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Witness History Episodes

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    Gay in the US military

    In 1975 a US airman announced he was gay, to test the military's attitude to homosexuals.

  2. Viagra

    Fifteen years ago a new "wonder" drug was approved for use in the United States.

  3. Skiing in the Swat Valley

    One man's mission to bring fun back to the battle-scarred Swat Valley in Pakistan.

  4. The death of Joseph Stalin

    60 years ago the Soviet dictator died and the whole of the USSR was plunged into mourning.

  5. Armenia and Azerbaijan

    It is 25 years since violence broke out in the city of Sumgait in Azerbaijan.

  6. The Cultural Revolution in China

    In the mid 1960s the young people of China were encouraged to turn on their elders.

  7. The Bethnal Green tube disaster

    It is 70 years since 173 people were crushed to death at an air-raid shelter in London

  8. Choosing a Pope

    Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor tells the story of electing Pope Benedict in April 2005

  9. The standoff at Wounded Knee

    Forty years ago, American Indian activists staged a protest against the US authorities.

  10. The first World Trade Center attack

    How Islamic extremists tried to blow up the Twin Towers eight years before 9/11.

  11. The Theft of the Scream

    In 1994 Edvard Munch's famous painting The Scream was stolen from a Norwegian art museum.

  12. Dutch school hostage crisis

    In 1977 independence activists from Indonesia's Molucca islands took a school hostage.

  13. The White Rose

    Seventy years ago, three German students were executed for protesting against Hitler.

  14. Welsh Dam Attack

    In 1963 Welsh nationalists took up arms against the construction of a controversial dam

  15. People Power in the Philippines

    How four days of huge protests brought down Filipino President Ferdinand Marcos in 1986.

  16. The Feminine Mystique

    Betty Friedan's book kickstarted the modern women's movement.

  17. The Lost Egyptian Tomb

    In 1995, archaeologists in Egypt's Valley of the Kings made a remarkable discovery

  18. The fall of Singapore

    February 1942, Singapore fell to the Japanese. Tens of thousands of soldiers became POWs.

  19. Human Shields in Iraq

    The British bus driver who took peace campaigners to Iraq ahead of the 2003 invasion

  20. The fall of Singapore

    In February 1942 Britain's stronghold in South East Asia fell to the Japanese.

  21. The Algerian Massacres

    In the 1990s, the Algerian military was locked in a brutal struggle with radical Islamists

  22. The Murder of James Bulger

    The killing of a toddler in Liverpool 20 years ago that shocked Britain

  23. The Last Days of Sylvia Plath

    It is fifty years since the suicide of American poet Sylvia Plath

  24. The plot against Franco

    In 1964 a young Scot joined a plot to assassinate the Spanish dictator, General Franco.

  25. Shergar - the kidnapping

    It is 30 years since the Derby winner was abducted from a stud farm in Ireland.

  26. Marcel Proust

    The great French writer remembered by one of his friends and by his faithful maid.

  27. The Stolen Generation

    In 2008 the Australian Prime Minister apologised for the treatment of Aborigines

  28. "Ghana Must Go"

    Thirty years ago, Nigeria expelled up to 2 million African migrants. Most were Ghanaian

  29. Hugo Chavez and the failed coup

    In February 1992 a group of Venezuelan army officers staged a coup, among them Hugo Chavez

  30. The 'flour bomb' rugby tour

    In 1981 the South African rugby team toured New Zealand, prompting huge protests.

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