History as told by the people who were there.
On 17 June 1940, a packed British troopship was sunk off the coast of France by German bombers. The
Hundreds of thousands of Algeria's indigenous people, the Berbers, marched to the capital Algiers in
In June 1982 an attempt to amend the US constitution to guarantee equal rights for men and women was
In June 1997 a huge eruption destroyed the airport on the Caribbean island of Montserrat and engulfe
In 1967 East Jerusalem was under the control of Jordan and Captain Nabih El Suhaimat was stationed t
On 7 June 1967, Israel captured the whole of Jerusalem during the Six Day War, including its most ho
Senator Robert Kennedy died in the early hours of June 6th 1968. He had been shot the day before in
The story of a Pakistani boy, Iqbal Masih, who was forced into bonded labour as a carpet weaver at t
On June 3rd 1972 Sally Priesand became the first woman to be ordained as a rabbi in the USA. However
On May 31st 1986 a small group of musicians staged the first charity rock concert ever held in the U
In June 1972 one of Hitchcock's most controversial movie was released. It was his penultimate film a
In 1968 Dr Bindeshwar Pathak began his mission to improve toilet facilities for the poorest people o
In 1979, Canadians launched a revolutionary private sponsorship scheme to aid thousands of Indochine
In May 1998 Pakistan courted international criticism after it responded to an Indian nuclear test, w
In May 1975 one of Latin America's leading young poets was shot dead in El Salvador by members of hi
In May 1970 Ireland's banks were forced to close for 6 months when workers went on strike. But in an
In 1942, the fascist government of Romania deported 25,000 of its Roma citizens to the former Soviet
Teresa Teng was a Taiwanese singer who gained popularity with her soft-focus image and romantic song
In June 2009 after the presidential elections in Iran, millions took to the streets to dispute Mahmo
A Broadway musical has led to renewed interest in the story behind the 18th century American politic
