Archive 2014

Left-leaning army officers staged an unsuccessful coup in Venezuela in February 1992

In February 2004 the president of Haiti was forced out of power by a countrywide uprising

In the 1950s Soviet citizens were allowed to buy tape recorders for the first time.

In February 1984 an outrageous satirical puppet show hit British television screens

How nearly half a million Chechen and Ingush people were deported from the North Caucasus

In February 1952 thousands marched in Dhaka in defence of the Bengali language

In February 1991 protesters pulled down the giant statue of Albania's communist dictator.

Deng Xiaoping's translator, Victor Gao remembers the architect of China's transformation

In February 1941, a ship carrying nearly 30,000 cases of whisky was wrecked in Scotland.

The rise and fall of a New York graffiti artist

Sandinista 'Daniel Alegria' on the brutal fight with US-backed Contra rebels in Nicaragua

On 13 February 1974 the Russian dissident writer was sent into exile in the West

In 1979, the Islamic Revolution changed Iranian women's lives forever.

In 2004, the US began to realise Saddam Hussein may not have been stockpiling WMDs

In 1939 tension was growing in Europe, over Nazi Germany's expansionist plans

On 7 February 1964 the pop group the Beatles were met by hysterical crowds in the USA

In February 1944, the first electronic computer began attacking coded Nazi messages

In February 2004, 23 Chinese immigrants drowned off the coast of north-west England

In 1992 a war erupted in the separatist Georgian territory of Abkhazia

The death of former NFL star Mike Webster led to questions about safety in 2002

In January 1961, the US closed down its embassy in Cuba and withdrew all diplomatic staff

In 2006, Russian activists broke the law to stage the first gay pride march in Moscow.

In January 1952 hundreds of buildings were deliberately set ablaze in downtown Cairo

In 1943, Rome's Jewish citizens were promised safety if they gave gold to the Nazis.