Witness History

East Germany's most famous singer-songwriter was exiled to the West in November 1976, causing an int

The buddy movie about a cowboy doll and a toy astronaut used computer-generated images to tell a sto

The president of South Vietnam was overthrown and murdered in a coup in November 1963 - with the sup

Charles Manson's followers murdered nine people on his orders. But how to prove his guilt when he w

In 1979 Islamic militants seized control of the Grand Mosque in Mecca, the holiest site in Islam. Hu

Manfred Marx was the man who discovered the diamonds which transformed Botswana's economy. As a youn

Thousands of people went missing during Lebanon's long and brutal civil war. But in 1982 a group of

A British national institution closed in October 1964. The Windmill Theatre had been one of the few

Curry first became popular in the UK in the 1950s with the arrival of immigrants from South Asia. T

A dead sperm whale washed up on a beach in Florence, Oregon in November 1970. It was so big that the

Remarkable recordings from the BBC archive of two people who felt the cost of war first-hand. Their

The Russian street dog was the first living creature to orbit the Earth. She was sent into space in

On 7 November 1917, Bolshevik revolutionaries overthrew the provisional government set up in Russia

Days before Kabul fell to anti-Taliban forces in November 2001, Osama bin Laden met Pakistani journa

In 1967 the zoologist and broadcaster, Desmond Morris, wrote about humans in the same way that anima

In 1997 the US Supreme Court ruled against censoring sex on the internet. It overturned a law, signe

In the Lebanese city of Tripoli there is an exceptional architectural site which has never been used

When German monk Martin Luther nailed his 95 Theses to the door of All Saint's Church in Wittenberg

In October 1975 the prominent Brazilian journalist Vladimir Herzog was killed by the secret police.

In October 1929 Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir began their fifty-year love affair after mee