The story of our times told by the people who were there.
It's 55 years since a picture of a foetus inside the womb was first published.
It is regarded as one of the most important pieces in 20th Century English music.
It took until the 1950s for researchers to connect smoking with lung cancer
Novelist Colm Toibin recalls US President John F Kennedy's visit to Ireland in June 1963
The recent surge in violence in Iraq has echoes of the sectarian conflict in 2006-07
It is 150 years since the Battle of Gettysburg, a turning point in the American Civil War
In July 1986 two students were set on fire by Chilean government soldiers
The mission to save thousands of African penguins from an oil spill in July, 2000
How the publication of Philosophical Investigations in 1953 revolutionised philosophy
When the Palestinian leader was allowed to return from exile to the Gaza strip in 1994
The day the leader of the French Resistance was killed by German forces on July 08, 1943
The Iranian student who became an unwitting symbol of the anti-government protests in 1999
In June 1963, a Buddhist monk set himself on fire in central Saigon
The day when fragments of the US space station Skylab hit an Australian town in 1979
How a disgruntled Chicago DJ hosted an anti-disco event which turned into a riot in 1979
In 1943, the first and only professional women's baseball league was launched in the US
Former Governor General, Chris Patten, remembers the day the territory returned to China.
In 1988 a group of students put on an exhibition called Freeze. It changed British art.
It is ten years since the launch of Philip Rosedale's online virtual world Second Life
How Soviet double agent Oleg Gordievsky escaped from under the noses of the KGB in 1985
In July 1973 a Moroccan waiter was shot dead by an Israeli hit-squad in Norway
In 1983 violence erupted between the Sinhala majority and the Tamil minority in Sri Lanka
In the summer of 1935 Alcoholics Anonymous was founded in Akron, Ohio
The woman forced to bear the children of the leader of the Lord's Resistance Army
