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Witness History Episodes

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    Ben Ali Comes to Power in Tunisia

    The story of how Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali came to power in Tunisia

  2. Palomares nuclear accident

    How a B-52 bomber crashed on the Spanish coast while carrying four nuclear weapons.

  3. Crossing Antarctica

    In January 1997 Borge Ousland became the first person to cross the Antarctic alone

  4. Kindertransport - Oliver's story

    The story of a boy who escaped Nazi Germany on a kindertransport train heading for Britain

  5. Football wages

    We take you back to 1961 when the cap on football wages was abolished in England

  6. Wikipedia - 10 years on

    It is 10 years since the Wikipedia online encyclopedia was launched

  7. Cryonic freezing

    In 1967 a group of enthusiasts first tried to cryonically freeze a human being.

  8. Crossing the Rubicon

    When Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon river 2,000 years ago he changed history

  9. Bojinka Airline Plot

    The Manila-based plot to blow up a dozen airliners over the Pacific Ocean

  10. Clinton impeachment

    On January 7 1999 the impeachment trial of President Bill Clinton began in the US Senate

  11. Sudan's civil war

    In 1983 a civil war broke out in Sudan which would last for more than 20 years.

  12. Afghanistan's Secret Schools for Girls

    How Afghan women resisted the Taliban's efforts to prohibit education for girls

  13. LBJ State of the Union Address

    US President Lyndon B Johnson's 1965 speech proposed healthcare for the poor and elderly

  14. Alaska statehood

    On January 3 1959 Alaska finally became a fully fledged member state of the USA.

  15. Chiapas Uprising

    On January 1 1994 indigenous people in southern Mexico began their rebellion.

  16. Hamlet

    Hamlet - by William Shakespeare - is still popular four centuries after it was written.

  17. Assad and Syria

    It is 40 years since Hafez al Assad seized power in Syria.

  18. The Great Escape

    One of the Great Escapees from a German prisoner of war camp speaks out

  19. Jamaica Slave Rebellion

    The rebellion was brutally crushed, but it had a significant impact

  20. Christmas Truce

    When British and German troops sang carols, exchanged gifts and played football together

  21. Andrei Sakharov

    On 23 December, 1986 the Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov was allowed to return to Moscow

  22. Georgia in crisis

    Christmas 1991 was a very difficult time for the former Soviet republic of Georgia.

  23. Lockerbie

    On December 21 1988 a US passenger plane blew up over the Scottish town of Lockerbie.

  24. US invasion of Panama

    It is 21 years since the US invaded the tiny Central American state of Panama.

  25. Washington Snipers

    It is 7 years since one of the Washington snipers, Lee Boyd Malvo, was convicted of murder

  26. Operation Desert Fox

    On 16 December 1998 the US and Britain began a four day bombardment of Iraq.

  27. Siege of Grozny

    In December 1994 Russian forces invaded Chechnya and laid siege to the capital Grozny.

  28. Capture of Saddam Hussein

    It was on this day in 2003 that Saddam Hussein was finally captured by US forces

  29. Argentina's disappeared

    On 13 December 1983, the government of Argentina promised to investigate military crimes

  30. Albert Luthuli Receives the Nobel Peace Prize

    Chief Albert Luthuli was the first African to win the Nobel Prize for Peace - in 1960

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