History as told by the people who were there.
In the early 1990s, as Cuba faced a devastating economic crisis, leading to severe food shortages an
In June 1944, a village in France was destroyed in just one day. German soldiers entered Oradour-su
In 1966, at Johns Hopkins University in the US, a little-known glamorous French philosopher called J
In 1981 the first major series of English lessons was broadcast on Chinese television.President Deng
A series of unprecedented teachers’ strikes temporarily shut most of New York’s schools in the late
In the aftermath of World War Two, children were left orphaned, or separated from their families. Th
On 23 August 1989, approximately two million people joined hands to form a 690-kilometre human chain
On 16 March 1988, loyalist paramilitary Michael Stone killed three mourners and injured 60 others at
In August 1995, Microsoft released a new operating system - Windows 95 – following one of the comput
On 29 November 1995, Tibetan Buddhist leaders attended a secret ceremony in the Tibetan capital, Lha
On 27 March 1995, fashion heir Maurizio Gucci was shot dead outside his office in Milan, Italy.Five
In 1995, an obscure Japanese religion launched a chemical attack on the Tokyo metro. Members of the
During a 17-year bombing campaign, an elusive terrorist known as the Unabomber killed three and inju
Drum was considered to be the first African lifestyle magazine with a readership of 40,000 in its 19
In 1980, Australian author Thomas Keneally stumbled across the story of Oskar Schindler while buying
On 17 January 1995, an earthquake devastated the port city of Kobe, in west Japan.More than 6,000 pe
In 1978, former first lady of the United States, Betty Ford, announced that she had an addiction to
In 1933, newly-elected US President Franklin D Roosevelt attempted to drag the United States out of
Yörük Işık is a ship spotter who logs all the boats that pass through the narrow Bosphorus Strait ne
