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Witness History Episodes

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    The Oslo Peace Accords

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

  2. Evita's Odyssey

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

  3. US Airman Shot Down by Syrian Forces

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

  4. 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing

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

  5. Saving the Tiger

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

  6. Military Coup in Chile

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

  7. US Airman Shot Down by Syria

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

  8. The Attica Prison Riot

    In September 1971 prisoners in a high security jail in the US rose up against their guards

  9. The Chile Coup

    In September 1973 General Pinochet launched a coup in Chile. Ariel Dorfman was there.

  10. HMS Trinidad

    George Lloyd, a young English composer, wrote a march for the ship he served on in WWII

  11. Special Operations Executive

    During WWII Britain set up a secret organisation to wage war in Nazi occupied Europe

  12. Fleeing from Laos

    In 1973 the American war against communism in Laos ended leaving their allies behind

  13. Jack The Ripper

    In September 1888, the most famous serial killer in history stalked the streets of London.

  14. Eritrea's Long War

    A doctor who took part in Eritrea's 30 year struggle for independence from Ethiopia

  15. Women Murdered in Mexico

    In 1993 young women began disappearing in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez.

  16. Aboriginal Strike

    The first ever strike by Australian Aborigines to help free them from virtual slavery

  17. I Have a Dream

    Martin Luther King made his historic plea for racial equality at the March on Washington

  18. The Sherri Finkbine Abortion Case

    How one Arizona couple's campaign for a termination split America in 1962

  19. Krakatoa

    In 1883, the Indonesian volcano caused one of the world's biggest disasters

  20. The Ballerina and the Coup

    In 1959, Dame Margot Fonteyn was part of a bizarre plot to overthrow the Panama government

  21. Brazil Protests: Caras Pintadas

    In 1992, a huge wave of protests forced President Collor of Brazil from office.

  22. Legionnaires' Disease

    In August 1976 more than 200 people developed a mystery illness at a hotel in Philadelphia

  23. The Assassination of Benigno Aquino

    On August 21 1983, the opposition leader, Benigno Aquino, was shot dead in the Philippines

  24. Prague Spring

    The student who appealed for the world's help when Soviet tanks invaded Czechoslovakia

  25. Saddam Hussein's 'Human Shields'

    The British family who were held as 'human shields' in Iraq before the First Gulf War

  26. The Nepali Royal Massacre

    In 2001, the Crown Prince of Nepal killed nine people and then turned the gun on himself.

  27. Stanley Kubrick

    Set designer Sir Ken Adam recalls working with the famously difficult director

  28. The Omagh Bombing

    In August 1998, 29 people died in a massive car bombing in Omagh, Northern Ireland.

  29. The Battle of the Potato Beetle

    In 1950, East Germany claimed American planes were dropping beetles over their fields.

  30. Scientists Flee Nazi Germany

    How the rise of Hitler forced great physicists such as Max Born out of 1930s Germany

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