In September 1991 the first heavy metal rock concert was held at a Moscow airfield.

The bands Metallica and ACDC had been persuaded to take part.

It almost turned into a riot - as organiser Boris Zosimov remembers.

Photo: Boris today.

On 29 September 1941, the organised massacre of Ukrainian Jews began.

In the capital Kiev, most of them were taken to a place called Babi Yar, and shot.

Raissa Maistrenko escaped the shooting as a three-year-old girl.

Rabbi Alexander, Dukhovny's mother survived the Holocaust outside the city.

Photo: Hulton Archive/Getty Images

In September 1969 left-wing activists kidnapped Charles Burke Elbrick in Rio de Janeiro.

They demanded the release of 15 of their comrades in exchange for his life.

One of the kidnappers was Fernando Gabeira, then a young journalist.

Photo: Fernando Gabeira now.

He was one of the most innovative musicians in the USA in the 1960s.

Listen to one woman's story of working for Frank Zappa.

Almost 40 years ago Britain and Iceland came to blows over fishing rights in the North Atlantic.

Hear from a British fisherman, and an Icelandic coastguard skipper about the battle for cod.

He was the President of Liberia and in September 1990 he died a very violent death.

The BBC's West Africa correspondent at the time was Elizabeth Blunt, she was there when he was captured by rebels.

Photo: VT Freeze Frame

In the mid 1960s young people in China were encouraged to criticise their elders.

Thousands of members of the Communist establishment were arrested and jailed.

For one teenage boy the world was turned on its head.

Photo: Jean Vincent/AFP/Getty Images

The Chilean politician was killed by a bomb in Washington DC, 35 years ago.

He had gone there after being released from detention by General Pinochet's government.

He was finally buried in his home country, 16 years later.

Photo AFP

In November 1974 the Palestinian leader was allowed to speak at the UN.

But there was a great deal of opposition to his visit and security was extremely strict.

Hear from the man who helped write his speech and organise his trip.

(This programme is a repeat)

Photo: Associated Press

The Secretary General of the UN was killed in a plane crash 50 years ago.

He was on his way to Congo, in an attempt to prevent war.

Two people who knew him well remember the man.

Photo: Associated Press