Witness History Episodes Available now
'The Dismissal' of Gough Whitlam
In 1975, the Prime Minister was sacked in Australia's biggest constitutional crisis
The Killing of Jean Charles de Menezes
An unarmed Brazilian man is shot dead by anti-terrorism police in Stockwell, south London.
Demolishing the Babri Masjid
Hindu extremists demolished a mosque in the Indian city of Ayodhya
Quebec’s 1995 referendum
In 1995, the people of Quebec voted on whether to become independent from Canada
Miss World protest
In 1970, feminists stormed the stage at the Miss World pageant in London
The woman who smuggled HIV into Bulgaria in her handbag
Virologist Professor Radka Argirova was the first to test people for HIV in Bulgaria
The islands Japan and Russia can’t agree on
In 1947, thousands of Japanese people were taken from their island homes by Soviet troops
CrossFit: The fitness phenomenon that changed the industry
In 2000, an American personal trainer invented CrossFit
Mombasa terror attacks
Journalist Kelly Hartog describes the moment terrorists targeted Israeli tourists in Kenya
How cat's eyes were invented
In 1934, Percy Shaw invented cat's eyes, the reflective studs in the road
