Audio samples
Listen to select samples of audio from key moments in history as recounted by the BBC World News.
1969 US integrates public schools in South ...
1969 Pakistan will hold elections ...
1969 Toronto: Railway cars ...
1969 Berlin Trial of Nazi ...
1969 US Tennis player banned from South Africa ...
October 05 1970 October Crisis - kidnap in Montreal ...
August 12 1972 11th anniversary of the Berlin Wall - protests ...
December 01 1972 Bomb explosions in Dublin ...
June 26 1976 Portugal has new president ...
June 28 1976 Air France plane hijacked ...
July 15 1976 Montreal Summer Olympics - boycott by ...
Mars 04 1977 Earthquake in Bucharest ...
September 28 1979 Sandinistas in office ...
September 28 1979 Terrorism in Argentina ...
May 19 1980 Referendum in Quebec ...
May 19 1980 France - USSR relations and USA position on them ...
May 19 1980 Government collapsed in South Korea ...
May 19 1980 Street riots in Miami ...
April 03 1982 Falklands War ...
June 11 1982 USA President Reagan in Berlin ...
November 11 1982 "Solidarity" in Poland ...
November 11 1982 USSR president Brezhnev died ...
September 01 1983 KAL Flight 007 downed by a Soviet ...
Mars 09 1984 France, Spain argued over fishing incident ...
June 01 1984 Massacre in Uganda ...
May 29 1985 Iraq - Iran war ...
May 29 1985 International conference regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction ...
May 29 1985 Soccer tragedy in Belgium ...
January 28 1986 Space Shuttle Challanger exploded ...
February 01 1986 East Germany restricted flow of immigrants ...
