How Mildred and Richard Loving fought to get mixed-race marriages legalised across the US
Published on Tuesday, 8th October 2013.
A simple non-violent action to protest against racial segregation in restaurants and shops
Published on Monday, 7th October 2013.
The story of an extraordinary act of courage by the civil rights leader Martin Luther King
Written with the help of other ANC activists, how was the book smuggled out of prison?
Published on Friday, 4th October 2013.
The ANC party took its first violent action in 1961, a bomb at municipal offices in Durban
The mood across South Africa in the 1950s as the Apartheid laws were being put in place
Published on Wednesday, 2nd October 2013.
The story of the coming of the first West Indian migrants to Britain, back in 1948
Published on Tuesday, 1st October 2013.
All US troops have now left Iraq. We take you back to when they first invaded in 2003.
Published on Friday, 30th December 2011.
One of the most popular computer games ever was invented in Moscow in 1984
Published on Thursday, 29th December 2011.
The difficult relationship between the BBC and the children's writer, Enid Blyton.
Published on Wednesday, 28th December 2011.
In December 1986 the Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov was allowed to return to Moscow.
Published on Tuesday, 27th December 2011.
She was one of Germany's greatest battleships during World War II.
Published on Monday, 26th December 2011.
On Christmas Eve 1914, during World War I, British and German soldiers stopped fighting.
Published on Friday, 23rd December 2011.
How the world's best known evangelist began preaching internationally.
Published on Thursday, 22nd December 2011.
In 1971 the first big rock benefit gig was organised by former Beatle, George Harrison.
Published on Wednesday, 21st December 2011.
Christmas 1984 - a time of hardship for the protesters against the closure of coal mines
Published on Tuesday, 20th December 2011.
Christmas 1996 and the Spice Girls are number one. 'Girl Power' is taking over the world.
Published on Monday, 19th December 2011.
An inside account of the moment Bangladesh won independence from Pakistan in 1971.
Published on Friday, 16th December 2011.
In December 1986 Kazakhs began protesting against Moscow's rule.
Published on Thursday, 15th December 2011.
Twenty years ago the leader of Panama Manuel Noriega, was removed from power by the USA.
Published on Tuesday, 13th December 2011.
We take you back to the beginnings of the European project.
Published on Monday, 12th December 2011.
In December 1981 hundreds of peasants were killed by the army in El Salvador.
Published on Friday, 9th December 2011.
It is 10 years since the height of the financial crisis in Argentina.
Published on Thursday, 8th December 2011.
It is 70 years since Japanese planes attacked the US Navy base in Hawaii.
Published on Wednesday, 7th December 2011.
The story of the Bermuda Triangle began when five US Navy planes went missing in 1945.
Published on Tuesday, 6th December 2011.
The pill meant reliable, convenient family planning - and sexual freedom
Published on Monday, 5th December 2011.
The story of a young haemophiliac who was banned from school after testing HIV positive.
Published on Thursday, 1st December 2011.
In 1979 British public sector workers went on strike over pay.
Published on Wednesday, 30th November 2011.
In November 1999 police battled with anti-globalisation protestors for control of Seattle.
Published on Tuesday, 29th November 2011.
In November 2001 a group of British tourists were arrested and put on trial in Greece.
Published on Monday, 28th November 2011.
Fifty years ago the drug thalidomide was found to cause serious damage to unborn children
Published on Friday, 25th November 2011.
How the infamous Australian outlaw Ned Kelly, was finally captured in 1880.
Published on Thursday, 24th November 2011.
How Mobutu Sese Seko run a kleptocratic dictatorship in Congo for 32 years.
Published on Wednesday, 23rd November 2011.
In November 2003 a popular uprising unseated the government of Georgia.
Published on Tuesday, 22nd November 2011.
How Anwar Sadat became the first Egyptian president to visit Israel in 1977.
Published on Monday, 21st November 2011.
How he escaped apartheid South Africa and achieved international success
Published on Saturday, 19th November 2011.
He was one of the great pioneers of electrical power.
Published on Friday, 18th November 2011.
How a Soviet agent managed to fool the British intelligence service for years.
