History as told by the people who were there.
In 1937, American supermarket owner, Sylvan Goldman, came up with a way to get his customers to spen
In 2015, Europe was in the grip of a migrant crisis, as more than one million people fled regions in
In 1953, in what was then the Belgian Congo, four-year-old Marie-José Loshi was forcibly removed fro
In 2010, an 8.8 magnitude earthquake struck the coast of Chile. It shook the central and southern pa
In 1951, a group of 22 Inuit children from Greenland were sent to live with foster parents in Denmar
The Nellie massacre on 18 February 1983 was the worst bloodshed in the country since Indian independ
What was it in September of 1959 that caused an Austrian scientist to rush out from his lab and buy
Sixty years ago, on 21st February 1965, the controversial black leader, Malcolm X, was assassinated
On 29 March 1974, Czesław Kukuczka stormed into the Polish embassy in East Berlin, threatening to de
In December 2005, Evo Morales made history in Bolivia when he became the country’s first indigenous
In 2010, one of the oldest languages in the world died after the death of its last remaining speaker
In 2013, Guinness World Records deactivated the record for the longest kiss after 15 years, saying i
Eva Peron – otherwise known as Evita - became an icon in 1940s Argentina, famous for her passionate
On 10 December 1992, Australia’s Prime Minister, Paul Keating, addressed a crowd in a Sydney suburb
When Mary Fisher was diagnosed with HIV in 1991 she did not represent the typical stereotype of some
In January 1961, US President Dwight Eisenhower ended his time in the White House with a farewell ad
Dolores Ibárruri was nicknamed La Pasionaria for her fiery speeches to the anti-fascist forces durin
In 1989, a dark teen comedy exploring self-harm and suicide flopped at cinemas.Heathers would have t
In 1998, a mysterious phenomenon turned many of the world’s most colourful coral reefs deathly white
