Rod Stewart played to an audience of 4 million on Copacabana beach on New Year's Eve 1994
Published on Wednesday, 31st December 2014.
A young Dutch man won the first ever Big Brother reality TV show in December 1999
Published on Tuesday, 30th December 2014.
How allegations of sexual abuse at a well-known children's home shocked Portugal
Published on Monday, 29th December 2014.
The last major German attack on the Western Allies in World War II, Winter 1944
Published on Friday, 26th December 2014.
In 1964 a 'pirate' radio station began broadcasting from a ship off the coast of England
Published on Thursday, 25th December 2014.
On Christmas Eve 1914, British and German soldiers exchanged gifts and sang carols
Published on Wednesday, 24th December 2014.
Julia Butterfly Hill lived in an ancient redwood tree for 738 days to protect it
Published on Tuesday, 23rd December 2014.
In 2006 the Nepalese government and Maoists signed a peace accord ending 10 years of war
Published on Monday, 22nd December 2014.
American bandleader Glenn Miller went missing over the English Channel in December, 1944
Published on Friday, 19th December 2014.
President Eisenhower broke relations with Cuba and closed the American Embassy in 1961
Published on Thursday, 18th December 2014.
In December 1961, Goa became the last part of India to break free of colonial rule
Published on Wednesday, 17th December 2014.
Protests which led to the collapse of communism in Romania began on 16 December 1989
Published on Tuesday, 16th December 2014.
The premiere of one of the most successful films ever made on 15 December 1939
Published on Monday, 15th December 2014.
Aids patient Jeff Getty was given a bone marrow transplant from a baboon in December 1995
Published on Friday, 12th December 2014.
In December 1997, the first global treaty on greenhouse gas emissions was agreed in Kyoto
Published on Thursday, 11th December 2014.
Drummer Jimmy Cobb recalls playing on Kind of Blue, the most successful jazz album ever
Published on Wednesday, 10th December 2014.
The frantic search for one of the hereditary 'breast cancer genes'
Published on Tuesday, 9th December 2014.
In 1661 the body of the British ruler Oliver Cromwell was dug up for ritual execution
Published on Monday, 8th December 2014.
During the Lebanese civil war the hotel district in Beirut became a battlefield.
Published on Friday, 5th December 2014.
Journalist Terry Anderson was freed after being held hostage in Beirut
Published on Thursday, 4th December 2014.
On this day 100 years ago Lady Nancy Astor was elected to British parliament
Published on Wednesday, 3rd December 2014.
How California students won the right to demonstrate on university property
Published on Tuesday, 2nd December 2014.
Striking workers and students filled the streets calling for an end to British rule.
Published on Monday, 1st December 2014.
The famous landmark the old Ottoman bridge was destroyed in the Balkans War in 1993
Published on Friday, 28th November 2014.
The battle against billions of rabbits devastating the Australian countryside
Published on Thursday, 27th November 2014.
In November 1974, West German band Kraftwerk released their seminal album Autobahn
Published on Wednesday, 26th November 2014.
What drove the Japanese writer and film-maker Yukio Mishima to kill himself?
Published on Tuesday, 25th November 2014.
In 1935 India's Doon School opened, producing prime ministers, authors and businessmen
Published on Monday, 24th November 2014.
The flamboyant gay author of The Naked Civil Servant died on 21 November, 1999
Published on Friday, 21st November 2014.
The story of the only surviving American prosecutor at the Nuremberg war crimes trials
Published on Thursday, 20th November 2014.
In November 2006 Saddam Hussein was sentenced to death in a Baghdad courtroom
Published on Wednesday, 19th November 2014.
In 1994, a French magazine revealed that President Mitterrand had a secret daughter
Published on Tuesday, 18th November 2014.
The shocking killings that became a turning point in the Salvadorean civil war.
Published on Monday, 17th November 2014.
Manfred Marx discovery in the Kalahari transformed Botswana's economy after independence
Published on Thursday, 13th November 2014.
The death of left-wing, Sri Lankan rebel, Rohana Wijeweera in government custody in 1989
This act by the white minority government in 1965, led to a decade of war
Published on Tuesday, 11th November 2014.
In the 1990s Saddam Hussein oversaw the destruction of southern Iraq's ancient marshes
Published on Monday, 10th November 2014.
