A Day That Shook The World: Largest passenger aircraft in history takes off
27 April 2011 12:00 AM
On 27 April 2005, the Airbus A380, biggest and heaviest passenger aircraft ever built took its maiden flight from Toulouse Airport.
A Day That Shook The World: Chernobyl disaster
26 April 2011 12:07 AM
On 27 April 1986, the Chernobyl atomic power plant near Kiev in the USSR exploded in the world's worst ever nuclear disaster.
The Oklahoma City bombing - 16 years on
19 April 2011 12:03 AM
Today marks the 16th anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing, which claimed 168 lives and injured more than 680 people, making it the most deadly act of terrorism in America until 9/11.
A Day That Shook The World: 150 die in Oklahoma bombing
19 April 2011 12:01 AM
On 19 April 1995, America suffered its first ever domestic terrorist attack in Oklahoma City, when a bomb went off at a federal government building.
Last Supper 'was on a Wednesday'
18 April 2011 12:00 AM
Christians have long marked Jesus Christ's Last Supper on Maundy Thursday but new research by a leading academic suggests they have got the wrong date.
A Day That Shook The World: Hillsborough stadium disaster
15 April 2011 12:02 AM
On 15 April 1989, the Hillsborough stadium in Sheffield became the scene of one of the blackest days in British sporting history.
The sinking of the Titanic - 99 years on
14 April 2011 12:04 AM
Tomorrow will mark the ninety-ninth anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, which killed 1,517 people and remains one of the worst peacetime maritime disasters in history.
To outer space and back to Earth again
13 April 2011 12:27 PM
Fifty years after man first went into space, we look back at the highs and lows of cosmic travel
A Day That Shook The World: Yuri Gagarin becomes the first man in space
12 April 2011 12:00 AM
On 12 April 1961, Russian airforce pilot Yuri Gagarin became the first man to go into space.
Space: The day the Earth stood still
12 April 2011 12:00 AM
Exactly 50 years ago, cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first man in space. His journey to the heavens was a pinnacle of human achievement – and, argues Rupert Cornwell, the defining triumph of the Soviet Union
Thirty years after the Brixton riots, a cultural intifada continues
11 April 2011 04:44 PM
Yesterday marked the thirtieth anniversary of a spark; the beginning of the Brixton riots. Our struggle, however, continues today.
Brixton riots - in pictures
11 April 2011 01:23 PM
It is 30 years since people took to the streets of Brixton in what became one of the worst 20th century disorders London had ever seen.
A Day That Shook The World: Fall of Iraq
08 April 2011 09:55 AM
On 9 April 2003, American tanks rolled into Baghdad, 21 days after war was declared by the West on Sadam Hussein's Iraq.
A Day That Shook The World: Charles and Camilla marry
08 April 2011 12:00 AM
On 9 April 2005, Prince Charles finally married his long-term partner Camilla Parker-Bowles.
A Day That Shook The World: Cuban Missile Crisis
07 April 2011 12:00 AM
On 28 October 1962, the world came as close as it has ever been to nuclear war.
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