursday, 11th August 2022.
Forest fires in Indonesia caused huge damage and a dense smog across South East Asia
Published on Wednesday, 10th August 2022.
How campaigners fought to get ‘hen’ included in Swedish dictionaries.
Published on Tuesday, 9th August 2022.
On 8 August 1974, Richard Nixon became the first US president in history to resign
Published on Monday, 8th August 2022.
When Yoweri Museveni came to power in 1986, he asked exiled Asians to return to Uganda.
Published on Friday, 5th August 2022.
Some 10,000 Asians made Leicester their home after being expelled from Uganda in 1972.
Published on Thursday, 4th August 2022.
In 1972, dictator Idi Amin announced that all Asians had just 90 days to leave Uganda.
Published on Wednesday, 3rd August 2022.
Many Asians migrated to Kenya in the early 20th century but were later forced to leave
Published on Tuesday, 2nd August 2022.
In the early 20th century many South Asians migrated to Uganda in search of a better life
Published on Monday, 1st August 2022.
In 1971 communist Bob Newland goes on a secret mission to South Africa to fight Apartheid
A deadly earthquake hit the city of Tangshan killing hundreds of thousands of people.
Published on Thursday, 28th July 2022.
Nicotine patches became available in the 1990s but their origins go back to the 1980s.
Published on Wednesday, 27th July 2022.
In 2016, Ukrainian hackers leaked the emails of Vladimir Putin's aide, Vladislav Surkov.
Published on Tuesday, 26th July 2022.
In 1990, a hunger strike led by Ukrainian students brought down the Soviet regime in Kyiv
Published on Monday, 25th July 2022.
In 1996, Wale Adenuga’s sitcom Papa Ajasco first hit Nigerian TV screens.
Published on Friday, 22nd July 2022.
The most successful TV spy series in the USSR went on air in 1973.
Published on Thursday, 21st July 2022.
The world's reaction to leading man JR, being shot in the American TV series, Dallas.
Published on Wednesday, 20th July 2022.
A ground breaking Indian cookery programme broadcast on the BBC launched 40 years ago.
Published on Tuesday, 19th July 2022.
In 1987, in Mexico City, a TV station opened a school to train telenovela actors.
Published on Monday, 18th July 2022.
The contraceptive pill was approved for use in the US in 1960, but in Japan it was 1999.
Published on Friday, 15th July 2022.
In 1951, Dr Carl Djerassi created the Pill's active ingredient from Mexican wild yams.
Published on Thursday, 14th July 2022.
Tunisia became the first country in the Muslim world to legalise divorce and abortion.
Published on Wednesday, 13th July 2022.
In 1993 abortion laws were tightened up in Poland after the fall of Communism
Published on Tuesday, 12th July 2022.
The campaign to allow abortion in Great Britain which resulted in a new law in 1967.
Published on Monday, 11th July 2022.
In 1961 the first openly gay person ran for public office in the United States.
Published on Friday, 8th July 2022.
The discovery by Dr George Papanicolaou in 1928 which led to the smear test
Published on Thursday, 7th July 2022.
One child's story of getting caught up in the Nigerian Civil War
Published on Wednesday, 6th July 2022.
In 1968 and early 1969 Japanese students fought pitched battles with riot police
Published on Tuesday, 5th July 2022.
The discovery of the Higgs Boson by scientists at CERN using the Large Hadron Collider
Published on Monday, 4th July 2022.
The end of a unique way of life in one of the most densely populated places in the world.
Published on Thursday, 30th June 2022.
The Chinese babies left on the streets of 1960s Hong Kong in the hope they'd be adopted
The 5-19 football riot after Hong Kong won their World Cup qualifying match over China.
Published on Wednesday, 29th June 2022.
In 1997 Britain handed Hong Kong back to China but Emily Lau campaigned for democracy
Published on Tuesday, 28th June 2022.
Chris Patten remembers the day Hong Kong was handed back to China from Britain
Published on Monday, 27th June 2022.
The UK’s first official gay Pride march took place 50 years ago – on 1st July 1972.
Published on Friday, 24th June 2022.
In June 2012, Mohamed Morsi was elected in Egypt's first free presidential election.
Published on Thursday, 23rd June 2022.
In 1982 a Chinese-American man was murdered with a baseball bat by white men in Detroit
Published on Wednesday, 22nd June 2022.
In 1985 the first robot-assisted medical surgery took place in Vancouver, Canada
Published on Tuesday, 21st June 2022.
In 2003, fertility expert Dr Nayana Patel carried out her first surrogacy procedure.
Published on Monday, 20th June 2022.
In 2009 Rob Hamill came face-to-face with the man responsible for killing his brother
Published on Friday, 17th June 2022.
It's 100 years since one of the most influential novels of the 20th century was published
Published on Thursday, 16th June 2022.
A school offering specialised education for LGBT students opened in the city in 1985
Published on Wednesday, 15th June 2022.
It’s 50 years since Kim Phuc's village in Vietnam was bombed with napalm
Published on Tuesday, 14th June 2022.
A violent sectarian dispute took place outside a school in Northern Ireland in 2001
Published on Monday, 13th June 2022.
Sampat Devi started a women's rights group in India which now has a national following.
Published on Friday, 10th June 2022.
A survivor of the 2006 suicide bombing attack shares their experience.
Published on Thursday, 9th June 2022.
How a network of national parks was set up to protect Gabon's forests in 2002
Published on Wednesday, 8th June 2022.
One of the most powerful accounts of the Holocaust was published in June 1947
Published on Tuesday, 7th June 2022.
The killing of the US presidential candidate remembered by a friend who was also shot
Published on Monday, 6th June 2022.
Two Maids of Honour at the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II recall their memories
Published on Friday, 3rd June 2022.
How UN inspectors investigated a devastating chemical weapons attack in Ghouta in 2013
Published on Thursday, 2nd June 2022.
A Syrian family living in Za'atari Refugee Camp for nine years share their experiences.
Published on Wednesday, 1st June 2022.
How a pioneering African-American journalist campaigned against lynching in the US
Published on Tuesday, 31st May 2022.
A survivor on how gunmen opened fire at an Israeli airport in 1972, killing 26 people.
Published on Monday, 30th May 2022.
One of the world's most famous woman artists remembered by her assistant
Published on Friday, 27th May 2022.
A landmark event for African artists was held in newly-independent Senegal in 1966
Published on Thursday, 26th May 2022.
How Igor Savitsky saved thousands of works from Stalin's censors, and started a museum
Published on Wednesday, 25th May 2022.
The great Mexican artist remembered by a friend who lived with her at the end of her life
Published on Tuesday, 24th May 2022.
A British art historian on becoming a friend of the great Spanish artist in the 1950s
Published on Monday, 23rd May 2022.
How a street killing in 1950s London led to Britain's first race relations inquiry
Published on Friday, 20th May 2022.
The lawyer who's spent decades tracking the fortune of the former Philippines president
A first-hand account of living through the Japanese occupation in the 1930s and 40s
Published on Thursday, 19th May 2022.
The American fast-food chain was a huge hit when it opened in the Soviet Union in 1990
Published on Wednesday, 18th May 2022.
In 1986, four days of huge public protests brought down President Ferdinand Marcos
Published on Monday, 16th May 2022.
The bloody conflict between Moldova and Russian-back separatists in the early 1990s
Published on Friday, 13th May 2022.
How the eruption of a little-known Icelandic volcano grounded flights in Europe in 2010
Published on Wednesday, 11th May 2022.
How China's Communist rulers established the country's Special Economic Zones in May 1980
Published on Tuesday, 10th May 2022.
The Soviet colonel who realised that a warning of a US nuclear attack was a false alarm.
Published on Monday, 9th May 2022.
A first-hand account of taking on the Chinese Communist Party in the 1980s
Published on Friday, 6th May 2022.
How an Israeli scientist discovered the crucial compounds in the widely-used drug
Published on Thursday, 5th May 2022.
How a young lawyer from Texas got the US abortion laws changed in 1973
Published on Wednesday, 4th May 2022.
British soldier Simon Weston was severely burned in an Argentine attack in 1982.
Published on Tuesday, 3rd May 2022.
An Argentine survivor remembers being torpedoed by the British during the Falklands War.
Published on Monday, 2nd May 2022.
Algerian players secretly left their French clubs to form their own national team in 1958
Published on Friday, 29th April 2022.
The bitter experiences of the fighters who opposed their own country's independence.
Published on Thursday, 28th April 2022.
How French police turned on Algerian demonstrators in Paris in 1961, killing dozens.
Published on Wednesday, 27th April 2022.
A first-hand account of the brutal French tactics against Algerian independence fighters
Published on Tuesday, 26th April 2022.
Zohra Drif targeted an ice-cream parlour in Algiers during the war of independence
Published on Monday, 25th April 2022.
How workers in Manchester fought for the right to walk in the nearby countryside.
Published on Friday, 22nd April 2022.
A boy caught up in the forgotten battle for Kurdish autonomy in Iran in 1979
Published on Thursday, 21st April 2022.
In 1971 during the Cold War, the UK expelled 90 Soviet diplomats suspected of spying.
Published on Wednesday, 20th April 2022.
How women in the southern Iraqi city were persecuted for "anti-Islamic" behaviour
Published on Tuesday, 19th April 2022.
The programme that's let millions of EU students live and study in other countries.
Published on Monday, 18th April 2022.
How the World Wide Web was created
Published on Friday, 15th April 2022.
How the dating app with the swipe revolutionised the world of online romance
Published on Thursday, 14th April 2022.
How hundreds of thousands of Greeks starved to death under Nazi occupation.
Published on Wednesday, 13th April 2022.
The former Serbian president, Slobodan Milosevic, went on trial at The Hague in 2002.
Published on Tuesday, 12th April 2022.
How the US and its allies backed air strikes against Serbian forces to stop atrocities.
Published on Monday, 11th April 2022.
How a catastrophic trade deal between the US and Moscow sparked a global food price shock
Published on Friday, 8th April 2022.
How Russian cosmonauts and American astronauts met up in space during the Cold War
Published on Thursday, 7th April 2022.
The world held its breath in December 1979 as Soviet troops poured into Afghanistan
Published on Wednesday, 6th April 2022.
An Argentine conscript remembers his country's doomed military campaign in 1982.
Published on Tuesday, 5th April 2022.
Aravindan Balakrishnan ran a cult in London for 30 years; then two of its members fled.
Published on Friday, 1st April 2022.
How one of the Dutch artist's masterpieces was auctioned for a world record in 1987.
Published on Thursday, 31st March 2022.
Aina-E-Zan, or Women's Mirror, was launched in 2002 at a time of hope for Afghan women.
Published on Wednesday, 30th March 2022.
It’s difficult to pinpoint the first major piece of Banksy street art, could this be it?
Published on Tuesday, 29th March 2022.
A decade ago protestors tried to stop the Russian leader tightening his grip on power
Published on Monday, 28th March 2022.
Artek, on the Black Sea coast, was the Soviet Union's most popular children's camp.
Published on Friday, 25th March 2022.
The mass killing of Ukrainian Jews by Nazi Germany during World War Two.
Published on Thursday, 24th March 2022.
The security "assurances" offered to Ukraine after it gave up its nuclear weapons in 1994
Published on Tuesday, 22nd March 2022.
In 1986, a reactor exploded in Soviet Ukraine causing the worst nuclear accident ever.
Published on Monday, 21st March 2022.
The building of the controversial London skyscraper, designed by Italian Renzo Piano.
Published on Friday, 18th March 2022.
The ground-breaking building was the first American museum to be designed by a woman
Published on Thursday, 17th March 2022.
The vast monument built for the Shah, but now a centrepiece for protests in Iran.
Published on Wednesday, 16th March 2022.
How the modernist architect Le Corbusier designed a city for newly-independent India
Published on Tuesday, 15th March 2022.
The story of the painstaking project to rebuild Dresden's historic baroque church.
Published on Monday, 14th March 2022.
How feminists in Italy began an international campaign for payment for housework in 1972.
Published on Friday, 11th March 2022.
The Iranian human rights lawyer who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2003: Dr Shirin Ebadi
Published on Thursday, 10th March 2022.
The Fairlea Five were jailed in 1971 for campaigning against military conscription.
Published on Wednesday, 9th March 2022.
First-hand accounts of Russia's battle with another former Soviet republic in 2008.
Published on Friday, 4th March 2022.
How NTV journalists tried in vain to keep their station out of President Putin's control.
Published on Thursday, 3rd March 2022.
How the Russian president quit and apologised to the nation in a New Year's Eve address.
Published on Wednesday, 2nd March 2022.
An eyewitness account of the Russian invasion of the breakaway republic in 1999
Published on Tuesday, 1st March 2022.
Chaos and hardship hit Russia when free-market reforms were introduced overnight in 1992
Published on Monday, 28th February 2022.
A personal account of how Russia took over the Crimean peninsula in 2014
Published on Friday, 25th February 2022.
The black Florida teenager killed by a Neighbourhood Watch volunteer while buying sweets.
Published on Thursday, 24th February 2022.
The Native American soldiers who talked in a secret code, helping the Allies to victory
Published on Wednesday, 23rd February 2022.
The historic visit by the American president which normalised US relations with China.
Published on Tuesday, 22nd February 2022.
When 200 French sex workers took refuge in a church in Lyon, it started a movement.
Published on Monday, 21st February 2022.
In 1989, Denmark became the first country to celebrate same-sex civil unions
Published on Friday, 18th February 2022.
"Fire" was one of the first films in Indian history to depict a lesbian relationship.
Published on Thursday, 17th February 2022.
Timothy Ray Brown was the first person in the world to be cured of HIV/AIDS.
Published on Wednesday, 16th February 2022.
For decades LGBT people in the US military had to keep their sexuality secret.
Published on Tuesday, 15th February 2022.
How the ground-breaking film "Marble Ass" was made amid war in the former Yugoslavia
Published on Monday, 14th February 2022.
In 1972 Burundi’s Tusti led army massacred Hutu civilians following a Hutu led uprising
Published on Friday, 11th February 2022.
Throughout the winter of 2013/14 protesters camped out in the centre of Kyiv
Published on Thursday, 10th February 2022.
How the Spaniard became a legend in the world of ultra-fashionable shoes.
Published on Wednesday, 9th February 2022.
How the revolutionary online mapping service was created in 2005.
Published on Tuesday, 8th February 2022.
How the leaders of Ukraine, Russia and Belarus plotted to break up the USSR in 1991.
Published on Monday, 7th February 2022.
The trailblazing story of the first Emirati born teacher
Published on Thursday, 3rd February 2022.
In 2012 a rare astronomical event occurred when Venus flew past the Sun
Published on Wednesday, 2nd February 2022.
The reporter who was killed by Islamist extremists in Pakistan while investigating 9/11.
Published on Tuesday, 1st February 2022.
The frantic last-minute negotiations that led to a peace deal for Northern Ireland.
Published on Friday, 28th January 2022.
How an undercover FBI agent bust an IRA gun-running operation in New York in 1981
Published on Thursday, 27th January 2022.
How British paratroopers opened fired on a civil rights march in Northern Ireland in 1972
Published on Tuesday, 25th January 2022.
The British army was sent to keep the peace in 1969; it stayed for nearly four decades.
Published on Monday, 24th January 2022.
The story of a West German woman who crossed the Iron Curtain for love.
Published on Friday, 21st January 2022.
How a Dutch engineer invented a scheme to share bikes and cut pollution in the 1960s.
Published on Thursday, 20th January 2022.
The story of Coretta Scott King’s campaign to have her late husband honoured in the US.
How a small Nigerian Islamist group launched a brutal insurgency
Published on Monday, 17th January 2022.
How a Texas woman became the first in the world to have the popular cosmetic procedure.
Published on Friday, 14th January 2022.
The dramatic story of the cruise ship which sunk in the Mediterranean, killing 32 people.
Published on Thursday, 13th January 2022.
How a Malian photographer's pictures of Mali's swinging '60s and '70s amazed the world.
Published on Wednesday, 12th January 2022.
The secret plan to clear a huge nuclear testing site after the fall of the Soviet Union.
Published on Tuesday, 11th January 2022.
The man who campaigned against colonial rule, allying himself with Hitler during WW2
Published on Monday, 10th January 2022.
The leader of Mozambique's fight against colonial rule remembered by his daughter
Published on Thursday, 6th January 2022.
The great French writer remembered by one of his friends and by his faithful maid.
Published on Wednesday, 5th January 2022.
In 1990 Albania’s communist government agreed to allow independent political parties.
Published on Tuesday, 4th January 2022.
The true story of one of the world's most popular board games, Monopoly.
Published on Friday, 31st December 2021.
One of the world's most popular toys was invented in a small Danish town in 1958.
Published on Thursday, 30th December 2021.
In 1984 one of the most popular computer games ever was invented in Moscow.
Published on Wednesday, 29th December 2021.
The controversial action-adventure gaming series developed in Scotland in the 1990s.
The pioneering table tennis simulator which started the video games industry.
Published on Monday, 27th December 2021.
How Rovaniemi, a small town in Lapland, became the centre of Christmas tourism.
Published on Friday, 24th December 2021.
