The Creation of Tetris

One of the most popular computer games ever was invented in Moscow in 1984

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US troops in Iraq

All US troops have now left Iraq. We take you back to when they first invaded in 2003.

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Birth of the Euro

How millions of Europeans celebrated the launch of the euro in 2002.

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The capture of the USS Pueblo

In January 1968 an American spy ship was captured by North Korean forces.

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The Hollywood blacklist

A list of radicals in the US entertainment industry was published more than 60 years ago.

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Project Stormfury

Fifty years ago the USA launched an ambitious attempt to control the weather.

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Charter 77

Taking you back 35 years when an opposition movement began in Czechoslovakia.

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Crossing the Rubicon

Over 2000 years ago Julius Caesar made a decision which changed European history.

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The death of Emperor Hirohito

When the Japanese Emperor died in 1989 it marked the end of an era.

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Zola and the Dreyfus affair

In 1898 the novelist Emile Zola took up the cause of a Jewish prisoner - Alfred Dreyfus.

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Perez de Cuellar goes to Baghdad

In January 1991 the UN Secretary General tried to avert the first Gulf War.

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Folsom Prison Blues

In January 1968 the country legend Johnny Cash recorded a concert in a high-security jail.

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Vietnam draft pardon

In January 1977 President Jimmy Carter said draft dodgers could come home.

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The Great Brinks Robbery

In 1950 a Boston gang stole over $2.5m and they almost got away with it.

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The Warsaw ghetto

On 18 January 1943 German soldiers began a final drive to empty the Polish capital of Jews

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Roe v Wade

In January 1973 abortion was legalised across the USA.

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The Wannsee conference

It is 70 years since senior Nazi officials met to plan the killing of European Jews.

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Jackson Pollock

It is one hundred years since the great American abstract painter was born.

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Japanese soldier in hiding

In January 1972 a Japanese soldier was found in the jungle of Guam.

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The rise of Hitler

On 25 January 1933 the last legal communist march was held in Berlin.

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The Challenger disaster

In January 1986 a space shuttle launch went horribly wrong.

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The sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff

It was the worst maritime disaster in history.

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Bloody Sunday

It is 40 years since 13 civil rights marchers were killed in Northern Ireland.

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Dickens in America

How a visit to America in 1842 became a turning-point in the career of Charles Dickens.

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Diane Blood

Winning the chance to conceive a child using sperm from her dead husband

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The Hama massacre

It is 30 years since thousands of Syrians were killed by their own army.

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Umm Kulthum

The great Egyptian singer was buried 37 years ago.

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Death of King George VI

How Britain mourned the death of King George VI in 1952.

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Drugs in Mexico

On 7 February 1985 a US drug enforcement agent was abducted in Guadalajara.

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Charonne Metro deaths

It is 50 years since nine French peace protestors died during a demonstration in Paris.

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50 years of Silicone Breast Implants

In 1962 Timmie Jean Lindsey became the first woman in the world to have the operation.

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Deep Blue versus Kasparov

It was the first time a computer had beaten a reigning world champion chess player.

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The Stolen Generation

Debra Hocking was taken from her indigenous Australian family as a baby.

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Sister Dorothy Stang

In February 2005 a Catholic nun working in the Amazon was murdered.

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The Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan

On 15 February 1989, the last Soviet soldiers rolled out of Afghanistan.

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The bombing of Darwin

In February 1942 Japan launched the largest ever attack against Australia.

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Japanese internment

In February 1942 all Japanese Americans were ordered to internment camps.

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Sucked out of a Plane

In February 1989, nine people were sucked out of a plane over the Pacific Ocean.

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Nixon in China

It is 40 years since the US President went to China and met Chairman Mao.

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Moose Murders

Nearly 30 years ago Moose Murders made history as the biggest flop ever on Broadway.

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The Damascus Spring

Twelve years ago Syria experienced a brief burst of political openness.

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From the silent screen to talkies

In the late 1920s Hollywood made the change from silent films to movies with soundtracks.

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Mary Quant and the miniskirt

A 2012 episode looks back at the work of the pioneering designer, who has died aged 93

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The killing of Olof Palme

On 28 February 1986, the Swedish Prime Minister was killed on a Stockholm street.

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The assassination of Georgi Markov

The Bulgarian dissident was attacked with a poisoned umbrella on his way to Bush House.

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Gujarat riots

It is 10 years since communal violence broke out in the Indian state.

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The first flight of Concorde

On 2 March 1969 the supersonic airliner took to the skies for the first time.

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The Home Brew Computer Club

Californian computer enthusiasts met to share ideas - including the founders of Apple

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The Zeebrugge disaster

It is 25 years since a car ferry capsized outside the Belgian port.

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The films of Andy Warhol

In the 1960s, the pop artist Andy Warhol, turned his attention to film-making.

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Discovery of Penicillin

How scientists turned penicillin into the world's first anti-biotic medicine.

