Witness

On 20th July 1944, Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg attempted to kill Adolf Hitler. We speak to von Stauffenberg's son, Berthold.

On July 20th 1974 Turkish troops invaded Cyprus. Hear from two Cypriots, who were young women at the time.

In July 1979 Sandinista rebels toppled the last member of the Somoza dynasty that had ruled Nicaragua for more than 50 years.

In July 1969 the US Senator Edward Kennedy was involved in a car accident in which a young woman died. Police Chief Jim Arena dealt with the case.

We hear from someone who knew Frida Kahlo, the celebrated Mexican artist, who died in July 1954, aged just 47.

Recordings of the great Chilean poet from the BBC archives.

In July 1995 Bosnian Serb troops murdered thousands of Bosnian Muslim men and boys in the worst atrocity in Europe since World War Two.

In July 1985 the Greenpeace campaign ship, the Rainbow Warrior, was bombed by French agents in New Zealand. One environmentalist on board was killed and the boat sank. Pete Wilcox was the Rainbow Warrior’s captain and he spoke to Claire Bowes in 2010.

It's 20 years since the death of North Korea's founding leader Kim Il Sung, sparking an outpouring of national grief.

In 2007 militants took over a mosque in Islamabad - Pakistani troops laid siege.

In 2006 Sunni tribal militia turned against Al Qaeda in Iraq and began working with US forces. It was a turning point in the insurgency in Iraq

Every year, thousands of children from all over Russia visited the holiday camp Artek by the Black Sea.

70 years ago an optimistic musical about rural Americans hit Broadway.

Two Iraqis recall their experiences as detainees in the American-run Abu Ghraib prison.

In 1994 Fred and Rosemary West were charged with a series of gruesome murders of young women and girls, committed over a twenty-year period in the south of England.