History as told by the people who were there. All the programmes from 2015.
In May 2002 a five-week siege at the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem finally ends
On May 11th 2000 a baby girl born in Delhi was designated as India's billionth citizen.
The celebrations in London at the end of World War II in Europe, as reported by the Â鶹Éç.
1,200 died when a German submarine torpedoed the passenger liner off Ireland in 1915
The fight to end British rule in the colony of Aden - today part of Yemen
In May 1953, a British airman died in nerve gas tests at a government research base
In May 1980 British special forces stormed Iran's embassy in London to end a siege
The last remaining US forces pulled out of South Vietnam on April 30th 1975.
In April 1961, Russian doctor Leonid Rogozov developed appendicitis in Antarctica.
In April 1969, France's great statesman, Charles de Gaulle, resigned as president
In April 1982, film star Jane Fonda launched her first workout video
A 1932 protest which helped win the right to roam freely across the English countryside
On 24 April 1980, the US launched a disastrous attempt to free its hostages in Iran
In April 1991 weapons inspectors were allowed into Iraq to search for WMDs
In April 1999 Nato bombed the Serbian state TV station in Belgrade, killing 16 people.
The great theoretical physicist Albert Einstein died on 18th April 1955
In April 1945 one of the most successful musicals of all time premiered on Broadway.
On April 19 1995 a huge truck bomb killed 168 people in a government building in the USA.
He was the young working class playwright who changed British theatre.
In April 1992, the main black street gangs in Los Angeles started a historic truce.
In April 1905 the arrival of a passenger train put Letchworth Garden City on the map
In April 1975 the four-year rule of the brutal Khmer Rouge began in Cambodia.
On 10 April 1964, famously eccentric pianist Glenn Gould gave his last live performance
In 1980 a film about a public execution caused a row between Britain and Saudi Arabia