History as told by the people who were there.
In July 1985, music legends Mick Jagger and David Bowie were asked to perform a duet with a twist at
On 3 July 1985 Back to the Future was released. The film tells the story of Marty McFly, a 17-year-o
Judging by how often US President Donald Trump has repeated the slogan “Drill, baby, drill”, you mig
On 1 July 2015, a much-loved lion was killed in Zimbabwe by an American trophy hunter.Black-maned Ce
In 2008, an earthquake in China’s Sichuan province killed almost 90,000 people. Many were crushed wh
Between 1945 and 1952, ‘happiness trains’ transported 70,000 children from southern to northern Ital
When the Medellin Metro opened in 1995, the Colombian city had recently been called the “murder capi
In June 1968, Senator Robert Kennedy was killed during his campaign for the American presidency.Ther
On 11 September 1951, the 9.55am train from Prague to Aš, in Communist Czechoslovakia was hijacked a
In 1949, the Gratitude Train arrived in the United States, made up of 49 wagons filled with thousand
It’s 50 years since the original Jaws film was released in cinemas across America. The movie premier
On 28 June 1919, in the Palace of Versailles in Paris the signing of the Treaty of Versailles took
On 18 June 1964, black and white protesters jumped into a ‘whites only’ swimming pool at a motel in
On 17 June 2015, white supremacist Dylann Roof attended a bible group at Emanuel African Methodist E
After the Second World War, in what was then East Germany, or the German Democratic Republic (GDR),
On 14 June 1985, five politicians met on a boat in the town of Schengen, in Luxembourg, to sign an a
In 1987 Uunied States President Ronald Reagan spoke at the Berlin Wall. In his speech he called on t
In 2012, Lonesome George, the last tortoise of his species died.George, from from Ecuador’s Galapago
After the Sino-Indian war in 1962, around 3,000 men, women and children were incarcerated in a disus
Between September 1943 and June 1944 in World War Two, the Italian capital Rome was occupied by Germ