In 2011 thousands of protestors occupied Pearl Roundabout in Bahrain’s capital.
Published on Thursday, 23rd December 2021.
The Saudi women who used social media to campaign against being banned from the roads.
Published on Wednesday, 22nd December 2021.
In 1961 the great ballet dancer stunned the world by defecting from the Soviet Union.
Published on Tuesday, 21st December 2021.
How Salum Barwany overcame discrimination and fear to make history in Africa
Published on Monday, 20th December 2021.
An inside account of the moment Bangladesh won independence from Pakistan in 1971.
Published on Friday, 17th December 2021.
A Pakistani soldier's account of fighting in the Bangladesh war of independence in 1971.
Published on Thursday, 16th December 2021.
How Bengali women suffered appalling sexual violence during the war of independence.
Published on Wednesday, 15th December 2021.
How Pakistan's first elections sparked civil war and the creation of a new country
How a march in defence of Bengali galvanised demands for an independent Bangladesh.
Published on Monday, 13th December 2021.
In 2005 people across southern England woke up when a huge fuel depot exploded.
Published on Friday, 10th December 2021.
The abduction of Theo Albrecht, co-founder of the discount supermarket chain ALDI.
Published on Thursday, 9th December 2021.
Why a group of British aircraft enthusiasts were arrested for spying in Greece in 2001.
Published on Wednesday, 8th December 2021.
How the Nazis secretly developed the first modern ballistic missile
Published on Tuesday, 7th December 2021.
How an Indonesian policewoman campaigned to ban intrusive examinations of female recruits
Published on Monday, 6th December 2021.
The British experimental film-maker who spoke out about Aids in the 1980s.
Published on Friday, 3rd December 2021.
How activists fought successfully for cheaper Aids treatment in South Africa.
Published on Thursday, 2nd December 2021.
How the first successful Aids drug was developed and approved in record time in 1987
Published on Wednesday, 1st December 2021.
The experience of a Ugandan-born woman diagnosed with HIV in the early days of the virus.
Published on Tuesday, 30th November 2021.
How Gaetan Dugas was mistakenly identified as the 'patient zero' of the Aids epidemic.
Published on Monday, 29th November 2021.
Three sisters, all political activists, were murdered in 1960 in the Dominican Republic
Published on Friday, 26th November 2021.
Estonia started connecting all schools to the internet in 1996 ahead of other countries
Published on Thursday, 25th November 2021.
How a Dutch doctor’s euthanasia dilemma changed the world.
Published on Wednesday, 24th November 2021.
The virologist who helped tackle the last smallpox outbreak in Europe
Published on Tuesday, 23rd November 2021.
The story behind one of Klimt's most famous paintings
Published on Monday, 22nd November 2021.
How Sudanese civilian protesters first brought down a military regime in 1964
Published on Thursday, 18th November 2021.
How a particular form of psychotherapy became popular for treating anxiety and depression
Published on Wednesday, 17th November 2021.
How Serbia finally caught one of Europe's most wanted men in Belgrade in 2008.
Published on Tuesday, 16th November 2021.
As the first Gulf War ended, retreating Iraqi forces set light to oil wells in the desert
Published on Monday, 15th November 2021.
In November 1971, Chris Burden asked a friend to shoot him in the name of art
How the killing of a female footballer got South Africa talking about ‘corrective rape’.
Published on Thursday, 11th November 2021.
At the height of the Cold War Berlin was known as the spy capital of the world.
Published on Wednesday, 10th November 2021.
One of the world's most famous perfumes was launched in 1921
Published on Tuesday, 9th November 2021.
The alternative schools for black British children set up to counter racist attitudes.
Published on Monday, 8th November 2021.
How a journalist tried to escape Eritrea's historic crackdown on critics and the press
Published on Friday, 5th November 2021.
On November 4th 1956 Soviet tanks rolled into Budapest crushing the anti-Soviet uprising
Published on Thursday, 4th November 2021.
The evil criminal mastermind Fu Manchu was a recurring film character for decades
Published on Wednesday, 3rd November 2021.
It is 75 years since verdicts were delivered on leading German Nazis at Nuremberg
Published on Tuesday, 2nd November 2021.
The doctor who revolutionised the treatment of 'club foot' - rejecting invasive surgery
Published on Monday, 1st November 2021.
In the past 100 years, 90% of the glacial ice at the top of Kilimanjaro has disappeared
Published on Friday, 29th October 2021.
Severn Cullis-Suzuki was 12 when she spoke to world leaders at the UN Earth Summit in Rio
Published on Thursday, 28th October 2021.
A scientist delivered a direct message to US politicians about climate change in 1988
Published on Wednesday, 27th October 2021.
Countries first tried to tackle the damage humans are doing to the planet in 1972
Published on Tuesday, 26th October 2021.
The US scientist who began recording carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere in 1958
Published on Monday, 25th October 2021.
A media storm about lesbian mothers caused a heated national debate in 1970s Britain.
Published on Friday, 22nd October 2021.
Throughout the 80s women protested against nuclear weapons which were held at the UK base
Published on Thursday, 21st October 2021.
How Polish women and children found refuge in African countries during WW2
Published on Wednesday, 20th October 2021.
Many suspected foul play when Mozambique's socialist leader was killed in a plane crash
Published on Tuesday, 19th October 2021.
Sarah Jones is the first person who had made a gender change to be ordained by the C of E
Published on Monday, 18th October 2021.
American anti-abortion extremists began killing doctors in the 1990s.
Published on Friday, 15th October 2021.
In the 1980s, a horrific rape case galvanised the women's rights movement in Pakistan.
Published on Thursday, 14th October 2021.
When a toddler fell down a well in Texas she became the centre of a media storm
Published on Wednesday, 13th October 2021.
The teacher who formed Britain's Nazi party and the antifascists who fought against them.
Published on Tuesday, 12th October 2021.
Saudi author Raja Alem was the first woman to win the prestigious international award
Published on Monday, 11th October 2021.
The Bermuda-born West Ham striker recalls the rampant racism in 1970s English football
Published on Friday, 8th October 2021.
The black former soldier choked to death on the floor of a British police station in 1998
Published on Thursday, 7th October 2021.
How Ibrahim Ismaa'il escaped poverty in Somalia to live in the British countryside.
Published on Wednesday, 6th October 2021.
The stigma of growing up as a mixed race child in post-war Britain.
Published on Tuesday, 5th October 2021.
In 1967 Norwell Roberts became the first Black officer in the Metropolitan police
Published on Monday, 4th October 2021.
Surviving a deadly attack on a merchant ship in the Persian Gulf during the Iran-Iraq war
Published on Friday, 1st October 2021.
The radical German Greens reshaped the country’s political landscape in the early 1980s
Published on Thursday, 30th September 2021.
In 1996 the UK government said there was a link between BSE in cattle and CJD in humans
Published on Wednesday, 29th September 2021.
Claudia Andujar spent almost five decades taking unique photos of the remote Amazon tribe
Published on Tuesday, 28th September 2021.
How the Afghan fighters first came to power in the 1990s
Published on Monday, 27th September 2021.
Gunmen attacked a Nairobi shopping centre, the siege lasted four days in September 2013
Published on Friday, 24th September 2021.
As the latest James Bond film hits cinema screens we look at the appeal of the franchise
Published on Thursday, 23rd September 2021.
How one of Vladimir Putin's critics was killed in London with a radioactive substance
Published on Wednesday, 22nd September 2021.
People flocked from all over the Americas to central Mexico in search of healing water
Published on Tuesday, 21st September 2021.
The journalist who revealed the affair between the Greek shipping magnate and JFK's widow
Published on Monday, 20th September 2021.
Why promotion leads to incompetence
Published on Friday, 17th September 2021.
Copenhagen’s Christiania commune was created as a radical social experiment.
Published on Thursday, 16th September 2021.
In 2010 the Haitian capital was hit by a catastrophic earthquake
Published on Wednesday, 15th September 2021.
When DNA solved a two hundred year old French royal mystery. Did the king die or escape?
Published on Tuesday, 14th September 2021.
One prisoner's memories of a dramatic siege in a high security jail in the USA.
Published on Monday, 13th September 2021.
In the aftermath of September 11th, American Muslims faced increased discrimination
Published on Friday, 10th September 2021.
Just a month after 9/11, the US launched airstrikes against the Taliban and al-Qaeda
Published on Thursday, 9th September 2021.
How the White House chief-of-staff broke the news of 9/11 to President George W Bush.
Published on Wednesday, 8th September 2021.
Two days before 9/11, al-Qaeda killed a key Afghan leader in a suicide bombing.
Published on Tuesday, 7th September 2021.
Throughout 2001 the US administration was being given warnings a terror attack was coming
Published on Monday, 6th September 2021.
How Kim Il-sung came to power in communist North Korea
Published on Friday, 3rd September 2021.
How an anti-Mafia businessman paid the ultimate price for standing up to organised crime
Published on Thursday, 2nd September 2021.
When South Vietnam fell in 1975, most could not escape.
Published on Wednesday, 1st September 2021.
The first mass-produced modern electric car was launched by GM in 1996
Published on Tuesday, 31st August 2021.
A campaign to make life in Nigeria more orderly in the 1980s
Published on Friday, 27th August 2021.
Nizar Qabbani is one of the Arab world’s most famous poets but his legacy is contested
Published on Thursday, 26th August 2021.
Activist Maryangel Garcia-Ramos on the struggle faced by Mexico's disabled women
Published on Wednesday, 25th August 2021.
How six Chinese sailors were rescued from the Titanic, but then faced racism in America.
Published on Tuesday, 24th August 2021.
The remarkable man who transformed 20th century economics and changed our world.
Published on Monday, 23rd August 2021.
It was the first time a communist leader had been given a full state visit to the UK
Published on Friday, 20th August 2021.
A British Muslim family was among hundreds of foreign nationals held hostage in Iraq
Published on Thursday, 19th August 2021.
When Gandhi was jailed in 1942 activists launched a secret radio station for independence
Published on Wednesday, 18th August 2021.
The desperate scramble to evacuate US personnel and locals at the end of the Vietnam war
Published on Tuesday, 17th August 2021.
The Holocaust survivor who coined the term genocide and spent his life trying to stop it
Published on Monday, 16th August 2021.
Vera Lengsfeld was imprisoned by the communist authorities in East Germany in 1988
Published on Friday, 13th August 2021.
The communist regime restricted many things in the GDR but not the freedom to go naked
Published on Thursday, 12th August 2021.
East Germany's most famous singer-songwriter was exiled to the West in 1976
Published on Wednesday, 11th August 2021.
East Germans used all sorts of methods to escape from communism across the Berlin Wall
Published on Tuesday, 10th August 2021.
In August 1961, East Germany began building the wall that symbolised Cold War Europe
Published on Monday, 9th August 2021.
Pawan Dhall helped form the Counsel Club, one of India's first gay support groups
Published on Friday, 6th August 2021.
When the Taliban fell in 2001 Afghans could listen to music and news again
Published on Thursday, 5th August 2021.
Patti Boulaye recalls frightening times as a 13-year-old girl in the Biafran War in 1967.
Published on Wednesday, 4th August 2021.
How a grassroots environmental movement won its fight against deforestation in India
Published on Tuesday, 3rd August 2021.
The first African American woman to be hired as a reporter by the Washington Post
Published on Monday, 2nd August 2021.
How an earthquake and tsunami devastated Japan and triggered a nuclear emergency in 2011
Published on Friday, 30th July 2021.
Why did it take so long for the oral contraceptive pill to be legalised in Japan?
Published on Thursday, 29th July 2021.
A Japanese soldier hid in the jungle in Guam for nearly 30 years after World War Two
Published on Wednesday, 28th July 2021.
The man who invented the Karaoke machine speaks to Witness History
Published on Tuesday, 27th July 2021.
Japanese railways launched the fastest train the world had ever seen in October 1964
Published on Monday, 26th July 2021.
How a 13-year-old boy's life was changed by the war in Darfur in Sudan
Published on Thursday, 22nd July 2021.
Lisa Husby recalls running for her life from far-right extremist Anders Breivik
Published on Wednesday, 21st July 2021.
In 1941, Italian colonial rule in Africa ended after a last stand by Mussolini's soldiers
Published on Tuesday, 20th July 2021.
In 2006 Brazil passed the ground-breaking 'Maria da Penha law' to tackle domestic abuse
Published on Monday, 19th July 2021.
How six weeks of race riots gripped towns in northern England in 2001
Published on Friday, 16th July 2021.
Taliban fighters first took control of Afghanistan's capital city Kabul in 1996
Published on Thursday, 15th July 2021.
How a young Englishwoman followed her dream to study chimpanzees in Africa
Published on Wednesday, 14th July 2021.
Kim Gordon and his parents were locked up for two years in a hotel in China in the 1960s
Published on Tuesday, 13th July 2021.
Inspiration, rejection and war - a personal account of the invention of the jet engine
Published on Monday, 12th July 2021.
In July 1985 the Greenpeace boat was bombed in New Zealand by French secret agents
Published on Friday, 9th July 2021.
Roma people from all around Europe met up in England in 1971
Published on Thursday, 8th July 2021.
After the fall of the Soviet Union communist North Korea suffered a famine in the 1990s
Published on Wednesday, 7th July 2021.
When Britain went to war with Germany in 1939 it had to find somewhere to keep its wealth
Published on Tuesday, 6th July 2021.
Up to 50,000 Cubans were inexplicably struck down with sight loss in the early 1990s
Published on Monday, 5th July 2021.
Published on Friday, 2nd July 2021.
A small group of revolutionaries founded the Chinese Communist Party in July 1921
Published on Thursday, 1st July 2021.
A play staged in Damascus undermined official propaganda after the 1967 Six Day War
Published on Tuesday, 29th June 2021.
Around 60 children said they saw 'aliens' near their school playground in September 1994
Published on Monday, 28th June 2021.
For decades LGBT people in the US military had to keep their sexuality secret
Published on Friday, 25th June 2021.
Thousands of gay men and lesbians in China hold fake marriages to avoid family pressure
Published on Thursday, 24th June 2021.
How the sexually explicit journals of a 19th-century English lesbian came to light
Published on Wednesday, 23rd June 2021.
In 1992, a group of LGBT Ivoirians stormed the office of a national newspaper
Published on Tuesday, 22nd June 2021.
How a protest outside New York's Stonewall Inn inspired the modern gay rights movement.
Published on Monday, 21st June 2021.
Massive economic growth has been possible because of migrant labour, but at what cost?
Published on Friday, 18th June 2021.
The iconic East German car that dominated the roads of communist Central Europe
Published on Thursday, 17th June 2021.
The documentary that changed the way British police treated women reporting rape.
Published on Wednesday, 16th June 2021.
Scientist Jon Kabat-Zinn pioneered a meditative approach to treat pain and depression.
Published on Monday, 14th June 2021.
Why an activist removed the Confederate flag from South Carolina's state house grounds
How the Spanish capital fell to General Franco's forces in 1939, ending a civil war
Published on Friday, 11th June 2021.
Palestinians voted to elect a new government in 2006. The outcome surprised everyone.
Published on Thursday, 10th June 2021.
The emotional first performance at the newly-built Coventry Cathedral in 1962
Published on Wednesday, 9th June 2021.
For decades, Tunisia has had a system of legal brothels.
Published on Tuesday, 8th June 2021.
Israeli warplanes launched a surprise attack on the Osirak nuclear reactor in June 1981
Published on Monday, 7th June 2021.
In the 1990s, the Swiss tried radical new policy ideas, including heroin on prescription
Published on Friday, 4th June 2021.
Laila Haidari set up Kabul's first independent drug rehab centre in 2010
Published on Thursday, 3rd June 2021.
The Peruvian Air Force shot down a light plane carrying American missionaries in 2001
Published on Wednesday, 2nd June 2021.
The Colombian drug lord was shot dead by police in December 1993
Published on Tuesday, 1st June 2021.
President Richard Nixon was the first US President to try to wipe out illegal drug use
Published on Monday, 31st May 2021.
In 1921, a white mob destroyed an affluent African-American neighbourhood.
Published on Friday, 28th May 2021.
The first charity rock concert ever held in the USSR raised money for Chernobyl survivors
Published on Thursday, 27th May 2021.
Amilcar Cabral led the armed struggle against Portuguese colonial rule in West Africa
Published on Wednesday, 26th May 2021.
Egyptian Lotfia Elnadi made history when she gained her pilot licence in 1933
Published on Tuesday, 25th May 2021.
The Indian railway workers’ strike of 1974 prompted mass arrests and a state of emergency
Published on Monday, 24th May 2021.
Why a court in Sierra Leone ruled that forced marriage was a crime against humanity.
Published on Friday, 21st May 2021.
Iran hosted the first convention to save the world's wetlands in1971.
Published on Thursday, 20th May 2021.
Strikes and protests against South Korea's military government came to a head in May 1980
Published on Tuesday, 18th May 2021.
The Israeli politician visited the compound containing one of Islam's holiest sites
Published on Monday, 17th May 2021.
How a brick wall in Beijing became a beacon for those calling for change
Published on Friday, 14th May 2021.
The trial of a South African doctor accused of multiple murders under Apartheid.
Published on Thursday, 13th May 2021.
