BBC World Service - Witness History

Wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer

Witness takes you back to the wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer

One family's extraordinary story kept hidden for decades by the communist secret police

How Gandhi's Salt March in 1930 showed the power of peaceful protest in India

How a man from northern England lost his entire family in the siege of Waco in 1993

Cuban exiles, backed by the US government, tried to invade Cuba and overthrow Castro

She was a Hollywood superstar - he was Prince of a tiny European state

In 1982 people in the Syrian city of Hama rose up against the Assad regime

In 1957 a nuclear reactor in the north of England caught fire

The first man in space became a hero and a poster boy for Soviet achievement

Jackie Robinson was the first black Major League Baseball player