History as told by the people who were there.
The end of the Second World War in Europe came on 8 May 1945, after more than five years of conflict
On 7 May 1915, the British ocean liner, the Lusitania, was sunk by a German submarine off the Irish
In 1955, entrepreneur and engineer Yoshitada Minami came up with a way to liberate women from two to
In April 2005, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger became Pope Benedict XVI following the death of Pope John P
On 9 January 1992, astronomers Alex Wolszczan and Dale Frail announced they had discovered the first
In 1998, the Snake game made its debut on mobile phones. It is known for its simple yet addictive g
On 1 May 2004, the European Union went through its biggest ever enlargement. 10 countries joined inc
During the Vietnam War, North Vietnamese VietCong guerrillas built a vast network of tunnels in the
When South Vietnam fell to communist forces in 1975, most could not escape. In the last days, the Un
In the late 1970s, Vietnam was one of the poorest countries in the world. Its economy had been destr
On 30 April 1945 Adolf Hitler killed himself in a bunker in the German capital Berlin as Soviet Red
In September 1987, Othello was staged at the Market Theatre in Johannesburg during the apartheid reg
Forty years ago, on 23 April 1985, Coca-Cola decided to change the secret formula of its fizzy drink
An 18-second clip of a young man standing in front of an elephant enclosure at San Diego Zoo in Cali
In April 1944, the Allies planned Exercise Tiger to practise their landing on France's Normandy beac
In November 1995, a proposal of having an annual day focused on celebrating books was put forward at
Fifty years after the start of the genocide that wiped out a quarter of its eight million population
In April 1975 the four-year rule of the brutal Khmer Rouge began in Cambodia. Up to two million peop
In 1993, a literal lightbulb moment led to the invention of the first white light emitting diode (LE
In April 2005, nine young Australians were caught trying to smuggle 8.3kg of heroin out of Indonesia