How two thousand Jews fled persecution in the summer of 1971, helped by Iraqi Kurds
Published on Wednesday, 12th May 2021.
Contraception wasn't easily accessible in traditionally Roman Catholic Ireland until 1985
Published on Tuesday, 11th May 2021.
In 1955 Christopher Mayhew MP took the hallucinogenic drug mescaline for a TV experiment
Published on Monday, 10th May 2021.
The story of wine fraudster Rudy Kurniawan, and the French winemaker who exposed him.
Published on Thursday, 6th May 2021.
The pioneer of feminist science fiction and creator of the Earthsea fantasy series
Published on Wednesday, 5th May 2021.
Republican prisoner Bobby Sands died in the Maze prison in Northern Ireland on May 5 1981
Published on Tuesday, 4th May 2021.
How Amsterdam became the home of cannabis coffee shops.
Published on Monday, 3rd May 2021.
The man behind the 9/11 attacks was killed by US special forces on 2 May 2011
Published on Friday, 30th April 2021.
How US special forces lost bin Laden in the mountains of Afghanistan in December 2001
Published on Thursday, 29th April 2021.
A survivor's account of the al-Qaeda attacks in East Africa in 1998 which killed hundreds
Published on Wednesday, 28th April 2021.
One man's story of his journey to talk to the Al-Qaeda leader in 1996
Published on Tuesday, 27th April 2021.
In 1979 Islamist militants took over the Grand Mosque in Mecca, the holiest site in Islam
Published on Monday, 26th April 2021.
How the space shuttle Columbia revolutionised manned space exploration
Published on Friday, 23rd April 2021.
How the National Rifle Association turned into a US political lobbying colossus.
Published on Thursday, 22nd April 2021.
How a shooting in the streets of Lahore brought US-Pakistani relations to the brink
Published on Wednesday, 21st April 2021.
How an ancient Native American sacred lake was finally returned to the Taos Pueblo people
Published on Tuesday, 20th April 2021.
In April 1961 the Nazi official who ran holocaust death camps was put on trial in Israel
Published on Monday, 19th April 2021.
An ancient matrilineal society which doesn't believe in marriage and where the women rule
Published on Friday, 16th April 2021.
South Asian vultures started dying in huge numbers in the 1990s but no one knew why.
Published on Thursday, 15th April 2021.
Hear from a Cuban who fought against the US-backed exiles that invaded Cuba in April 1961
Published on Wednesday, 14th April 2021.
The nematode worm c. elegans has enabled all sorts of discoveries about human biology
Published on Tuesday, 13th April 2021.
In 1981 Sandra Day O'Connor became the first woman judge at America's top court
Published on Monday, 12th April 2021.
Air raids and balloon bombs - the strange story behind the discovery of the Jet Stream
Published on Friday, 9th April 2021.
How the people of Russia's second city dropped the great communist leader's name
Published on Thursday, 8th April 2021.
The BBC programme that launched the career of the famous nature broadcaster
Published on Wednesday, 7th April 2021.
Juana Barraza was found guilty of murdering at least eleven elderly women in Mexico city
Published on Tuesday, 6th April 2021.
How women in England took to the streets to protest against a serial killer
Published on Monday, 5th April 2021.
In 1967 an African American church minister began preaching that Jesus was black.
Published on Friday, 2nd April 2021.
How two Englishmen were seized by Colombian rebels while crossing the lawless Darien Gap
Published on Thursday, 1st April 2021.
How Mrs Thatcher shook up the Soviet media with a landmark interview in Moscow.
Published on Wednesday, 31st March 2021.
Prisoners at Walpole maximum security prison were in charge for three months in 1973
Published on Tuesday, 30th March 2021.
The death of the singer, Karen Carpenter, showed how devastating the illness could be.
Published on Monday, 29th March 2021.
The fight between Big Pharma and South Africa over the right to import cheap drugs.
Published on Thursday, 25th March 2021.
Dr Ruth Westheimer first became popular on a radio show in New York in the early 1980s
Published on Wednesday, 24th March 2021.
The hunt for the Jamaican drug lord which left dozens of civilians dead
Published on Tuesday, 23rd March 2021.
Protestant workers went on strike in Northern Ireland in 1974
Published on Monday, 22nd March 2021.
How the 1978 World Chess Championship was overshadowed by allegations of dirty tricks
Published on Friday, 19th March 2021.
Why six men were locked inside a spacecraft on earth for 520 days
Published on Thursday, 18th March 2021.
The story of Swedish social reformer, Alva Myrdal, who won the Nobel peace prize in 1982
Published on Wednesday, 17th March 2021.
The groundbreaking film about drag queens and LGBTQ+ people in New York
Published on Monday, 15th March 2021.
Melina Mercouri, actress turned politician, requested the marbles be returned to Greece
Published on Thursday, 11th March 2021.
How feminists ended up performing abortions for women in 1960s America
Published on Wednesday, 10th March 2021.
She was the power behind the Chinese throne for decades
Published on Tuesday, 9th March 2021.
In 2011 women were at the forefront of protests calling for a change in power in Egypt
Published on Monday, 8th March 2021.
How the historic speech in March 1946 came to symbolise the beginnings of the Cold War
Published on Friday, 5th March 2021.
In 1960, South African police shot dead 69 black protestors, sparking worldwide outrage
Published on Thursday, 4th March 2021.
How 11 people died when explosives were dropped on a house by a police helicopter
Published on Wednesday, 3rd March 2021.
How a tiny Pacific Island became a limbo for asylum seekers
Published on Tuesday, 2nd March 2021.
Don Walsh was the first to go to the very bottom of the deepest part of the ocean in 1960
Published on Monday, 1st March 2021.
Johnny Smythe was one of very few West Africans to fly with Britain's airforce during WW2
Published on Thursday, 25th February 2021.
How one of Africa's most famous independence leaders was overthrown in 1966
Published on Wednesday, 24th February 2021.
In the wake of the 2008 global financial crisis Ireland had to borrow billions
Published on Tuesday, 23rd February 2021.
How the world woke up to the threat from acid rain
Published on Monday, 22nd February 2021.
The American singer died on 8th February 2021
Published on Friday, 19th February 2021.
How the revolutionary black rights organisation started serving breakfast to children
Published on Thursday, 18th February 2021.
The story of a woman who played a largely unsung role in countless medical breakthroughs
Published on Wednesday, 17th February 2021.
The story of Britain's forgotten slave owners and the people they enslaved
Published on Tuesday, 16th February 2021.
How researchers in London uncovered the story of Britain's forgotten slave owners
Published on Monday, 15th February 2021.
More than 400 civilians died when US bombs hit the Amiriya air raid shelter in Baghdad
Published on Friday, 12th February 2021.
Nurses from outside the UK form a vital part of the country's medical workforce
Published on Thursday, 11th February 2021.
The 'Street News' paper was sold by homeless people in New York at a profit to earn money
Published on Wednesday, 10th February 2021.
In 1984 a group of lesbians and gay men organised to support striking coal-miners.
Published on Tuesday, 9th February 2021.
The painter Francis Bacon was known for his disturbing images and bohemian lifestyle
A medical scandal which affected millions of women around the world
Published on Monday, 8th February 2021.
Lee was charged with treason, so why did Congress reinstate his citizenship in 1975?
Published on Friday, 5th February 2021.
How a heroin epidemic among US troops in Vietnam caused panic in the military
Published on Thursday, 4th February 2021.
People took to the streets of Burma, or Myanmar, to protest against military rule in 1988
Published on Wednesday, 3rd February 2021.
The biggest circus in Soviet Russia opened in Moscow in April 1971.
Published on Tuesday, 2nd February 2021.
The driver of the first train to take passengers from London to Paris remembers
Published on Monday, 1st February 2021.
How a singer in Tunisia helped inspire young protestors all over the Middle East in 2011
Published on Friday, 29th January 2021.
In 2011 protests soon turned into an armed revolt seeking to overthrow Colonel Gaddafi.
Published on Thursday, 28th January 2021.
Inspired by events in Tunisia and Egypt young Yemenis took to the streets in January 2011
Published on Wednesday, 27th January 2021.
The moment that hundreds of thousands of Syrians demanded change in 2011.
Published on Tuesday, 26th January 2021.
How social media was used to organise against Egypt's government before the Arab Spring
Published on Monday, 25th January 2021.
Anti-Sikh violence flared in India after the assassination of Indira Gandhi in 1984
Published on Friday, 22nd January 2021.
Dr Henry Chakava made it his life's mission to publish in African languages.
Published on Thursday, 21st January 2021.
The white supremacist novel by William Pierce which has been blamed for inciting violence
Published on Wednesday, 20th January 2021.
Adolf Hitler made his first attempt to take power in Germany in 1923
Published on Tuesday, 19th January 2021.
The remarkable mission to explore one of the moons of Saturn in 2005
Published on Thursday, 14th January 2021.
She was the first to graduate from Oxford and was a pioneer for women lawyers in Britain.
Published on Wednesday, 13th January 2021.
How independence campaigners opened fire in Congress in 1954, wounding five US law-makers
Published on Tuesday, 12th January 2021.
Armed Civil Guards took MPs hostage in Spain's parliamentary chamber in 1981
Published on Monday, 11th January 2021.
The book describing a sudden uncontrollable downturn that was ignored by governments.
Published on Friday, 8th January 2021.
When the deadly Ebola virus broke out in West Africa scientists in the USA set to work
Published on Thursday, 7th January 2021.
How three astronauts on the Skylab space station fell out with mission control
Published on Wednesday, 6th January 2021.
How criminals facing the death penalty in the USA found peace
Published on Tuesday, 5th January 2021.
Deciphering the 3,500 year-old song discovered on a clay tablet in Syria
Published on Monday, 4th January 2021.
In the 1960s the Queensland government wanted to mine and drill for oil on the reef
Published on Thursday, 31st December 2020.
The modernist architect Le Corbusier agreed to build a 'city of the future' in India
Published on Wednesday, 30th December 2020.
One of the largest dams in the world, the Aswan High Dam in Egypt was completed in 1970
Published on Tuesday, 29th December 2020.
How UNESCO fought racism and advocated tolerance.
Published on Monday, 28th December 2020.
A former Hollywood child star remembers filming the classic Christmas movie in 1946.
Published on Friday, 25th December 2020.
The early days of the studio which brought Japanese animation to a global audience
Published on Thursday, 24th December 2020.
An actor's memories of working with the Bengali director on the classic Apu trilogy
Published on Wednesday, 23rd December 2020.
The real story behind the heart-warming musical released in 1965
Published on Tuesday, 22nd December 2020.
Charlie Chaplin's classic satirical film about Adolf Hitler was released in 1940
Published on Monday, 21st December 2020.
At Christmas 1979 hundreds of Namibian children were taken to East Germany
Published on Friday, 18th December 2020.
How a Spanish blockade of the disputed British territory ended in December 1982.
Published on Thursday, 17th December 2020.
The first British fly-on-the-wall documentary series aired on the BBC in 1974.
Published on Wednesday, 16th December 2020.
Pakistan's first democratic elections led to the creation of a new country, Bangladesh
Published on Tuesday, 15th December 2020.
American entertainer Bing Crosby made 'White Christmas' one of the defining songs of WW2
Published on Monday, 14th December 2020.
Why beavers were officially reintroduced to the UK 400 years after they were wiped out
Published on Friday, 11th December 2020.
A remarkable discovery in a cave at Bruniquel in southern France in 1990
Published on Thursday, 10th December 2020.
Albert Luthuli was the first African to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
Published on Wednesday, 9th December 2020.
How a German filmmaker, Arnold Fanck, shot films high in the mountains in the 1920s
Published on Tuesday, 8th December 2020.
The African-American crime writer Chester Himes first found widespread success in France
Published on Monday, 7th December 2020.
How the first of the Nazi's new "revenge weapons" terrorised Londoners in WW2
Published on Friday, 4th December 2020.
The first successful slave uprising in modern times, it prompted the abolition of slavery
Published on Wednesday, 2nd December 2020.
A law banning religious clothing from French state schools came into effect in 2004
Dr Naziha Al-Dulaimi was the first woman to hold a ministerial office in the Arab world
Published on Tuesday, 1st December 2020.
In 1991 a Tigrayan-led rebel movement took power in Addis Ababa ending years of war
Published on Monday, 30th November 2020.
The wheelchair warriors who brought London to a standstill to make their point
Published on Friday, 27th November 2020.
In 2012, Rwanda's sitting volleyball team became their country's first Paralympians
Published on Thursday, 26th November 2020.
How activists forced through the first law to help tens of millions of disabled Indians
Published on Wednesday, 25th November 2020.
For decades disabled people in the UK were offered tiny, three-wheeled cars for transport
Published on Tuesday, 24th November 2020.
The deaf and blind American writer who became famous around the world
Published on Monday, 23rd November 2020.
Why Anwar Sadat became the first Egyptian president to visit Israel in November 1977
Published on Friday, 20th November 2020.
The story of a radical book about women’s health and sexuality.
Published on Thursday, 19th November 2020.
How nearly a thousand Jewish refugees were housed in an old fort near New York during WW2
Published on Wednesday, 18th November 2020.
In 1960 Sirimavo Bandaranaike of Sri Lanka became the world's first woman Prime Minister
Published on Tuesday, 17th November 2020.
Captain Colin Darch and his crew were held hostage by pirates for 47 days in 2008
Published on Monday, 16th November 2020.
Donald Winnicott helped mothers understand babies through psychoanalysis in the 1940s.
Published on Friday, 13th November 2020.
An international committee of astronomers agreed Pluto wasn't really a planet in 2006
Published on Thursday, 12th November 2020.
Rare recordings of African veterans of WW1 in East Africa
Published on Wednesday, 11th November 2020.
The creation of a communication system for people with learning difficulties in the 1970s
Published on Tuesday, 10th November 2020.
The women who launched an anonymous poster campaign against sexism and racism in art.
Published on Monday, 9th November 2020.
Reconstructing Dresden's historic baroque church.
Published on Friday, 6th November 2020.
How a meeting in Manchester shaped the post-war struggle against colonialism
Published on Thursday, 5th November 2020.
The Israeli PM was shot by an extremist opposed to the peace process on November 4th 1995
Published on Wednesday, 4th November 2020.
Growing up as a black child in post-war Germany
Published on Tuesday, 3rd November 2020.
In 1969 a theatrical revue called Oh Calcutta opened. It featured male and female nudity.
Published on Monday, 2nd November 2020.
How former White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card broke news of 9/11 to President Bush
Published on Friday, 30th October 2020.
How US religious conservatives organised in the 1970s to get Republicans elected.
Published on Thursday, 29th October 2020.
The investigation that led to the resignation of US President Richard Nixon in 1974.
Published on Wednesday, 28th October 2020.
The pioneering politician who launched a run for the US presidency in 1972.
Published on Tuesday, 27th October 2020.
The US election of 1960 was a close race between John F Kennedy and Richard Nixon.
Published on Monday, 26th October 2020.
The mathematicians who worked behind the scenes on the American space programme
Published on Friday, 23rd October 2020.
How a South African team is searching for those who disappeared during apartheid rule
Published on Thursday, 22nd October 2020.
How mistakes with the initial production of polio vaccine made thousands of children ill.
Published on Wednesday, 21st October 2020.
The working class woman who shook up the British theatre establishment
Published on Tuesday, 20th October 2020.
In the grip of a drugs crisis, the country took a radical approach in 2001.
Published on Monday, 19th October 2020.
Behind the scenes at the Iraqi-funded, Clash of Loyalties
Published on Friday, 16th October 2020.
The landmark legislation was introduced to ensure the rights of African Americans to vote
Published on Thursday, 15th October 2020.
Many of the nomadic herders in Kazakhstan left the USSR and moved to China in the 1920s
Published on Wednesday, 14th October 2020.
On October 13th 1990 the fifteen year long conflict in Lebanon finally came to an end
Published on Tuesday, 13th October 2020.
1980 saw the launch of the first TV station dedicated to 24 hour news.
Published on Monday, 12th October 2020.
How anti-racists stopped a far-right march in South London in 1977.
Published on Friday, 9th October 2020.
The story of our times told by the people who were there.
Published on Thursday, 8th October 2020.
New laws were used to stop clubs from banning black and ethnic minority people in 1978
Published on Wednesday, 7th October 2020.
Yvonne Conolly was made head of a London primary school in 1969.
Published on Tuesday, 6th October 2020.
A ship carrying hundreds of migrants from the Caribbean set sail for Britain in 1948
Published on Monday, 5th October 2020.
The summer house by a lake which witnessed much of Germany's 20th century history
Published on Friday, 2nd October 2020.
Three gray whales got caught in the ice off Alaska in October 1988
Published on Thursday, 1st October 2020.
In 1998 the world's most popular search engine was launched by two PHD students
Published on Wednesday, 30th September 2020.
A trial which shone a light on links between Italian politicians and the Mafia
Published on Tuesday, 29th September 2020.
The charismatic Egyptian president dominated Arab politics for almost two decades
Published on Monday, 28th September 2020.
The US presidential election of 2000 was one of the closest and most contested in history
Published on Friday, 25th September 2020.
