The story of our times told by the people who were there.
In September 1969 left-wing activists kidnapped Charles Burke Elbrick in Rio de Janeiro.
On 29 September 1941, the organised massacre of Ukrainian Jews began.
In September 1991 the first heavy metal rock concert was held at a Moscow airfield.
Just before the 1968 Olympics, the Mexican government cracked down hard on demonstrators.
In October 1936, fascists clashed with Jews, socialists and anarchists in London.
The invention of the atomic bomb was known as The Manhattan Project.
In October 1981 the President of Egypt was shot at a military parade.
It's 10 years since the first airstrikes on Afghanistan.
In October 1975 the filmstars Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor got married - again!
On 12 October 2000, an American destroyer was attacked by al-Qaeda suicide bombers.
Margaret Sanger's clinic was open for 10 days giving women advice about contraception
In 1985 the soft drink company changed its age old formula.
On 17 October 1961, French police turned against Algerian demonstrators in Paris.
On 18 October 1989, the East German communist leader, was forced from power.
In October 1970 James Cross, a British diplomat, was kidnapped by Quebec separatists.
In October 1966 a Soviet double agent escaped from a British jail.
It is 45 years since tragedy struck a Welsh mining village.
It is 55 years since the Mau Mau leader Dedan Kimathi was arrested in Kenya.
Written with the help of other ANC activists, how was the book smuggled out of prison?
It is almost 40 years since the publication of a groundbreaking book about relationships.
When the Korean War ended, a few US POWs chose to stay and live under communism.
In the autumn of 1965 a purge of communist sympathisers began in Indonesia.
In October 1974 one of the greatest boxing matches of all time took place in Zaire.
In late October 1984 the body of a Polish priest was found in a town outside Warsaw.