Published on Thursday, 17th November 2011.
It is 45 years since a BBC TV drama changed British ideas about homelessness.
Published on Wednesday, 16th November 2011.
How an earthquake in 1755 flattened Lisbon and led to a revolution in European thought.
Published on Tuesday, 15th November 2011.
Alan Johnston reports on a student uprising against military rule in Greece in 1973.
Published on Monday, 14th November 2011.
In the 1960s, radio and stage shows helped provoke a change in attitudes to World War I.
Published on Friday, 11th November 2011.
In November 1989 the civil war in El Salvador hit the capital city.
Published on Thursday, 10th November 2011.
The Soviet leader died in November 1982 after years of ill health.
Published on Wednesday, 9th November 2011.
The first spacecraft to go to Mars left Earth in November 1964
Published on Monday, 7th November 2011.
How the 1980 Moscow Olympics created a moral dilemma for British swimmer, Duncan Goodhew.
Published on Friday, 4th November 2011.
It is 20 years since the newspaper magnate disappeared off his yacht.
Soviet tanks rolled into Budapest on 4 November 1956 ending a shortlived popular uprising.
Published on Thursday, 3rd November 2011.
On 2 November 1936 the first regular TV service in the world was launched by the BBC.
Published on Wednesday, 2nd November 2011.
How a jazz concert organised by a 17-year old turned into a bestselling album.
Published on Tuesday, 1st November 2011.
In late October 1984 the body of a Polish priest was found in a town outside Warsaw.
Published on Monday, 31st October 2011.
In October 1974 one of the greatest boxing matches of all time took place in Zaire
Published on Saturday, 29th October 2011.
In the autumn of 1965 a purge of communist sympathisers began in Indonesia.
Published on Friday, 28th October 2011.
When the Korean War ended, a few US POWs chose to stay and live under communism.
Published on Thursday, 27th October 2011.
It is almost 40 years since the publication of a groundbreaking book about relationships.
Published on Wednesday, 26th October 2011.
It is 55 years since the Mau Mau leader Dedan Kimathi was arrested in Kenya.
Published on Monday, 24th October 2011.
It is 45 years since tragedy struck a Welsh mining village.
Published on Friday, 21st October 2011.
In October 1966 a Soviet double agent escaped from a British jail.
Published on Thursday, 20th October 2011.
In October 1970 James Cross, a British diplomat, was kidnapped by Quebec separatists.
Published on Wednesday, 19th October 2011.
On 18 October 1989, the East German communist leader, was forced from power.
Published on Tuesday, 18th October 2011.
On 17 October 1961, French police turned against Algerian demonstrators in Paris.
Published on Monday, 17th October 2011.
In 1985 the soft drink company changed its age old formula.
Published on Friday, 14th October 2011.
Margaret Sanger's clinic was open for 10 days giving women advice about contraception
Published on Thursday, 13th October 2011.
On 12 October 2000, an American destroyer was attacked by al-Qaeda suicide bombers.
Published on Wednesday, 12th October 2011.
In October 1975 the filmstars Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor got married - again!
Published on Tuesday, 11th October 2011.
It's 10 years since the first airstrikes on Afghanistan.
Published on Friday, 7th October 2011.
In October 1981 the President of Egypt was shot at a military parade.
Published on Thursday, 6th October 2011.
The invention of the atomic bomb was known as The Manhattan Project.
Published on Wednesday, 5th October 2011.
In October 1936, fascists clashed with Jews, socialists and anarchists in London.
Published on Tuesday, 4th October 2011.
Just before the 1968 Olympics, the Mexican government cracked down hard on demonstrators.
Published on Monday, 3rd October 2011.
In September 1991 the first heavy metal rock concert was held at a Moscow airfield.
Published on Friday, 30th September 2011.
On 29 September 1941, the organised massacre of Ukrainian Jews began.
Published on Thursday, 29th September 2011.
In September 1969 left-wing activists kidnapped Charles Burke Elbrick in Rio de Janeiro.
Published on Wednesday, 28th September 2011.
He was one of the most innovative musicians in the USA in the 1960s.
Published on Tuesday, 27th September 2011.
