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Witness History Episodes

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    Nigeria's War on Indiscipline

    In 1984, General Buhari's military regime launched an unusual campaign to clean up Nigeria

  2. The Yodogo Hijacking

    In March 1970, Japanese left-wing extremists hijacked a plane with samurai swords.

  3. Siege of Sarajevo

    The siege of Sarajevo lasted for almost four years. Witness Vedrana Seksan tells her story

  4. Pakistan Ban on Alcohol

    In the spring of 1977 the government of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto introduced a ban on alcohol

  5. Harrer in Tibet

    In 1944, Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer fled into the forbidden land of Tibet.

  6. The Attempt on Ronald Reagan's Life

    On March 30th 1981 a man tried to assassinate US President Ronald Reagan.

  7. The Back to Africa Movement

    In the late 1800s, African Americans from Arkansas began moving to Liberia in West Africa.

  8. The Harold Wilson Plot

    In March 1976, the British prime minister Harold Wilson unexpectedly resigned. Why?

  9. Romania's Orphans

    In 1990 the terrible conditions inside Romania's orphanages first came to light.

  10. Virginia Woolf

    On March 28th 1941 the British novelist Virginia Woolf took her own life.

  11. The Easter Rising

    How Irish rebels tried to start a revolution against British rule at Easter 1916.

  12. Battle of Tora Bora

    After the Taliban fell in Afghanistan, the hunt for Osama bin Laden began in earnest.

  13. Iraqi Shia Uprising - 1991

    At the end of the First Gulf War thousands of Iraqis rose up against Saddam Hussein

  14. The Death of Jan Palach

    In 1969, a student set himself alight in protest at the crushing of the Prague Spring.

  15. The Fall of Emperor Tewodros II

    In 1868 Tewodros II of Ethiopia prepared to make a last stand against the British army.

  16. Fidel Castro Takes Havana

    In 1959, the rebel leader took control of Cuba's capital city.

  17. Viagra

    In 1998 a new 'wonder' drug was approved for use in the United States

  18. The Poisoning of Viktor Yushchenko

    In 2004, Ukrainian presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko was poisoned and nearly died.

  19. Namibian Independence

    In March 1990, Namibia became independent from South African rule.

  20. The Tunnellers of WW1

    Archive recordings of the tunnellers who fought underground in WW1

  21. Vietnam-China Border War 1979

    Former communist allies China and Vietnam fought a short but bloody war in 1979.

  22. Mad Cow Disease and CJD

    How a disease affecting cattle was transferred to the human population in Britain.

  23. The Kasztner Affair

    In March 1957, an Israeli political scandal ended in an assassination.

  24. Radiocarbon Dating of the Turin Shroud

    In 1988 scientists performed a carbon dating test on the Shroud of Turin.

  25. The Original Revolutionary Feminist

    Alexandra Kollontai was the leading Marxist feminist in Communist Russia.

  26. The Release of the Birmingham Six

    In March 1991, six men were freed ending one of Britain's worst miscarriages of justice

  27. Tenerife Air Disaster

    In March 1977 the worst accident in the history of civil aviation took place in Tenerife.

  28. Spinsters' Rights

    Millions of women were left single after the men they would have married died in WW1.

  29. Poisoned in Kosovo

    How Roma Gypsies, who fled ethnic violence in 1999, were settled in a camp on toxic land

  30. Condemned as a Spy in the USSR

    Flora Leipman, a British Jew, falsely condemned as a spy, was sent to a labour camp

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