The story of our times told by the people who were there.
Over 400 years ago an Irish woman pirate met Queen Elizabeth I
In May 1944 the Tatar people of Crimea were forced into exile by the Soviet army
In May 1924 two rich and educated teenage boys killed an acquaintance in Chicago
A group of women challenged a ban on contraception and took a train to get them
In May 1968 Manchester United Football club won its first European cup
In 1921 the most famous perfume ever, was launched in France
Mass exodus: how 125,000 Cubans left the island from Mariel harbour in 1980
It is half a century since the launch of the human rights group Amnesty International
It is 13 years since Pakistan first tested a nuclear weapon
It is 50 years since the assassination of Rafael Trujillo - Dominican Republic dictator
It is almost 40 years since an attack at the airport outside Tel Aviv
The story of the massacre 70 years ago that led to the exodus of Baghdad's Jews
One soldier's frank account of his chaotic World War Two retreat from Dunkirk
The experience of a Ugandan-born woman diagnosed with HIV in the early days of the virus
The man who first coralled the international community to hold an environment summit
As tensions in Syria worsen, we talk to a man who was jailed for opposing the Assad regime
It is 30 years since Israeli war planes destroyed a nuclear reactor in Iraq
How Mildred and Richard Loving fought to get mixed-race marriages legalised across the US
When Italy joined WW2 in June 1940, British-Italian men were rounded up and interned
The LAPD detective who spoke to OJ Simpson as he was chased through Los Angeles in 1994
The story of the rise and fall of the first ever female editor of a British newspaper
In June 1953 East German workers went on strike in protest at Soviet rule
On 16 June 1961 the great ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev cut his ties with the Soviet Union
How the Japanese army went on the rampage in the Chinese city of Nanjing in 1937
