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Witness History Episodes

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    Britain's Landslide 1945 Election

    In July 1945 Labour won a surprise victory, defeating war-time leader Winston Churchill

  2. The Tulia Drug Bust

    A drug sting in a small Texas town in 1999 went badly wrong and caused a national scandal

  3. The Death of Walter Rodney

    In 1980, the Guyanese opposition leader Dr Walter Rodney was killed in a bomb explosion.

  4. Tehran's Red Light District

    In July 1979 Iran's new Islamic government closed down Tehran's red-light district.

  5. The Aswan High Dam

    Egypt's Aswan dam was completed in 1970, at a huge cost to local people and antiquities

  6. CIA Mind Control Experiments

    In the 1950s the CIA began attempts to brainwash psychiatric patients.

  7. Ghiggia: Uruguay’s World Cup Hero

    Alcides Ghiggia scored a famous goal for Uruguay in a match at Brazil’s Maracana stadium

  8. The Manhattan Project

    The first ever nuclear weapon was detonated by scientists in the USA on 16 July 1945

  9. James Salter: Writer and Pilot

    The acclaimed American author recalls his time as a US fighter pilot during the Korean War

  10. Poison Gas in WW1

    Soldiers who witnessed gas attacks recount their experiences in archive recordings

  11. Marie Curie

    Winner of two Nobel prizes for her pioneering research into radioactivity

  12. The Sinking of the USS Indianapolis

    In July 1945, the American warship was torpedoed in the shark-infested Pacific Ocean.

  13. The Death of MKO Abiola

    Nigerian opposition leader died suddenly days before his expected release from prison

  14. One Hundred Years of Solitude

    In 1967 the best-selling Latin American novel by Gabriel Garcia Marquez was published.

  15. Tamil Doctors and the Sri Lankan War

    In July 2009 doctors were forced to re-assess the number of casualties in the war.

  16. The Death of General Sani Abacha

    The Doctor who tried to save Nigeria's Military Ruler.

  17. Escape from the KGB

    In July 1985, Oleg Gordievsky, a high-ranking Soviet spy defected to the UK

  18. German Re-Armament

    In the 1930s Hitler began to rebuild Germany's air force.

  19. Red Cross Visits Nazi Concentration Camp

    In 1944 the International Red Cross was allowed into Theresienstadt concentration camp

  20. The Berlin Love Parade

    On 1 July 1989, 150 dancers set off on a demonstration for 'peace, love and pancakes'

  21. Helen Keller

    A childhood illness left Helen Keller deaf and blind - but she still learned to speak

  22. The Filming of Jaws

    It is 40 years since the blockbuster movie about a man-eating shark was released

  23. Save the Whale

    On June 27th 1975 Greenpeace activists launched their first direct action against whalers

  24. James Salter: Writer and Pilot

    The acclaimed American author died on 19 June 2015, aged 90

  25. Communist Yugoslavia breaks with the USSR

    In June 1948 Marshal Tito shocked the world by shunning his former Soviet ally, Stalin.

  26. Air India Flight 182

    On 23 June 1985 a passenger plane was blown out of the sky by Sikh extremists

  27. Britain's First Black Woman MP

    In 1987 Diane Abbott became the first black woman elected to the British Parliament

  28. The Six Day War: A Jewish view

    After the Six Day War in June 1967 Jews in Arab countries like Libya had to flee

  29. Iran's Cultural Revolution

    How Iran's Islamic hardliners shut down universities to drive out secular groups

  30. Gloria Richardson and the Cambridge Civil Rights Movement

    The woman campaigner who became a role model for radical black activists in the USA.

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