How US private security guards opened fire on civilians in Baghdad, killing 17 people
Published on Thursday, 24th September 2020.
Shortly after his release from prison the South African freedom fighter toured the USA
Published on Wednesday, 23rd September 2020.
Hoe Liberia negotiated to write off billions of dollars of debt.
Published on Tuesday, 22nd September 2020.
A mission to study the planet Jupiter finally came to an end on 21st September 2003
Published on Monday, 21st September 2020.
The women who began protesting after their children were taken away by soldiers
Published on Friday, 18th September 2020.
A photo of a man confronting a tank in China caught the world's imagination in 1989
Published on Thursday, 17th September 2020.
In the 1950s rebels took up arms to rid Kenya of colonial rule
Published on Tuesday, 15th September 2020.
Exiled dissident Nikolai Khalezin on the origins of the protest movement in Belarus
Published on Monday, 14th September 2020.
After WW2 US President Harry Truman argued for healthcare for all but his plan failed.
Published on Friday, 11th September 2020.
Punyavathi Sunkara recalls how the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh banned alcohol in 1995.
Published on Thursday, 10th September 2020.
In 2005 two young graduates created one of the internet's most popular websites.
Published on Wednesday, 9th September 2020.
Barbara Mensch recalls how she was hijacked and held in Jordan in 1970
Haiti was cholera-free until UN peacekeepers brought it to the Caribbean country in 2010
Published on Tuesday, 8th September 2020.
In the 1990s Britain closed down many of its long-stay hospitals and asylums
Published on Friday, 4th September 2020.
In the late 1990s there were more than 150 bomb attacks in the South African city
Published on Thursday, 3rd September 2020.
The portable tape player that brought music-on-the-move to millions was launched in 1979
Published on Wednesday, 2nd September 2020.
How a British Airways jumbo jet flew through a volcanic ash cloud and survived
Published on Tuesday, 1st September 2020.
How author and former intelligence officer Ian Fleming created the British super-spy
Published on Monday, 31st August 2020.
The decision that quashed a key part of an electoral law designed to protect black voters
Published on Friday, 28th August 2020.
The remote Scottish islands whose last inhabitants were evacuated in August 1930
Published on Thursday, 27th August 2020.
How former policeman Ray Lewis joined the anti-inequality demonstrations in New York
Published on Wednesday, 26th August 2020.
How Jeannie Leavitt became the first woman to fly a US Air Force fighter plane in 1993.
Published on Tuesday, 25th August 2020.
The trades union activist and politician who fought for Nigerian independence.
Published on Monday, 24th August 2020.
An 11-day standoff between a fugitive and the US government ended with three people dead.
Published on Friday, 21st August 2020.
How Beate Sirota Gordon got wording on gender equality into Japan's post-war constitution
Published on Thursday, 20th August 2020.
How American doctors carried out secretive STD experiments in Guatemala in the 1940s
Millions of people’s lives have been saved and improved by the metered dose inhaler.
Published on Wednesday, 19th August 2020.
How archaeologists discovered the lost grave of King Richard III under a car park
Published on Tuesday, 18th August 2020.
The memories of a young Iraqi woman who grew up in the dictator's inner social circle
Published on Monday, 17th August 2020.
How a polio epidemic in Denmark in 1952 led to the invention of the modern ventilator
Published on Friday, 14th August 2020.
How Turkish campaigners forced a radical change in the law on crimes against women
Published on Thursday, 13th August 2020.
How the Lebanese Civil War came to Beirut's luxury hotel district in 1975.
Published on Wednesday, 12th August 2020.
How the German city addressed its colonial past by rededicating a famous monument
Published on Tuesday, 11th August 2020.
How British women operated secret radar technology during World War Two
Published on Monday, 10th August 2020.
Atomic bombs were dropped on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945
Published on Thursday, 6th August 2020.
How a huge naval battle between aircraft carriers changed the war in the Pacific
Published on Wednesday, 5th August 2020.
During World War Two thousands of Japanese Americans were sent to prison camps
Published on Tuesday, 4th August 2020.
A first-hand account of the surprise strike on a US naval base in December 1941.
Published on Monday, 3rd August 2020.
The leading Nazi was caught by British troops shortly after WW2 had ended in Europe
Published on Friday, 31st July 2020.
The story of the mayor who created one of the world's biggest holiday resorts.
Published on Thursday, 30th July 2020.
A remarkable story of survival, alone in a life-raft adrift in the Atlantic ocean
Published on Wednesday, 29th July 2020.
How 400 separate bushfires burnt their way across Victoria, Australia in 2009.
Published on Tuesday, 28th July 2020.
Remembering the pioneering Cuban-American playwright and agony aunt, Dolores Prida
Published on Monday, 27th July 2020.
How a five-year-old girl helped her father create a record-breaking vaccine
Published on Friday, 24th July 2020.
Mary Akrami set up the first refuge for women fleeing violence and abuse in Afghanistan
Published on Thursday, 23rd July 2020.
When logging threatened the rainforests of Sarawak, local communities fought back
Published on Wednesday, 22nd July 2020.
On 16th October 1995 hundreds of thousands of black American men marched on Washington DC
Published on Tuesday, 21st July 2020.
On 20th July 1944 Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg put a bomb under Adolf Hitler's desk
Published on Monday, 20th July 2020.
A so-called Social Purification project led to thousands of citizens being imprisoned
Published on Friday, 17th July 2020.
How the British city forced out Chinese seamen who'd served during World War Two.
Published on Thursday, 16th July 2020.
The Stele of Axum, a 4th century Ethiopian treasure, was returned by Italy in 2005
Published on Wednesday, 15th July 2020.
Holidaymakers arrived at the first Club Med resort in Majorca in summer 1950
Published on Tuesday, 14th July 2020.
A Jewish feminist group's campaign to pray freely at the Western Wall in Jerusalem
Published on Monday, 13th July 2020.
A US government report into the riots of 1967 blamed white racism for creating ghettos
Published on Friday, 10th July 2020.
In July 1954 the great Mexican artist died after years of illness. She was just 47.
Published on Thursday, 9th July 2020.
When the city's police force went on strike there was looting and rioting in the streets.
Published on Wednesday, 8th July 2020.
Published on Tuesday, 7th July 2020.
How Dr John Snow found out the cholera bug was spread through contaminated water in 1854.
Published on Monday, 6th July 2020.
In 1990, South Africa banned skin-lightening creams containing hydroquinone
Published on Friday, 3rd July 2020.
How a secret collection of art missing since Nazi rule was found in Germany in 2012
Published on Thursday, 2nd July 2020.
The life of a nine-year-old girl quarantined in a TB sanatorium for 4 years in the 1950s
Published on Wednesday, 1st July 2020.
Mick Jagger and Keith Richards went on trial for drugs offences in June 1967
Published on Tuesday, 30th June 2020.
A people’s movement brought an end to Nepal’s absolute monarchy in 1990.
Published on Monday, 29th June 2020.
Chaos and hardship hit Russia with the sudden market reforms of early 1992.
Published on Friday, 26th June 2020.
Thinkers trained in free-market economics in Chicago shaped Chile after its military coup
Published on Thursday, 25th June 2020.
In the 1960s Tanzania tried out a new form of socialism called Ujamaa
Published on Wednesday, 24th June 2020.
How a poor, war-ravaged nation became a global economic powerhouse
Published on Tuesday, 23rd June 2020.
How the USA used public spending projects to battle through the Great Depression
Published on Monday, 22nd June 2020.
A teacher decided to separate pupils according to eye colour to teach them about racism.
Published on Friday, 19th June 2020.
The passenger train service between India and Bangladesh was resumed after 43 years.
Published on Thursday, 18th June 2020.
Whistle-blowers implicated UN peacekeepers in sex trafficking in Bosnia in the late 90s
Published on Wednesday, 17th June 2020.
Chairman Mao banned all classical music in 1966, but some musicians defied the order.
Published on Tuesday, 16th June 2020.
The remarkable Swiss psychiatrist who changed the way we think about dying.
Published on Monday, 15th June 2020.
One man's experience of the controversial US law that saw thousands locked up for life
Published on Friday, 12th June 2020.
People rioted in Los Angeles after police who had assaulted a black man were acquitted
Published on Thursday, 11th June 2020.
How an all-black college team overturned racist assumptions about basketball in the USA
Published on Wednesday, 10th June 2020.
Four young black girls were killed in a racist attack on a church in Alabama in 1963
Published on Tuesday, 9th June 2020.
A landmark case about racial segregation in the USA.
Published on Monday, 8th June 2020.
How Northern Irish doctor Frank Pantridge revolutionised heart-attack treatment.
Published on Friday, 5th June 2020.
How the cold war helped shape the creation of the WHO and what role China played.
Published on Thursday, 4th June 2020.
The artist who delighted post-Cold War Berlin by wrapping its greatest monument
Published on Wednesday, 3rd June 2020.
Just one month after gaining independence there was an uprising in Zanzibar in 1964.
Published on Tuesday, 2nd June 2020.
How Costa Rica's Monteverde cloud forest reserve became a major tourist site
Published on Monday, 1st June 2020.
Ann Lowe designed Jackie Kennedy's wedding dress but for years few people knew her name
Published on Friday, 29th May 2020.
Winston Churchill's personal doctor published his memories of the British leader in 1966
Published on Thursday, 28th May 2020.
The South Korean army crushed a popular uprising in the city of Gwangju on 27 May 1980
Published on Wednesday, 27th May 2020.
The book that highlighted the health and environmental benefits of a plant based diet
Published on Monday, 25th May 2020.
How criminals from looters to con artists thrived in London during the Blitz.
Published on Friday, 22nd May 2020.
One scientist's ground-breaking work that revolutionised our understanding of autism
Published on Thursday, 21st May 2020.
The creator of the 3D printer had no idea how revolutionary this technology might become.
Published on Wednesday, 20th May 2020.
How Hong Kong’s city within a city was torn down in 1993.
Published on Tuesday, 19th May 2020.
After four white policemen were acquitted of killing a black man - Miami rioted in 1980
Published on Monday, 18th May 2020.
Could farting fish have triggered Sweden's Cold War submarine hunts?
Published on Friday, 15th May 2020.
How Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands broke his silence to reveal a love child
Published on Thursday, 14th May 2020.
It took until 1999 for Japanese women to be allowed to take the contraceptive pill.
Published on Wednesday, 13th May 2020.
When a free helpline for kids was set up it showed just how widespread child abuse was
Published on Tuesday, 12th May 2020.
The only part of the British Isles to be occupied during WW2 was liberated in May 1945
Published on Monday, 11th May 2020.
VE Day saw Londoners celebrate the end of the Second World War in Europe.
Published on Friday, 8th May 2020.
After Germany's surrender to Allied forces in May 1945, Soviet soldiers occupied Berlin
Published on Thursday, 7th May 2020.
Eyewitness accounts of the final battle for the capital of Nazi Germany in 1945
Published on Wednesday, 6th May 2020.
First-hand accounts of Hitler's death from the BBC's archives
Published on Tuesday, 5th May 2020.
An exhibition about the German army’s role in WW2 caused a scandal in 1995.
Published on Monday, 4th May 2020.
Trees which survived the atomic bomb in Hiroshima are still growing in the Japanese city
Published on Friday, 1st May 2020.
How fishermen and conservationists battled in the species-rich waters of the archipelago
Published on Thursday, 30th April 2020.
The first Middle East mediator, Count Bernadotte, was assassinated in Jerusalem in 1948
Published on Wednesday, 29th April 2020.
In 1957 a new strain of flu emerged in East Asia and quickly spread around the world
Published on Tuesday, 28th April 2020.
The transgender Indonesians who fought for their rights in the 1970s and 1980s
Published on Monday, 27th April 2020.
The great American playwright revealed a lot about himself in BBC interviews
Published on Friday, 24th April 2020.
The development of a ventilation system that was a precursor to modern ventilators.
Published on Thursday, 23rd April 2020.
Abdul Sattar Edhi built one of the biggest welfare charities in the world
Published on Wednesday, 22nd April 2020.
A woman who died in the US in 1940 was captured and enslaved in West Africa as a child
Published on Tuesday, 21st April 2020.
A deadly explosion on a drilling rig led to an environmental disaster in the US
Published on Monday, 20th April 2020.
Michael Foale was on board the Mir space station when a resupply vessel crashed into it.
Published on Friday, 17th April 2020.
The space station which was meant to break up and fall into the sea but instead hit land
Published on Thursday, 16th April 2020.
In 1972 the American space agency NASA carried out its final Moon mission
Published on Wednesday, 15th April 2020.
The touchscreen smartphone changed mobile technology for ever.
Published on Tuesday, 14th April 2020.
The women who led the way in America's space programme by spending two weeks underwater
How a 72-year-old grandmother started online shopping before the internet
Published on Friday, 10th April 2020.
The world's first webcam went online in 1993. Its camera was focused on a coffee pot.
Published on Tuesday, 7th April 2020.
A group of Californian computer enthusiasts first began meeting to share ideas in 1975.
Published on Monday, 6th April 2020.
It has never been easy to practice a religious faith in communist China
Published on Friday, 3rd April 2020.
A Swedish warship, Vasa, sank in the 17th century but was raised from the seabed in 1961
Published on Thursday, 2nd April 2020.
A former British governor of Punjab was shot in 1940 as revenge for killings in Amritsar
Published on Wednesday, 1st April 2020.
Could the biggest living organism on earth be a colony of quaking aspen trees?
Published on Tuesday, 31st March 2020.
Rose Heilbron was a trailblazer for women in the legal profession in Britain.
Published on Monday, 30th March 2020.
In 1985 activists made a giant quilt to commemorate those killed by AIDS in the USA.
Published on Friday, 27th March 2020.
On March 26th 2010 a South Korean naval ship sank after an explosion - 48 sailors died
Published on Thursday, 26th March 2020.
In March 2015 Saudi Arabia and its allies began an intense aerial bombardment of Yemen
Published on Wednesday, 25th March 2020.
Over 50 million people are thought to have died from influenza around the world in 1918
Published on Tuesday, 24th March 2020.
How scientists in the 1970s discovered an anti-malarial drug using a traditional remedy.
Published on Monday, 23rd March 2020.
How NASA put an orbiting observatory into space in 1990.
Published on Friday, 20th March 2020.
How a virus created by a Filipino college dropout sparked global panic in May 2000
How a British army officer saved Hitler's Volkswagen Beetle at the end of World War Two
Former actress Marsha Hunt remembers the anti-Communist witch-hunt of the late 1940s.
Published on Wednesday, 18th March 2020.
The story of a landmark ruling for women's rights in the United States.
Published on Tuesday, 17th March 2020.
A deadly new disease infected laboratory workers in a small town in West Germany in 1967.
Published on Friday, 13th March 2020.
How the world battled a deadly respiratory disease in 2003.
Published on Thursday, 12th March 2020.
Scientists in the US led by Dr Jonas Salk develop an effective vaccine against polio
Published on Wednesday, 11th March 2020.
The first documented outbreak of the deadly disease occurred in the 1970s in Zaire
Published on Tuesday, 10th March 2020.
In 1918 an extremely deadly form of influenza killed millions around the world
Published on Monday, 9th March 2020.
One man's stand against the psychiatric abuse of political dissidents in the Soviet Union
Published on Thursday, 5th March 2020.
How South Asian women workers won the support of the British trade unionist movement
Published on Wednesday, 4th March 2020.
The EU finally banned lead in petrol in 2000 - decades after the US, Canada and Japan.
Published on Tuesday, 3rd March 2020.
Japan faces a demographic time-bomb. Could the answer be Womenomics?
Published on Monday, 2nd March 2020.
The diplomacy behind the release of three US citizens who unknowingly hiked into Iran.
Published on Friday, 28th February 2020.
Thousands of people died in the world's last major smallpox epidemic in India in 1974.
Published on Thursday, 27th February 2020.
A group of Californian nuns left their convent and set up their own community in 1970
Published on Wednesday, 26th February 2020.
The American inventor who made the first mobile phone and the first mobile phone call
Published on Tuesday, 25th February 2020.
Human remains were found on a remote island in Antarctica in 1985 but whose were they?
Published on Monday, 24th February 2020.
A 1980s campaign to preserve Antarctica for science.
Published on Friday, 21st February 2020.
Building the largest gun in the world for Saddam Hussein's Iraq
Published on Thursday, 20th February 2020.
"Battle Bus" was a sculpture in memory of Nigerian environmentalist Ken Saro Wiwa
Published on Wednesday, 19th February 2020.
In 2002, a landmark study on Buddhist monks showed that meditation can alter the brain.
Published on Tuesday, 18th February 2020.
How the Voyager space probe captured a famous image of Earth as it left the Solar System.
Published on Monday, 17th February 2020.
The best-selling dating handbook was published on Valentine's Day 1995
Published on Friday, 14th February 2020.
Erica Jong's best-selling book about sex, creativity and love, published in 1973
Published on Thursday, 13th February 2020.
A shocking account of the realities of the slums of São Paulo
Published on Wednesday, 12th February 2020.
The man who spotted the potential of the boy wizard books in 1996
Published on Tuesday, 11th February 2020.
How the thoughts of China's communist leader became an unexpected global best-seller
Published on Monday, 10th February 2020.
