The story of our times told by the people who were there.
During the Lebanese civil war the hotel district in Beirut became a battlefield.
In 1661 the body of the British ruler Oliver Cromwell was dug up for ritual execution
The frantic search for one of the hereditary 'breast cancer genes'
Drummer Jimmy Cobb recalls playing on Kind of Blue, the most successful jazz album ever
In December 1997, the first global treaty on greenhouse gas emissions was agreed in Kyoto
Aids patient Jeff Getty was given a bone marrow transplant from a baboon in December 1995
The premiere of one of the most successful films ever made on 15 December 1939
Protests which led to the collapse of communism in Romania began on 16 December 1989
In December 1961, Goa became the last part of India to break free of colonial rule
President Eisenhower broke relations with Cuba and closed the American Embassy in 1961
American bandleader Glenn Miller went missing over the English Channel in December, 1944
In 2006 the Nepalese government and Maoists signed a peace accord ending 10 years of war
Julia Butterfly Hill lived in an ancient redwood tree for 738 days to protect it
On Christmas Eve 1914, British and German soldiers exchanged gifts and sang carols
In 1964 a 'pirate' radio station began broadcasting from a ship off the coast of England
The last major German attack on the Western Allies in World War II, Winter 1944
How allegations of sexual abuse at a well-known children's home shocked Portugal
A young Dutch man won the first ever Big Brother reality TV show in December 1999
Rod Stewart played to an audience of 4 million on Copacabana beach on New Year's Eve 1994
