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Witness History Episodes

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    The Moscow Coup

    The failed attempt to overthrow the Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachov in August 1991

  2. The Hungarian Picnic

    The picnic that led to the first breaches of the Iron Curtain in 1989

  3. The Great Depression

    During the 1930s the people of the US faced widespread economic hardship

  4. The Goons

    It is 60 years since The Goon Show first hit the airwaves

  5. The Building of the Berlin Wall

    On 13 August 1961, East German soldiers and construction workers began the Berlin Wall

  6. Napster

    It is 10 years since the closure of the world's first music-sharing website - Napster

  7. Expulsion of the Chagos Islanders

    A Chagos Islander talks of Britain's expulsion of his people from their homeland.

  8. Wayne Gretzky

    He was a Canadian sporting superstar but in 1988 he was sold to an American team

  9. Britain's first nudist beach

    In August 1979 the seaside town of Brighton decided to open a nudist beach

  10. Exodus of Asians from Uganda

    In 1972 the dictator Idi Amin announced that all Asians had 90 days to leave Uganda

  11. The Voyage of the Kon-Tiki

    In 1947 a Norwegian adventurer sailed across the Pacific on a wooden raft

  12. Bologna bomb

    In August 1980 a huge bomb destroyed much of Bologna railway station in Italy

  13. Peace Activist Samantha Smith

    A child dreams of world peace and writes a letter to the leader of the Soviet Union

  14. MTV turns 30

    It is 30 years since the launch of the first 24 hour music TV channel

  15. The Shipbuilders' Clydeside "Work-In"

    How Scottish workers took over their shipyards and warded off the threat of closure

  16. Picasso

    Sixty years ago a young art historian got to know the greatest painter in the world

  17. Christian the Lion

    The story of two Australians who berfriended a lion in London, and freed him in Africa

  18. Telstar

    Fifty years since the first transatlantic broadcast

  19. The Kitchen Debate

    In July 1959, two Cold War leaders argued over whose system was best

  20. Moroccan exodus

    In 1961 hundreds of Jewish children were smuggled from Morocco to Israel

  21. Libyan prison massacre

    In 1996 over a thousand prisoners were killed at a jail in Tripoli

  22. The Genoa riots of 2001

    It is 10 years since protests against a G8 summit turned violent on the streets of Genoa

  23. Rupert Murdoch, the early years

    Rupert Murdoch's career in the media began in the Australian town of Adelaide in the 1950s

  24. The death of Tom Simpson

    In July 1967 British cyclist Tom Simpson, rode himself to death on the Tour de France

  25. The opening of Disneyland

    In July 1955 the first ever Disney theme park was opened in California

  26. The Crusaders capture Jerusalem

    The tale of the momentous and bloody capture of Jerusalem by the Crusaders in 1099

  27. Battle of Britain

    A Battle of Britain pilot reflects on being shot down and almost drowning in the sea

  28. The Srebrenica massacre

    In July 1995, Bosnian Serb fighters killed thousands of Muslim men and boys in Srebrenica

  29. Boycott of The Sun newspaper

    How the people of Liverpool boycotted Rupert Murdoch's Sun newspaper in the UK

  30. The space shuttle

    It is more than 30 years since the launch of the first space shuttle

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