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Witness History Episodes

  1. The Chappaquiddick Incident

    In July 1969, Edward Kennedy was involved in a car accident in which a young woman died

  2. The Death of Frida Kahlo

    On 13 July 1954, the celebrated Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, died at the age of 47

  3. Pablo Neruda

    The great Latin American poet was born in a remote town in southern Chile in July 1904

  4. The Srebrenica Massacre

    Bosnian Serb troops murdered thousands of Bosnian Muslim men and boys in July 1995

  5. The Sinking of the Rainbow Warrior

    On 9 July 1985 the Greenpeace campaign ship was bombed by French secret agents

  6. The Death of Kim Il Sung

    It is 20 years since the death of North Korea's founding leader Kim Il Sung

  7. The Storming of the Red Mosque

    When militants took over a mosque in Islamabad, troops were sent in to end the siege

  8. Iraq's Awakening Movement

    Sunni tribal militia turned on Al Qaeda in Iraq and began working with US forces In 2006

  9. Artek - the Soviet Holiday Camp

    Every year, thousands of Soviet children visited the holiday camp Artek by the Black Sea

  10. Oklahoma: The Musical

    In World War Two an optimistic musical about American rural life became a hit on Broadway

  11. Abuse at Abu Ghraib: the Iraqi view

    Two Iraqi, Abu Ghraib detainees recall their experiences inside the American-run prison

  12. Britain's Serial Murderers

    In 1994 Fred and Rosemary West were charged with a series of gruesome murders in England.

  13. The Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand

    The heir to the Austro-Hungarian empire was killed in Sarajevo on 28 June 1914

  14. The Start of Computer Dating

    In 1965 a pioneering computer dating scheme, Operation Match, launched in the USA.

  15. 'Lidice Shall Die'

    The destruction of the village of Lidice in German-occupied Czechoslovakia in June 1942

  16. Albanian Illegal Immigrants

    In the summer of 1991 thousands of Albanians commandeered cargo ships to take them Italy

  17. 1954 Burma Hijack

    In June 1954 separatist Karen rebels in Burma hijacked a passenger plane.

  18. The River That Caught Fire

    In 1969 the Cuyahoga River in the US caught fire inspiring new laws for the enviroment

  19. The Civil Rights Act of 1964

    The passing of the Civil Rights Act through the United States Congress 50 years ago

  20. The Mysterious Life and Loves of a Russian Baroness

    Russian aristocrat Moura Budberg lived through turbulent times. But was she a Soviet spy?

  21. Burying a Hungarian Hero

    In 1989 the body of Imre Nagy, Prime Minister during the Hungarian uprising, was reburied

  22. The OJ Simpson Car Chase

    In June 1994 police chased the American football star through Los Angeles

  23. Brazil's Tropicalia Movement

    Gilberto Gil and Caetano Veloso on the 1960s movement that changed Brazilian music

  24. The Fusca - The Car that Charmed Brazil

    How the Brazilian version of the VW Beetle won a special place in the nation's heart

  25. The Murder that Shocked Brazil

    In June 2002 investigative journalist, Tim Lopes, was brutally killed by a Rio drug gang

  26. Building of Brasilia

    How Brazil opened a modernist capital city in its remote central plains in 1960

  27. War of Canudos in Brazil

    How troops crushed a rebellion by peasants in the arid backlands of north-east Brazil

  28. Broadcasting D-Day

    Original BBC reports of the Allied invasion of Nazi-occupied France, 6 June 1944

  29. The Death of Alan Turing

    It is 60 years since the great British mathematician died.

  30. The Tiananmen Square Massacre

    In June 1989 the Chinese authorities crushed a huge pro-democracy protest in Beijing.

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