History as told by the people who were there. All the programmes from 2016.
How a white man and a black woman won the right to marry in America in the 1960s
In 1981 Israel destroyed Iraq's nuclear reactor; it began Iraq's secret nuclear programme
In 1979 the Karakoram Highway between Pakistan and China was opened to the public
In 1999 Italian art experts completed an ambitious restoration of da Vinci's masterpiece.
The drug Ritalin was developed in the 1940s - it's now used to treat ADHD.
How the man convicted for killing Martin Luther King was detained in London in June 1968.
In 1991 Katie Koestner went public with her experience of date rape and divided America.
In the late 1960s Tanzania experimented with a new form of socialism called Ujamaa.
In June 1973 Russia's supersonic rival to Concorde crashed at the Paris Air Show
On May 30th 1961 Rafael Trujillo, the dictator in the Dominican Republic, was shot dead.
In May 1968, executives of the German company that made the drug thalidomide go on trial
In 1996, a Chechen rebel delegation negotiated peace with Russia's President Yeltsin.
In 1991 14000 Ethiopian Jews were airlifted to Israel during Operation Solomon
The day millions of Americans formed a human chain to try to end poverty and homelessness
In May 1536 the Queen of England was executed on the orders of her husband, Henry VIII
Telephone operator Naida Glavish became known for saying good morning to callers in Maori
The French surrender at the siege of Dien Bien Phu ended their colonial rule of Vietnam
How student protests and workers' strikes threatened to bring down France's government.
In 1916 Marcus Garvey arrived in the US urging black people to unite in a new nation.
Archive interviews with Orson Welles about one of the greatest films of all time
In May 1988, the death was announced in Moscow of the English spy Kim Philby.
Irish dance sensation Riverdance debuted at the 1994 Eurovision Song Contest in Dublin
In May 2001 Pope John Paul the Second made a historic visit to Syria
In the spring of 1982 Britain and Argentina went to war over the Falkland Islands.
