The story of our times told by the people who were there.
On February 5 1994 there was an attack on a marketplace in the Bosnian capital, Sarajevo
Twenty-five years ago today, the President of Haiti Jean-Claude Duvalier fled the country
It is 20 years since international forces united to drive Iraq out of Kuwait
On 9 February 1996, a bomb exploded in London bringing an IRA ceasefire to an end
On 9 February 1950 Senator Joseph McCarthy began his hunt for communists in the US
In February 1837 the great Russian poet - Alexander Pushkin died
On February 14 2005, Lebanese politician Rafik Hariri was assassinated
The British colony of Singapore fell to Japanese forces on this day in 1942
In February 1779 the British seafarer Captain Cook was beaten to death in Hawaii
What was the first cloned mammal like and why did she die young?
On 1 March 1932, the baby son of one of the most famous men in America went missing
How Algeria's experiement with democracy ended in civil war and a state of emergency.
How people power brought down President Marcos of the Philippines in 1986.
The mood across South Africa in the 1950s as the Apartheid laws were being put in place
How Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev secretly denounced Stalin as a tyrant
It is 21 years since the left-wing Sandinista government in Nicaragua lost power
How black leader Malcolm X was assassinated in New York in February 1965.
He was the new British King and she was an American divorcee
It is over 40 years since Colonel Gaddafi took power in Libya in a military coup
In March 1941 the Nazi authorities in Krakow moved the city's Jews into a ghetto
In 1970, the white minority thought they could rule Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe, for ever
The inside story of how three Weatherman revolutionaries died in New York in March 1970
How a brutal civil war broke out in Ivory Coast in 2002.
A revolutionary theorist and feminist icon, Lenin called her the Eagle of the Revolution
