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Witness History Episodes

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    The Torrey Canyon Disaster

    An oil tanker hit the rocks off the the south-west coast of England in March 1967

  2. Taiwan - The 228 Incident

    In early 1947, Chinese nationalist forces killed thousands of Taiwanese islanders.

  3. 1989 and the Lebanese Civil War

    Fighting intensified in the Lebanese capital Beirut in March 1989

  4. Taiwan '228 Incident'

    In 1947, Chiang Kai-Shek's Chinese nationalist troops killed 20,000 civilians in Taiwan

  5. The Creation of Barbie

    The woman who created the most famous doll in the world - Barbie

  6. The Madrid Train Bombings

    The bombing of commuter trains in Spain's capital that killed 191 people and injured 1800

  7. Suffragette Art Attack

    In 1914 a suffragette attacked a painting in London's National Gallery with a cleaver

  8. Fighting the Contras in Nicaragua

    A former left-wing Sandinista soldier talks about the war against US-backed Contras.

  9. Ghana Veterans and the 1948 Accra Riots

    In 1948 Ghana was rocked by riots following the killing of Ghanaian WW2 veterans

  10. Soviet Mission to Halley's Comet

    In 1986, two Soviet space probes intercepted Halley's Comet

  11. The Miss World Protest

    In 1970 feminists stormed the stage at the Miss World pageant in London.

  12. British Miners' Strike

    In March 1984, coal miners across the UK went on strike over planned pit closures

  13. The Maharishi's World Tour

    In spring 1959, an Indian guru toured the world teaching Transcendental Meditation.

  14. The Assassination of Benigno Aquino

    In 1983, the Philippines opposition leader was shot dead on his return from exile.

  15. Hugo Chavez's First Coup

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

  16. The Downfall of Jean-Bertrand Aristide

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

  17. The Khrushchev Thaw

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

  18. Spitting Image

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

  19. Stalin's 1944 Deportations

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

  20. The Exile of Solzhenitsyn

    In February 1974, Russia's most famous dissident writer was sent into exile in the West.

  21. Protests for the Mother Tongue

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

  22. The Fall of Albania's Enver Hoxha

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

  23. The Death of Deng Xiaoping

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

  24. The True Story of "Whisky Galore"

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

  25. Jean-Michel Basquiat

    The rise and fall of a New York graffiti artist

  26. Women and the Iranian Revolution

    In February 1979, Iran was undergoing a revolution which would lead to an Islamic state.

  27. Fighting the Contras

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

  28. The Exile of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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

  29. Women and the Iranian Revolution

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

  30. The Search for Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction

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

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