Four days before Christmas in 1988, Pan Am flight 103 fell in pieces from the night sky plummeting to the ground in the small Scottish town of Lockerbie where things would never be the same again.
We look at one of the deadliest storms in United States history struck the nation's southern coast in August 2005 Hurricane Katrina rampaged through the Gulf Coast communities.
There are some news events that change the world. In today's programme we go back to July 20th, 1969 and take a look at man's quest to land on the Moon
On 1st September 2004 terrorists took over 1100 people hostage including 777 children in the Beslan School in Russia. The ensuing massacre which saw over 300 people killed, traumatised a nation
There are some news events that change the world. In today's episode we take you back to April 1996 and the Cheronbyl disaster and its wider implications
London was the target in a well-planned and co-ordinated terrorist attack on innocent people as they started their journey to work on 7th July 2005 leaving 52 dead and 700 injured.
The distress and shock that embraced Haiti on January 12th, 2010 as a monumental earthquake left, in its wake, thousands dead, thousands homeless, and a country crippled.
There are some news events that change the world. In today's episode we take you back to some of Northern Ireland's darkest days and the journey towards lasting peace that was agreed on Good Friday 19
The brutal reign of one of the 20th century's most notorious and bloodiest dictators Idi Amin began in 1971 when he seized control beginning a reign of torture, terror and murder of 300,000 people
An airplane shot down over Kigali Rwanda in 1984 was a single act of terrorism that ignited ethnic tensions between the Hutu's and the Tutsi's and triggered 100 days of savage and merciless killing
There are some news events that change the world. In today's episode we take you back to July 25th 2000 and the fatal crash of the Air France Concorde flight 4590
August 1945 - World War 2 - the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan are destroyed by the first atomic bombs used in warfare changing the world forever.
There are some news events that change the world. In today's episode we take you back to November 1961 and look at the building of the Berlin Wall and its impact on lives before its fall in 1991.
Union Carbide's old factory haunts the Indian city of Bhopal - a reminder of the region's darkest night on December 3rd, 1984 when a leak of lethal gases caused the world's worst industrial disaster
The Tokyo subway system transports millions of people daily. On March 20th, 1995 a lethal nerve gas - Sarin - was deliberately released in subway cars on multiple lines with catastrophic effects.
Diana Princess of Wales lived a fabled life and bore testimony to the commonality of the everyday person. Diana's story and the tragic circumstances around her death were the key events of the 1990s
The battle of Normandy in 1944 codenamed Operation Overlord with the invasion of Nazi occupied Western Europe by the western allies is one of the best-known battles of World War 2 also known as D-Day
When Apollo 13 launched in April 1970 the mission started out smoothly. However, on April 13th a chain of events started that would test NASA's experts in ways they had never considered
In March 1978 wild weather raged off the coast of France and hit the Amoco Cadiz causing the worst oil spill at sea of its time sadly it was not an isolated incident as the Exon Valdez disaster shows
In China in June 1989 people took to the streets protesting for freedom, after weeks of mainly peaceful protests the government stepped in at Tiananmen Square in an event that shocked the world
Four days before Christmas in 1988, Pan Am flight 103 fell in pieces from the night sky plummeting to the ground in the small Scottish town of Lockerbie where things would never be the same again.
There are some news events that change the world. In today's programme we go back to July 20th, 1969 and take a look at man's quest to land on the Moon
There are some news events that change the world. In today's episode we take you back to some of Northern Ireland's darkest days and the journey towards lasting peace that was agreed on Good Friday 19
There are some news events that change the world. In today's episode we take you back to July 25th 2000 and the fatal crash of the Air France Concorde flight 4590
There are some news events that change the world. In today's episode we take you back to November 1961 and look at the building of the Berlin Wall and its impact on lives before its fall in 1991.
Monserrat has a reputation as a tropical paradise, the good life came to an end in 1995 and 1997 when the Soufriere Hills volcano exploded in an eruption of titanic proportions having lain dormant.
Monserrat has a reputation as a tropical paradise, the good life came to an end in 1995 and 1997 when the Soufriere Hills volcano exploded in an eruption of titanic proportions having lain dormant.
London was the target in a well-planned and co-ordinated terrorist attack on innocent people as they started their journey to work on 7th July 2005 leaving 52 dead and 700 injured.
London was the target in a well-planned and co-ordinated terrorist attack on innocent people as they started their journey to work on 7th July 2005 leaving 52 dead and 700 injured.
The distress and shock that embraced Haiti on January 12th, 2010 as a monumental earthquake left, in its wake, thousands dead, thousands homeless, and a country crippled.
The distress and shock that embraced Haiti on January 12th, 2010 as a monumental earthquake left, in its wake, thousands dead, thousands homeless, and a country crippled.
The brutal reign of one of the 20th century's most notorious and bloodiest dictators Idi Amin began in 1971 when he seized control beginning a reign of torture, terror and murder of 300,000 people
The brutal reign of one of the 20th century's most notorious and bloodiest dictators Idi Amin began in 1971 when he seized control beginning a reign of torture, terror and murder of 300,000 people
An airplane shot down over Kigali Rwanda in 1984 was a single act of terrorism that ignited ethnic tensions between the Hutu's and the Tutsi's and triggered 100 days of savage and merciless killing
An airplane shot down over Kigali Rwanda in 1984 was a single act of terrorism that ignited ethnic tensions between the Hutu's and the Tutsi's and triggered 100 days of savage and merciless killing
August 1945 - World War 2 - the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan are destroyed by the first atomic bombs used in warfare changing the world forever.
Union Carbide's old factory haunts the Indian city of Bhopal - a reminder of the region's darkest night on December 3rd, 1984 when a leak of lethal gases caused the world's worst industrial disaster
The Tokyo subway system transports millions of people daily. On March 20th, 1995 a lethal nerve gas - Sarin - was deliberately released in subway cars on multiple lines with catastrophic effects.
Diana Princess of Wales lived a fabled life and bore testimony to the commonality of the everyday person. Diana's story and the tragic circumstances around her death were the key events of the 1990s
The battle of Normandy in 1944 codenamed Operation Overlord with the invasion of Nazi occupied Western Europe by the western allies is one of the best-known battles of World War 2 also known as D-Day
Mount Everest is the greatest climbing challenge in the world. Thought unconquerable by many until Sir Edmund Hilary, on 29th May 1953 changed that perception and reached the Summit.
When Apollo 13 launched in April 1970 the mission started out smoothly. However, on April 13th a chain of events started that would test NASA's experts in ways they had never considered
In March 1978 wild weather raged off the coast of France and hit the Amoco Cadiz causing the worst oil spill at sea of its time sadly it was not an isolated incident as the Exon Valdez disaster shows