The day that South Africa's anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela was freed
Published on Friday, 7th February 2020.
How a small Californian tribe won the right for Indian communities to host gambling.
Published on Thursday, 6th February 2020.
In the 1980s deaf children in Nicaragua invented a completely new sign language
Published on Wednesday, 5th February 2020.
The Empress Dowager Cixi ruled for 47 years until her death in 1908.
Published on Tuesday, 4th February 2020.
Norwell Roberts endured years of racist abuse within the Metropolitan police
Published on Monday, 3rd February 2020.
The document which formed the basis for what is now the European Union was signed in 1957
Published on Friday, 31st January 2020.
Madam C. J. Walker was born to former slaves and created a black beauty business.
Published on Thursday, 30th January 2020.
A tree in Kew Gardens survived the storm of 1987 and revolutionised gardening.
Published on Wednesday, 29th January 2020.
The overhaul of India's rape laws followed the fatal gang rape of a student in Delhi.
Published on Tuesday, 28th January 2020.
The Way Ahead group was set up in the 1990s to make Britain’s monarchy more relevant
Published on Monday, 27th January 2020.
Since 1975, San Diego Zoo has been deep-freezing cell samples from rare species
Published on Friday, 24th January 2020.
In the 1960s whales were being hunted to extinction.
Published on Thursday, 23rd January 2020.
Silent Spring examined the effect of pesticides on the environment
Published on Wednesday, 22nd January 2020.
A flightless bird, the dodo was extinct just decades after being discovered by Europeans
Published on Tuesday, 21st January 2020.
How scientists discovered that a deadly fungus was killing off amphibians.
Published on Monday, 20th January 2020.
The US tracked down the al-Qaeda leader to a city in northern Pakistan in 2011
Published on Friday, 17th January 2020.
How a 14-year-old boy became the youngest person executed in the USA in the 20th century
Published on Thursday, 16th January 2020.
The female negotiator who agreed a deal with Muslim rebels in the Philippines.
Published on Wednesday, 15th January 2020.
After the fall of the Berlin Wall East German citizens stormed the secret police HQ
Published on Tuesday, 14th January 2020.
How some of the great stately homes of Britain were saved from demolition and decay
Published on Monday, 13th January 2020.
A US Marine's account of the massive operation against Iraqi insurgents in 2004
Published on Friday, 10th January 2020.
In 2009, Uruguay became the first country to give every schoolchild a laptop computer.
Published on Thursday, 9th January 2020.
The killing of the man who'd become a powerful symbol of the fight to save the Amazon
Published on Wednesday, 8th January 2020.
In January 1990 over 100 000 Hindus fled the Kashmir valley
Published on Tuesday, 7th January 2020.
The memories of a survivor of Nazi atrocities in the final months of the war in Europe
Published on Monday, 6th January 2020.
How the communist secret police, the Stasi, tried to crush a youth subculture.
Published on Friday, 3rd January 2020.
Desmond's was the most successful black sitcom in British TV history
Published on Thursday, 2nd January 2020.
The Limits to Growth was published in 1972 and suggested global decline from 2020
Published on Wednesday, 1st January 2020.
The UN's top negotiator Alvaro de Soto recalls his part in bringing peace to El Salvador
Published on Tuesday, 31st December 2019.
The male stripper troupe was founded in Los Angeles in 1979
Published on Monday, 30th December 2019.
In December 1972 the US military launched its heaviest bombardment of Hanoi.
Published on Friday, 27th December 2019.
The ground-breaking circus was formed by a group of street performers in Quebec in 1984.
Published on Thursday, 26th December 2019.
Published on Wednesday, 25th December 2019.
On 24 December 1979 Soviet troops started pouring into Afghanistan
Published on Tuesday, 24th December 2019.
Pioneering work in the 60s into combination chemotherapy to try to find a cure for cancer
Published on Monday, 23rd December 2019.
Why Nigeria built a brand new capital city from scratch.
Published on Friday, 20th December 2019.
Why the mysterious loss of honey bees in the US triggered a global panic.
Published on Thursday, 19th December 2019.
In December 1989 a wave of protests finally deposed communist dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu
Published on Wednesday, 18th December 2019.
How Indian women fought for the right to be allowed into a Hindu holy site
Published on Tuesday, 17th December 2019.
How soldiers who had been relegated to support roles were asked to volunteer for combat
Published on Monday, 16th December 2019.
In December 2001 armed men attacked India's parliamentary compound in broad daylight
Published on Friday, 13th December 2019.
When New York police shot a young immigrant 41 times, thousands took to the streets
Published on Thursday, 12th December 2019.
In December 1975, the IRA took a middle-aged couple hostage in Central London.
Published on Tuesday, 10th December 2019.
How Paris was eventually won round to the Louvre museum's great glass pyramid
Published on Monday, 9th December 2019.
In 1990 Reinaldo Arenas died of Aids in New York, leaving behind a powerful autobiography
Published on Friday, 6th December 2019.
A prison camp in the Uzbek desert became notorious for torture and human rights abuses.
Published on Thursday, 5th December 2019.
Henry Moore revolutionised sculpture by creating immense works and setting them outside.
Published on Wednesday, 4th December 2019.
How a doomed Antarctic expedition in 1914 became a legendary story of survival
Published on Tuesday, 3rd December 2019.
The Colombian drug trafficker was shot dead by police on December 2nd 1993
Published on Monday, 2nd December 2019.
Robert R was a teenager who died of an undiagnosed illness in Missouri in 1969
Published on Friday, 29th November 2019.
In 1985 Australia's famous natural landmark Uluru was returned to aboriginal ownership
Published on Thursday, 28th November 2019.
How the Lyons catering company pioneered LEO, the first electronic office system
Published on Wednesday, 27th November 2019.
In the 1990s India began to open up its state-controlled economy
Published on Tuesday, 26th November 2019.
American scientist Dennis Klatt pioneered synthesised speech using his own voice.
Published on Monday, 25th November 2019.
How Wilfred Thesiger travelled in one of the world's harshest environments in the 1940s.
Published on Friday, 22nd November 2019.
India's capital city built a Metro to tackle its traffic and air pollution problems
Published on Thursday, 21st November 2019.
Lucia Cerna was the only witness to a murder that shocked El Salvador in November 1989
Published on Wednesday, 20th November 2019.
How one of Klimt's most famous paintings was returned to the family who'd owned it
Published on Tuesday, 19th November 2019.
Why Los Angeles police began using a new weapon in the early 1980s.
Published on Monday, 18th November 2019.
Reita Faria was the first Indian to win the Miss World beauty competition in 1966
Published on Friday, 15th November 2019.
How the Love Canal neigbourhood in the US came to symbolise the dangers of toxic waste
Published on Thursday, 14th November 2019.
How Hindu extremists demolished a mosque in India prompting months of communal violence
Published on Wednesday, 13th November 2019.
Why a captain was arrested after saving shipwrecked Africans in the Mediterranean in 2004
Published on Tuesday, 12th November 2019.
The British war poet's younger brother Harold Owen spoke to the BBC in the 1960s
Published on Monday, 11th November 2019.
The 1987 rock concert that led to the first shouts in East Berlin of 'the wall must go'
Published on Friday, 8th November 2019.
How Indian police tortured petty criminals, blinding them permanently
Published on Thursday, 7th November 2019.
How sex, jazz and 'fake news' were used to undermine the Nazis in World War Two
Published on Wednesday, 6th November 2019.
How a Canadian oncologist proved the effectiveness of breast-conserving surgery
Published on Tuesday, 5th November 2019.
How Iranian students invited a group of Americans to Iran to meet the hostages
Published on Monday, 4th November 2019.
The 1960s campaigners who fought the government to save the world's biggest coral reef.
Published on Friday, 1st November 2019.
An underground feminist network performed illegal abortions in 1960s Chicago.
Published on Thursday, 31st October 2019.
When Algeria won independence in 1962 thousands of local French allies faced persecution
Published on Wednesday, 30th October 2019.
The Hotel Lutetia became a reception centre for French Holocaust survivors after WW2
Published on Tuesday, 29th October 2019.
The British Prime Minister started expressing doubts about the European Union in 1988
Published on Monday, 28th October 2019.
The border between communist East Germany and the West opened on November 9th 1989
Published on Friday, 25th October 2019.
The Berlin Wall fell just a month after mass protests in the East German city of Leipzig
Published on Thursday, 24th October 2019.
Thousands of East Germans sought refuge in the West German embassy in Prague in 1989.
Published on Wednesday, 23rd October 2019.
The body of Imre Nagy who had led the Hungarian Uprising was reburied in 1989
Published on Tuesday, 22nd October 2019.
The Polish trade union organisation was banned by the communists until April 1989
Published on Monday, 21st October 2019.
Kenyan activist Wangari Maathai fought to save forests and protect human rights
Published on Friday, 18th October 2019.
A reactor caught fire at the Windscale nuclear plant in the north of England in 1957
Published on Thursday, 17th October 2019.
Dr Norman Borlaug’s pioneering work on disease-resistant grains saved millions.
Published on Wednesday, 16th October 2019.
How Mexico City cut its dangerously high air pollution levels
Published on Tuesday, 15th October 2019.
An American scientist began recording carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere in 1958
Published on Monday, 14th October 2019.
The stigma of growing up as a mixed race child in post-war Britain
Published on Friday, 11th October 2019.
How British black activists fought for employment rights in the 1960s
Published on Thursday, 10th October 2019.
Inter-racial violence broke out in west London in the summer of 1958
Published on Wednesday, 9th October 2019.
In 1987 Diane Abbott became the first black woman to be elected to the British Parliament
Published on Tuesday, 8th October 2019.
The great West Indian cricketer who fought against racism in the UK
Published on Monday, 7th October 2019.
How China's Communist rulers established the country's first Special Economic Zones
Published on Friday, 4th October 2019.
How workers and students filled the colony's streets, pressing for an end to British rule
Published on Thursday, 3rd October 2019.
We hear from one man who took part in China's brutal Cultural Revolution.
Published on Wednesday, 2nd October 2019.
China's legendary Communist leader in the words of an American who knew him well
Published on Tuesday, 1st October 2019.
On 1 October 1949 Chairman Mao declared China a communist state
Published on Monday, 30th September 2019.
The fatal goring of the legendary bullfighter Francisco Rivera Pérez - "Paquirri".
Published on Friday, 27th September 2019.
In September 2008, the world's biggest science experiment was switched on.
Published on Thursday, 26th September 2019.
How one historian living in Mosul took aim at the Islamic State group on the internet.
Published on Wednesday, 25th September 2019.
Theodor Wonja Michael was a child when Hitler came to power in Germany.
Published on Tuesday, 24th September 2019.
The Rodgers and Hammerstein musical was performed on stage before it became a movie.
Published on Monday, 23rd September 2019.
The distinguished art historian was exposed as a former Soviet spy in the autumn of 1979.
Published on Friday, 20th September 2019.
The first book in CS Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia series was published in autumn 1950
Published on Thursday, 19th September 2019.
The revolutionary Black Panther Party provided free breakfasts for local schoolchildren.
Published on Wednesday, 18th September 2019.
Until 2011 LGBT service people in the US armed forces had to keep their sexuality secret
Published on Tuesday, 17th September 2019.
Ethiopia sent soldiers to fight alongside the United Nations during the Korean War
Published on Monday, 16th September 2019.
In 1519, the Portuguese explorer set off on the first circumnavigation of the globe.
Published on Friday, 13th September 2019.
How the timber industry fuelled a brutal civil war in West Africa.
Published on Thursday, 12th September 2019.
Why guaranteeing government jobs to lower caste Hindus led to weeks of student protests.
Published on Wednesday, 11th September 2019.
One of the most successful TV comedy shows of all time hit US screens in September 1994
Published on Tuesday, 10th September 2019.
How the deposed Honduran president spent months holed up in the Brazilian embassy
Published on Monday, 9th September 2019.
In 1991 Libero Grassi was killed in Sicily for publicly refusing to pay protection money.
Published on Friday, 6th September 2019.
The libel case that put history itself in the dock in 2000
Published on Thursday, 5th September 2019.
Apollo 11's doctor tells how NASA tried to protect Earth from possible lunar alien life
Published on Wednesday, 4th September 2019.
The UN deployed its first all-female peacekeepers in Liberia in 2007.
Published on Tuesday, 3rd September 2019.
On September 1st 1939 German troops invaded Poland. Cameraman Douglas Slocombe was there.
Published on Monday, 2nd September 2019.
The first conviction of a paedophile using hand analysis.
Published on Friday, 30th August 2019.
The great African-American jazz singer moved to West Africa in 1974.
Published on Thursday, 29th August 2019.
How thousands of unaccompanied children were sent to safety by their desperate parents
Published on Wednesday, 28th August 2019.
How young women began disappearing in the Mexican border town of Ciudad Juarez in 1993
Published on Tuesday, 27th August 2019.
In 1955, Emmett Till, a black teenager from Chicago, was brutally murdered in Mississippi
Published on Monday, 26th August 2019.
How the influential Brazilian leader took his own life rather than submit to the military
Published on Friday, 23rd August 2019.
Wolves were reintroduced to Yellowstone decades after they were wiped out in the US.
Published on Thursday, 22nd August 2019.
A former member of the French resistance remembers the drama of August 1944
Published on Wednesday, 21st August 2019.
The search for hundreds of children kidnapped by the Salvadoran army during the civil war
Published on Tuesday, 20th August 2019.
In 1998 a transponder was implanted into the body of British scientist, Kevin Warwick.
Published on Monday, 19th August 2019.
The Dr Seuss books revolutionised reading in America in the 1950s.
Published on Friday, 16th August 2019.
How the CIA tracked down one of the world's most wanted men
Published on Thursday, 15th August 2019.
Throughout 2001 the US authorities were given warnings that a terror attack was imminent
Published on Wednesday, 14th August 2019.
How the contact lens became cheap enough to throw away after a day
Published on Tuesday, 13th August 2019.
The October 1947 crisis which led to the partition of Kashmir between India and Pakistan.
Published on Monday, 12th August 2019.
How a British warship escaped from Chinese Communists on the Yangtze river in 1949
Published on Friday, 9th August 2019.
In August 1969 the British Army was deployed on the streets of Londonderry
Published on Thursday, 8th August 2019.
How Britain pioneered Community Service as an alternative to prison in the 1970s
Published on Wednesday, 7th August 2019.
In 1958 the nuclear submarine USS Nautilus travelled under the North Pole.
Published on Tuesday, 6th August 2019.
How thousands of French families fled from Algeria as it won independence
Published on Monday, 5th August 2019.
Thousands of Iraqi troops and tanks began pouring into Kuwait on 2 August 1990
Published on Friday, 2nd August 2019.
On August 1st 1944, Polish resistance fighters rose up against German occupying forces
Published on Thursday, 1st August 2019.
The eight year protest campaign which stopped a nuclear plant at Wackersdorf in Germany.
Published on Wednesday, 31st July 2019.
A huge hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold was discovered in southern England in 1939.
Published on Tuesday, 30th July 2019.
The weapons inspector's death deepened the row over the UK's part in the invasion of Iraq
Published on Monday, 29th July 2019.
A fossilised skull found in Chad is thought to be the earliest-known ancestor of humans
Published on Friday, 26th July 2019.
When Tunisia introduced divorce, abortion and votes for women ahead of much of the world.
Published on Thursday, 25th July 2019.
The car accident involving US Senator Edward Kennedy which left a young woman dead
Published on Wednesday, 24th July 2019.
How LGBT people in China started arranging fake marriages to hide their sexuality
Published on Tuesday, 23rd July 2019.
The story of the hit musical Mamma Mia! from the woman who created it
Published on Monday, 22nd July 2019.
A failed attempt to search for signs of life on Mars
Published on Friday, 19th July 2019.
The Moon mission that almost ended in tragedy after an explosion on board the spaceship.
Published on Thursday, 18th July 2019.
In July 1969, Apollo 11 commander Neil Armstrong took the first steps on the Moon.
Published on Wednesday, 17th July 2019.
The Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova was the first woman to be sent into space
Published on Tuesday, 16th July 2019.
The Russian stray was the first dog to be sent into orbit around the earth
Published on Monday, 15th July 2019.
How a dramatic bonfire in Nairobi National Park highlighted the threat from poaching
Published on Friday, 12th July 2019.
Four army officers were sentenced to death for drug trafficking by the Castro government
Published on Thursday, 11th July 2019.
The remarkable UK research centre where thousands went on holiday to catch a cold
Published on Wednesday, 10th July 2019.
Women in China got access to tampons for the first time in 1985
Published on Tuesday, 9th July 2019.
The secret diaries of 19th-century Englishwoman Anne Lister, the 'first modern lesbian'
Published on Monday, 8th July 2019.
How a group of senior, indigenous Australian women fought to save their land.
Published on Friday, 5th July 2019.
The advent of music on the move in July 1979
Published on Thursday, 4th July 2019.
The Khmer Rouge took power in 1975, starting their four year genocidal rule.
Published on Wednesday, 3rd July 2019.
Two German left-wing activists recall their ordeal as hostages of Nicaragua's Contras
Published on Tuesday, 2nd July 2019.
