Witness History Episodes Available now
The Filming of Jaws
It is 40 years since the blockbuster movie about a man-eating shark was released
Save the Whale
On June 27th 1975 Greenpeace activists launched their first direct action against whalers
James Salter: Writer and Pilot
The acclaimed American author died on 19 June 2015, aged 90
Communist Yugoslavia breaks with the USSR
In June 1948 Marshal Tito shocked the world by shunning his former Soviet ally, Stalin.
Air India Flight 182
On 23 June 1985 a passenger plane was blown out of the sky by Sikh extremists
Britain's First Black Woman MP
In 1987 Diane Abbott became the first black woman elected to the British Parliament
The Six Day War: A Jewish view
After the Six Day War in June 1967 Jews in Arab countries like Libya had to flee
Iran's Cultural Revolution
How Iran's Islamic hardliners shut down universities to drive out secular groups
Inter-racial Marriage in South Africa
In June 1985 the ban on inter-racial marriage in South Africa was finally lifted.
Flying to Freedom
In June 1970 a group of mainly Jewish dissidents tried to escape from the USSR by plane