A Soviet spy ring was uncovered operating from a London bungalow in 1961
Hear from two East Germans who were among the first to cross on 9 November, 1989
Published on Friday, 7th November 2014.
The criminal mystery as told by the son of the murdered nanny
Published on Wednesday, 5th November 2014.
Performance artist Chris Burden was filmed as a friend shot him in the arm.
In November 1899, Sigmund Freud published a book called The Interpretation of Dreams.
Published on Tuesday, 4th November 2014.
In 1960 a young Englishwoman made a discovery that changed our understanding of animals
Published on Monday, 3rd November 2014.
Hear from an Afghan who worked alongside UK troops in Afghanistan.
Published on Friday, 31st October 2014.
In October 1973, an Arab oil embargo caused world oil prices to rocket
Published on Thursday, 30th October 2014.
Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was shot by her bodyguards on 31 October, 1984
Published on Wednesday, 29th October 2014.
In Oct 1964 cat-burglars carried out one of the most audacious jewel robberies ever
Published on Tuesday, 28th October 2014.
In 1973, the Arabs launched an attack on Israel in a war both sides claimed they'd won
Published on Monday, 27th October 2014.
In October 1975 the journalist Vladimir Herzog was killed by the secret police in Brazil.
Published on Friday, 24th October 2014.
In 1999 the leader of Turkey's Kurdish rebel group was arrested
Published on Thursday, 23rd October 2014.
In 1984 Ethiopia suffered one of its worst ever famines - the pictures shocked the world
Published on Wednesday, 22nd October 2014.
In October 1986, the acclaimed Nigerian journalist, Dele Giwa, was assassinated in Lagos
Published on Monday, 20th October 2014.
In 1996 the play 'The Vagina Monologues was first performed in New York.
Published on Friday, 17th October 2014.
In 1889 London's despised dockers went on strike. It went on to form the labour movement
Published on Thursday, 16th October 2014.
Mass demonstrations in Leipzig triggered the collapse of communism in East Germany
Published on Wednesday, 15th October 2014.
In October 1964 the Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev was ousted in a Kremlin coup
Published on Tuesday, 14th October 2014.
In 1957 Lennon and McCartney performed together for the first time in The Quarrymen
Published on Monday, 13th October 2014.
The negotiations that promised 'One country two systems' when the territory changed hands
Published on Friday, 10th October 2014.
An international conference in 1985 changed the history of climate change
Published on Thursday, 9th October 2014.
A prominent figure in the Cuban Revolution, Guevara was captured and killed in Bolivia
Published on Wednesday, 8th October 2014.
The conflict between white Afrikaner settlers and the British empire in South Africa
Published on Tuesday, 7th October 2014.
In October 1942 Norwegian commandos began a series of raids on a heavy water plant
Published on Monday, 6th October 2014.
Country music legend Willie Nelson holds the first benefit concert for American farmers.
Published on Friday, 3rd October 2014.
In October 1964, Japan launched the fastest train the world had ever seen
Published on Thursday, 2nd October 2014.
In 1989, Denmark became the first country to celebrate same-sex civil unions
Published on Wednesday, 1st October 2014.
On 30 September 1955 the Hollywood actor, James Dean, crashed his car and died
Published on Tuesday, 30th September 2014.
In September 1996 the Taliban took over the Afghan capital Kabul
Published on Monday, 29th September 2014.
In 2002 the 'Joola' ferry sank off Senegal with the loss of more than 1800 lives
Published on Friday, 26th September 2014.
Five Cuban spies were arrested in Miami by the FBI in September 1998
Published on Thursday, 25th September 2014.
The American TV show Friends hits TV screens
Published on Wednesday, 24th September 2014.
On 23 September 1998, Clint Hallam received the world's first hand transplant
Published on Tuesday, 23rd September 2014.
On 20 September 1979 the Central African dictator Jean Bedel-Bokassa left power
Published on Monday, 22nd September 2014.
In 1970 the Jordanian military fought against the Palestinian Liberation Organisation.
Published on Friday, 19th September 2014.
South Africa sent 600 soldiers into Lesotho to quell political unrest in September 1998
Published on Thursday, 18th September 2014.
How an earthquake in Mexico City in 1985 led to the creation of an elite rescue group
Published on Wednesday, 17th September 2014.
It is 60 years since William Golding's acclaimed novel was first published
Published on Tuesday, 16th September 2014.
