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Witness History Episodes

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    The Khobar Towers Bombing - Saudi Arabia

    On June 25th 1996 a huge truck bomb was planted at a US housing complex in Saudi Arabia.

  2. The Bobbitt Story

    On 23 June 1993 a young wife cut off her husband's penis in a frenzied attack

  3. Space Crash

    Michael Foale was on board the Mir space station when a resupply vessel crashed into it

  4. Jackass Penguin Rescue

    An oil spill in June 2000 threatened tens of thousands of African penguins.

  5. Black in the USSR

    Robert Robinson, a black American engineer, spent 43 years in the USSR against his will.

  6. The Fall of Paris

    In June 1940, most of the residents of Paris fled as German soldiers occupied the city

  7. Smoking and Lung Cancer

    It was not until the 1950s that the link was proven between cigarettes and lung cancer

  8. The Eruption of Mount Pinatubo

    In 1991 one of the largest volcanic eruptions of recent times occurred in the Philippines

  9. Moral Majority

    In June 1979 the Moral Majority was launched and changed the course of American politics

  10. When TV Came to Bhutan

    In June 1999 the tiny Himalayan kingdom broadcast its first TV programme

  11. The Battle for Mixed Race Marriage in the US

    How a white man and a black woman won the right to marry in America in the 1960s

  12. Iraq's Secret Nuclear Programme

    In 1981 Israel destroyed Iraq's nuclear reactor; it began Iraq's secret nuclear programme

  13. Restoring 'The Last Supper'

    In 1999 Italian art experts completed an ambitious restoration of da Vinci's masterpiece.

  14. Ritalin

    The drug Ritalin was developed in the 1940s - it's now used to treat ADHD.

  15. The Arrest of James Earl Ray

    How the man convicted for killing Martin Luther King was detained in London in June 1968.

  16. Date Rape

    In 1991 Katie Koestner went public with her experience of date rape and divided America.

  17. Tanzania's Ujamaa policy

    In the late 1960s Tanzania experimented with a new form of socialism called Ujamaa.

  18. Concordski Plane Crash

    In June 1973 Russia's supersonic rival to Concorde crashed at the Paris Air Show

  19. Karakoram Highway

    In 1979 the Karakoram Highway between Pakistan and China was opened to the public

  20. The Assassination of Trujillo

    On May 30th 1961 Rafael Trujillo, the dictator in the Dominican Republic, was shot dead.

  21. The Thalidomide Trial

    In May 1968, executives of the German company that made the drug thalidomide go on trial

  22. Yeltsin And The Chechen Rebels

    In 1996, a Chechen rebel delegation negotiated peace with Russia's President Yeltsin.

  23. The Israeli Airlift of Ethiopian Jews

    In 1991 14000 Ethiopian Jews were airlifted to Israel during Operation Solomon

  24. Hands Across America

    The day millions of Americans formed a human chain to try to end poverty and homelessness

  25. The Execution of Anne Boleyn

    In May 1536 the Queen of England was executed on the orders of her husband, Henry VIII

  26. Kia Ora: Maori Rights Breakthrough in New Zealand

    Telephone operator Naida Glavish became known for saying good morning to callers in Maori

  27. Dien Bien Phu

    The French surrender at the siege of Dien Bien Phu ended their colonial rule of Vietnam

  28. Paris Protests of 1968

    How student protests and workers' strikes threatened to bring down France's government.

  29. Marcus Garvey

    In 1916 Marcus Garvey arrived in the US urging black people to unite in a new nation.

  30. Citizen Kane

    Archive interviews with Orson Welles about one of the greatest films of all time

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