麻豆约拍

On July 27 1953 the Korean War came to an end and thousands of prisoners were released

In July 2005 the IRA in Northern Ireland promised to put its weapons out of use.

In July 1945 hundreds of US sailors were left adrift for days in shark infested waters

The controversial American union leader, Jimmy Hoffa, was last seen alive on July 30 1975

It is 25 years since the final episode of one of India's biggest ever TV programmes

The sisters whose lives were devastated during the campaign for Gorkhaland in India

In August 1975, Japanese Red Army militants took 53 people hostage in Kuala Lumpur

It wasn't until 1974 that American Vogue put a black model on its cover for the first time

In 1997, a patch of plastic waste was discovered in the middle of the Pacific Ocean

In August 1988 protests demanding an end to military rule in Burma were met with violence

Survivors remember the atomic explosion over the Japanese city in 1945

The Congolese student who saw war come to his small hometown of Uvira

How the rise of Hitler forced great physicists such as Max Born out of 1930s Germany

In 1950, East Germany claimed American planes were dropping beetles over their fields.

In August 1998, 29 people died in a massive car bombing in Omagh, Northern Ireland.

Set designer Sir Ken Adam recalls working with the famously difficult director

The British family who were held as 'human shields' in Iraq before the First Gulf War

The student who appealed for the world's help when Soviet tanks invaded Czechoslovakia

On August 21 1983, the opposition leader, Benigno Aquino, was shot dead in the Philippines

In August 1976 more than 200 people developed a mystery illness at a hotel in Philadelphia

In 1992, a huge wave of protests forced President Collor of Brazil from office.

In 1883, the Indonesian volcano caused one of the world's biggest disasters

How one Arizona couple's campaign for a termination split America in 1962

Martin Luther King made his historic plea for racial equality at the March on Washington