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Witness History Episodes

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    Amnesty at 50

    It is half a century since the launch of the human rights group Amnesty International

  2. Mariel Boatlift from Cuba

    Mass exodus: how 125,000 Cubans left the island from Mariel harbour in 1980

  3. Chanel No. 5

    In 1921 the most famous perfume ever, was launched in France

  4. Manchester United 1968

    In May 1968 Manchester United Football club won its first European cup

  5. The Irish Contraceptive Train

    A group of women challenged a ban on contraception and took a train to get them

  6. Leopold and Loeb

    In May 1924 two rich and educated teenage boys killed an acquaintance in Chicago

  7. Crimean Tatars

    In May 1944 the Tatar people of Crimea were forced into exile by the Soviet army

  8. The Irish pirate Queen

    Over 400 years ago an Irish woman pirate met Queen Elizabeth I

  9. The fall of Berlin

    The Red Army took control of the German capital Berlin, in May 1945

  10. Easter Rising in Ireland

    Eye-witness accounts of the Irish rebellion against British rule at Easter 1916.

  11. Peter the Wild Boy

    Nearly 300 years ago a feral child was brought to the court of King George I in London.

  12. The death of President Tito

    President Tito of Yugoslavia was one of the great characters of post-war Europe

  13. Italian Bombing of Libya - 1911

    The letters of an Italian pilot reveal how he carried out the first air raid in history

  14. Ulrike Meinhof

    In May 1976 the German left-wing extremist Ulrike Meinhof killed herself in prison

  15. Victory in Europe Day

    On May 8 1945, Winston Churchill announced the end of the war in Europe.

  16. Four minute mile

    In 1954 a record was broken when a young British athlete ran a mile in under four minutes

  17. Festival of Britain

    It is 60 years since the opening of the Festival of Britain

  18. Al-Qaeda 1998 Embassy Bombings in Africa

    Following Osama Bin Laden's death, we recall al-Qaeda's attacks in Africa in 1998

  19. Fall of Berlin

    The experiences of one German woman after Berlin fell to the Red Army in 1945

  20. Ukraine Famine

    How famine devastated Ukraine in the 1930s

  21. Dennis Tito - The first space tourist

    Ten years ago an American businessman called Dennis Tito became the first space tourist

  22. Rock against Racism 1978

    How an anti-racism concert in London in 1978 influenced a generation

  23. The bombing of Guernica

    It was one of the worst atrocities of the Spanish Civil War.

  24. The Hitler diaries hoax

    In 1983 a German magazine believed it had found Hitler's wartime diary.

  25. Wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer

    Witness takes you back to the wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer

  26. Romanian family history

    One family's extraordinary story kept hidden for decades by the communist secret police

  27. Gandhi's Salt March protest

    How Gandhi's Salt March in 1930 showed the power of peaceful protest in India

  28. Waco siege

    How a man from northern England lost his entire family in the siege of Waco in 1993

  29. Bay of Pigs Invasion

    Cuban exiles, backed by the US government, tried to invade Cuba and overthrow Castro

  30. Grace Kelly and Prince Ranier

    She was a Hollywood superstar - he was Prince of a tiny European state

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