In 1993, the Israeli prime minister and the PLO leader shook hands and made history
Published on Monday, 15th September 2014.
Three days after 9/11 Congresswoman Barbara Lee became the most hated woman in America
Published on Friday, 12th September 2014.
How a 1968 song by the folk band, The Corries, became Scotland’s unofficial anthem
Published on Thursday, 11th September 2014.
The massacre of 184 Tamils by the Sri Lankan army in 1990 during the country's civil war
Published on Wednesday, 10th September 2014.
It is 30 years since a British scientist found out how to identify people by their DNA
Published on Tuesday, 9th September 2014.
Mao Zedong died on 9 September 1976. His widow Jiang Qing wanted power after his death.
Published on Monday, 8th September 2014.
Pakistan declared that members of the Ahmadiyya sect were not Muslims in September 1974
Published on Friday, 5th September 2014.
The crisis following the withdrawl of most circulating banknotes in Myanmar in 1987
Published on Thursday, 4th September 2014.
Kitty Hart-Moxon's story of how she survived two years in the notorious Nazi death camp
Published on Wednesday, 3rd September 2014.
How Boris Pasternak's great novel Dr Zhivago came to be published in the West .
Published on Tuesday, 2nd September 2014.
A ground-breaking new boutique opened in Swinging London in September, 1964
Published on Monday, 1st September 2014.
Rare recordings of African veterans of WW1 in East Africa
Published on Friday, 29th August 2014.
In the summer of 1978 a British woman became the last known victim of smallpox.
Published on Thursday, 28th August 2014.
Writer Ken Kesey and friends drove across America experimenting with LSD in summer 1964
Published on Tuesday, 26th August 2014.
In 1954 the president of Brazil chose to die rather than submit to the military
Published on Monday, 25th August 2014.
A US Air Force plane crashed into an English village, killing 61 people in August 1944
Published on Friday, 22nd August 2014.
In 1975, Iran and America abandon the Iraqi Kurds in their fight against Saddam Hussein
Published on Thursday, 21st August 2014.
British India was divided into two new countries - India and Pakistan - in August 1947
Published on Wednesday, 20th August 2014.
French and US forces freed Paris from German occupation in August 1944
Published on Tuesday, 19th August 2014.
Zimbabwean writer Dambudzo Marechera died of an AIDS-related illness on 18 August 1987
Published on Monday, 18th August 2014.
The terrorist 'Carlos the Jackal' was arrested in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, in 1994
Published on Friday, 15th August 2014.
The Scottish anarchist and the plot to kill General Franco
Published on Thursday, 14th August 2014.
The cast and crew remember one of the most popular Hollywood musicals of all time
Published on Wednesday, 13th August 2014.
The Supremes had their first hit 'Baby Love' in August 1964, 50 years ago
Published on Tuesday, 12th August 2014.
How thousands of Polish citizens tried to flee the USSR after being freed in August 1941
Published on Monday, 11th August 2014.
In 1971 the British Army detained hundreds of suspects without trial in Northern Ireland.
Published on Friday, 8th August 2014.
On 8 August 1974 Richard Nixon became the first US president in history to resign.
Published on Thursday, 7th August 2014.
In 1984, the 2000 year old remains of a man were found preserved in a peat bog in England
Published on Wednesday, 6th August 2014.
On 5 Aug 1944, hundreds of Japanese prisoners attempted the largest breakout of WW2.
Published on Tuesday, 5th August 2014.
On 4 Aug 1964 the bodies of three murdered civil rights workers were found in Mississippi
Published on Monday, 4th August 2014.
On 1 August 1944, resistance fighters in the Polish capital rose up against German forces
Published on Friday, 1st August 2014.
A fellow prisoner recalls how the American TV celebrity survived five months behind bars
Published on Thursday, 31st July 2014.
In 1969 two young Australians bought a lion cub in Harrods and raised it in London
Published on Wednesday, 30th July 2014.
In July 1949, the British-built de Havilland Comet took off for the first time
Published on Tuesday, 29th July 2014.
Eyewitness accounts from the archives of the start of war in the summer of 1914
Published on Monday, 28th July 2014.
It's 30 years since the release of the film Purple Rain, starring musician Prince
Published on Friday, 25th July 2014.
In 1987, the first Palestinian uprising, or intifada, started in Gaza
Published on Thursday, 24th July 2014.
