History as told by the people who were there.
On New Year's Eve 1999 the Russian President went on TV and said he was leaving office. Tired and e
In 1961, Viv Nicholson became a household name in Britain when she and her husband scooped a massive
How two pilots, Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager, became the first to fly non-stop around the world witho
Mountaineers risked their lives to camouflage churches and palaces in the great Russian city during
In December 1966, a group of Black activists in Los Angeles created the winter holiday Kwanzaa to tr
The game has become a holiday tradition with families around the world since its launch in 1981. As
One of the most successful American films of all time was released on Christmas Day 1962. Written b
When Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar was a schoolboy, he was not allowed to drink from the same tap as his fe
When Chinese universities reinstated entrance exams in December 1977 it was a sign that the Cultural
Australian scientists were central to the development of wifi. John O'Sullivan and David Skellern we
A controversial Islamic movement brought a brief moment of peace to Mogadishu in 2006 after years of
The Australian Prime Minister, Harold Holt, disappeared after going for a swim in the ocean on Decem
In December 1967, the great American soul singer, Otis Redding, was killed in a plane crash as he st
Thousands died as a thick polluted fog engulfed London in 1952. People with respiratory and cardiova
The African-American lab technician, Vivien Thomas, whose surgery helped save the lives of millions
In 2001, American hypnotist Larry Garrett was invited to Iraq to treat an "important businessman". W
The Russian Revolution of 1917 led not just to huge political and social change, but to a new artist
In 1967 a biologist began listening to strange sounds recorded way out at sea, he realised it was wh
In December 1917 Finland proclaimed its independence. For many centuries it had been controlled by i
In 1967 the British withdrawal from their colony of Aden led to the creation of the People's Republi
