Witness

In Aug 1971 the British Army began detaining hundreds of people suspected of belonging to paramilitary groups in Northern Ireland. They were held without charge or trial.

It's 40 years since Richard Nixon became the first, and so far only, US President to resign from office. Farhana Haider has been speaking to journalist Tom DeFrank who watched the drama unfold.

In August 1984, the 2000 year old remains of a man were found preserved in a peat bog in England

On August 5 1944 hundreds of Japanese prisoners escaped from an Australian POW camp in the outback.

On 4 Aug 1964 the bodies of three civil rights workers murdered by the Ku Klux Klan were discovered in Mississippi.

In August 1944, Polish resistance fighters rose up against German occupying forces. The uprising killed some 200,000 people and virtually destroyed Poland's capital.

How the American TV celebrity survived five months in jail.

How a lion cub bought in Harrods became a Youtube sensation.

In 1949, the British-built de Havilland Comet took off for the first time. But a flaw in the construction of the world's first jet airliner would end up costing lives.

Archive recordings of eyewitnesses to the start of WW1 in the summer of 1914

July 1984 saw the release of the film Purple Rain, starring pop music phenomenon Prince.

In 1987 a Palestinian uprising began in Gaza - it became known as the Intifada.

English-born Anne Wright talks about growing up in the last days of British India.

In July 1997, the Basque separatist group ETA shocked Spain by kidnapping a young politician and killing him 48 hours later.

In 1994 a car bomb exploded outside a Jewish community centre, known as the AMIA, in the Argentine capital, Buenos Aires. Eighty five people were killed. No-one has ever been convicted.