BBC World Service - Witness History

Freeze

In 1988 a group of students put on an exhibition called Freeze. It changed British art.

In 1925 the US was gripped by the Monkey Trial, a teacher tried for teaching evolution.

Tom Simpson, the legendary British cyclist who died on the Tour de France.

In 1992 the Church of England faced its toughest decision since the split from Rome.

How the Dutch exotic dancer Mata Hari, wowed Paris but was then executed for spying.

25 years ago the Greenpeace campaign ship, the Rainbow Warrior, was bombed.

How an American journalist uncovered the story of the Srebrenica massacre in Bosnia.

On 6 July 1988 the Piper Alpha oil rig in the North Sea off Scotland exploded.

The fate of the Algerians who fought for France during the war of independence.

Summer 1976, and an Air France plane is hijacked and flown to Entebbe airport in Uganda.