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Witness History Episodes

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    The Hama massacre 1982

    In 1982 people in the Syrian city of Hama rose up against the Assad regime

  2. Windscale - Britain's worst nuclear accident

    In 1957 a nuclear reactor in the north of England caught fire

  3. Yuri Gagarin

    The first man in space became a hero and a poster boy for Soviet achievement

  4. Jackie Robinson

    Jackie Robinson was the first black Major League Baseball player

  5. Seretse Khama and Ruth Williams

    The African chief who gave up his throne for love.

  6. The Brixton Riots

    Violence between the black community and the Metropolitan police in South London in 1981

  7. The Rwandan genocide

    A plane crash on 6 April 1994, set off a wave of killing in Rwanda which lasted 100 days

  8. The death of Kurt Cobain

    Thirty years ago, the lead singer of the rock band Nirvana was found dead in his home

  9. The Gotti trial

    John Gotti was a mafia boss who had escaped jail for years.

  10. Edward and Mrs Simpson

    He was the new British King and she was an American divorcee

  11. Poll tax riots

    The anti-poll tax demonstration of March 1990 brought thousands onto the streets of London

  12. Reagan assassination attempt

    The man who helped to save Reagan's life

  13. Bungee jumping

    On April Fool's Day 1979 - the first ever bungee jump was attempted.

  14. War in East Pakistan

    In 1971, war began between East and West Pakistan - leading to the creation of Bangladesh

  15. Posh and Becks - the wedding

    In July 1999 two members of British celebrity royalty tied the knot

  16. The BBC Russian service

    For 65 years the BBC World Service has broadcast in Russian, this weekend it stops

  17. Leonardo da Vinci v Michelangelo

    Over 500 years ago in Renaissance Italy, a battle was underway between two great painters.

  18. 22/03/2016

    History as told by the people who were there

  19. Tokaimura nuclear accident

    In September 1999 there was a nuclear accident at Tokaimura in Japan

  20. Isherwood in Berlin

    The English author Christopher Isherwood lived in Berlin throughout the 1930s.

  21. Ordination of Women Priests

    Angela Berners-Wilson on her experiences that day, and her long fight to become a priest

  22. Halabja

    In March 1988 Iraqi forces attacked the Kurdish town of Halabja with chemical weapons

  23. Three Mile Island

    In March 1979, the US suffered its worst nuclear accident

  24. Air strikes on Libya 1986

    It is almost 25 years since the US decided to take military action against Libya

  25. Madrid train bombings

    On 11 March 2004, bomb attacks in Madrid left 191 people dead

  26. Dunblane school shooting

    The lasting emotional impact of a gun attack at a small Scottish school in 1996

  27. Zeebrugge ferry disaster

    Survivors recall when a Belgian ferry capsized and killed more than 190 people

  28. Political Activist Rosa Luxemburg

    A revolutionary theorist and feminist icon, Lenin called her the Eagle of the Revolution

  29. Ivory Coast civil war

    How a brutal civil war broke out in Ivory Coast in 2002.

  30. Witness: Weathermen radicals in the USA

    The inside story of how three Weatherman revolutionaries died in New York in March 1970

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