The story of our times told by the people who were there.
Russian aristocrat Moura Budberg lived through turbulent times. But was she a Soviet spy?
The passing of the Civil Rights Act through the United States Congress 50 years ago
In 1969 the Cuyahoga River in the US caught fire inspiring new laws for the enviroment
In June 1954 separatist Karen rebels in Burma hijacked a passenger plane.
In the summer of 1991 thousands of Albanians commandeered cargo ships to take them Italy
The destruction of the village of Lidice in German-occupied Czechoslovakia in June 1942
In 1965 a pioneering computer dating scheme, Operation Match, launched in the USA.
The heir to the Austro-Hungarian empire was killed in Sarajevo on 28 June 1914
In 1994 Fred and Rosemary West were charged with a series of gruesome murders in England.
Two Iraqi, Abu Ghraib detainees recall their experiences inside the American-run prison
In World War Two an optimistic musical about American rural life became a hit on Broadway
Every year, thousands of Soviet children visited the holiday camp Artek by the Black Sea
Sunni tribal militia turned on Al Qaeda in Iraq and began working with US forces In 2006
When militants took over a mosque in Islamabad, troops were sent in to end the siege
It is 20 years since the death of North Korea's founding leader Kim Il Sung
On 9 July 1985 the Greenpeace campaign ship was bombed by French secret agents
Bosnian Serb troops murdered thousands of Bosnian Muslim men and boys in July 1995
The great Latin American poet was born in a remote town in southern Chile in July 1904
On 13 July 1954, the celebrated Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, died at the age of 47
In July 1969, Edward Kennedy was involved in a car accident in which a young woman died
In July 1979 left-wing rebels toppled the last member of the Somoza dynasty in Nicaragua.
In July 1974 Turkish troops invaded the island of Cyprus
Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg attempted to kill Adolf Hitler on 20 July, 1944
In 1994 a bomb exploded in Argentina killing 85 people at a Jewish centre