Almost 40 years ago Britain and Iceland came to blows over fishing rights.
Published on Monday, 26th September 2011.
He was the President of Liberia and in September 1990 he died a very violent death.
Published on Friday, 23rd September 2011.
In the mid 1960s young people in China were encouraged to criticise their elders.
Published on Thursday, 22nd September 2011.
The Chilean politician was killed by a bomb in Washington DC, 35 years ago.
Published on Wednesday, 21st September 2011.
In November 1974 the Palestinian leader was allowed to speak at the UN.
Published on Tuesday, 20th September 2011.
The Secretary General of the UN was killed in a plane crash 50 years ago.
Published on Monday, 19th September 2011.
On 16 September 1992, Britain lost billions in foreign currency reserves in a single day.
Published on Friday, 16th September 2011.
On 15 September 2008, the US investment bank Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy.
Published on Thursday, 15th September 2011.
The trials of senior Nazis began in the autumn of 1945.
Published on Wednesday, 14th September 2011.
In the 1960s non-white immigrants were not welcome in Australia.
Published on Tuesday, 13th September 2011.
On 12 September 1980, the military took control of Turkey.
Published on Monday, 12th September 2011.
Two days before 9/11, al-Qaeda killed an Afghan anti-Taliban leader.
Published on Friday, 9th September 2011.
How the collapse of the Soviet Union played out in the life of a teenager in Azerbaijan.
Published on Thursday, 8th September 2011.
In 1666, a fire destroyed much of the city of London. Two diarists recorded what happened.
Published on Tuesday, 6th September 2011.
It is 45 years since the South African Prime Minister was killed in Parliament.
How an anti-nuclear march turned into a peace camp based outside a US airbase in the UK
Published on Monday, 5th September 2011.
The scoop of the century on the eve of World War II.
Published on Friday, 2nd September 2011.
The hippy commune in Colorado in the Summer of Love, 1967.
Published on Wednesday, 31st August 2011.
How villagers awoke to find hundreds of friends and neighbours mysteriously dead
Published on Monday, 29th August 2011.
How thousands of Basque children were evacuated to Britain during the Spanish Civil War.
Published on Friday, 26th August 2011.
A pivotal moment in American popular culture - the Woodstock festival of 1969.
Published on Thursday, 25th August 2011.
White students in apartheid South Africa stage a sit-in protest against racial injustice.
Published on Wednesday, 24th August 2011.
Dr Spock's Baby and Child Care, the book that revolutionised child care.
Published on Tuesday, 23rd August 2011.
The theft of the Mona Lisa from the museum of the Louvre in Paris in August 1911
Published on Monday, 22nd August 2011.
The bomb that destroyed the UN headquarters in Baghdad in 2003.
Published on Friday, 19th August 2011.
The failed attempt to overthrow the Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachov in August 1991
Published on Thursday, 18th August 2011.
The picnic that led to the first breaches of the Iron Curtain in 1989
Published on Wednesday, 17th August 2011.
During the 1930s the people of the US faced widespread economic hardship
Published on Tuesday, 16th August 2011.
It is 60 years since The Goon Show first hit the airwaves
Published on Monday, 15th August 2011.
On 13 August 1961, East German soldiers and construction workers began the Berlin Wall
Published on Friday, 12th August 2011.
In August 1979 the seaside town of Brighton decided to open a nudist beach
Published on Thursday, 11th August 2011.
It is 10 years since the closure of the world's first music-sharing website - Napster
A Chagos Islander talks of Britain's expulsion of his people from their homeland.
Published on Wednesday, 10th August 2011.
He was a Canadian sporting superstar but in 1988 he was sold to an American team
Published on Tuesday, 9th August 2011.
In 1972 the dictator Idi Amin announced that all Asians had 90 days to leave Uganda
Published on Friday, 5th August 2011.
In 1947 a Norwegian adventurer sailed across the Pacific on a wooden raft
Published on Thursday, 4th August 2011.
In August 1980 a huge bomb destroyed much of Bologna railway station in Italy
Published on Wednesday, 3rd August 2011.
