The story of our times told by the people who were there.
It is 70 years since a Swiss chemist stumbled on the controversial hallucinogenic drug.
In January 1965 Britain held a state funeral for the man who led it through World War Two.
In April 1975 the four-year rule of the brutal Khmer Rouge began in Cambodia.
Jewish fighters in the Polish capital rose up against the German army in 1943
Ethiopia's emperor visited Jamaica - the birthplace of the Rastafarian movement - in 1966
The acclaimed musician who became a symbol of Catalan resistance to General Franco
Thirty years ago newspapers spent millions on what they thought were Hitler's diaries
How the boxing champion's refusal to go to Vietnam made him a hero to 1960s radicals
In April 1959 Dame Margot Fonteyn was part of a bizarre plot against Panama's government.
In 1968 German students called for a revolution when their leader Rudi Dutschke was shot
On April 30th 1945 Adolf Hitler killed himself in a bunker beneath Berlin.
In May 1967 campaigning began across Australia to consolidate Aboriginal rights
Thousands of black American children protest against segregation in Birmingham, Alabama
On May 7th 1963 Luciano Pavarotti first perfomed on a British stage, in Northern Ireland
In 1992 an ex-postal worker and his wife donated a priceless art collection to a gallery
In 1981 the British government was faced with prisoners on hunger strike
In May 1969 the New York Times revealed that US war planes were secretly bombing Cambodia
It is 60 years since England's football legend Stanley Matthews led his team to victory
Allied ships battled arctic storms, bombers and U-boats to ferry supplies to Russia in WW2
Author F. Scott Fitzgerald as remembered by two close personal links
As rebellion swept across Europe, Polish students called for democratic change in Poland
The journalist who became an unwitting voice against Ethiopian ruler Col. Mengistu
It is 21 years since screen star Marlene Dietrich died in Paris at the age of 90
A crewman's account of the famous British raid on Hitler's dams in 1943.