How Supreme Court nominee Judge Clarence Thomas was publicly accused of sexual misconduct
Published on Monday, 1st July 2019.
The lawyer of serial killer Rosemary West recalls the gruesome details of the case
Published on Friday, 28th June 2019.
Published on Thursday, 27th June 2019.
Saddam Hussein's war on the Kurds in the 1980s
The story behind Joseph Heller's acclaimed, satirical anti-war novel which sold millions
Published on Tuesday, 25th June 2019.
The National Association to Aid Fat Americans, NAAFA, held its first meeting in June 1969
Published on Monday, 24th June 2019.
How violinist Yehudi Menuhin and yoga teacher BKS Iyengar helped bring yoga to the West
Published on Friday, 21st June 2019.
Sister Lotus was an unlikely online celebrity because she was famous for being ordinary.
Published on Thursday, 20th June 2019.
The American civil rights activist and war hero who was murdered in 1963 in Mississippi.
Published on Wednesday, 19th June 2019.
One of the most influential figures in psychoanalysis died in June 1961
Published on Tuesday, 18th June 2019.
How a young woman became a symbol of anti-government protest in Iran
Published on Monday, 17th June 2019.
One gay couple in Minneapolis had a same-sex wedding back in the 1970's
Published on Friday, 14th June 2019.
How an American war hero was sent to stop China becoming communist and failed.
Published on Thursday, 13th June 2019.
How a huge public art project entranced post-Cold War Berlin
Published on Wednesday, 12th June 2019.
How a 1950s drug helped revolutionise the treatment of mental illness
Published on Tuesday, 11th June 2019.
Hundreds of thousands of Kosovans fled when NATO began bombing former Yugoslavia in 1999
Published on Monday, 10th June 2019.
A Nepalese regiment of the British army won the right to settle in Britain in 2009.
Published on Friday, 7th June 2019.
How the BBC reported the Allied invasion of Nazi-occupied France, 6 June 1944
Published on Thursday, 6th June 2019.
The mystery surrounding the death of the author of the world famous children's tale
Published on Wednesday, 5th June 2019.
Eyewitness accounts of the Allied landings in Normandy during WW2 on 6 June 1944.
Published on Tuesday, 4th June 2019.
Archaeologists uncovered perfectly preserved domestic Viking life in York in the 1970s
Published on Monday, 3rd June 2019.
Andrew Weinreich founded the first online social network in 1997.
Published on Friday, 31st May 2019.
The inside story of one of the most popular children's TV shows ever made
Published on Thursday, 30th May 2019.
Dan Wang was the most wanted student leader after the Tiananmen Square crackdown in 1989.
Published on Wednesday, 29th May 2019.
How protests by young people led to Jean-Bédel Bokassa's fall from power in C.A.R
Published on Tuesday, 28th May 2019.
The man who led India to independence died on May 27th 1964
Published on Monday, 27th May 2019.
The Bangladesh charity dedicated to treating the survivors of acid attacks.
Published on Friday, 24th May 2019.
The story of how environmental campaign group Greenpeace was formed
Published on Thursday, 23rd May 2019.
When MPs tried to toughen the laws against homosexuality, LGBT activists took a stand.
Published on Wednesday, 22nd May 2019.
The Chicxulub impact crater was discovered in 1978.
Published on Tuesday, 21st May 2019.
Three friends set off on an epic trek along the Great Wall of China in May 1984
Published on Monday, 20th May 2019.
During WW2 the Nazis abducted blonde blue-eyed children to build an Aryan master race
Published on Friday, 17th May 2019.
The Chinese Communist Party started ruthlessly enforcing birth control in the early 1980s
Published on Thursday, 16th May 2019.
How the army finally crushed Tamil Tiger rebels after 25 years of bloody civil war
Published on Wednesday, 15th May 2019.
The economists who predicted the 2008 financial crash but whose warnings were ignored
Published on Tuesday, 14th May 2019.
The road between Pakistan and China took 20 years to complete
Published on Monday, 13th May 2019.
One of the most successful TV formats in the world started back in May 2004
Published on Friday, 10th May 2019.
The first 'war on drugs' was launched by US President Richard Nixon in 1971.
Published on Thursday, 9th May 2019.
The groundbreaking school of art and design was founded in 1919
Published on Wednesday, 8th May 2019.
The French surrender at the siege of Dien Bien Phu ended their colonial rule of Vietnam
Published on Tuesday, 7th May 2019.
The Chinese billionaire set up his online shopping site in 1999
Published on Monday, 6th May 2019.
The struggle against a Communist insurgency in Malaya in the 1950s
Published on Friday, 3rd May 2019.
The Argentine ship was sunk by a British submarine during the Falklands war
Published on Thursday, 2nd May 2019.
Why a boy ran away from West Africa to live in the Arctic in the 1960s.
Published on Wednesday, 1st May 2019.
The English poet whose death at the start of World War One was mourned by millions
Published on Tuesday, 30th April 2019.
Ellen DeGeneres came out as a lesbian on primetime American television in April 1997.
Published on Monday, 29th April 2019.
A record series of arms sales by the UK to Saudi Arabia began in the 1980s
Published on Friday, 26th April 2019.
The assassination of newspaper editor, Lasantha Wickramatunga, in 2009 shocked the world
Published on Thursday, 25th April 2019.
After Apartheid all South Africans regardless of race finally won the right to vote.
Published on Wednesday, 24th April 2019.
The Vegan Society was established in 1944 by British 'non-dairy vegetarians'
Published on Tuesday, 23rd April 2019.
A survivor from the April 1999 bombing in Belgrade that killed 16 people.
Published on Monday, 22nd April 2019.
13 people were killed and more than 20 injured in the school shooting on April 20th 1999
Published on Friday, 19th April 2019.
Worries about the industrialisation of farming post-WW2 led some farmers to go organic.
Published on Thursday, 18th April 2019.
Gustav Metzger and the birth of the radical new art form in the 1960s
Published on Wednesday, 17th April 2019.
'A Raisin in the Sun' by Lorraine Hansberry had an almost exclusively black cast too.
Published on Tuesday, 16th April 2019.
In April 2001 an American multi-millionaire paid Russia to send him into space
Published on Monday, 15th April 2019.
In the 1960's American diners began to worry that Chinese food was making them ill.
Published on Friday, 12th April 2019.
The consolidation of the BJP as one of the major powers in Indian politics.
Published on Thursday, 11th April 2019.
The wingsuit is the ultimate in extreme sports clothing, for BASE jumpers and skydivers
Published on Tuesday, 9th April 2019.
In April 1919 British Indian troops opened fire on protestors in the city of Amritsar
Choreographer Jack Cole had a huge influence on musical theatre and Hollywood films
Published on Monday, 8th April 2019.
Maya Angelou's iconic memoir, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, was published in 1969
Published on Friday, 5th April 2019.
Costa Rica dissolved its Armed Forces after a brief civil war in 1948
Published on Thursday, 4th April 2019.
The discovery of a 17th century Swedish warship, the Vasa, in near perfect condition
Published on Wednesday, 3rd April 2019.
A therapy which seems to work for post-traumatic stress was developed in the late 1980s
Published on Monday, 1st April 2019.
In April 1974 the heiress announced she supported her kidnappers' beliefs
Published on Friday, 29th March 2019.
How former UN Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim's secret Nazi past was exposed
Published on Thursday, 28th March 2019.
The record-breaking balloon flight
Published on Wednesday, 27th March 2019.
Prime Minister Jim Callaghan's desperate attempts to survive a no-confidence vote in 1979
Published on Tuesday, 26th March 2019.
A female designer working for a pharmaceutical company came up with the idea in the 1960s
Published on Monday, 25th March 2019.
Viktor Orban, now the populist Hungarian Prime Minister led a democratic movement in 1988
Published on Friday, 22nd March 2019.
How a British doctor misled the world by linking the MMR vaccine with autism.
Published on Thursday, 21st March 2019.
How an accidental discovery in Mexico led to the uncovering of the Aztecs´ Great Temple.
Published on Wednesday, 20th March 2019.
Soviet citizens voted in democratic elections for the first time in March 1989.
Published on Tuesday, 19th March 2019.
How the Dutch art collector Pieter Menten was exposed as a war criminal in the 1970s
Published on Monday, 18th March 2019.
In the 1950s, US engineers were sent to Afghanistan to build a dam.
Published on Friday, 15th March 2019.
In March 1969, American author Kurt Vonnegut published his cult anti-war novel.
Published on Thursday, 14th March 2019.
Chinese scientists used ancient traditional medicine to find a cure for malaria.
Published on Wednesday, 13th March 2019.
A spoof TV show persuaded some Russians that Lenin took too many hallucinogenic mushrooms
Published on Tuesday, 12th March 2019.
Life under Japanese occupation in Singapore during World War Two.
Published on Monday, 11th March 2019.
Yvonne Conolly was appointed head of Ringcross Primary school in North London in 1969
Published on Friday, 8th March 2019.
Melina Mercouri asked Britain to return the Parthenon marbles removed by Lord Elgin.
Published on Thursday, 7th March 2019.
How Nicaragua's president was accused of sexual abuse by his step-daughter
Published on Wednesday, 6th March 2019.
Hear from the woman who created the most famous doll in the world.
Published on Tuesday, 5th March 2019.
Sayeeda Warsi was appointed to the coalition government's Cabinet in May 2010
Published on Monday, 4th March 2019.
On March 1st 1989 Icelanders were allowed to buy beer for the first time in decades
Published on Friday, 1st March 2019.
Armed left-wing extremists fought off Japanese police in the mountains in February 1972
Published on Thursday, 28th February 2019.
Nine people died when a cargo door opened mid-flight over the Pacific in February 1989
Published on Wednesday, 27th February 2019.
A highly infectious virus appeared in Mexico in 2009 and rapidly spread round the world
Published on Tuesday, 26th February 2019.
The boom and bust years of "Saudi" Venezuela in the 1970s
Published on Monday, 25th February 2019.
A panel of scientists went to Brazil to identify the remains of the infamous Nazi in 1985
Published on Friday, 22nd February 2019.
When doctors said cigarette smokers were dying prematurely the UK government did little.
Published on Thursday, 21st February 2019.
One woman's battle against the toxic legacy of the Vietnam War
Published on Wednesday, 20th February 2019.
The US space shuttle disintegrated on its way back to Earth on February 1, 2003.
Published on Tuesday, 19th February 2019.
The student massacre in México portrayed in Alfonso Cuarón's award-winning movie.
Published on Monday, 18th February 2019.
In 1992 European ministers signed a treaty towards greater economic and political unity.
Published on Friday, 15th February 2019.
How a homeless Russian drunk wrote a secret classic
Published on Thursday, 14th February 2019.
The 1961 vote lies at the heart of the violent conflict in Cameroon's Anglophone region
Published on Wednesday, 13th February 2019.
Two of the first female airline pilots in the US remember their struggle
Published on Tuesday, 12th February 2019.
The man who jailed 40 top bankers in Iceland after the 2008 global credit crunch
Published on Monday, 11th February 2019.
The people of Baghdad faced death when the US and its allies began their invasion of Iraq
Published on Friday, 8th February 2019.
The first Disney theme park in Europe took years of negotiations to get off the ground.
Published on Thursday, 7th February 2019.
A former schoolgirl remembers the demonstration that sparked an uprising in South Africa.
Published on Wednesday, 6th February 2019.
How the Marxist revolutionary was captured and killed in Bolivia.
Published on Tuesday, 5th February 2019.
A first-hand account of Hitler from one of his secretaries who was there at the very end
Published on Monday, 4th February 2019.
Many women supported Iran's 1979 Revolution but some later became disillusioned
Published on Thursday, 31st January 2019.
The US sent special forces to try to rescue hostages from their Embassy in Tehran in 1980
Barry Rosen was one of the Americans held hostage for 444 days in Tehran.
Published on Wednesday, 30th January 2019.
In February 1979 an Islamic revolution began when Iran's exiled religious leader returned
Published on Tuesday, 29th January 2019.
How Iran's state employed musicians started recording revolutionary songs.
Published on Monday, 28th January 2019.
Virago Press opened as a feminist publisher in 1972 to promote women's writing
Published on Friday, 25th January 2019.
Pope John XXIII wanted to modernise the Catholic Church, reforms took place in the 1960s.
Published on Wednesday, 23rd January 2019.
The British comic film franchise which found fans around the world
Published on Tuesday, 22nd January 2019.
In the late 1990s a businessman started a new industry in India
Published on Monday, 21st January 2019.
How one of the most notorious murderers in Edwardian London was captured
Published on Friday, 18th January 2019.
In January 2006, millions of Londoners were entranced by the appearance of a whale.
Published on Thursday, 17th January 2019.
South Asian women led a strike against poor working conditions in a British factory.
Published on Wednesday, 16th January 2019.
Thousands of people flocked to the village of Tlacote hoping to be cured by magical water
Published on Tuesday, 15th January 2019.
The world famous singer's final performances were in London in January 1969
Published on Monday, 14th January 2019.
Susie Orbach's book led people to rethink body-image from a feminist perspective
Published on Friday, 11th January 2019.
The poor black single mother who stunned Brazil with a book about her life in 1960.
Published on Thursday, 10th January 2019.
Hundreds of Soviet doctors were imprisoned or shot in the last year of Stalin's rule.
Published on Wednesday, 9th January 2019.
The end of the US-backed dictator and the start of communist rule in Cuba in January 1959
Published on Tuesday, 8th January 2019.
In 2008, the first global seed vault was opened to safeguard the world's crops
Published on Monday, 7th January 2019.
The Canadian discovery that proved Vikings had crossed the Atlantic 1000 years ago
Published on Friday, 4th January 2019.
The vast building that symbolised the excesses of Romania's brutal former dictator
Published on Thursday, 3rd January 2019.
The romantic fiction writer is thought to have sold hundreds of millions of books
Published on Wednesday, 2nd January 2019.
In 1987 thousands of tin cans full of marijuana washed up on the beaches in Rio.
Published on Tuesday, 1st January 2019.
The storming of the El Paraiso base by Marxist rebels in December 1983.
Published on Monday, 31st December 2018.
In December 1943, a British charity created gallantry medals for animals serving in war.
Published on Friday, 28th December 2018.
Meet the trautonium, the early electronic instrument promoted by the Nazis.
Published on Thursday, 27th December 2018.
At Christmas 1980 strange objects and lights were seen over a military base in England.
Published on Tuesday, 25th December 2018.
On Christmas Eve 1950 four students took the 'Stone of Destiny' from Westminster Abbey
Published on Monday, 24th December 2018.
How a passenger helped subdue shoe-bomber Richard Reid on an American Airlines flight.
Published on Friday, 21st December 2018.
Writer PL Travers created a children's classic when she invented a magical nanny.
Published on Thursday, 20th December 2018.
Scientists at MIT in the 1960s had to share computer time - but some people wanted more.
Published on Wednesday, 19th December 2018.
Theatre director Peter Brook led a troupe of actors across the Sahara desert in 1972
Published on Tuesday, 18th December 2018.
Japanese troops reached the Chinese city of Nanjing in December 1937.
Published on Monday, 17th December 2018.
Japanese Americans win an apology and compensation for World War II internment.
How Britain sent dozens of Dutch agents to their deaths in Nazi-occupied Netherlands
Published on Thursday, 13th December 2018.
The British woman who revolutionised the treatment of dying patients around the world.
Published on Wednesday, 12th December 2018.
How the first mission to orbit the Moon captured the world's imagination in December 1968
China had to open up its strict communist system to join the World Trade Organisation
Published on Tuesday, 11th December 2018.
Angela Merkel rose to power in German politics after the fall of her mentor, Helmut Kohl.
Published on Friday, 7th December 2018.
Ramiro Osorio Cristales was five when his family was massacred by the Guatemalan army.
Published on Thursday, 6th December 2018.
A catastrophic earthquake hit northern Armenia on December 7th 1988, hear from a survivor
Published on Wednesday, 5th December 2018.
On 4 December 1977 Jean-Bédel Bokassa was crowned Emperor of the Central African Republic
Published on Tuesday, 4th December 2018.
At the end of WW2 much of Germany's capital had been destroyed. Women helped clear it up.
Published on Monday, 3rd December 2018.
In November 1994, Norwegians voted in a referendum not to join the European Union
Published on Friday, 30th November 2018.
The fossil find in 1923 in Mongolia helped to prove that dinosaurs hatched their young.
Published on Thursday, 29th November 2018.
In 1982, Terrence Higgins became the first known British victim of HIV/AIDS.
Published on Wednesday, 28th November 2018.
Memories of the bloody Antarctic industry which left whales on the brink of extinction.
Published on Tuesday, 27th November 2018.
When Iraq's marshes became a hiding place for rebels, Saddam Hussein destroyed them.
Published on Monday, 26th November 2018.
Four years after Stalin's death, Moscow threw a festival for 30,000 foreign students.
Published on Friday, 23rd November 2018.
The Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat died in November 2004
Published on Thursday, 22nd November 2018.
What did Lee Harvey Oswald do for two years in the Soviet city of Minsk?
Published on Wednesday, 21st November 2018.
How hundreds of thousands of Mexicans were hired to work legally in US farms.
