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Witness History Episodes

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    The Moon Landing

    In July 1969, Apollo 11 commander Neil Armstrong took the first steps on the Moon.

  2. Valentina Tereshkova, cosmonaut

    The Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova was the first woman to be sent into space

  3. Laika, the first dog in space

    The Russian stray was the first dog to be sent into orbit around the earth

  4. Kenya's ivory inferno

    How a dramatic bonfire in Nairobi National Park highlighted the threat from poaching

  5. Cuba executes top military officers

    Four army officers were sentenced to death for drug trafficking by the Castro government

  6. The Common Cold Unit

    The remarkable UK research centre where thousands went on holiday to catch a cold

  7. China puts tampons on sale

    Women in China got access to tampons for the first time in 1985

  8. The secret diaries of 'Gentleman Jack'

    The secret diaries of 19th-century Englishwoman Anne Lister, the 'first modern lesbian'

  9. The indigenous fight to stop nuclear waste disposal

    How a group of senior, indigenous Australian women fought to save their land.

  10. The launch of the Walkman

    The advent of music on the move in July 1979

  11. Surviving Cambodia's 'Killing Fields'

    The Khmer Rouge took power in 1975, starting their four year genocidal rule.

  12. Germans kidnapped by Nicaragua's rebels

    Two German left-wing activists recall their ordeal as hostages of Nicaragua's Contras

  13. The US judge accused of sexual harassment

    How Supreme Court nominee Judge Clarence Thomas was publicly accused of sexual misconduct

  14. Defending a British serial murderer

    The lawyer of serial killer Rosemary West recalls the gruesome details of the case

  15. The Anfal genocide

    Saddam Hussein's war on the Kurds in the 1980s

  16. The Stonewall Riot

    How a protest outside New York's Stonewall Inn inspired the modern gay rights movement.

  17. Catch-22

    The story behind Joseph Heller's acclaimed, satirical anti-war novel which sold millions

  18. The fat acceptance movement

    The National Association to Aid Fat Americans, NAAFA, held its first meeting in June 1969

  19. The yoga teacher and the violinist

    How violinist Yehudi Menuhin and yoga teacher BKS Iyengar helped bring yoga to the West

  20. Sister Lotus - early Chinese online star

    Sister Lotus was an unlikely online celebrity because she was famous for being ordinary.

  21. The assassinaton of Medgar Evers

    The American civil rights activist and war hero who was murdered in 1963 in Mississippi.

  22. Carl Gustav Jung

    One of the most influential figures in psychoanalysis died in June 1961

  23. The death of Neda Soltan

    How a young woman became a symbol of anti-government protest in Iran

  24. The first gay marriage in the USA

    One gay couple in Minneapolis had a same-sex wedding back in the 1970's

  25. How America 'lost' China

    How an American war hero was sent to stop China becoming communist and failed.

  26. Christo and Jeanne-Claude wrap the Reichstag

    How a huge public art project entranced post-Cold War Berlin

  27. The first anti-psychotic drug

    How a 1950s drug helped revolutionise the treatment of mental illness

  28. The end of the war in Kosovo

    Hundreds of thousands of Kosovans fled when NATO began bombing former Yugoslavia in 1999

  29. The Gurkha soldiers fight for equality

    A Nepalese regiment of the British army won the right to settle in Britain in 2009.

  30. Broadcasting D-Day

    How the BBC reported the Allied invasion of Nazi-occupied France, 6 June 1944

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