History as told by the people who were there. All the programmes from 2016.
In 2000, Zamfara became the first Nigerian state to implement full Sharia law
On 28 January 1986 The Challenger space shuttle launch went horribly wrong
Britain established a penal colony in Australia.In January 1788
In January 1986 newspaper owner Rupert Murdoch took on the British print unions.
Hundreds of thousands of people mourned the student activist in Prague in January 1969.
In 2004, a Ukrainian presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko was mysteriously poisoned
In 1972 a Japanese soldier was found hiding in the jungle on the Pacific island of Guam.
In January 1995 Mexico was forced to seek a multi-billion dollar bailout from the US
One of the most famous cartoon characters in history was born in January 1929 - Tintin.
In 1966 a small group of Nigerian army officers launched the country's first ever coup
Hossein Amanat was the young architect employed to build a tower for Iranian royalty.
The tragic case that led to the discovery of Alzheimer's disease.
The Russian painter who created a world-famous collection of forbidden Soviet art
In October 2006 a man killed five Amish schoolgirls and injured five more in Pennsylvania
How two US military planes, one carrying nuclear weapons, crashed over a Spanish village
How the thoughts of China's communist leader became an unexpected global best-seller
In Jan 1959 leftist revolutionaries ended decades of rule by Cuba's US-backed dictator
In 1956, Charles and Ray Eames launched the Eames Chair.
A new university in Britain offers a radically different approach to higher education.
Some of the first Vietnamese refugees arrive in Britain after a dramatic rescue at sea.