In summer 1947 India declared independence after hundreds of years of British rule.
Published on Wednesday, 23rd July 2014.
In 1997 a young Spanish politician was murdered by the Basque separatist group ETA
Published on Tuesday, 22nd July 2014.
In 1994 a bomb exploded in Argentina killing 85 people at a Jewish centre
Published on Monday, 21st July 2014.
Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg attempted to kill Adolf Hitler on 20 July, 1944
Published on Friday, 18th July 2014.
In July 1974 Turkish troops invaded the island of Cyprus
Published on Thursday, 17th July 2014.
In July 1979 left-wing rebels toppled the last member of the Somoza dynasty in Nicaragua.
Published on Wednesday, 16th July 2014.
In July 1969, Edward Kennedy was involved in a car accident in which a young woman died
Published on Tuesday, 15th July 2014.
On 13 July 1954, the celebrated Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, died at the age of 47
Published on Monday, 14th July 2014.
The great Latin American poet was born in a remote town in southern Chile in July 1904
Published on Friday, 11th July 2014.
Bosnian Serb troops murdered thousands of Bosnian Muslim men and boys in July 1995
Published on Thursday, 10th July 2014.
On 9 July 1985 the Greenpeace campaign ship was bombed by French secret agents
Published on Wednesday, 9th July 2014.
It is 20 years since the death of North Korea's founding leader Kim Il Sung
Published on Tuesday, 8th July 2014.
When militants took over a mosque in Islamabad, troops were sent in to end the siege
Published on Monday, 7th July 2014.
Sunni tribal militia turned on Al Qaeda in Iraq and began working with US forces In 2006
Published on Friday, 4th July 2014.
Every year, thousands of Soviet children visited the holiday camp Artek by the Black Sea
Published on Thursday, 3rd July 2014.
In World War Two an optimistic musical about American rural life became a hit on Broadway
Published on Wednesday, 2nd July 2014.
Two Iraqi, Abu Ghraib detainees recall their experiences inside the American-run prison
Published on Monday, 30th June 2014.
In 1994 Fred and Rosemary West were charged with a series of gruesome murders in England.
The heir to the Austro-Hungarian empire was killed in Sarajevo on 28 June 1914
Published on Friday, 27th June 2014.
In 1965 a pioneering computer dating scheme, Operation Match, launched in the USA.
Published on Thursday, 26th June 2014.
The destruction of the village of Lidice in German-occupied Czechoslovakia in June 1942
Published on Wednesday, 25th June 2014.
In the summer of 1991 thousands of Albanians commandeered cargo ships to take them Italy
Published on Tuesday, 24th June 2014.
In June 1954 separatist Karen rebels in Burma hijacked a passenger plane.
Published on Monday, 23rd June 2014.
In 1969 the Cuyahoga River in the US caught fire inspiring new laws for the enviroment
Published on Friday, 20th June 2014.
The passing of the Civil Rights Act through the United States Congress 50 years ago
Published on Thursday, 19th June 2014.
Russian aristocrat Moura Budberg lived through turbulent times. But was she a Soviet spy?
Published on Wednesday, 18th June 2014.
In 1989 the body of Imre Nagy, Prime Minister during the Hungarian uprising, was reburied
Published on Tuesday, 17th June 2014.
In June 1994 police chased the American football star through Los Angeles
Published on Monday, 16th June 2014.
Gilberto Gil and Caetano Veloso on the 1960s movement that changed Brazilian music
Published on Friday, 13th June 2014.
How the Brazilian version of the VW Beetle won a special place in the nation's heart
Published on Thursday, 12th June 2014.
In June 2002 investigative journalist, Tim Lopes, was brutally killed by a Rio drug gang
Published on Wednesday, 11th June 2014.
How Brazil opened a modernist capital city in its remote central plains in 1960
Published on Tuesday, 10th June 2014.
How troops crushed a rebellion by peasants in the arid backlands of north-east Brazil
Published on Monday, 9th June 2014.
Original BBC reports of the Allied invasion of Nazi-occupied France, 6 June 1944
Published on Friday, 6th June 2014.
It is 60 years since the great British mathematician died.
Published on Thursday, 5th June 2014.
In June 1989 the Chinese authorities crushed a huge pro-democracy protest in Beijing.
Published on Wednesday, 4th June 2014.
