History as told by the people who were there.
In April 1966 thousands of artists and performers from all over Africa descended on the Senegalese c
In April 2001 the Peruvian Air Force mistakenly shot down a small passenger plane as it flew over th
NTV, the only nationwide independent TV channel in Russia, was taken over in April 2001. It lost its
In April 1977, a group of disabled activists occupied a government building in San Francisco for nea
In April 1969 Sikh bus drivers and conductors in the northern English town of Wolverhampton won the
Tens of thousands of Polish officers were secretly executed in the USSR during World War 2. The Germ
In the 1970s up to half a million people were killed during the brutal campaign of repression launch
Israa Abd El Fattah was one of the first Egyptian activists to use social media to help organise ant
America declared war on Germany on 6 April 1917, tipping the balance in favour of Britain, France an
In the mid-80s, the world was terrified by HIV Aids caused by a lack of understanding and misinforma
In April 1993, the Azerbaijani town of Kalbajar fell to ethnic Armenian separatists during the war o
In April 1982 the film star Jane Fonda launched her first workout video - encouraging millions of wo
In March 2002 a massive ice shelf with a surface area of more than 3,200 square kilometres collapsed
In March 1997 the BBC launched one of the most successful children's TV programmes ever. Teletubbies
In 1979, an outbreak of anthrax poisoning caused dozens of deaths in the Soviet Union. Geneticist an
In 1994, biotech company Calgene brought the world's first genetically modified food to supermarket
On March 24 1980, as El Salvador edged towards civil war, a right-wing death squad shot dead the hea
On March 25th 1975, the King of Saudi Arabia was assassinated, shot at point-blank range by one of h
In 1957, the Russian-born American philosopher, Ayn Rand, published Atlas Shrugged, one of the most
In 1949, Soviet authorities deported tens of thousands of Estonians to Siberia. They included rich p
