History as told by the people who were there.
In December 1989, Germany’s ‘Green Belt’ was born. For more than 40 years, the country had been spli
On 19 April 1995, a huge truck bomb killed 168 people in a government building in Oklahoma City, US.
In December 2011, Leymah Gbowee was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her role in helping to end the
On 27 February 1933, the Reichstag building in Berlin, which was home to the German Parliament, was
In 1991, a horrific civil war erupted between rival warlords in Somalia. A US-led United Nations mis
In 1960, Norwegian toymaker Åsmund Lærdal began selling his latest invention - a life-size training
United States President John F Kennedy gave a speech in Berlin at the height of the Cold War on 26 J
In 1976, Jenette Kahn took on one of the biggest roles in comic books - publisher of DC Comics, home
In 1951, American chemist Dr Harry Coover was experimenting with a substance called cyanoacrylate bu
In the early 1900s, the first diamond was found in Kolmanskop, in the African country of Namibia. It
For more than 50 years, Mulatu Astatke has been performing at venues around the world, inspiring aud
Harold Riley was the only artist in the world granted a sitting to capture Nelson Mandela on canvas.
As Yugoslavia began to break down, the Balkans conflict began - a series of brutal wars characterise
In 2015 Goodluck Jonathan became the first Nigerian president to concede election defeat. It allowed
When General David Galtier hovered above the French Alps in a helicopter on 24 March 2015 he could n
In October 2012, the founding father of the European Space Agency was honoured when a spacecraft nam
In July 1975, former competitors the Soviet Union and the United States both launched rockets into t
“Fate has ordained that the men who went to the moon to explore in peace will stay on the moon to re