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Stalin's Daughter

The daughter of the Soviet dictator, Svetlana defected to the West in 1967

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The Theremin

In 1929 a Russian inventor brought an electronic musical instrument to the USA.

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World War II concerts

Throughout World War II, Myra Hess organised concerts in London's National Gallery.

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The Romans In Britain

In 1982 a British director found himself in a court battle over sex and nudity on stage.

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Farzad Bazoft

On 15 March 1990, a young British journalist was executed in Iraq.

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The My Lai massacre

On 16 March 1968, US soldiers went on the rampage through a Vietnamese village.

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The Torrey Canyon disaster

Forty five years ago it was the biggest oil spill the world had ever seen.

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The bombardment of Baghdad

On 20 March 2003 the US and its allies began their air strikes against Iraq.

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Sarin gas attack in Tokyo

In March 1995 members of a Japanese cult released nerve gas in the metro.

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How Little America was built in Afghanistan

In the 1950s, US engineers were sent to Afghanistan to build a dam.

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The US Peace Corps

In 1961 President Kennedy set up a scheme to send idealistic young Americans abroad.

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Pope John Paul II Visits Cuba

The Pope's visit changed relations between the Catholic Church and Cuba's government

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Apartheid attack

In 1990 an Anglican priest living in Zimbabwe was the victim of a letter bomb.

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Manolo Blahnik

How a young designer became a legend in the world of shoes.

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Scott of the Antarctic

A 100 years ago the British explorer died after failing to be the first to the South Pole.

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Sudan's Lost Boys

How thousands of children stranded during war in Sudan were finally resettled in the USA.

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The Falklands War

It is 30 years since Argentine forces invaded the Falkland Islands.

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The Falklands War - Part Two

An Argentine soldier's account of invading the Falkland Islands in 1982.

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Active Birth Movement

In 1982, women took to the streets to demand the right to give birth naturally

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Sarajevo peace protests

How thousands of Bosnians tried to stop their capital falling under siege in 1992.

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Good Friday Agreement

The frantic negotiations that led to a historic peace deal for Northern Ireland in 1998.

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Eichmann on Trial

In 1961, Adolf Eichmann, the Nazi in charge of concentration camps, was tried in Israel.

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Fidel Castro in the USA

Castro met Richard Nixon and addressed large crowds to win over critics of the revolution

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The death of Primo Levi

It is 25 years since the great Italian author and Auschwitz survivor died.

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Pulitzer Prize scandal

In 1981 a Pulitzer Prize was awarded to a young journalist who had made-up her story.

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The sinking of the Titanic

It is 100 years since the great ocean liner sank on its maiden voyage.

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Dissidents Declared Insane

How dissidents in the USSR were routinely declared insane and kept in mental institutions.

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Japanese embassy hostage crisis

In 1997, left-wing rebels held 71 people hostage for over four months in Peru.

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Auschwitz Convoy Escape

How a group of Jews escaped from a train bound for the Auschwitz death camp in 1943.

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Twenty-five years of the Simpsons

One of the most successful TV series ever was created by cartoonist Matt Groening.

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Rivers of Blood speech

In April 1968 a politician put race and immigration at the centre of British politics.

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The trial of Oscar Wilde

How a court case ruined the 19th century playwright and wit.

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75 years since Guernica

In April 1937 the Basque town of Guernica was firebombed during the Spanish Civil War.

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Gallipoli

One New Zealand soldier's account of surviving the Battle of Gallipoli in 1915

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Studio 54

It is 35 years since the legendary New York night club opened its doors to cool people.

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Mass Trespass

How walkers stormed an English peak in 1932 and started a fight for countryside access.

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The right to die

In 2002 a paralysed woman, known as Miss B, was allowed to die in a London hospital.

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The capture of President Izetbegovic

In May 1992 the Bosnian president was taken captive by Serb soldiers.

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The Los Angeles Riots

The people of South Central Los Angeles took to the streets in fury at police brutality

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Suicide of gay footballer

Justin Fashanu, Britain's first openly gay footballer, killed himself in May 1998.

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The General Strike

In May 1926 workers across Britain went on strike in support of coal miners.

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The trial of Charles Manson

He was responsible for a series of gruesome murders in the Hollywood hills.

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Attack on Fela Kuti

The Nigerian military stormed the musician's compound in Lagos, Kalakuta Republic

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The Psychiatrist and Rudolf Hess

How a British psychiatrist examined the deputy Nazi leader after his flight to Scotland.

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Paris 1968

How student protests and workers' strikes threatened to bring down France's government.

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The assassination of a Prime Minister

On May 11th 1812, the British Prime Minister, Spencer Perceval, was killed.

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Michael Apted and the 7 Up TV series

In 1964, a TV documentary series introduced a group of seven-year-olds to British viewers

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The Anschluss

In March 1938 Austria was annexed by Nazi Germany - one Vienna resident remembers.

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