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Witness History Episodes

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    Walter Sisulu is Released

    In October 1989, anti-apartheid leader Walter Sisulu was freed from jail after 26 years.

  2. The Brighton Hotel Bombing

    The day Margaret Thatcher survived a bomb attack in October 1984

  3. Escape from Sobibor Death Camp

    Hundreds of Jewish slave labourers staged a revolt in a Nazi death camp in October 1943

  4. Thomas Sankara African Revolutionary

    When one of Africa's most celebrated leaders was killed in a coup in Burkina Faso

  5. Josephine Baker - Black American Superstar

    In 1925 a young black American dancer became an overnight sensation in Paris

  6. Tunnel Under the Berlin Wall

    In October 1964 a group of students helped 57 people escape from East Germany

  7. Danish Jews Escape the Holocaust

    During WWII, most of the Jews in Denmark evaded Nazi plans to send them to death camps

  8. The Murder of Anna Politkovskaya

    The outspoken Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya was murdered in October 2006

  9. The Betty Ford Center

    How a First Lady's struggle with drugs led to the founding of a world famous rehab clinic

  10. Israel's Nuclear Secrets

    In October 1986, Mordechai Vanunu revealed Israel's secret nuclear weapons programme

  11. Australia's Asylum Stand-off

    In 2001, Australia refused entry to more than 400 refugees aboard a Norwegian freight ship

  12. Mao's American Comrade

    Mao declares the formation of the People's Republic of China on 1 October 1949

  13. Appeasement

    In September 1938, Neville Chamberlain tried to negotiate with Hitler over Czechoslovakia.

  14. Re-education in China

    In China 're-education' is still used as a form of punishment - hear one man's story.

  15. The Kinsey Report into Female Sexuality

    Sex, 60 years ago: The Kinsey Report revealed all in 1953

  16. Siege of Vukovar

    In 1991 the Yugoslav army pounded the Croatian town of Vukova for 87 days

  17. The Death of Paquirri

    The fatal goring of the legendary bullfighter Francisco Rivera Pérez in September 1984

  18. Baywatch

    Executive producer Michael Berk on the birth of a global hit TV show in September 1989

  19. Re-education in Communist China

    Hear from a British man who spent five years being 're-educated' in China in the 1950s

  20. Duke Ellington Plays Kabul

    In September 1963, the jazz legend gave a concert in the Afghan capital.

  21. Iraqi Chemical Attacks

    In 1988 the Reagan administration decided not to punish Iraq for gassing Kurds in Halabja

  22. Duke Ellington Plays Afghanistan

    The jazz legend Duke Ellington played at a concert in Kabul In September 1963

  23. Anthrax Attacks

    In Sept 2001 letters were sent to journalists containing the biological agent Anthrax

  24. The Oslo Peace Accords

    In September 1993 a peace agreement was signed between Israel and the Palestinians

  25. Evita's Odyssey

    The disappearance of the remains in 1955 of Evita Peron, the revered Argentine first lady

  26. US Airman Shot Down by Syrian Forces

    In 1983, Lt Robert Goodman was captured while attacking Syrian positions in Lebanon.

  27. 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing

    Four young black girls were killed in a racist bombing in Birmingham, Alabama, USA

  28. Saving the Tiger

    In 1973 PM Indira Gandhi launched a campaign to save the Bengal Tiger from extinction

  29. Military Coup in Chile

    On September 11th 1973, Gen Augusto Pinochet ousted the socialist government in Chile

  30. US Airman Shot Down by Syria

    In December 1983, a US airman was shot down while attacking Syrian forces in Lebanon

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