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Witness History Episodes

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    Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia

    The Soviet Union and its allies invade Czechoslovakia and crush the Prague Spring

  2. Coup against Gorbachev

    In 1991, a coup attempt against President Gorbachev hastened the end of the Soviet Union.

  3. The death of poet Federico Garcia Lorca

    Why was the great poet Lorca murdered at the start of the Spanish Civil War?

  4. The 1953 Iran coup

    The US-backed coup which brought the Shah of Iran to power in 1953

  5. India's Partition - Part Two

    When India gained independence it was split into two new countries - India and Pakistan

  6. India's Partition - Part One

    When India gained independence it was split into two new countries, India and Pakistan

  7. The Kursk disaster

    It's exactly 10 years since the Russian nuclear submarine Kursk sank in the Barents sea.

  8. Battle of Britain

    An RAF pilot remembers his part in winning the Battle of Britain in 1940.

  9. The invasion of Kuwait

    The invasion of Kuwait by Iraqi tanks and troops in August 1990

  10. African Embassy bombings

    The simultaneous bomb attacks on two United States embassies in Africa in 1998.

  11. Hiroshima

    The dropping of the atomic bomb devastated Hiroshima in the last days of World War II.

  12. Ugandan Asians

    In the summer of 1972 the Ugandan leader Idi Amin expelled his country's Asian community

  13. The Mississippi Burning Case

    Three civil rights workers are killed in Mississippi while taking part in Freedom Summer

  14. Samantha Smith

    Samantha Smith was 10 years old and all she wanted was world peace

  15. Mud Volcano

    In 2006 a volcano of mud erupted on the Indonesian island of Java.

  16. Trinidad Coup

    It's 1990 and parliament on the Caribbean island of Trinidad has been seized.

  17. Atlantic Balloon Crossing

    The British men who tried to become the first people to cross the Atlantic in a balloon.

  18. Bob Dylan Goes Electric

    Folk goes pop with Bob Dylan at the Newport festival in 1965.

  19. 1948 Olympics

    London was still recovering from World War II when it held the Olympic Games in 1948.

  20. Castro Attempts Revolution in Cuba

    Attacks on military barracks failed in 1953 but Castro's career as a revolutionary begins

  21. Detroit Riots

    Riots in 1967 brought five days of chaos to the US city of Detroit.

  22. Suez canal

    The day President Nasser announced that Egypt was nationalising the Suez canal.

  23. Asbestos - Nellie Kershaw's story

    The doctor's diagnosis which eventually led to the banning of asbestos in the UK.

  24. Cyprus - A Divided Island

    Turkey's invasion of Cyprus - as seen by both sides.

  25. Zimbabwe Olympics

    How a white hockey team won gold for Zimbabwe at its first Olympics.

  26. Spanish Civil War

    Hear a veteran from the International Brigades, who fought fascism in Spain.

  27. Freeze

    In 1988 a group of students put on an exhibition called Freeze. It changed British art.

  28. The Monkey Trial

    In 1925 the US was gripped by the Monkey Trial, a teacher tried for teaching evolution.

  29. Tragedy on the Tour de France

    Tom Simpson, the legendary British cyclist who died on the Tour de France.

  30. The Vote for Women Priests

    In 1992 the Church of England faced its toughest decision since the split from Rome.

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