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Witness History Episodes

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    The Boy Who Stayed Awake For Eleven Days

    California high school student Randy Gardner set a world record in 1964.

  2. Iran Student Protests 1999

    A young man became an unwitting symbol of the anti-government protests

  3. I Hijacked A Plane To Save My Children

    How one woman fled Brazil's military dictatorship with her kids on a hijacked plane.

  4. The Apalachin Meeting

    A chance discovery in 1957 revealed how powerful the mafia was in America.

  5. Spelling Bee - The Children's Competition that Grips America

    The first child of South Asian background to become America's Spelling Bee champion.

  6. Boris Yeltsin's Surprise Resignation

    On New Year's Eve 1999 the Russian President went on TV and said he was leaving office.

  7. Voyager: Around The World On One Tank of Fuel

    How two pilots became the first to fly non-stop around the world without refuelling

  8. The Climbers of Leningrad

    Mountaineers risked their lives to camouflage landmarks in the Russian city during WW2.

  9. "Spend, Spend, Spend" - The Miner's Wife Who Won Big

    How Viv Nicholson became a celebrity in Britain after winning the football pools in 1961.

  10. The First Kwanzaa

    The African-American winter holiday was invented in Los Angeles in 1966.

  11. Trivial Pursuit

    The game has become a holiday tradition with families around the world.

  12. To Kill a Mockingbird

    Louise Hidalgo speaks to Gregory Peck's son Carey about the film of Harper Lee's novel.

  13. BR Ambedkar

    The Indian independence leader and campaigner for Dalit rights died in December 1956.

  14. The Exam That Changed China

    The return of university entrance exams showed the Cultural Revolution had really ended.

  15. The Development of WiFi

    Australian scientists were central to the development of wifi.

  16. Somalia's Islamic Courts Union

    How the Islamic movement brought a brief moment of peace to Mogadishu after years of war

  17. The Disappearance of Harold Holt

    The Australian Prime Minister went for a swim on December 17th 1967 - and never came back

  18. The Great London Smog

    Thousands died as a thick polluted fog engulfed London in 1952

  19. The Unsung Hero of Heart Surgery

    The African-American lab technician whose surgery helped save millions of babies..

  20. Otis Redding

    The great soul singer who was killed in a plane crash in December 1967

  21. Hypnotising Saddam's Son

    How an American hypnotist went to Iraq to treat Uday, the eldest son of Saddam Hussein.

  22. Art in Revolutionary Russia

    Avant-garde art flourished in Russia after the 1917 revolution but was later suppressed

  23. The Discovery of Whale Song

    Whales were being hunted to extinction until a biologist realised they could sing.

  24. Finland Wins Independence From Russia

    In December 1917 Finland became an independent country for the first time.

  25. Britain's withdrawal from South Yemen

    In 1967 Britain's departure from Aden leads to the creation of an independent South Yemen

  26. Mount Rushmore

    Construction on one of America's most famous monuments started in 1927.

  27. Science City in Siberia

    Thousands of scientists moved to deepest Siberia to dedicate their lives to research.

  28. The Poisoning of Litvinenko

    Former colonel in the Russian secret service Alexander Litvinenko was poisoned in London.

  29. The Prestige Oil Disaster in Spain

    How thousands of volunteers cleaned up after a huge environmental disaster in 2002

  30. The Audacious Plot to Kill a Colonel

    How El Salvador's leftist rebels led a top army officer into a deadly trap

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