In June 1971, an 18-month long occupation of Alcatraz by Native Americans came to an end.
Published on Tuesday, 3rd June 2014.
In June 2001 the Crown Prince of Nepal killed his parents and other members of his family
Published on Monday, 2nd June 2014.
In May 1991 rebels took control of Ethiopia's capital ending decades of war
Published on Friday, 30th May 2014.
In 1971 the first refuge for women escaping domestic violence opened in Britain.
Published on Thursday, 29th May 2014.
For the first time America sends two monkeys into space and brings them back alive.
Published on Wednesday, 28th May 2014.
In May 1964 India's first prime minister and the man who led India to independence died.
Published on Tuesday, 27th May 2014.
In the 1990s teams of elite American students won millions by card counting in casinos
Published on Monday, 26th May 2014.
In April 1986 Pope John Paul II made a historic visit to a Rome synagogue
Published on Friday, 23rd May 2014.
In May 1995 thousands of young Russian conscripts were battling separatists in Chechnya
Published on Thursday, 22nd May 2014.
The assassination of the former Indian Prime Minister, Rajiv Gandhi
Published on Wednesday, 21st May 2014.
South Korean military put down a popular uprising in the city of Gwangju in May 1980
Published on Tuesday, 20th May 2014.
Police killed students protesting against President Suharto, triggering days of riots
Published on Monday, 19th May 2014.
Steve Biko led the Black Consciousness Movement before he was killed in police custody
Published on Friday, 16th May 2014.
In 1957 Chairman Mao encouraged criticism of Communism, soon after he jailed thousands
Published on Thursday, 15th May 2014.
How thousands of youths from rival gangs clashed at the resort of Brighton in 1964
Published on Wednesday, 14th May 2014.
In May 1939 more than 900 Jews fled Nazi Germany aboard a luxury cruise liner
Published on Tuesday, 13th May 2014.
In May 1974, the West German chancellor resigned after an aide was revealed as a spy
Published on Monday, 12th May 2014.
The Swedish group made it to international pop stardom with their song Waterloo in 1974
Published on Friday, 9th May 2014.
The shooting of a prominent Jewish businessman in post-revolution Iran on 9 May 1979
Published on Thursday, 8th May 2014.
In May 1958 the great African-American singer performed at Carnegie Hall
Published on Wednesday, 7th May 2014.
Yuri Meshkov, who was once the president of Crimea, remembers his removal from office
Published on Tuesday, 6th May 2014.
In 1994, 'The Crow' was released, despite lead actor Brandon Lee dying during filming.
Published on Monday, 5th May 2014.
In May 1982 the Argentine cruiser the General Belgrano was sunk by British torpedoes
Published on Friday, 2nd May 2014.
In 1934 Mao Zedong led tens of thousands of his followers on an epic march across China
Published on Thursday, 1st May 2014.
In April 2004, photographs emerged showing American soldiers abusing Iraqi prisoners
Published on Tuesday, 29th April 2014.
The fascist dictator Benito Mussolini is killed and his body strung up in a Milan square
In April 1996, a lone gunman killed 35 people in the Australian town of Port Arthur.
Published on Monday, 28th April 2014.
A British officer's description of the Qissa Khwani Bazaar massacre
Published on Friday, 25th April 2014.
How a coup by rebel army officers led the way to democracy in Portugal on 25 April, 1974
Published on Thursday, 24th April 2014.
In April 1980, Robert Mugabe became the first prime minister of Zimbabwe
Published on Wednesday, 23rd April 2014.
In April 1954, anti-communist US Senator McCarthy was investigated by the government
Published on Tuesday, 22nd April 2014.
In April 1967, seven years of military dictatorship began in Greece.
Published on Monday, 21st April 2014.
Cuban exiles backed by the US government tried to overthrow Fidel Castro in April 1961
Published on Friday, 18th April 2014.
Memories of celebrating Easter in the USSR where religious freedoms were suppressed
Published on Thursday, 17th April 2014.
The Polish trade union Solidarity was legalised once again in April 1989
Published on Wednesday, 16th April 2014.
The explosion at a station in North Korea that killed around 170 people in April 2004
Published on Tuesday, 15th April 2014.
How one family helped overturn racial segregation in schools in California.
Published on Monday, 14th April 2014.
