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Witness History Episodes

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    The Paris climate agreement

    In 2015, nearly 200 countries adopted the Paris climate agreement

  2. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of South Africa

    When Apartheid was abolished, South Africans had to find a way to confront their past

  3. The discovery of the coelacanth

    In 1938, a fish was found that was believed to have been extinct for 65 million years

  4. Dismaland: Banksy's dystopian theme park

    In 2015, the street artist transformed a derelict pool into a dystopian ‘bemusement park’

  5. The Balcombe Street IRA siege

    In December 1975, four IRA gunmen took a couple hostage leading to a six-day siege

  6. How Lagos Fashion Week began

    In 2011, the event debuted, putting Nigerian style on the map

  7. Wole Soyinka: Imprisoned during Nigeria’s Biafra war

    In 1967, Nigerian writer Wole Soyinka was jailed following his efforts to avert civil war

  8. Escaping Nigeria's Biafra war

    In 1967, the south-east region of Nigeria declared itself the independent state of Biafra

  9. Building the New Afrika Shrine in Nigeria

    The opening of the 'spiritual home of Afrobeat' in 2000

  10. West Africa fights back against Boko Haram

    In 2015, a coalition of West African countries fought back against a caliphate in Nigeria

  11. Ravi and George

    In 1967, Ravi Shankar taught the ‘quiet Beatle’ George Harrison how to play the sitar

  12. India goes to the UN

    Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit led India’s first delegation to the United Nations

  13. The Howard Hughes literary hoax

    In 1971 a conman fooled publishers with a fake autobiography of billionaire Howard Hughes

  14. Colombia's Salt Cathedral

    In 1995, a cathedral was built 180m underground in the Zipaquirá Salt Mine

  15. Toy Story: the first digitally-animated feature film

    The box-office hit started a shift away from hand-drawn cartoons

  16. How the Bosnian war ended

    On 21 November 1995, the Dayton Peace accords were signed

  17. The death of Franco

    In 1975, General Francisco Franco died, ending 36 years of dictatorship over Spain

  18. Angela Merkel suspends EU asylum rules in 2015

    In August 2015, Germany suspended asylum rules amid a steep rise in migration to Europe

  19. Reagan and Gorbachev: The Geneva Summit

    In 1985, US President Ronald Reagan met Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in Switzerland

  20. The Spanish king reclaims his throne

    In 1975 Juan Carlos reclaimed the Spanish throne after 36 years of Franco’s dictatorship

  21. When Maldives' ministers met underwater

    In 2009, ministers from the Maldives held the first underwater cabinet meeting

  22. Bataclan attack in Paris

    On 13 November 2015, 90 people were shot dead at the Bataclan theatre in France

  23. Prosecuting Nazis at the Nuremberg Trials

    Eighty years ago, in the aftermath of World War Two, a major war crimes trial took place

  24. Birth of the G7

    In November 1975, leaders of six nations met in France to solve an economic crisis

  25. Breaking the sound barrier

    In 1947, Chuck Yeager became the first pilot to fly faster than the speed of sound.

  26. Discovering the largest dinosaur ever

    In 2012, a shepherd uncovered a bone belonging to a new dinosaur in Argentina

  27. The ‘father of e-books’

    In 1971, there was a key moment in the digital revolution of e-books

  28. The creation of Miffy

    The children's book character Miffy was created by Dick Bruna in 1955

  29. President Clinton is impeached

    In 1999, US President Clinton was impeached over a relationship with a White House intern

  30. The brains behind Thunderbirds

    It's 60 years since Thunderbirds first blast onto TV screens

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