麻豆官网首页入口

The Treaty of Rome

We take you back to the beginnings of the European project.

• 10 mins

Manuel Noriega

Twenty years ago the leader of Panama Manuel Noriega, was removed from power by the USA.

• 10 mins

ANC Bomb

The ANC party took its first violent action in 1961, a bomb at municipal offices in Durban

• 9 mins

Kazakh uprising

In December 1986 Kazakhs began protesting against Moscow's rule.

• 10 mins

Bangladesh wins independence

An inside account of the moment Bangladesh won independence from Pakistan in 1971.

• 10 mins

Spice Girls

Christmas 1996 and the Spice Girls are number one. 'Girl Power' is taking over the world.

• 10 mins

The British Miners' strike

Christmas 1984 - a time of hardship for the protesters against the closure of coal mines

• 10 mins

Concert for Bangladesh

In 1971 the first big rock benefit gig was organised by former Beatle, George Harrison.

• 10 mins

Billy Graham

How the world's best known evangelist began preaching internationally.

• 10 mins

The Christmas Truce

On Christmas Eve 1914, during World War I, British and German soldiers stopped fighting.

• 10 mins

The sinking of the Scharnhorst

She was one of Germany's greatest battleships during World War II.

• 10 mins

The release of Sakharov

In December 1986 the Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov was allowed to return to Moscow.

• 10 mins

Enid Blyton and the 麻豆官网首页入口

The difficult relationship between the 麻豆官网首页入口 and the children's writer, Enid Blyton.

• 10 mins

The Creation of Tetris

One of the most popular computer games ever was invented in Moscow in 1984

• 10 mins

US troops in Iraq

All US troops have now left Iraq. We take you back to when they first invaded in 2003.

• 10 mins

Birth of the Euro

How millions of Europeans celebrated the launch of the euro in 2002.

• 10 mins

The capture of the USS Pueblo

In January 1968 an American spy ship was captured by North Korean forces.

• 10 mins

The Hollywood blacklist

A list of radicals in the US entertainment industry was published more than 60 years ago.

• 10 mins

Project Stormfury

Fifty years ago the USA launched an ambitious attempt to control the weather.

• 10 mins

Charter 77

Taking you back 35 years when an opposition movement began in Czechoslovakia.

• 10 mins

Crossing the Rubicon

Over 2000 years ago Julius Caesar made a decision which changed European history.

• 10 mins

The death of Emperor Hirohito

When the Japanese Emperor died in 1989 it marked the end of an era.

• 10 mins

Zola and the Dreyfus affair

In 1898 the novelist Emile Zola took up the cause of a Jewish prisoner - Alfred Dreyfus.

• 10 mins

Perez de Cuellar goes to Baghdad

In January 1991 the UN Secretary General tried to avert the first Gulf War.

• 10 mins

Folsom Prison Blues

In January 1968 the country legend Johnny Cash recorded a concert in a high-security jail.

• 10 mins

Vietnam draft pardon

In January 1977 President Jimmy Carter said draft dodgers could come home.

• 10 mins

The Great Brinks Robbery

In 1950 a Boston gang stole over $2.5m and they almost got away with it.

• 9 mins

The Warsaw ghetto

On 18 January 1943 German soldiers began a final drive to empty the Polish capital of Jews

• 10 mins

Roe v Wade

In January 1973 abortion was legalised across the USA.

• 10 mins

The Wannsee conference

It is 70 years since senior Nazi officials met to plan the killing of European Jews.

• 10 mins