History as told by the people who were there.
In the late 1970s, Vietnam was one of the poorest countries in the world. Its economy had been destr
On 30 April 1945 Adolf Hitler killed himself in a bunker in the German capital Berlin as Soviet Red
In September 1987, Othello was staged at the Market Theatre in Johannesburg during the apartheid reg
Forty years ago, on 23 April 1985, Coca-Cola decided to change the secret formula of its fizzy drink
An 18-second clip of a young man standing in front of an elephant enclosure at San Diego Zoo in Cali
In April 1944, the Allies planned Exercise Tiger to practise their landing on France's Normandy beac
In November 1995, a proposal of having an annual day focused on celebrating books was put forward at
Fifty years after the start of the genocide that wiped out a quarter of its eight million population
In April 1975 the four-year rule of the brutal Khmer Rouge began in Cambodia. Up to two million peop
In 1993, a literal lightbulb moment led to the invention of the first white light emitting diode (LE
In April 2005, nine young Australians were caught trying to smuggle 8.3kg of heroin out of Indonesia
In December 1989, Germany’s ‘Green Belt’ was born. For more than 40 years, the country had been spli
On 19 April 1995, a huge truck bomb killed 168 people in a government building in Oklahoma City, US.
In December 2011, Leymah Gbowee was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her role in helping to end the
On 27 February 1933, the Reichstag building in Berlin, which was home to the German Parliament, was
In 1991, a horrific civil war erupted between rival warlords in Somalia. A US-led United Nations mis
In 1960, Norwegian toymaker Åsmund Lærdal began selling his latest invention - a life-size training
United States President John F Kennedy gave a speech in Berlin at the height of the Cold War on 26 J
In 1976, Jenette Kahn took on one of the biggest roles in comic books - publisher of DC Comics, home
