Though the Rome games were held at the height of the Mediterranean summer (against medical advice) they were a spectacular success. Making the most of…
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The first-ever Olympic Games to be held in Asia took place in Tokyo in 1964, 24 years after the Japanese wartime government had forced their…
In 1966, England hosted the World Cup, in a climate of football fever generated in part by the much-loved mascot World Cup Willie. The cartoon…
The 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico were the first to have widespread television coverage and, for those lucky enough to own the right TV, in…
The International Olympic Committee’s medical team got more exercise than most of the competitors during the 24th Games in Seoul. Rigorous drugs testing of all…
The morning of 11 September 2001 was bright and calm across much of the East Coast of the United States of America. In New York,…
1983 had seen a steady rise in Cold War tensions, with the vehemently anti-communist US president Ronald Reagan dedicating vast sums to military hardware and…
In December 1979, the Soviet Union expanded its Communist Empire by installing a pro-Soviet government in Afghanistan. The USSR had already infiltrated Afghanistan, supplying the…
The disease that would eventually become known as AIDS began to surface in 1981, killing mostly gay men in large urban areas. For the time…
On Saturday 6 December 1969, some 300,000 people turned up for a free Rolling Stones concert at a speedway track near San Francisco called Altamont. While Woodstock, four…
America’s third moon mission, Apollo 13, was launched on 11 April 1970. The crew of astronauts James Lovell, John Swigert and Fred Haise had ignored…
The ‘Arab-Israeli Wars’ is a collective term for the series of wars and territorial conflicts between Israel and various Arab states in the Middle East…
President Kennedy was assassinated on 22 November 1963 – shot in the head as he was driven through Dallas, Texas, in an open car on his way…
“Bagism” was a satirical performance art concept created by John Lennon and Yoko Ono in the late 1960s to combat social prejudice and stereotyping. The…
27 September 1986 Balloonfest ’86 was intended to be a harmless fundraising publicity stunt that would help elevate Cleveland in the eyes of the American…
Fidel Castro overthrew the US-backed Batista dictatorship in January 1959 to take control of Cuba, and in 1960, he took over US oil refineries in…
Nine hundred years after the original 1086 Domesday Book was started, the BBC began the ‘Domesday Project’. Using computer and laser disc technology, one million…
In Adelaide, Australia, on 28 January 1966, three children from the Beaumont family, Jane (9), Arnna (7) and Grant (4) vanished from Glenelg beach after…
In 1945, at the end of WWII, Germany was divided into a Soviet Zone in the East, and British, French and American Zone in the…
1966 was, in all respects, a crucial turning point for the black movement in America. In that year the Black Panther party was founded in Oakland, California, and…