American scientists announced they had an effective vaccine against polio in April 1955
Published on Friday, 11th April 2014.
In April 1979 the brutal Ugandan ruler, Idi Amin, was ousted by invading Tanzanian forces
Published on Thursday, 10th April 2014.
Soviet troops crushed a mass demonstration in Georgia's capital Tbilisi on 9 April,1989
Published on Wednesday, 9th April 2014.
The great American contralto sings to a huge crowd in Washington DC on 9 April, 1939
Published on Tuesday, 8th April 2014.
The mass killing of minority ethnic Tutsis in Rwanda began on 7 April,1994
Published on Monday, 7th April 2014.
Gandhi's call to all Indians to rise up in non-violent resistance to British rule in 1942
Published on Friday, 4th April 2014.
Life in Paris for Duke and Duchess of Windsor, formerly Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson
Published on Thursday, 3rd April 2014.
In April 2004 the death of a 23-year-old student provoked a wave of protests in Argentina
Published on Wednesday, 2nd April 2014.
In 1957 the BBC played an April Fool's joke on the British public.
Published on Tuesday, 1st April 2014.
On March 31 1995, rising Latino superstar Selena was shot dead by her fan club manager.
Published on Monday, 31st March 2014.
Almost 300 people died before the outbreak in Zaire in 1976 was eventually contained
Published on Friday, 28th March 2014.
In March 1999, US doctor Jack Kevorkian was convicted for performing euthanasia
Published on Thursday, 27th March 2014.
In March 1989, Soviet citizens were given a chance to vote for non-communists candidates
Published on Wednesday, 26th March 2014.
How Poi E became the first Maori language song to reach number one in New Zealand
Published on Tuesday, 25th March 2014.
In 1947 a passenger plane vanished without trace, only to reappear 53 years later
Published on Monday, 24th March 2014.
Hundreds of doomsday cult members were found murdered in Uganda in March 2000
Published on Friday, 21st March 2014.
AZT was approved within two years, the fastest approval in US history at the time
Published on Thursday, 20th March 2014.
Princess Anne escaped a kidnap attempt by a lone gunman in London in March 1974
Published on Wednesday, 19th March 2014.
In the 1960s foreign workers were invited to power the country's economic regeneration
Published on Tuesday, 18th March 2014.
An oil tanker hit the rocks off the the south-west coast of England in March 1967
Published on Monday, 17th March 2014.
Fighting intensified in the Lebanese capital Beirut in March 1989
Published on Friday, 14th March 2014.
In 1947, Chiang Kai-Shek's Chinese nationalist troops killed 20,000 civilians in Taiwan
Published on Thursday, 13th March 2014.
The woman who created the most famous doll in the world - Barbie
Published on Wednesday, 12th March 2014.
The bombing of commuter trains in Spain's capital that killed 191 people and injured 1800
Published on Tuesday, 11th March 2014.
In 1914 a suffragette attacked a painting in London's National Gallery with a cleaver
Published on Monday, 10th March 2014.
In 1948 Ghana was rocked by riots following the killing of Ghanaian WW2 veterans
Published on Friday, 7th March 2014.
In 1986, two Soviet space probes intercepted Halley's Comet
Published on Thursday, 6th March 2014.
In 1970 feminists stormed the stage at the Miss World pageant in London.
Published on Wednesday, 5th March 2014.
In March 1984, coal miners across the UK went on strike over planned pit closures
Published on Tuesday, 4th March 2014.
In spring 1959, an Indian guru toured the world teaching Transcendental Meditation.
Published on Monday, 3rd March 2014.
Left-leaning army officers staged an unsuccessful coup in Venezuela in February 1992
Published on Friday, 28th February 2014.
In February 2004 the president of Haiti was forced out of power by a countrywide uprising
Published on Thursday, 27th February 2014.
In the 1950s Soviet citizens were allowed to buy tape recorders for the first time.
Published on Wednesday, 26th February 2014.
In February 1984 an outrageous satirical puppet show hit British television screens
Published on Tuesday, 25th February 2014.
How nearly half a million Chechen and Ingush people were deported from the North Caucasus
Published on Monday, 24th February 2014.
In February 1952 thousands marched in Dhaka in defence of the Bengali language
Published on Friday, 21st February 2014.
In February 1991 protesters pulled down the giant statue of Albania's communist dictator.
Published on Thursday, 20th February 2014.
