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Witness History Episodes

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    The power of Jomo Kenyatta

    Death pardons and chasing diplomats with sticks

  2. Festival of Light

    The Nationwide Festival of Light held by Christians protested against societal changes

  3. Iran-Iraq War begins

    On 22 September 1980 the Iran-Iraq war began, one of the bloodiest in recent history

  4. The first Pope to visit Africa

    Popes rarely left the Vatican City in the 1960s, but in 1969, Pope Paul VI visited Uganda

  5. Ancient fossils give new insight

    A student discovered fossils in 1967 helping our understanding of the world's evolution

  6. World War Two child evacuees in Britain

    The thousands of children moved out of UK cities away from the risk of German bombs

  7. The last days of Queen Victoria

    Witness History looks back on Queen Victoria's last days in 1901

  8. When the Queen opened Buckingham Palace

    Queen Elizabeth II first opened her home to the paying public on 7 August 1993

  9. Windsor Castle fire

    How a fire devastated Queen Elizabeth II's weekend home in 1992

  10. Queen Elizabeth II's Coronation Derby

    The Coronation Derby of 1953

  11. The coronation of Queen Elizabeth II

    Two Maids of Honour at the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II recall their memories

  12. The car that charmed Brazil

    How the Fusca charmed Brazil

  13. The Candelaria child massacre

    The murder of eight homeless children outside the Candelaria church in Rio De Janeiro

  14. Building of Brasilia

    How Brazil opened a modernist capital city in 1960

  15. The murder that shocked Brazil

    In 2002 investigative journalist, Tim Lopes, was brutally killed by a Brazilian drug gang

  16. Doomed hero of Brazilian democracy

    The death of Brazil's president-elect Tancredo Neves.

  17. Mikhail Gorbachev: Release of Irina Ratushinskaya

    The imprisonment and release of dissident poet Irina Ratushinskaya

  18. Mikhail Gorbachev: Perestroika

    Reform in the Soviet Union, known as Perestroika, was launched in 1987

  19. Princess Diana dances with John Travolta

    Princess Diana dances at the White House with the star of Saturday Night Fever

  20. The 'Last Indian'

    The story of a Native American called Ishi who spent decades in hiding

  21. Marikana Massacre

    On 16 August 2012, police shot dead 34 striking miners at a platinum mine in South Africa

  22. India's onion election

    In 1980 Indira Gandhi came into power in India, it became known as the "onion election"

  23. The 'Nixon Shock' and the end of the Gold Standard

    In 1971, the US president, Richard Nixon, abandoned the gold standard.

  24. The Gay Games

    The first ever Gay Games were held 40 years ago

  25. Hundreds die in Darayya

    The siege of the Darayya, Syria, in which hundreds of people died

  26. Bulgaria's cash crisis

    How an American economist helped save Bulgaria from financial collapse.

  27. The Bard of Bengal

    Rabindranath Tagore was one of India's greatest poets. He died in August 1941

  28. The death of Jawaharlal Nehru

    The death of India's first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru

  29. The last Viceroy of India

    The daughter of the last British viceroy in India remembers the transfer of power in 1947

  30. India's Partition - Part Two

    Chandra Joashi was caught on the wrong side of the border during India's partition

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