The story of our times told by the people who were there.
In 1975 hundreds of thousands of Moroccans marched into disputed territory in the desert.
In November 1953 Welsh poet Dylan Thomas died in New York aged just thirty-nine.
In 1979 a train carrying tonnes of dangerous chemicals crashed in Canada
On November 11th 1918 at 11am, the guns of World War One finally fell silent.
In November 1933, one of the first big dust-storms hit central United States
In 1982, the boxer Deuk-Koo Kim died of brain damage after a world title fight
In 1984 doctors in California tried a revolutionary operation on a two-week-old baby.
Red Cross doctors tried to help casualties from both sides in Yemen in the 1960s.
In November 1978 an American cult leader ordered more than 900 people to kill themselves.
Before he shot President Kennedy, Oswald spent two and a half mysterious years in Minsk
In 1995, writer Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight Ogoni rights activists were executed in Nigeria
In 1974, bombs exploded at two busy pubs in Birmingham, killing 21 - the IRA were blamed
On 23 November 1963, the first episode of Doctor Who was shown.
How a preoccupation with coffee became the inspiration for the first webcam in 1993
In 1936 socialite Ruth Harkness and her guide captured a panda cub and took it to the US
The 1970s road safety campaign which changed the face of the Netherlands.
In November 1943 Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill all met together to discuss WW2
Portuguese soldiers raided the independent West African nation of Guinea in 1970
In December 1980 three US nuns and a layworker were killed in El Salvador
After the end of the Vietnam War in 1975, over a million people fled the country by boat.
How Charles Silverstein challenged the view that homosexuality was a mental illness
For 14 years it was illegal to sell alcohol in the USA - prohibition only ended in 1933
In December 1993, Hindu activists demolished a Muslim holy site.
Following the death of Nelson Mandela we remember the system he was fighting against
