BBC World Service - Witness History

Conflict in Congo

The Congolese student who saw war come to his small hometown of Uvira

Twenty-one years ago, Disney finally opened a park near Paris after years of negotiations.

Survivors remember the atomic explosion over the Japanese city in 1945

In August 1988 protests demanding an end to military rule in Burma were met with violence

In 1997, a patch of plastic waste was discovered in the middle of the Pacific Ocean

It wasn't until 1974 that American Vogue put a black model on its cover for the first time

In August 1975, Japanese Red Army militants took 53 people hostage in Kuala Lumpur

In August 1964, Everett Alvarez was shot down by communist North Vietnamese forces.

The sisters whose lives were devastated during the campaign for Gorkhaland in India

It is 25 years since the final episode of one of India's biggest ever TV programmes