The story of our times told by the people who were there.
In 1997 a young Spanish politician was murdered by the Basque separatist group ETA
In summer 1947 India declared independence after hundreds of years of British rule.
In 1987, the first Palestinian uprising, or intifada, started in Gaza
It's 30 years since the release of the film Purple Rain, starring musician Prince
Eyewitness accounts from the archives of the start of war in the summer of 1914
In July 1949, the British-built de Havilland Comet took off for the first time
In 1969 two young Australians bought a lion cub in Harrods and raised it in London
A fellow prisoner recalls how the American TV celebrity survived five months behind bars
On 1 August 1944, resistance fighters in the Polish capital rose up against German forces
On 4 Aug 1964 the bodies of three murdered civil rights workers were found in Mississippi
On 5 Aug 1944, hundreds of Japanese prisoners attempted the largest breakout of WW2.
In 1984, the 2000 year old remains of a man were found preserved in a peat bog in England
On 8 August 1974 Richard Nixon became the first US president in history to resign.
In 1971 the British Army detained hundreds of suspects without trial in Northern Ireland.
How thousands of Polish citizens tried to flee the USSR after being freed in August 1941
The Supremes had their first hit 'Baby Love' in August 1964, 50 years ago
The cast and crew remember one of the most popular Hollywood musicals of all time
The Scottish anarchist and the plot to kill General Franco
The terrorist 'Carlos the Jackal' was arrested in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, in 1994
Zimbabwean writer Dambudzo Marechera died of an AIDS-related illness on 18 August 1987
French and US forces freed Paris from German occupation in August 1944
British India was divided into two new countries - India and Pakistan - in August 1947
In 1975, Iran and America abandon the Iraqi Kurds in their fight against Saddam Hussein
A US Air Force plane crashed into an English village, killing 61 people in August 1944