A child dreams of world peace and writes a letter to the leader of the Soviet Union
Published on Tuesday, 2nd August 2011.
The coup that brought Colonel Gaddafi to power in Libya.
Published on Monday, 1st August 2011.
It is 30 years since the launch of the first 24 hour music TV channel
How Scottish workers took over their shipyards and warded off the threat of closure
Published on Friday, 29th July 2011.
Sixty years ago a young art historian got to know the greatest painter in the world
Published on Thursday, 28th July 2011.
The story of two Australians who berfriended a lion in London, and freed him in Africa
Published on Wednesday, 27th July 2011.
Fifty years since the first transatlantic broadcast
Published on Tuesday, 26th July 2011.
In July 1959, two Cold War leaders argued over whose system was best
Published on Monday, 25th July 2011.
In 1961 hundreds of Jewish children were smuggled from Morocco to Israel
Published on Friday, 22nd July 2011.
In 1996 over a thousand prisoners were killed at a jail in Tripoli
Published on Thursday, 21st July 2011.
It is 10 years since protests against a G8 summit turned violent on the streets of Genoa
Published on Wednesday, 20th July 2011.
Rupert Murdoch's career in the media began in the Australian town of Adelaide in the 1950s
Published on Tuesday, 19th July 2011.
In July 1967 British cyclist Tom Simpson, rode himself to death on the Tour de France
Published on Monday, 18th July 2011.
In July 1955 the first ever Disney theme park was opened in California
Published on Friday, 15th July 2011.
The tale of the momentous and bloody capture of Jerusalem by the Crusaders in 1099
Published on Thursday, 14th July 2011.
A Battle of Britain pilot reflects on being shot down and almost drowning in the sea
Published on Wednesday, 13th July 2011.
In July 1995, Bosnian Serb fighters killed thousands of Muslim men and boys in Srebrenica
Published on Tuesday, 12th July 2011.
How the people of Liverpool boycotted Rupert Murdoch's Sun newspaper in the UK
Published on Monday, 11th July 2011.
It is more than 30 years since the launch of the first space shuttle
Published on Friday, 8th July 2011.
It is 10 years since riots engulfed the city of Bradford in the North of England
Published on Thursday, 7th July 2011.
We hear from a survivor from the 1988 Piper Alpha oil rig disaster that killed 167 people
Published on Wednesday, 6th July 2011.
In 1985 the Royal couple made their first joint visit to America
Published on Tuesday, 5th July 2011.
How ex-US Marine Ron Kovic became a peace activist after being paralysed in Vietnam
Published on Monday, 4th July 2011.
In 1975 he became the first African-American man to win the tennis tournament.
Published on Friday, 1st July 2011.
How a gypsy singer called Camaron de la Isla revolutionised the world of flamenco
Published on Thursday, 30th June 2011.
In the 1960s, British mercenaries joined the fighting in Yemen's civil war
Published on Wednesday, 29th June 2011.
The six-year-old boy caught in the middle of a tug-of-war between Miami and Havana
Published on Tuesday, 28th June 2011.
President Kennedy's emotional visit to Ireland shortly before his assassination in 1963
Published on Monday, 27th June 2011.
In June 1997 the Soufriere Hills volcano erupted on the Caribbean island of Montserrat
Published on Friday, 24th June 2011.
Andrew Wiles on solving the problem which had intrigued mathematicians for centuries
Published on Thursday, 23rd June 2011.
An eyewitness account of the launch of Nazi Germany's attack on the Soviet Union
Published on Wednesday, 22nd June 2011.
During WWII British children were sent away from the cities to escape German bombs
Published on Monday, 20th June 2011.
How the Japanese army went on the rampage in the Chinese city of Nanjing in 1937
Published on Friday, 17th June 2011.
On 16 June 1961 the great ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev cut his ties with the Soviet Union
Published on Thursday, 16th June 2011.
In June 1953 East German workers went on strike in protest at Soviet rule
Published on Wednesday, 15th June 2011.
The story of the rise and fall of the first ever female editor of a British newspaper
Published on Tuesday, 14th June 2011.
The LAPD detective who spoke to OJ Simpson as he was chased through Los Angeles in 1994
Published on Monday, 13th June 2011.
