BBC World Service - Witness History

HMS Trinidad

George Lloyd, a young English composer, wrote a march for the ship he served on in WWII

During WWII Britain set up a secret organisation to wage war in Nazi occupied Europe

In 1973 the American war against communism in Laos ended leaving their allies behind

In September 1888, the most famous serial killer in history stalked the streets of London.

A doctor who took part in Eritrea's 30 year struggle for independence from Ethiopia

In 1993 young women began disappearing in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez.

The first ever strike by Australian Aborigines to help free them from virtual slavery

Martin Luther King made his historic plea for racial equality at the March on Washington

How one Arizona couple's campaign for a termination split America in 1962

In 1883, the Indonesian volcano caused one of the world's biggest disasters