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Witness History Episodes

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    Angela Merkel

    A look back at the career of the German Chancellor before she became a politician.

  2. Ukraine's Wartime Ultra-Nationalists

    In 1941, far-right Ukrainians declared independence, hoping for Hitler's support.

  3. Space Crash

    In June 1997, astronauts on the Mir space station faced disaster after a collision.

  4. The Great Plague

    In the summer of 1665, London was gripped by one of the worst epidemics in its history

  5. Soviet Imaginary Heroes

    A Soviet story of heroic feats of bravery during WWII... that could not have happened.

  6. The Cuyahoga River Fire

    In June 1969 the heavily polluted Cuyahoga River, in Ohio in the USA, caught fire

  7. Date Rape

    The first time 'date rape' hit the headlines in the USA.

  8. Forced Sterilisation in Peru

    In the 1990s more than 280,000 women were sterilised in Peru, many against their will.

  9. The Khobar Towers Bombing - Saudi Arabia

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

  10. The Bobbitt Story

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

  11. Space Crash

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

  12. Jackass Penguin Rescue

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

  13. Black in the USSR

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

  14. The Fall of Paris

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

  15. Smoking and Lung Cancer

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

  16. The Eruption of Mount Pinatubo

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

  17. Moral Majority

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

  18. When TV Came to Bhutan

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

  19. 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

  20. Iraq's Secret Nuclear Programme

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

  21. Restoring 'The Last Supper'

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

  22. Ritalin

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

  23. The Arrest of James Earl Ray

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

  24. Date Rape

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

  25. Tanzania's Ujamaa policy

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

  26. Concordski Plane Crash

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

  27. Karakoram Highway

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

  28. The Assassination of Trujillo

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

  29. The Thalidomide Trial

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

  30. Yeltsin And The Chechen Rebels

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

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