When Italy joined WW2 in June 1940, British-Italian men were rounded up and interned
Published on Friday, 10th June 2011.
It is 30 years since Israeli war planes destroyed a nuclear reactor in Iraq
Published on Wednesday, 8th June 2011.
As tensions in Syria worsen, we talk to a man who was jailed for opposing the Assad regime
Published on Tuesday, 7th June 2011.
The man who first coralled the international community to hold an environment summit
Published on Monday, 6th June 2011.
The experience of a Ugandan-born woman diagnosed with HIV in the early days of the virus
Published on Friday, 3rd June 2011.
One soldier's frank account of his chaotic World War Two retreat from Dunkirk
Published on Thursday, 2nd June 2011.
The story of the massacre 70 years ago that led to the exodus of Baghdad's Jews
Published on Wednesday, 1st June 2011.
It is almost 40 years since an attack at the airport outside Tel Aviv
Published on Tuesday, 31st May 2011.
It is 50 years since the assassination of Rafael Trujillo - Dominican Republic dictator
Published on Monday, 30th May 2011.
It is 13 years since Pakistan first tested a nuclear weapon
Published on Friday, 27th May 2011.
It is half a century since the launch of the human rights group Amnesty International
Published on Thursday, 26th May 2011.
Mass exodus: how 125,000 Cubans left the island from Mariel harbour in 1980
Published on Wednesday, 25th May 2011.
In 1921 the most famous perfume ever, was launched in France
Published on Tuesday, 24th May 2011.
In May 1968 Manchester United Football club won its first European cup
Published on Monday, 23rd May 2011.
A group of women challenged a ban on contraception and took a train to get them
Published on Friday, 20th May 2011.
In May 1924 two rich and educated teenage boys killed an acquaintance in Chicago
Published on Thursday, 19th May 2011.
In May 1944 the Tatar people of Crimea were forced into exile by the Soviet army
Published on Wednesday, 18th May 2011.
Over 400 years ago an Irish woman pirate met Queen Elizabeth I
Published on Tuesday, 17th May 2011.
The Red Army took control of the German capital Berlin, in May 1945
Published on Monday, 16th May 2011.
Eye-witness accounts of the Irish rebellion against British rule at Easter 1916.
Published on Friday, 13th May 2011.
Nearly 300 years ago a feral child was brought to the court of King George I in London.
Published on Thursday, 12th May 2011.
President Tito of Yugoslavia was one of the great characters of post-war Europe
Published on Wednesday, 11th May 2011.
The letters of an Italian pilot reveal how he carried out the first air raid in history
Published on Tuesday, 10th May 2011.
In May 1976 the German left-wing extremist Ulrike Meinhof killed herself in prison
Published on Monday, 9th May 2011.
On May 8 1945, Winston Churchill announced the end of the war in Europe.
Published on Friday, 6th May 2011.
In 1954 a record was broken when a young British athlete ran a mile in under four minutes
Published on Thursday, 5th May 2011.
It is 60 years since the opening of the Festival of Britain
Published on Wednesday, 4th May 2011.
Following Osama Bin Laden's death, we recall al-Qaeda's attacks in Africa in 1998
Published on Tuesday, 3rd May 2011.
The experiences of one German woman after Berlin fell to the Red Army in 1945
Published on Monday, 2nd May 2011.
How famine devastated Ukraine in the 1930s
Published on Friday, 29th April 2011.
Ten years ago an American businessman called Dennis Tito became the first space tourist
Published on Thursday, 28th April 2011.
How an anti-racism concert in London in 1978 influenced a generation
Published on Wednesday, 27th April 2011.
It was one of the worst atrocities of the Spanish Civil War.
Published on Tuesday, 26th April 2011.
In 1983 a German magazine believed it had found Hitler's wartime diary.
Published on Monday, 25th April 2011.
Witness takes you back to the wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer
Published on Friday, 22nd April 2011.
One family's extraordinary story kept hidden for decades by the communist secret police
Published on Thursday, 21st April 2011.
How Gandhi's Salt March in 1930 showed the power of peaceful protest in India
Published on Wednesday, 20th April 2011.