Published on Tuesday, 20th November 2018.
Recorded memories of the funeral in 1852 of the Duke of Wellington who defeated Napoleon.
Published on Monday, 19th November 2018.
For decades disabled people in the UK were offered tiny, three-wheeled, turquoise cars
Published on Friday, 16th November 2018.
Fanatics killed Japanese immigrants who accepted that Japan had surrendered in WW2.
Published on Thursday, 15th November 2018.
Iranians stormed the US embassy in Iran in November 79 after America allowed in the Shah
Published on Tuesday, 13th November 2018.
A young woman's rare account of Jewish life in imperial Russia.
Writer Marcelo Rubens Paiva remembers the day his father was taken by the military.
Published on Monday, 12th November 2018.
Eyewitness accounts of the collapse of Germany in the final weeks of war in November 1918
Published on Thursday, 8th November 2018.
Thousands of women volunteered for war work during WW1. Hear archive from one of them.
Published on Wednesday, 7th November 2018.
Thousands of East Africans were conscripted to fight for Britain and Germany during WW1
Published on Tuesday, 6th November 2018.
It was one of the battles which symbolised the horror and futility of WW1
Published on Monday, 5th November 2018.
Nora Krug investigated Nazi attacks in her German hometown on 9 November 1938
Published on Friday, 2nd November 2018.
In November 1968 a young activist hit Germany's leader to draw attention to his Nazi past
Published on Thursday, 1st November 2018.
How a love affair between the Queen's sister and Captain Peter Townsend gripped Britain.
Published on Wednesday, 31st October 2018.
Memories of the radical African American leader, Eldridge Cleaver.
Published on Tuesday, 30th October 2018.
KGB defector Vasili Mitrokhin's top secret archive was smuggled to Britain in 1992
Published on Monday, 29th October 2018.
An eyewitness account of a discovery that changed Nigerian history
Published on Friday, 26th October 2018.
Russian tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky was arrested in 2003
Published on Thursday, 25th October 2018.
The former ruler of Chile, Augusto Pinochet was arrested in London in October 1998
Published on Tuesday, 23rd October 2018.
Apartheid South Africa's outspoken critic Bishop Desmond Tutu wins the Nobel Peace Prize
Published on Monday, 22nd October 2018.
When Belgian teenagers got sick they blamed Coca-Cola but the truth was more mysterious
Published on Friday, 19th October 2018.
In 1993 news broke about development aid linked to a British arms deal.
Published on Thursday, 18th October 2018.
How a small guerrilla group tried to start a revolution in the Brazilian jungle.
Published on Wednesday, 17th October 2018.
In October 1973 an Arab oil embargo caused prices to rocket.
Published on Tuesday, 16th October 2018.
How the Italian authorities diverted the stream of molten lava from the Etna volcano.
Published on Monday, 15th October 2018.
Murdered while head of the Roman Catholic church in El Salvador, he is being made a saint
Published on Friday, 12th October 2018.
The story of a young Austrian woman who survived World War Two and the allied occupation
Published on Thursday, 11th October 2018.
During WW2 Germany listed the people it wanted to arrest should Britain fall to the Nazis
Published on Wednesday, 10th October 2018.
In 1948 violence broke out against Romany-speaking traveller people in Sweden
Published on Tuesday, 9th October 2018.
How Britain's Labour government tried to kick the aristocrats out of Parliament
Published on Monday, 8th October 2018.
How Allan Ginsberg's reading in San Francisco in 1955 started the "Beat Generation".
Published on Friday, 5th October 2018.
Slava Zaitsev created the first high fashion collections in the USSR.
Published on Thursday, 4th October 2018.
How a chemist and a surgeon found a way of helping burns to heal.
Published on Wednesday, 3rd October 2018.
A clash between students in 1968 paved the way for a hardening of military rule.
Published on Tuesday, 2nd October 2018.
The former West Indies cricketer took a London hotel to court in 1943
Published on Monday, 1st October 2018.
The bridge which connected neighbours across the water and inspired a TV hit worldwide.
Published on Friday, 28th September 2018.
The war lasted for 8 years and is thought to have left over a million people dead.
Published on Thursday, 27th September 2018.
The scientific breakthrough that saved the lives of thousands of women
Published on Wednesday, 26th September 2018.
Sometimes called the 'Mother of Modern Dance'
Published on Tuesday, 25th September 2018.
South Africa sent 600 soldiers into Lesotho to quell political unrest in September 1998
Published on Monday, 24th September 2018.
Hundreds of people were contaminated when a disused radiotherapy machine was scrapped.
Published on Friday, 21st September 2018.
In 'Operation Market Garden' thousands of Allied troops parachuted into Nazi-held Holland
Published on Thursday, 20th September 2018.
The film that tells the true story of the Algerians' fight for their capital Algiers
The case of five Cuban spies arrested in Miami in September 1998
Published on Tuesday, 18th September 2018.
The train signaled the end of the steam age on Britain's main-line rail network in 1968
Published on Monday, 17th September 2018.
Thought to be left by UFOs the phenomena was resolved when two men came forward in 1991.
Published on Friday, 14th September 2018.
One young man was the only passenger to survive a fire on a plane - find out how.
Published on Thursday, 13th September 2018.
The brutal death in custody of the anti-Apartheid activist in September 1977.
Published on Wednesday, 12th September 2018.
In September 1938 Neville Chamberlain tried to negotiate with Hitler over Czechoslovakia.
Published on Tuesday, 11th September 2018.
How campaigners fought to stop the 'Khian Sea' from off-loading tons of US waste abroad
Published on Monday, 10th September 2018.
First-hand accounts of the Allied offensive that finally brought the bloody war to an end
Published on Friday, 7th September 2018.
In a hugely symbolic act Leningrad returned to its historic name of St Petersburg in 1991
Published on Thursday, 6th September 2018.
A military coup in Libya in September 1969 brought Muammar Gaddafi to power.
Published on Wednesday, 5th September 2018.
In 1978 the racist murder of a young Bengali galvanised an immigrant community in London.
Published on Tuesday, 4th September 2018.
Dr Raymond Damadian attempted the first magnetic resonance scan of a human body.
Published on Monday, 3rd September 2018.
A prisoner of war describes the deadly conditions building the bridge over the River Kwai
Published on Friday, 31st August 2018.
How an accident at Marcinelle in Belgium killed more than 100 Italian migrant workers.
Published on Thursday, 30th August 2018.
The mysterious death of villagers and livestock in north-western Cameroon
Published on Wednesday, 29th August 2018.
An elderly German recalls her years as a leader in the Hitler Youth for girls.
Published on Tuesday, 28th August 2018.
Published on Monday, 27th August 2018.
Albert Speer was Hitler's architect. We talk to a journalist who interviewed him.
Published on Friday, 24th August 2018.
The groundbreaking autobiography of a woman who grew up in 19th century Nigeria
Published on Thursday, 23rd August 2018.
Sales of alcohol in the USSR were limited in 1985 in a bid to fight drunkenness.
Published on Wednesday, 22nd August 2018.
The student who appealed for the world's help when Soviet tanks invaded Czechoslovakia
Published on Tuesday, 21st August 2018.
A bank robbery, a three-day car chase and a journalist who got too close to the story.
Published on Monday, 20th August 2018.
The creation in 1958 of a new product that would revolutionise mealtimes worldwide.
Published on Friday, 17th August 2018.
Apartheid South Africa finally launched the country's first TV service in 1976.
Published on Thursday, 16th August 2018.
Moneta Sleet, the first African American to win a Pulitzer Prize for journalism.
Published on Tuesday, 14th August 2018.
During WW2 the feminist and writer Vera Brittain spoke out against the bombing of Germany
Published on Monday, 13th August 2018.
In August 1994 Yitzhak Rabin became the first Israeli leader to visit Jordan
Published on Thursday, 9th August 2018.
How two villages, Armenian and Azeri, managed to avoid ethnic violence by swapping homes
Published on Monday, 6th August 2018.
Guatemala's president was ousted from power by army officers backed by the CIA in 1954.
Published on Friday, 3rd August 2018.
In 2003 Iran agreed to let the IAEA into the country to inspect its nuclear facilities.
Published on Thursday, 2nd August 2018.
The Bulgarian sanctuary that cares for bears once forced to dance.
Published on Wednesday, 1st August 2018.
How a bull's health led to a stand-off between monks and the Welsh government in 2007.
Published on Tuesday, 31st July 2018.
Thousands went to prison for refusing to join Britain's war effort.
Published on Monday, 30th July 2018.
In July 1976, female cadets were admitted to the US Military Academy for the first time.
Published on Friday, 27th July 2018.
In July l945 Britain's wartime leader Winston Churchill was ousted in a general election
Published on Thursday, 26th July 2018.
The contentious history of the ruined city of Great Zimbabwe - finally revealed.
Published on Tuesday, 24th July 2018.
When two Cold War leaders argued about living standards in their countries.
How thousands of suspected communist sympathisers were killed in South Korea in 1950.
Published on Monday, 23rd July 2018.
Two IRA bombs in London parks killed 11 military personnel and 7 horses on 20th July 1982
Published on Friday, 20th July 2018.
The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty was signed in July 1968
Published on Thursday, 19th July 2018.
The attack by an armed Jewish group on British HQ in Palestine that left 91 dead.
Published on Wednesday, 18th July 2018.
To fight food shortages in the 1950s the USSR embarked on a major agricultural project
Published on Tuesday, 17th July 2018.
The Russian Tsar and his family were shot in a cellar in Yekaterinburg on 17 July 1918
Published on Monday, 16th July 2018.
How journalists located the wreck of a boat that capsized killing nearly 300 migrants
Published on Friday, 13th July 2018.
How a magazine article about West Germany's defence strategy led to a government crisis.
Published on Thursday, 12th July 2018.
How India secretly developed and exploded its first atomic device in 1974
Published on Wednesday, 11th July 2018.
Published in 1958 the Nigerian writer's first novel revolutionised African fiction.
Published on Tuesday, 10th July 2018.
Ex-US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright on why she argued for Nato action in Kosovo
Published on Thursday, 5th July 2018.
Post-war Britain saw a rise in "adventure playgrounds" born out of bomb-sites
The controversial art installation which upset Russians but is now seen as a masterpiece
Published on Wednesday, 4th July 2018.
All 290 on board were killed when a US warship downed an Iranian passenger jet in 1988
Published on Tuesday, 3rd July 2018.
In July 2005, the most famous informant in American history Deep Throat revealed himself
Published on Monday, 2nd July 2018.
Former President George Bush Senior's public row with the National Rifle Association.
Published on Friday, 29th June 2018.
The Cold War stand-off when a Soviet submarine was stranded on a Swedish rock.
Published on Thursday, 28th June 2018.
Early 2003 saw a medical emergency sweep across the world.
Published on Wednesday, 27th June 2018.
The Irish journalist murdered for her work exposing drug barons in the 1990s
Published on Tuesday, 26th June 2018.
How 4,000 Italian troops surrendered to a young Jewish pilot from London, during WW2.
Published on Monday, 25th June 2018.
James Hansen got US politicians to listen to his warnings about climate change in 1988.
Published on Friday, 22nd June 2018.
When the Israeli Army punished Colonel Uzi Even for being gay, he fought back.
Published on Thursday, 21st June 2018.
How a town built around an asbestos mine made its residents fatally ill.
Published on Wednesday, 20th June 2018.
Bata, a Czech company, pioneered assembly line shoemaking
Published on Tuesday, 19th June 2018.
The American doctor who forced the medical profession to face up to child abuse.
Published on Monday, 18th June 2018.
The founding father of communist North Korea died in July 1994.
Published on Friday, 15th June 2018.
How ping pong brought together athletes from bitter rivals North and South Korea.
Published on Thursday, 14th June 2018.
After the Korean war ended a few American prisoners chose to try life under communism.
Published on Wednesday, 13th June 2018.
North Korean communist troops invaded South Korea on 25 June 1950.
Published on Tuesday, 12th June 2018.
The Korean peninsula was split between North and South at the end of World War Two.
Published on Monday, 11th June 2018.
Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann was executed in the early hours of June 1st 1962
Published on Friday, 8th June 2018.
Nigeria's military ruler died suddenly in June 1998.
Published on Thursday, 7th June 2018.
In June 1968, students in Belgrade rebelled against Yugoslavia's 'market socialism'
Published on Wednesday, 6th June 2018.
In 1982, a Palestinian gunman attacked the Israeli ambassador to London, Shlomo Argov
Published on Tuesday, 5th June 2018.
The birth of the running programme that got millions off their sofas and out jogging
Published on Monday, 4th June 2018.
How a herdsman found the perfectly preserved body of a 42,000-year-old baby mammoth.
Published on Friday, 1st June 2018.
The American writer and scientist considered one of the greats of Science Fiction.
Published on Thursday, 31st May 2018.
In 1948 Britain launched the National Health Service, NHS
Published on Wednesday, 30th May 2018.
Executives of the German company that made the drug Thalidomide went on trial in May 1968
Published on Tuesday, 29th May 2018.
In the mid 1960s a Dutch engineer came up with a scheme to share bikes and cut pollution.
Published on Monday, 28th May 2018.
For 75 years the BBC ran a monitoring service based in an English stately home.
Published on Friday, 25th May 2018.
Shoah, Claude Lanzmann's epic nine-hour film on the Holocaust was released in spring 1985
Published on Thursday, 24th May 2018.
On 23 May 1988 a group of lesbian activists invaded a BBC TV news studio as it was on air
Published on Wednesday, 23rd May 2018.
The launch of Ajoka, the group which pioneered theatre for social change in Pakistan.
Published on Tuesday, 22nd May 2018.
On May 21st 1998 the president of Indonesia resigned after 31 years in power.
Published on Monday, 21st May 2018.
How Lt. Jack ReVelle disarmed two thermonuclear bombs which crashed in North Carolina.
Published on Friday, 18th May 2018.
The play Look Back in Anger changed British theatre when it was staged in 1956
Published on Thursday, 17th May 2018.
A riot policeman's view of the violence which swept through France in 1968.
Published on Wednesday, 16th May 2018.
In 1907 Italian doctor, Maria Montessori, radically changed the way young children learn.
Published on Tuesday, 15th May 2018.
The famous British raid on German dams during World War Two.
Published on Saturday, 12th May 2018.
In 1985 members of the US spy ring were arrested for selling Navy secrets to the USSR.
Published on Friday, 11th May 2018.
On the 10th May 1981 a baby was born after a successful operation while in the womb.
Published on Thursday, 10th May 2018.
Bulgaria's former King Simeon II wins the country’s parliamentary election in 2001.
Published on Wednesday, 9th May 2018.
How 32 newly-independent nations came together to plan the future of their continent.
Published on Tuesday, 8th May 2018.
The condition was first described in 1943 by child psychiatrist Leo Kanner in the USA
Published on Monday, 7th May 2018.
The British politician was the first woman elected to lead a Western European country.
Published on Friday, 4th May 2018.
A surprise attack, a ship lost, a crew captured - memories of a merchant navy veteran
Published on Thursday, 3rd May 2018.
A new sort of game show started on Japanese TV in May 1986
Published on Wednesday, 2nd May 2018.
Thousands of black children protested on the streets of Birmingham Alabama in May 1963.
Published on Tuesday, 1st May 2018.
The Royal Shakespeare Company opened in Britain in 1961 and changed theatre forever.
Published on Monday, 30th April 2018.
The great Spanish artist Pablo Picasso died in April 1973; hear from someone who knew him
Published on Friday, 27th April 2018.
A special unit in a Glasgow jail began offering art therapy to violent prisoners in 1973.
Published on Thursday, 26th April 2018.
How secret negotiations in Norway led to an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal.
Published on Wednesday, 25th April 2018.
How an American swimmer crossed the "Ice Curtain" between the USA and the Soviet Union.
Published on Tuesday, 24th April 2018.
Veterans remember the famous German air ace who was killed in April 1918
Published on Monday, 23rd April 2018.
In 1970, 20 million Americans came out to demonstrate for a sustainable environment.
Published on Friday, 20th April 2018.
The island of Skellig Michael has lighthouses, and a striking role in Star Wars films.
Published on Thursday, 19th April 2018.
How a team of architects were given the responsibility to repair New York's skyline.
Published on Tuesday, 17th April 2018.
Germany launched a huge offensive on the Western Front in a last gamble to win the war.
Published on Monday, 16th April 2018.
The German student leader was shot in April 1968, leading to protests in West Berlin.
Published on Friday, 13th April 2018.
Published on Thursday, 12th April 2018.
Robert Mugabe sent troops to put down opposition supporters in western Zimbabwe in 1983.
Published on Tuesday, 10th April 2018.
Zoe Leyland was born in Australia on April 11th 1984 after her mother's IVF treatment.
The film company which changed British cinema.
Published on Monday, 9th April 2018.
The Emergency Rescue Committee helped save intellectuals and artists from the Nazis
Published on Friday, 6th April 2018.
Communist forces overran the key city in 1968 triggering one of the war's biggest battles
Actor Keir Dullea recalls starring in Stanley Kubrick's ground-breaking sci-fi movie
Published on Thursday, 5th April 2018.
