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Witness History Episodes

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    The last of the Kazakh herders

    Many of the nomadic herders in Kazakhstan left the USSR and moved to China in the 1920s

  2. The end of the Lebanese Civil War

    On October 13th 1990 the fifteen year long conflict in Lebanon finally came to an end

  3. The launch of CNN

    1980 saw the launch of the first TV station dedicated to 24 hour news.

  4. The Battle of Lewisham

    How anti-racists stopped a far-right march in South London in 1977.

  5. Desmond's - a sitcom that changed Britain

    The story of our times told by the people who were there.

  6. Fighting racism on the dancefloor

    New laws were used to stop clubs from banning black and ethnic minority people in 1978

  7. Britain's first black woman headteacher

    Yvonne Conolly was made head of a London primary school in 1969.

  8. The voyage of the Empire Windrush

    A ship carrying hundreds of migrants from the Caribbean set sail for Britain in 1948

  9. The house by the lake

    The summer house by a lake which witnessed much of Germany's 20th century history

  10. Operation Breakthrough: Fighting to save three whales

    Three gray whales got caught in the ice off Alaska in October 1988

  11. The founding of Google

    In 1998 the world's most popular search engine was launched by two PHD students

  12. The Mafia trial of Italy’s former Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti

    A trial which shone a light on links between Italian politicians and the Mafia

  13. The death of Gamal Abdel Nasser

    The charismatic Egyptian president dominated Arab politics for almost two decades

  14. Bush v Gore: The 'hanging chads' US election of 2000

    The US presidential election of 2000 was one of the closest and most contested in history

  15. Blackwater killed my son

    How US private security guards opened fire on civilians in Baghdad, killing 17 people

  16. When Nelson Mandela went to Detroit

    Shortly after his release from prison the South African freedom fighter toured the USA

  17. How Liberia wrote off its debts

    How Liberia negotiated to write off billions of dollars of debt.

  18. The Galileo project

    A mission to study the planet Jupiter finally came to an end on 21st September 2003

  19. The mothers of Argentina's disappeared

    The women who began protesting after their children were taken away by soldiers

  20. Tank Man

    A photo of a man confronting a tank in China caught the world's imagination in 1989

  21. The Greensboro lunch counter sit-in

    In 1960 four young black men began a protest against racial segregation in the USA.

  22. The Mau Mau struggle against British rule

    In the 1950s rebels took up arms to rid Kenya of colonial rule

  23. Resisting 'Europe's last dictator' in Belarus

    Exiled dissident Nikolai Khalezin on the origins of the protest movement in Belarus

  24. Why the US rejected universal healthcare

    After WW2 US President Harry Truman argued for healthcare for all but his plan failed.

  25. Banning alcohol in an Indian state

    Punyavathi Sunkara recalls how the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh banned alcohol in 1995.

  26. The birth of Reddit

    In 2005 two young graduates created one of the internet's most popular websites.

  27. Haiti's cholera outbreak

    Haiti was cholera-free until UN peacekeepers brought it to the Caribbean country in 2010

  28. The Dawson's Field hijacking

    Barbara Mensch recalls how she was hijacked and held in Jordan in 1970

  29. Care in the Community

    In the 1990s Britain closed down many of its long-stay hospitals and asylums

  30. The Cape Town bombings

    In the late 1990s there were more than 150 bomb attacks in the South African city

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