How a man from northern England lost his entire family in the siege of Waco in 1993
Published on Tuesday, 19th April 2011.
Cuban exiles, backed by the US government, tried to invade Cuba and overthrow Castro
Published on Monday, 18th April 2011.
She was a Hollywood superstar - he was Prince of a tiny European state
Published on Friday, 15th April 2011.
In 1982 people in the Syrian city of Hama rose up against the Assad regime
Published on Thursday, 14th April 2011.
In 1957 a nuclear reactor in the north of England caught fire
Published on Wednesday, 13th April 2011.
The first man in space became a hero and a poster boy for Soviet achievement
Published on Tuesday, 12th April 2011.
Jackie Robinson was the first black Major League Baseball player
Published on Monday, 11th April 2011.
The African chief who gave up his throne for love.
Published on Friday, 8th April 2011.
A plane crash on 6 April 1994, set off a wave of killing in Rwanda which lasted 100 days
Published on Wednesday, 6th April 2011.
Thirty years ago, the lead singer of the rock band Nirvana was found dead in his home
Published on Tuesday, 5th April 2011.
John Gotti was a mafia boss who had escaped jail for years.
Published on Monday, 4th April 2011.
The anti-poll tax demonstration of March 1990 brought thousands onto the streets of London
Published on Thursday, 31st March 2011.
The man who helped to save Reagan's life
Published on Wednesday, 30th March 2011.
On April Fool's Day 1979 - the first ever bungee jump was attempted.
Published on Tuesday, 29th March 2011.
In 1971, war began between East and West Pakistan - leading to the creation of Bangladesh
Published on Monday, 28th March 2011.
In July 1999 two members of British celebrity royalty tied the knot
Published on Friday, 25th March 2011.
For 65 years the BBC World Service has broadcast in Russian, this weekend it stops
Published on Thursday, 24th March 2011.
Over 500 years ago in Renaissance Italy, a battle was underway between two great painters.
Published on Wednesday, 23rd March 2011.
History as told by the people who were there
Published on Tuesday, 22nd March 2011.
In September 1999 there was a nuclear accident at Tokaimura in Japan
Published on Monday, 21st March 2011.
The English author Christopher Isherwood lived in Berlin throughout the 1930s.
Published on Friday, 18th March 2011.
Angela Berners-Wilson on her experiences that day, and her long fight to become a priest
Published on Thursday, 17th March 2011.
In March 1988 Iraqi forces attacked the Kurdish town of Halabja with chemical weapons
Published on Wednesday, 16th March 2011.
In March 1979, the US suffered its worst nuclear accident
Published on Tuesday, 15th March 2011.
It is almost 25 years since the US decided to take military action against Libya
Published on Monday, 14th March 2011.
On 11 March 2004, bomb attacks in Madrid left 191 people dead
Published on Friday, 11th March 2011.
The lasting emotional impact of a gun attack at a small Scottish school in 1996
Published on Thursday, 10th March 2011.
Survivors recall when a Belgian ferry capsized and killed more than 190 people
Published on Wednesday, 9th March 2011.
A revolutionary theorist and feminist icon, Lenin called her the Eagle of the Revolution
Published on Tuesday, 8th March 2011.
How a brutal civil war broke out in Ivory Coast in 2002.
Published on Monday, 7th March 2011.
The inside story of how three Weatherman revolutionaries died in New York in March 1970
Published on Friday, 4th March 2011.
In 1970, the white minority thought they could rule Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe, for ever
Published on Thursday, 3rd March 2011.
In March 1941 the Nazi authorities in Krakow moved the city's Jews into a ghetto
Published on Wednesday, 2nd March 2011.
It is over 40 years since Colonel Gaddafi took power in Libya in a military coup
Published on Tuesday, 1st March 2011.
He was the new British King and she was an American divorcee
How black leader Malcolm X was assassinated in New York in February 1965.
Published on Monday, 28th February 2011.
It is 21 years since the left-wing Sandinista government in Nicaragua lost power
Published on Friday, 25th February 2011.
How Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev secretly denounced Stalin as a tyrant
Published on Thursday, 24th February 2011.
