The story of our times told by the people who were there.
In 1914 a suffragette attacked a painting in London's National Gallery with a cleaver
The bombing of commuter trains in Spain's capital that killed 191 people and injured 1800
The woman who created the most famous doll in the world - Barbie
In 1947, Chiang Kai-Shek's Chinese nationalist troops killed 20,000 civilians in Taiwan
Fighting intensified in the Lebanese capital Beirut in March 1989
An oil tanker hit the rocks off the the south-west coast of England in March 1967
In the 1960s foreign workers were invited to power the country's economic regeneration
Princess Anne escaped a kidnap attempt by a lone gunman in London in March 1974
AZT was approved within two years, the fastest approval in US history at the time
Hundreds of doomsday cult members were found murdered in Uganda in March 2000
In 1947 a passenger plane vanished without trace, only to reappear 53 years later
How Poi E became the first Maori language song to reach number one in New Zealand
In March 1989, Soviet citizens were given a chance to vote for non-communists candidates
In March 1999, US doctor Jack Kevorkian was convicted for performing euthanasia
Almost 300 people died before the outbreak in Zaire in 1976 was eventually contained
On March 31 1995, rising Latino superstar Selena was shot dead by her fan club manager.
In 1957 the 大象传媒 played an April Fool's joke on the British public.
In April 2004 the death of a 23-year-old student provoked a wave of protests in Argentina
Life in Paris for Duke and Duchess of Windsor, formerly Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson
Gandhi's call to all Indians to rise up in non-violent resistance to British rule in 1942
The mass killing of minority ethnic Tutsis in Rwanda began on 7 April,1994
The great American contralto sings to a huge crowd in Washington DC on 9 April, 1939
Soviet troops crushed a mass demonstration in Georgia's capital Tbilisi on 9 April,1989
In April 1979 the brutal Ugandan ruler, Idi Amin, was ousted by invading Tanzanian forces