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Witness History Episodes

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    The Death of Jean Moulin

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

  2. The Crate Escape

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

  3. Yasser Arafat Arrives in Gaza

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

  4. Ludwig Wittgenstein

    How the publication of Philosophical Investigations in 1953 revolutionised philosophy

  5. Penguin Rescue

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

  6. Chilean Students Set on Fire

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

  7. The Battle of Gettysburg

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

  8. Iraq's Sectarian Violence

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

  9. JFK in Ireland

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

  10. Smoking and Lung Cancer

    It took until the 1950s for researchers to connect smoking with lung cancer

  11. War Requiem by Benjamin Britten

    It is regarded as one of the most important pieces in 20th Century English music.

  12. Ultrasound

    It's 55 years since a picture of a foetus inside the womb was first published.

  13. The first woman in space

    In June 1963 Soviet Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova went into orbit.

  14. Murder in Managua

    In June 1979 an American TV reporter was shot dead by government forces in Nicaragua

  15. Rocky Horror Show

    It is 40 years since the opening of a comedy musical which would become a cult phenomenon

  16. The Execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg

    It is 60 years since the American couple were executed for spying

  17. Gay Marriage

    The first gay marriage in America took place more than 40 years ago in Minnesota.

  18. The Pentagon Papers

    In 1971 one man leaked thousands of pages of secret US government documents to the press.

  19. Post-war Berlin

    A child's eye view of life in Berlin in the aftermath of World War II

  20. Nigeria's Lost Election

    The election of Chief MKO Abiola 20 years ago, which was annulled by the military

  21. Escape from Alcatraz

    In June 1962 three prisoners escaped from the maximum security US jail.

  22. The Mau Mau Rebellion

    Britain's disturbing abuses against the Mau Mau in colonial Kenya

  23. Robert Kennedy's Funeral Train

    How huge crowds of Americans mourned Bobby Kennedy after his 1968 assassination.

  24. Stalin's Gulag

    Millions of people were sent to brutal labour camps in the USSR under Joseph Stalin

  25. The Oklahoma Bomber

    Twelve years ago, Timothy McVeigh was executed for carrying out the 1995 Oklahoma bombing

  26. Bristol Bus Boycott

    How a protest by black activists in 1963 led to the UK's first anti-racism laws

  27. The Nepali Royal Massacre

    Twelve years ago, the Crown Prince of Nepal massacred his family at the royal palace

  28. The Queen's Coronation

    Two Maids of Honour remember the crowning of Queen Elizabeth the Second in London in 1953.

  29. The New Deal

    Eighty years ago, Franklin D Roosevelt promised to rescue the US from the Great Depression

  30. The Ascent of Everest

    How Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tensing conquered the world's highest mountain in 1953.

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