How people power brought down President Marcos of the Philippines in 1986.
Published on Tuesday, 22nd February 2011.
How Algeria's experiement with democracy ended in civil war and a state of emergency.
Published on Monday, 21st February 2011.
On 1 March 1932, the baby son of one of the most famous men in America went missing
Published on Friday, 18th February 2011.
What was the first cloned mammal like and why did she die young?
Published on Thursday, 17th February 2011.
In February 1779 the British seafarer Captain Cook was beaten to death in Hawaii
Published on Wednesday, 16th February 2011.
The British colony of Singapore fell to Japanese forces on this day in 1942
Published on Tuesday, 15th February 2011.
On February 14 2005, Lebanese politician Rafik Hariri was assassinated
Published on Monday, 14th February 2011.
In February 1837 the great Russian poet - Alexander Pushkin died
Published on Friday, 11th February 2011.
On 9 February 1950 Senator Joseph McCarthy began his hunt for communists in the US
Published on Thursday, 10th February 2011.
On 9 February 1996, a bomb exploded in London bringing an IRA ceasefire to an end
Published on Wednesday, 9th February 2011.
It is 20 years since international forces united to drive Iraq out of Kuwait
Published on Tuesday, 8th February 2011.
Twenty-five years ago today, the President of Haiti Jean-Claude Duvalier fled the country
Published on Monday, 7th February 2011.
On February 5 1994 there was an attack on a marketplace in the Bosnian capital, Sarajevo
Published on Friday, 4th February 2011.
The first week of February 1979 saw a revolution unfolding in Iran
Published on Thursday, 3rd February 2011.
The last days of punk icon, Sid Vicious, in New York in 1979
Published on Wednesday, 2nd February 2011.
On the last day of January 1953 high tides and storms brought a huge flood to Holland.
Published on Monday, 31st January 2011.
Hundreds of thousands of civilians died of starvation during the siege of Leningrad.
Published on Friday, 28th January 2011.
The bloody battle between British police and a group of revolutionaries in London in 1911
Published on Thursday, 27th January 2011.
In January 1991 the government of Siad Barre in Somalia, collapsed
Published on Wednesday, 26th January 2011.
One of the worst maritime disasters in history - the sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff
Published on Tuesday, 25th January 2011.
Sir Winston Churchill, the British wartime leader, died on 24 January, 1965
Published on Monday, 24th January 2011.
On 21 January 1793 the French king, Louis XVI was executed in Paris
Published on Friday, 21st January 2011.
The story of how Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali came to power in Tunisia
Published on Thursday, 20th January 2011.
How a B-52 bomber crashed on the Spanish coast while carrying four nuclear weapons.
Published on Wednesday, 19th January 2011.
In January 1997 Borge Ousland became the first person to cross the Antarctic alone
Published on Tuesday, 18th January 2011.
The story of a boy who escaped Nazi Germany on a kindertransport train heading for Britain
Published on Monday, 17th January 2011.
We take you back to 1961 when the cap on football wages was abolished in England
Published on Friday, 14th January 2011.
It is 10 years since the Wikipedia online encyclopedia was launched
Published on Thursday, 13th January 2011.
In 1967 a group of enthusiasts first tried to cryonically freeze a human being.
Published on Wednesday, 12th January 2011.
When Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon river 2,000 years ago he changed history
Published on Tuesday, 11th January 2011.
The Manila-based plot to blow up a dozen airliners over the Pacific Ocean
Published on Monday, 10th January 2011.
On January 7 1999 the impeachment trial of President Bill Clinton began in the US Senate
Published on Friday, 7th January 2011.
In 1983 a civil war broke out in Sudan which would last for more than 20 years.
Published on Thursday, 6th January 2011.
How Afghan women resisted the Taliban's efforts to prohibit education for girls
Published on Wednesday, 5th January 2011.
US President Lyndon B Johnson's 1965 speech proposed healthcare for the poor and elderly
Published on Tuesday, 4th January 2011.
On January 3 1959 Alaska finally became a fully fledged member state of the USA.
Published on Monday, 3rd January 2011.
