The story of our times told by the people who were there.
Chief Albert Luthuli was the first African to win the Nobel Prize for Peace - in 1960
In 1961 the African National Congress decided to take up arms against Apartheid
In 1976 South African police opened fire on schoolchildren protesting in Soweto.
When South Africa hosted - and won - the Rugby World Cup in 1995 it unified the country
Bob Cabana and Sergei Krikalev were the first on board the International Space Station.
In December 1963 the 19-year-old son of Frank Sinatra was kidnapped for a ransom
Days after declaring independence East Timor was invaded by Indonesia in 1975
On December 20 1973, the Spanish PM Luis Carrero Blanco, was killed by a massive bomb.
In 1988 a bomb, hidden in the hold, exploded when the airliner was above Scotland
Remembering the Brazilian environmental campaigner Chico Mendes, shot dead in 1988
British MP John Stonehouse faked his own death in Miami and reappeared in Australia
A controversial new computer game designed in Scotland became a surprise hit in 1997
Gorilla expert Dian Fossey was murdered in her cabin in Rwanda on 26 December 1985
Thousands of foreign civilians were interned when Japanese troops invaded in WW2
Millions of people took to the streets of Iran's main cities in December 1978.
The life of the legendary French singer remembered by her friends and lovers
