History as told by the people who were there.
In 1996, Brazil introduced a pioneering electronic voting system, revolutionising its election proce
In 2002, filmmaker Ken Burns received an intriguing proposition from Apple CEO, Steve Jobs. He wante
New Zealander Jean Batten was nicknamed the ‘Queen of the Skies’ for her record breaking flights of
In 1676, Astronomer Royal John Flamsteed was looking to find a way to determine longitude at sea, so
In 1970, father of five Gary Gygax was fired from his job as an insurance underwriter in Chicago, in
Star athlete, Jose Adelino Barceló de Carvalho, abandoned his career in 1972 to follow his one true
In 1984, Ethiopia suffered one of its worst ever famines. A BBC news report from the area shocked th
Argentinian geologist Eduardo Olivero became the first scientist to find the remains of a dinosaur i
In 2013, Emami, an Indian beauty and wellness company, put out an advert for their skin lightening p
After the Six Day War in June 1967, the Suez Canal in Egypt was closed.It meant 14 ships from eight
In 1969, a new sound began to dominate the airwaves in the UK, reggae.This was terrible news for two
In 1999, Waheed Arian left his family in Afghanistan to seek refuge in the UK. He was just 15.He was
In November 2003, the people of Georgia ousted veteran president Eduard Shevardnadze. Protestors sto
Between 18 March and 10 April 2014, more than 500,000 people in Taipei, Taiwan, protested against a
After the death of her brother, engineer Thérèse Izay Kirongozi got to work handmaking huge robots t
In 1994, bar codes were in widespread use in businesses around the world, but the Japanese car compo
In 1946, one of the world’s first electronic computers was unveiled in Philadelphia, in the USA. It
Scientists at Waseda University in Japan built the world's first humanoid robot in 1973. They called
Eliza is the name of a 1966 invention by German born scientist, Joseph Weizenbaum, that is said to b
In 1973, two men pretending to be Colombian guerrillas took a plane and flew across Latin America fo