Chaos and hardship hit Russia with the rapid market reforms in early 1992.
Published on Wednesday, 4th April 2018.
How the UNAbomber Ted Kaczynski was caught after his brother turned him in
Published on Tuesday, 3rd April 2018.
The Czech plastic explosive that was once undetectable to security services
Published on Monday, 2nd April 2018.
The deal which brought peace to Northern Ireland after decades of violence.
Published on Friday, 30th March 2018.
Marie Tharp's discovery of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge proved the theory of plate tectonics
Published on Thursday, 29th March 2018.
The story of Wahat al-Salam, Neve Shalom where Jews and Arabs live side by side in peace.
Published on Wednesday, 28th March 2018.
How a multi-faith choir brought together survivors of the Bosnian civil war.
Published on Tuesday, 27th March 2018.
The women who broke tradition shocking London's top-hatted stockbrokers.
Published on Monday, 26th March 2018.
The murder of a presidential candidate that shocked Mexico.
Published on Friday, 23rd March 2018.
Did a nerve agent kill 6,000 sheep close to a US military testing site in 1968?
Published on Thursday, 22nd March 2018.
In 1988 scientists performed a carbon dating test on the Shroud of Turin.
Physicist Stephen Hawking's best-seller, A Brief History of Time, was published in 1988
Published on Wednesday, 21st March 2018.
How the 'King' of Rock'n'Roll became a GI in 1958 and served during the Cold War
Published on Tuesday, 20th March 2018.
In 1998 Latvian Waffen-SS veterans marched to remember a battle against the Soviets.
Published on Friday, 16th March 2018.
How the politician who led Brazil to democracy died before taking office as president.
Published on Thursday, 15th March 2018.
How the BBC began Spanish and Portuguese broadcasts to fight the Nazis in the Americas
Published on Wednesday, 14th March 2018.
One of the worse US military atrocities took place during the Vietnam war.
Published on Tuesday, 13th March 2018.
An eyewitness account of Stalin's purge of top Soviet leaders during the Great Terror.
Published on Monday, 12th March 2018.
After independence Azerbaijan changed from Russian Cyrillic script to Latin letters.
Published on Friday, 9th March 2018.
The first birth control clinic in Britain was opened in London in 1921 by Dr Marie Stopes
Published on Thursday, 8th March 2018.
The life and thought of the leading 20th-century political thinker, Hannah Arendt
Published on Wednesday, 7th March 2018.
Students at the world's first deaf-only University demand a deaf college President.
Published on Tuesday, 6th March 2018.
How Russia's disastrous war on the Eastern Front became a catalyst for revolution
Published on Friday, 2nd March 2018.
How China's barefoot doctor scheme revolutionised rural healthcare.
Published on Thursday, 1st March 2018.
The last episode of the iconic TV series broadcasts to record audiences across the US.
Published on Wednesday, 28th February 2018.
The Swedish Prime Minister was shot dead on a Stockholm street on February 28th 1986.
Published on Tuesday, 27th February 2018.
The huge steel sculpture that has become an icon for the north-east of England.
Published on Monday, 26th February 2018.
In India in 1974 thousands of people died in the world's last major smallpox epidemic
Published on Friday, 23rd February 2018.
One of the biggest novels of the late twentieth century was published in February 1996.
Published on Thursday, 22nd February 2018.
David Vetter was born with a disease which meant he lived inside a plastic bubble
Published on Wednesday, 21st February 2018.
How one of America's most successful televangelists was caught with a prostitute
Published on Tuesday, 20th February 2018.
Over a million African migrants, most of them Ghanaian, had to leave Nigeria in 1983
Published on Monday, 19th February 2018.
A group of US feminists set up a commune to live entirely without men in 1971.
Published on Thursday, 15th February 2018.
In 1967 two long-lost notebooks of the artist Leonardo da Vinci were discovered in Spain
Published on Wednesday, 14th February 2018.
Iran's first ever Minister for Women's Affairs was appointed in 1975.
Published on Tuesday, 13th February 2018.
The British fishermen's wives who fought for better safety standards in their industry
Published on Monday, 12th February 2018.
In 1987, 115 people died in an attack ordered by North Korea to disrupt the Olympic Games
Published on Friday, 9th February 2018.
Renfrew Christie was jailed and tortured for passing details of the bomb to the ANC
Published on Thursday, 8th February 2018.
The 1958 plane crash that killed eight of Manchester United's famous "Busby Babes" team.
Published on Wednesday, 7th February 2018.
On 6th February 1918, women in Britain were given the right to vote for the first time
Published on Tuesday, 6th February 2018.
The extradition to France of the man known as 'the butcher of Lyon'
Published on Monday, 5th February 2018.
How two Scottish mothers forced the UK government to end corporal punishment in schools
Published on Friday, 2nd February 2018.
The complex history behind the world's fastest growing refugee crisis.
Published on Thursday, 1st February 2018.
How a surprise attack became a turning point in the Vietnam war
Published on Wednesday, 31st January 2018.
Tony Doherty recalls the murder of his father by British troops in Northern Ireland
Published on Tuesday, 30th January 2018.
Thomas A Dorsey is credited with developing Gospel music into a global phenomenon.
Published on Monday, 29th January 2018.
How one of the world's most popular toys was invented in a small Danish town in 1958
Published on Friday, 26th January 2018.
How one of the mainstays of vegetarian cuisine was launched in 1982
Published on Thursday, 25th January 2018.
The life and times of the great surrealist artist, Salvador Dali
Published on Wednesday, 24th January 2018.
A US spy ship was caught by North Korean forces in the Sea of Japan on 23 January 1968.
Published on Tuesday, 23rd January 2018.
How an influential painter's studio was moved in its entirety from London to Ireland.
Published on Monday, 22nd January 2018.
How Guatemala's changes in law scuppered Ruth Sheehan's attempt to adopt a baby boy
Published on Friday, 19th January 2018.
Christopher Nolan became the first severely disabled person to win the Whitbread prize.
Published on Thursday, 18th January 2018.
American president Dwight Eisenhower's great farewell address
Published on Wednesday, 17th January 2018.
After Apartheid, South Africans tried to come to terms with their brutal past.
Published on Tuesday, 16th January 2018.
For the first time women were encouraged to join the workforce to help win the war
Published on Monday, 15th January 2018.
German children were invited to stay in the English town of Reading after WW2 had ended
Published on Friday, 12th January 2018.
In 1963, France stopped Britain from joining the European Economic Community, now the EU
Published on Thursday, 11th January 2018.
The story of one atrocity in Algeria's battle with radical Islamists in the 1990s
Published on Wednesday, 10th January 2018.
Published on Tuesday, 9th January 2018.
California high school student Randy Gardner set a world record in 1964.
Published on Monday, 8th January 2018.
A young man became an unwitting symbol of the anti-government protests
Published on Friday, 5th January 2018.
How one woman fled Brazil's military dictatorship with her kids on a hijacked plane.
Published on Thursday, 4th January 2018.
The first child of South Asian background to become America's Spelling Bee champion.
Published on Tuesday, 2nd January 2018.
On New Year's Eve 1999 the Russian President went on TV and said he was leaving office.
Published on Monday, 1st January 2018.
How Viv Nicholson became a celebrity in Britain after winning the football pools in 1961.
Published on Sunday, 31st December 2017.
How two pilots became the first to fly non-stop around the world without refuelling
Published on Friday, 29th December 2017.
Mountaineers risked their lives to camouflage landmarks in the Russian city during WW2.
Published on Thursday, 28th December 2017.
The African-American winter holiday was invented in Los Angeles in 1966.
Published on Tuesday, 26th December 2017.
The game has become a holiday tradition with families around the world.
Published on Monday, 25th December 2017.
One of the most successful American films of all time was released at Christmas 1962.
Published on Friday, 22nd December 2017.
The Indian independence leader and campaigner for Dalit rights died in December 1956.
Published on Thursday, 21st December 2017.
The return of university entrance exams showed the Cultural Revolution had really ended.
Published on Wednesday, 20th December 2017.
Australian scientists were central to the development of wifi.
Published on Tuesday, 19th December 2017.
How the Islamic movement brought a brief moment of peace to Mogadishu after years of war
Published on Monday, 18th December 2017.
The Australian Prime Minister went for a swim on December 17th 1967 - and never came back
Published on Friday, 15th December 2017.
The great soul singer who was killed in a plane crash in December 1967
Published on Thursday, 14th December 2017.
Thousands died as a thick polluted fog engulfed London in 1952
The African-American lab technician whose surgery helped save millions of babies..
Published on Wednesday, 13th December 2017.
How an American hypnotist went to Iraq to treat Uday, the eldest son of Saddam Hussein.
Published on Monday, 11th December 2017.
Avant-garde art flourished in Russia after the 1917 revolution but was later suppressed
Published on Friday, 8th December 2017.
Whales were being hunted to extinction until a biologist realised they could sing.
Published on Thursday, 7th December 2017.
In December 1917 Finland became an independent country for the first time.
Published on Wednesday, 6th December 2017.
In 1967 Britain's departure from Aden leads to the creation of an independent South Yemen
Published on Tuesday, 5th December 2017.
Construction on one of America's most famous monuments started in 1927.
Published on Monday, 4th December 2017.
Thousands of scientists moved to deepest Siberia to dedicate their lives to research.
Published on Friday, 1st December 2017.
Former colonel in the Russian secret service Alexander Litvinenko was poisoned in London.
Published on Thursday, 30th November 2017.
How thousands of volunteers cleaned up after a huge environmental disaster in 2002
Published on Wednesday, 29th November 2017.
How El Salvador's leftist rebels led a top army officer into a deadly trap
Published on Tuesday, 28th November 2017.
The conviction of diplomat Alger Hiss was one of America's most notorious spy cases
Published on Monday, 27th November 2017.
East Germany's most famous singer-songwriter was exiled to the West in November 1976.
Published on Friday, 24th November 2017.
It was a box-office hit and a revolution in the world of animated films.
Published on Thursday, 23rd November 2017.
The president of South Vietnam was overthrown and murdered in a coup in November 1963.
Published on Wednesday, 22nd November 2017.
Charles Manson's followers murdered 9 people on his orders. But how to prove his guilt?
Published on Tuesday, 21st November 2017.
In 1979 Islamic militants took over the Grand Mosque in Mecca, the holiest site in Islam
Published on Monday, 20th November 2017.
Huge diamond deposits were first discovered in the Kalahari desert in Botswana in 1967
Published on Friday, 17th November 2017.
Searching for the thousands who went missing during Lebanon's brutal civil war.
Published on Thursday, 16th November 2017.
A British national institution closed in 1964.
Published on Wednesday, 15th November 2017.
Indian restaurants first became popular in the UK in the 1950s.
Published on Tuesday, 14th November 2017.
The story behind one of the most famous viral videos ever.
Published on Monday, 13th November 2017.
Recordings of two people who felt the cost of war both on the battlefield and at home
Published on Friday, 10th November 2017.
The Russian street dog was the first living creature to orbit the Earth.
Published on Wednesday, 8th November 2017.
Eyewitness accounts of the Russian Revolution of 7 November 1917
Published on Tuesday, 7th November 2017.
Osama bin Laden spoke to journalist Hamid Mir as US-led forces closed in after 9/11.
Published on Monday, 6th November 2017.
The book that revolutionised the way we look at human behaviour.
Published on Friday, 3rd November 2017.
In 1997 the US Supreme Court ruled against censoring sex on the internet.
Published on Thursday, 2nd November 2017.
In the Lebanese city of Tripoli there is an exceptional architectural site.
Published on Wednesday, 1st November 2017.
How German monk Martin Luther started a religious revolution
Published on Tuesday, 31st October 2017.
Journalist Vladimir Herzog was killed in detention by the secret police in October 1975.
Published on Monday, 30th October 2017.
How Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir met and fell in love in Paris in October 1929
Published on Friday, 27th October 2017.
An eyewitness to the assassination of the famous Nigerian journalist Dele Giwa in 1986
Published on Thursday, 26th October 2017.
How tens of thousands of Hungarian Jews escaped the Nazis by using false papers.
Published on Wednesday, 25th October 2017.
A new satirical magazine called Private Eye was published in London in October 1961.
Published on Tuesday, 24th October 2017.
Dictator Nicolae Ceausescu made abortion illegal in October 1966.
Published on Monday, 23rd October 2017.
How British Jewish ex-servicemen fought fascists on the streets of Britain after WW2
Published on Friday, 20th October 2017.
The socialist leader of Mozambique was killed in a plane crash and many were suspicious.
Published on Thursday, 19th October 2017.
Svetlana Gubareva recalls her ordeal when Chechen rebels seized a Moscow theatre in 2002.
Published on Wednesday, 18th October 2017.
The writer drowned off the south-west coast of Ireland in 1979.
Published on Tuesday, 17th October 2017.
In October 1962 the Cuban Missile Crisis took the world to the brink of nuclear war
Published on Monday, 16th October 2017.
Ron Shipp was a close friend of OJ Simpson's but decided to testify against him in court.
Published on Wednesday, 11th October 2017.
Italy's great works of art were threatened by bombing and looting during World War Two.
The Catalan leader who was executed by a Spanish fascist firing squad in October 1940.
Published on Tuesday, 10th October 2017.
Felix Rodriguez recalls his part in the killing of the Marxist revolutionary in Oct 1967.
Published on Monday, 9th October 2017.
The murder of a gay student shocked Americans and helped reform US hate crime law
Published on Friday, 6th October 2017.
In 1962 the first black American was enrolled at Mississippi University amid riots
Published on Thursday, 5th October 2017.
One woman's account of life on the front-line of Israel's occupation of Gaza.
Published on Wednesday, 4th October 2017.
King Henry VIII's favourite warship sank in a naval battle in 1545.
Published on Tuesday, 3rd October 2017.
Shortly before the Islamic revolution in Iran, a very modern museum opened in the capital
Published on Monday, 2nd October 2017.
Just 33 days into his reign, Pope John Paul I died unexpectedly in September 1978.
Published on Thursday, 28th September 2017.
How Guinea became the first French West African colony to declare independence in 1958.
It took 508 days to complete the first expedition along the entire length of the wall.
Published on Tuesday, 26th September 2017.
Thousands of women and girls worked on farms throughout WW2 to produce much needed food.
The activist had died in South African police custody. He was buried on September 25 1977
Published on Monday, 25th September 2017.
A showdown on the American/Mexican border on September 14th 1958.
Published on Friday, 22nd September 2017.
The inspiring story of how a Labrador led her blind master out of the World Trade Center.
Published on Thursday, 21st September 2017.
Rabbits infested huge swathes of the Australian countryside in the 1940s and 1950s.
Published on Wednesday, 20th September 2017.
When Rodney Fox survived the jaws of a Great White Shark it inspired him to study them.
Published on Monday, 18th September 2017.
Millions of African locusts invaded the Caribbean having flown 5,000 kilometres non-stop.
A doctor working in Sabra and Shatila refugee camp in Lebanon recalls the massacre there
Published on Friday, 15th September 2017.
Karl-Heinz Borchardt was arrested at the age of 18 by East German secret police.
Published on Thursday, 14th September 2017.
A group of hippies occupied a sixty-room mansion in central London in September 1969.
Published on Wednesday, 13th September 2017.
Panicked run on bank signals the start of the financial crisis in the UK
Published on Tuesday, 12th September 2017.
When West African tin miners unearthed evidence of a lost civilization
Published on Monday, 11th September 2017.
The last man to be executed by guillotine in France was a Tunisian, Hamida Djandoubi.
Published on Friday, 8th September 2017.
When the principal singer collapsed, a member of the audience took over his role.
Published on Wednesday, 6th September 2017.
Eight scientists sealed themselves inside a giant greenhouse for an ambitious experiment.
How two girls' photos convinced Sir Arthur Conan Doyle that fairies exist.
Published on Tuesday, 5th September 2017.
A survivor recalls the Kendal train crash in September 1957 when more than 200 died.
Published on Monday, 4th September 2017.
Diana's brother Earl Spencer remembers the emotional speech he made at her funeral.
Published on Friday, 1st September 2017.
The online auction site first went live in 1995.
Published on Wednesday, 30th August 2017.
Animal Farm was an allegory about the dangers of Soviet communism and of Joseph Stalin.
Published on Tuesday, 29th August 2017.
The summer of 1983 saw a major breakthrough in the treatment of facial deformities.
Published on Monday, 28th August 2017.
The racial disturbances in west London which shocked Britain in 1958.
Published on Friday, 25th August 2017.
A home for asylum seekers was set on fire in the German city of Rostock in August 1992
Published on Thursday, 24th August 2017.
Veterans tell the story of how medical care dealt with the horrors of WW1
Published on Wednesday, 23rd August 2017.
How an ophthalmologist and a dermatologist discovered that a toxin could stop wrinkles
Published on Tuesday, 22nd August 2017.
A German court put Nazi war criminals on trial 20 years after the end of World War Two
Published on Monday, 21st August 2017.
The "Bard of Bengal" died on August the 7th 1941.
Published on Friday, 18th August 2017.
In August 1974, Turkish troops invaded Cyprus for a second time cutting the island in two
Published on Thursday, 17th August 2017.
