The story of our times told by the people who were there.
It was once one of the most feared diseases in the world - disfiguring and often deadly
Chief Albert Luthuli was the first African to win the Nobel Prize for Peace - in 1960
On 13 December 1983, the government of Argentina promised to investigate military crimes
It was on this day in 2003 that Saddam Hussein was finally captured by US forces
In December 1994 Russian forces invaded Chechnya and laid siege to the capital Grozny.
On 16 December 1998 the US and Britain began a four day bombardment of Iraq.
It is 7 years since one of the Washington snipers, Lee Boyd Malvo, was convicted of murder
It is 21 years since the US invaded the tiny Central American state of Panama.
On December 21 1988 a US passenger plane blew up over the Scottish town of Lockerbie.
Christmas 1991 was a very difficult time for the former Soviet republic of Georgia.
On 23 December, 1986 the Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov was allowed to return to Moscow
When British and German troops sang carols, exchanged gifts and played football together
The rebellion was brutally crushed, but it had a significant impact
One of the Great Escapees from a German prisoner of war camp speaks out
It is 40 years since Hafez al Assad seized power in Syria.
Hamlet - by William Shakespeare - is still popular four centuries after it was written.
On January 1 1994 indigenous people in southern Mexico began their rebellion.
