The story of our times told by the people who were there.
In 1957 Chairman Mao encouraged criticism of Communism, soon after he jailed thousands
Steve Biko led the Black Consciousness Movement before he was killed in police custody
Police killed students protesting against President Suharto, triggering days of riots
South Korean military put down a popular uprising in the city of Gwangju in May 1980
The assassination of the former Indian Prime Minister, Rajiv Gandhi
In May 1995 thousands of young Russian conscripts were battling separatists in Chechnya
In April 1986 Pope John Paul II made a historic visit to a Rome synagogue
In the 1990s teams of elite American students won millions by card counting in casinos
In May 1964 India's first prime minister and the man who led India to independence died.
For the first time America sends two monkeys into space and brings them back alive.
In 1971 the first refuge for women escaping domestic violence opened in Britain.
In May 1991 rebels took control of Ethiopia's capital ending decades of war
In June 2001 the Crown Prince of Nepal killed his parents and other members of his family
In June 1971, an 18-month long occupation of Alcatraz by Native Americans came to an end.
In June 1989 the Chinese authorities crushed a huge pro-democracy protest in Beijing.
It is 60 years since the great British mathematician died.
Original 大象传媒 reports of the Allied invasion of Nazi-occupied France, 6 June 1944
How troops crushed a rebellion by peasants in the arid backlands of north-east Brazil
How Brazil opened a modernist capital city in its remote central plains in 1960
In June 2002 investigative journalist, Tim Lopes, was brutally killed by a Rio drug gang
How the Brazilian version of the VW Beetle won a special place in the nation's heart
Gilberto Gil and Caetano Veloso on the 1960s movement that changed Brazilian music
In June 1994 police chased the American football star through Los Angeles
In 1989 the body of Imre Nagy, Prime Minister during the Hungarian uprising, was reburied
