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Witness History Episodes

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    The Higgs Boson: A scientific discovery that explains how the universe works

    The discovery of the Higgs Boson by scientists at CERN using the Large Hadron Collider

  2. Hong Kong: Abandoned children

    The Chinese babies left on the streets of 1960s Hong Kong in the hope they'd be adopted

  3. Hong Kong - Kowloon Walled City

    The end of a unique way of life in one of the most densely populated places in the world.

  4. Hong Kong: The 5-19 football riot in China

    The 5-19 football riot after Hong Kong won their World Cup qualifying match over China.

  5. Hong Kong: Democracy campaigner

    In 1997 Britain handed Hong Kong back to China but Emily Lau campaigned for democracy

  6. Hong Kong: The handover

    Chris Patten remembers the day Hong Kong was handed back to China from Britain

  7. The UK's first official gay Pride March

    The UK’s first official gay Pride march took place 50 years ago – on 1st July 1972.

  8. Egypt's first democratic presidential election

    In June 2012, Mohamed Morsi was elected in Egypt's first free presidential election.

  9. The killing of Vincent Chin

    In 1982 a Chinese-American man was murdered with a baseball bat by white men in Detroit

  10. Robot Surgeon

    In 1985 the first robot-assisted medical surgery took place in Vancouver, Canada

  11. India's surrogacy capital

    In 2003, fertility expert Dr Nayana Patel carried out her first surrogacy procedure.

  12. Cambodia war crimes

    In 2009 Rob Hamill came face-to-face with the man responsible for killing his brother

  13. James Joyce and Ulysses

    It's 100 years since one of the most influential novels of the 20th century was published

  14. New York's LGBT High School

    A school offering specialised education for LGBT students opened in the city in 1985

  15. Vietnam's 'Napalm Girl'

    It’s 50 years since Kim Phuc's village in Vietnam was bombed with napalm

  16. Holy Cross school dispute

    A violent sectarian dispute took place outside a school in Northern Ireland in 2001

  17. The Gulabi Gang

    Sampat Devi started a women's rights group in India which now has a national following.

  18. How Sri Lanka's president survived a suicide bombing

    A survivor of the 2006 suicide bombing attack shares their experience.

  19. Saving Gabon's rainforest

    How a network of national parks was set up to protect Gabon's forests in 2002

  20. The Diary of Anne Frank

    One of the most powerful accounts of the Holocaust was published in June 1947

  21. The assassination of Bobby Kennedy

    The killing of the US presidential candidate remembered by a friend who was also shot

  22. The Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II

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

  23. Sarin attack in Syria

    How UN inspectors investigated a devastating chemical weapons attack in Ghouta in 2013

  24. Life in the biggest Syrian refugee camp in the world

    A Syrian family living in Za'atari Refugee Camp for nine years share their experiences.

  25. Civil Rights activist Ida B Wells

    How a pioneering African-American journalist campaigned against lynching in the US

  26. The attack on Lod Airport

    A survivor on how gunmen opened fire at an Israeli airport in 1972, killing 26 people.

  27. Georgia O'Keeffe

    One of the world's most famous woman artists remembered by her assistant

  28. The World Festival of Black Arts

    A landmark event for African artists was held in newly-independent Senegal in 1966

  29. The museum of banned Russian art

    How Igor Savitsky saved thousands of works from Stalin's censors, and started a museum

  30. The last days of Frida Kahlo

    The great Mexican artist remembered by a friend who lived with her at the end of her life

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