History as told by the people who were there.
During World War One, submarines began to be used widely for the first time. German submarines calle
In March 1990 the left-wing politician and presidential candidate, Bernardo Jaramillo, was shot dead
In March 2001 thousands of sex workers gathered in the Indian city of Kolkata for a festival organis
On March 15th 1939, the German army occupied Czechoslovakia. Witness hears the story of one young bo
A hundred years ago, photographer Sergei Prokudin-Gorskii travelled around the Russian Empire taking
In March 1917 Tsar Nicholas II abdicated ending centuries of autocratic royal rule in Russia. The re
In the early days of Aids, a misunderstanding made one man the face of the epidemic. French-Canadian
In March 1977 a group of American Muslims took over a hundred people hostage in Washington. The sie
Georgia O'Keeffe was one of the world's most influential female artists - in 2014, her painting "Jim
In the 1970s and 80s a deadly cocktail of toxic factory fumes and car pollution turned Mexico City i
On 7 March 2005 a group of women held an unprecedented rally outside the Kuwaiti parliament. They we
During World War One, two British nurses set up a first aid station just a few hundred metres behind
In 1998 someone cut the head off the most famous statue in Denmark. Inspired by a Hans Christian A
On March 4th 1933, Eleanor Roosevelt became America's First Lady, a role she transformed during the
In 1951 cells taken from an African American woman suffering from cancer were found to be unique bec
In March 1997 Mother Teresa retired from her charity work in India just 6 months before she died. Sh
In 1997 obesity was first recognised as a global problem when the World Health Organisation first ag
The story of the 1992 film which launched Nigeria's hugely successful movie industry known as Nollyw
Valya Chervenyashka was tortured in a Libyan jail and accused of infecting hundreds of children with
In the 1930s, a group of German-American Nazi sympathisers known as the German American Bund held ra
