History as told by the people who were there. All the programmes from 2015.
The first ever nuclear weapon was detonated by scientists in the USA on 16 July 1945
Soldiers who witnessed gas attacks recount their experiences in archive recordings
Winner of two Nobel prizes for her pioneering research into radioactivity
In July 1945, the American warship was torpedoed in the shark-infested Pacific Ocean.
The Doctor who tried to save Nigeria's Military Ruler.
Nigerian opposition leader died suddenly days before his expected release from prison
In 1967 the best-selling Latin American novel by Gabriel Garcia Marquez was published.
In July 2009 doctors were forced to re-assess the number of casualties in the war.
In July 1985, Oleg Gordievsky, a high-ranking Soviet spy defected to the UK
A childhood illness left Helen Keller deaf and blind - but she still learned to speak
In the 1930s Hitler began to rebuild Germany's air force.
It is 40 years since the blockbuster movie about a man-eating shark was released
In 1944 the International Red Cross was allowed into Theresienstadt concentration camp
On 1 July 1989, 150 dancers set off on a demonstration for 'peace, love and pancakes'
On June 27th 1975 Greenpeace activists launched their first direct action against whalers
The acclaimed American author died on 19 June 2015, aged 90
In June 1948 Marshal Tito shocked the world by shunning his former Soviet ally, Stalin.
On 23 June 1985 a passenger plane was blown out of the sky by Sikh extremists
In 1987 Diane Abbott became the first black woman elected to the British Parliament
After the Six Day War in June 1967 Jews in Arab countries like Libya had to flee
How Iran's Islamic hardliners shut down universities to drive out secular groups
The woman campaigner who became a role model for radical black activists in the USA.
In June 1985 the ban on inter-racial marriage in South Africa was finally lifted.
In June 1970 a group of mainly Jewish dissidents tried to escape from the USSR by plane
