The story of our times told by the people who were there.
In 1954 the president of Brazil chose to die rather than submit to the military
Writer Ken Kesey and friends drove across America experimenting with LSD in summer 1964
In the summer of 1978 a British woman became the last known victim of smallpox.
Rare recordings of African veterans of WW1 in East Africa
A ground-breaking new boutique opened in Swinging London in September, 1964
How Boris Pasternak's great novel Dr Zhivago came to be published in the West .
Kitty Hart-Moxon's story of how she survived two years in the notorious Nazi death camp
The crisis following the withdrawl of most circulating banknotes in Myanmar in 1987
Pakistan declared that members of the Ahmadiyya sect were not Muslims in September 1974
Mao Zedong died on 9 September 1976. His widow Jiang Qing wanted power after his death.
It is 30 years since a British scientist found out how to identify people by their DNA
The massacre of 184 Tamils by the Sri Lankan army in 1990 during the country's civil war
How a 1968 song by the folk band, The Corries, became Scotland鈥檚 unofficial anthem
Three days after 9/11 Congresswoman Barbara Lee became the most hated woman in America
In 1993, the Israeli prime minister and the PLO leader shook hands and made history
It is 60 years since William Golding's acclaimed novel was first published
How an earthquake in Mexico City in 1985 led to the creation of an elite rescue group
South Africa sent 600 soldiers into Lesotho to quell political unrest in September 1998
In 1970 the Jordanian military fought against the Palestinian Liberation Organisation.
On 20 September 1979 the Central African dictator Jean Bedel-Bokassa left power
On 23 September 1998, Clint Hallam received the world's first hand transplant
The American TV show Friends hits TV screens
Five Cuban spies were arrested in Miami by the FBI in September 1998
In 2002 the 'Joola' ferry sank off Senegal with the loss of more than 1800 lives