Deng Xiaoping's translator, Victor Gao remembers the architect of China's transformation
Published on Wednesday, 19th February 2014.
In February 1941, a ship carrying nearly 30,000 cases of whisky was wrecked in Scotland.
Published on Tuesday, 18th February 2014.
The rise and fall of a New York graffiti artist
Published on Monday, 17th February 2014.
Sandinista 'Daniel Alegria' on the brutal fight with US-backed Contra rebels in Nicaragua
Published on Friday, 14th February 2014.
On 13 February 1974 the Russian dissident writer was sent into exile in the West
Published on Thursday, 13th February 2014.
In 1979, the Islamic Revolution changed Iranian women's lives forever.
Published on Wednesday, 12th February 2014.
In 2004, the US began to realise Saddam Hussein may not have been stockpiling WMDs
Published on Tuesday, 11th February 2014.
In 1939 tension was growing in Europe, over Nazi Germany's expansionist plans
Published on Monday, 10th February 2014.
On 7 February 1964 the pop group the Beatles were met by hysterical crowds in the USA
Published on Friday, 7th February 2014.
In 1946 tens of thousands of British women went to Canada on the first 'war brides' ship
Published on Thursday, 6th February 2014.
In February 1944, the first electronic computer began attacking coded Nazi messages
Published on Wednesday, 5th February 2014.
In February 2004, 23 Chinese immigrants drowned off the coast of north-west England
Published on Tuesday, 4th February 2014.
In 1992 a war erupted in the separatist Georgian territory of Abkhazia
Published on Monday, 3rd February 2014.
The death of former NFL star Mike Webster led to questions about safety in 2002
Published on Friday, 31st January 2014.
In January 1961, the US closed down its embassy in Cuba and withdrew all diplomatic staff
Published on Thursday, 30th January 2014.
In 2006, Russian activists broke the law to stage the first gay pride march in Moscow.
Published on Wednesday, 29th January 2014.
In January 1952 hundreds of buildings were deliberately set ablaze in downtown Cairo
Published on Tuesday, 28th January 2014.
In 1943, Rome's Jewish citizens were promised safety if they gave gold to the Nazis.
Published on Monday, 27th January 2014.
Rare archive recordings of people who lived through the unification of Nigeria in 1914
Published on Friday, 24th January 2014.
In January 1989, US serial killer Ted Bundy was executed by electric chair in Florida
Published on Thursday, 23rd January 2014.
In January 1944 the WW2 blockade of Leningrad finally ended after almost 900 days
Published on Wednesday, 22nd January 2014.
The world's first nuclear-powered submarine was launched on 21st January 1954.
Published on Tuesday, 21st January 2014.
The WW2 attempt to understand how best to care for starving civilians in war-torn Europe
Published on Monday, 20th January 2014.
The allies launched a major offensive against the Germans in Italy in January 1944
Published on Friday, 17th January 2014.
In 2004, US forces began battling insurgents based in the Iraqi city of Fallujah
Published on Thursday, 16th January 2014.
In 1966 a small group of Nigerian army officers launched the country's first ever coup
Published on Wednesday, 15th January 2014.
The guitarist's girlfriend on his electrifying performances and their life off-stage
Published on Tuesday, 14th January 2014.
In 1991, pro-independence Lithuanians took to the streets of Vilnius against Soviet tanks
Published on Monday, 13th January 2014.
The young nun who would become Mother Teresa arrived in Calcutta in 1929
Published on Friday, 10th January 2014.
In 1964 violence erupted in Panama, prompted by a dispute over the American flag.
Published on Thursday, 9th January 2014.
Solomon Northup was born a free man in America but kidnapped into slavery in the South
Published on Wednesday, 8th January 2014.
In 1999, Bill Clinton was tried by the US Senate over his relationship with an intern
Published on Tuesday, 7th January 2014.
One of France's most famous writers was killed in a car crash on 4 January, 1960
Published on Monday, 6th January 2014.
On the 3rd of January 1946 Britain's most famous wartime traitor was hanged.
Published on Friday, 3rd January 2014.
The Las Balsas expedition saw 12 men set off on three rafts across the Pacific Ocean
Published on Thursday, 2nd January 2014.
Armed indigenous rebels seized towns in Chiapas, Mexico, on New Year's Day in 1994
Published on Wednesday, 1st January 2014.
