When John Stonehouse's clothes were found on Miami Beach on 20 November 1974, many people presumed that the UK Member of Parliament had drowned – until he turned up in Australia.

Isabel Belarsky was one of the millions of migrants who passed through Ellis Island in New York. In 2014, she told the BBC about arriving in the US from the Soviet Union in 1930.

The UK publication of DH Lawrence's novel, Lady Chatterley's Lover, gripped the nation in 1960. In History looks at the trial that led to its release – and the rush to buy the book.

Arnold Schwarzenegger chose to play the bad guy in 1984's The Terminator, and it helped to turn him into one of Hollywood's biggest action heroes. The actor spoke to the BBC in 1985.

The biker movie was a commercial and critical hit in 1969, but its director, Dennis Hopper, was "a bit of a megalomaniac"

Doris Day and Rock Hudson talked to the BBC in the 1980s about how Pillow Talk challenged Hollywood's conservative morality when it was released in 1959.

'It is extraordinary to be recognised as couples': in October 1989, Denmark became the first country to allow gay people to have "a kind of marriage".

How prison drama The Shawshank Redemption "tanked at the box office" in 1994, but went on to become one of the most acclaimed films in the world.