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Witness History Episodes

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    South Africa's first free elections

    After Apartheid all South Africans regardless of race finally won the right to vote.

  2. Britain's first vegans

    The Vegan Society was established in 1944 by British 'non-dairy vegetarians'

  3. Nato bombs Serbian TV

    A survivor from the April 1999 bombing in Belgrade that killed 16 people.

  4. The Columbine massacre

    13 people were killed and more than 20 injured in the school shooting on April 20th 1999

  5. How organic farming started

    Worries about the industrialisation of farming post-WW2 led some farmers to go organic.

  6. Auto-destructive art

    Gustav Metzger and the birth of the radical new art form in the 1960s

  7. The first play on Broadway written by a black woman

    'A Raisin in the Sun' by Lorraine Hansberry had an almost exclusively black cast too.

  8. Dennis Tito - the first space tourist

    In April 2001 an American multi-millionaire paid Russia to send him into space

  9. Chinese restaurant syndrome

    In the 1960's American diners began to worry that Chinese food was making them ill.

  10. The rise of Hindu nationalism

    The consolidation of the BJP as one of the major powers in Indian politics.

  11. The man who invented wingsuits

    The wingsuit is the ultimate in extreme sports clothing, for BASE jumpers and skydivers

  12. The Amritsar Massacre of 1919

    In April 1919 British Indian troops opened fire on protestors in the city of Amritsar

  13. The man who made Marilyn Monroe dance

    Choreographer Jack Cole had a huge influence on musical theatre and Hollywood films

  14. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

    Maya Angelou's iconic memoir, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, was published in 1969

  15. Abolishing the army

    Costa Rica dissolved its Armed Forces after a brief civil war in 1948

  16. The warship lost for more than 300 years

    The discovery of a 17th century Swedish warship, the Vasa, in near perfect condition

  17. EMDR: the eye-movement therapy

    A therapy which seems to work for post-traumatic stress was developed in the late 1980s

  18. Patty Hearst the rebel heiress

    In April 1974 the heiress announced she supported her kidnappers' beliefs

  19. Mindfulness for the masses

    Scientist Jon Kabat-Zinn pioneered a meditative approach to treat pain and depression.

  20. The secret Nazi past of Kurt Waldheim

    How former UN Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim's secret Nazi past was exposed

  21. Around the world in 20 days

    The record-breaking balloon flight

  22. Drama in the British parliament

    Prime Minister Jim Callaghan's desperate attempts to survive a no-confidence vote in 1979

  23. The first home pregnancy test

    A female designer working for a pharmaceutical company came up with the idea in the 1960s

  24. The rise of Viktor Orban

    Viktor Orban, now the populist Hungarian Prime Minister led a democratic movement in 1988

  25. Autism and the MMR vaccine

    How a British doctor misled the world by linking the MMR vaccine with autism.

  26. The discovery of the Aztec Moon Goddess

    How an accidental discovery in Mexico led to the uncovering of the Aztecs´ Great Temple.

  27. The first democratic elections in the USSR

    Soviet citizens voted in democratic elections for the first time in March 1989.

  28. The millionaire Nazi war criminal

    How the Dutch art collector Pieter Menten was exposed as a war criminal in the 1970s

  29. How Little America was built in Afghanistan

    In the 1950s, US engineers were sent to Afghanistan to build a dam.

  30. Slaughterhouse-Five

    In March 1969, American author Kurt Vonnegut published his cult anti-war novel.

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