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Witness History Episodes

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    Ramayan - India's TV Epic

    It is 25 years since the final episode of one of India's biggest ever TV programmes

  2. The Disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa

    The controversial American union leader, Jimmy Hoffa, was last seen alive on July 30 1975

  3. The Sinking of the USS Indianapolis

    In July 1945 hundreds of US sailors were left adrift for days in shark infested waters

  4. IRA Decommissioning

    In July 2005 the IRA in Northern Ireland promised to put its weapons out of use.

  5. The Sinking of the USS Indianapolis

    July 1945 - a US warship sinks in the Pacific; its crew face days in shark-infested waters

  6. The End of the Korean War

    On July 27 1953 the Korean War came to an end and thousands of prisoners were released

  7. Abducted by Joseph Kony

    The woman forced to bear the children of the leader of the Lord's Resistance Army

  8. Alcoholics Anonymous

    In the summer of 1935 Alcoholics Anonymous was founded in Akron, Ohio

  9. Black July

    In 1983 violence erupted between the Sinhala majority and the Tamil minority in Sri Lanka

  10. The Lillehammer Hit

    In July 1973 a Moroccan waiter was shot dead by an Israeli hit-squad in Norway

  11. Haile Selassie visits Jamaica

    In 1966, the Emperor of Ethiopia made a state visit to the Caribbean island of Jamaica.

  12. Escape from the KGB

    How Soviet double agent Oleg Gordievsky escaped from under the noses of the KGB in 1985

  13. The Birth of Second Life

    It is ten years since the launch of Philip Rosedale's online virtual world Second Life

  14. Freeze

    In 1988 a group of students put on an exhibition called Freeze. It changed British art.

  15. The Hong Kong Handover

    Former Governor General, Chris Patten, remembers the day the territory returned to China.

  16. Women's Baseball in WWII

    In 1943, the first and only professional women's baseball league was launched in the US

  17. The Soviet Gulag

    Hear one man's story of life in a Soviet labour camp during Stalin's rule.

  18. Disco Demolition Night

    How a disgruntled Chicago DJ hosted an anti-disco event which turned into a riot in 1979

  19. Skylab Falls to Earth

    The day when fragments of the US space station Skylab hit an Australian town in 1979

  20. The Death of Thich Quang Duc

    In June 1963, a Buddhist monk set himself on fire in central Saigon

  21. Iran Student Protest

    The Iranian student who became an unwitting symbol of the anti-government protests in 1999

  22. The Death of Jean Moulin

    The day the leader of the French Resistance was killed by German forces on July 08, 1943

  23. The Crate Escape

    In the summer of 1984 a Nigerian exile living in London was kidnapped in a crate.

  24. Yasser Arafat Arrives in Gaza

    When the Palestinian leader was allowed to return from exile to the Gaza strip in 1994

  25. Ludwig Wittgenstein

    How the publication of Philosophical Investigations in 1953 revolutionised philosophy

  26. Penguin Rescue

    The mission to save thousands of African penguins from an oil spill in July, 2000

  27. Chilean Students Set on Fire

    In July 1986 two students were set on fire by Chilean government soldiers

  28. The Battle of Gettysburg

    It is 150 years since the Battle of Gettysburg, a turning point in the American Civil War

  29. Iraq's Sectarian Violence

    The recent surge in violence in Iraq has echoes of the sectarian conflict in 2006-07

  30. JFK in Ireland

    Novelist Colm Toibin recalls US President John F Kennedy's visit to Ireland in June 1963

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