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Witness History Episodes

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    The Ballerina and the Coup

    In 1959, Dame Margot Fonteyn was part of a bizarre plot to overthrow the Panama government

  2. Brazil Protests: Caras Pintadas

    In 1992, a huge wave of protests forced President Collor of Brazil from office.

  3. Legionnaires' Disease

    In August 1976 more than 200 people developed a mystery illness at a hotel in Philadelphia

  4. The Assassination of Benigno Aquino

    On August 21 1983, the opposition leader, Benigno Aquino, was shot dead in the Philippines

  5. Prague Spring

    The student who appealed for the world's help when Soviet tanks invaded Czechoslovakia

  6. Saddam Hussein's 'Human Shields'

    The British family who were held as 'human shields' in Iraq before the First Gulf War

  7. The Nepali Royal Massacre

    In 2001, the Crown Prince of Nepal killed nine people and then turned the gun on himself.

  8. Stanley Kubrick

    Set designer Sir Ken Adam recalls working with the famously difficult director

  9. The Omagh Bombing

    In August 1998, 29 people died in a massive car bombing in Omagh, Northern Ireland.

  10. The Battle of the Potato Beetle

    In 1950, East Germany claimed American planes were dropping beetles over their fields.

  11. Scientists Flee Nazi Germany

    How the rise of Hitler forced great physicists such as Max Born out of 1930s Germany

  12. Conflict in Congo

    The Congolese student who saw war come to his small hometown of Uvira

  13. The Opening of Euro Disney

    Twenty-one years ago, Disney finally opened a park near Paris after years of negotiations.

  14. Bombing of Nagasaki

    Survivors remember the atomic explosion over the Japanese city in 1945

  15. Burma's 1988 Protests

    In August 1988 protests demanding an end to military rule in Burma were met with violence

  16. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch

    In 1997, a patch of plastic waste was discovered in the middle of the Pacific Ocean

  17. Beverly Johnson - Vogue's First Black Covergirl

    It wasn't until 1974 that American Vogue put a black model on its cover for the first time

  18. Malaysian Hostage Crisis

    In August 1975, Japanese Red Army militants took 53 people hostage in Kuala Lumpur

  19. Vietnam - US Prisoner of War

    In August 1964, Everett Alvarez was shot down by communist North Vietnamese forces.

  20. Gorkhaland

    The sisters whose lives were devastated during the campaign for Gorkhaland in India

  21. Ramayan - India's TV Epic

    It is 25 years since the final episode of one of India's biggest ever TV programmes

  22. The Disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa

    The controversial American union leader, Jimmy Hoffa, was last seen alive on July 30 1975

  23. The Sinking of the USS Indianapolis

    In July 1945 hundreds of US sailors were left adrift for days in shark infested waters

  24. IRA Decommissioning

    In July 2005 the IRA in Northern Ireland promised to put its weapons out of use.

  25. The Sinking of the USS Indianapolis

    July 1945 - a US warship sinks in the Pacific; its crew face days in shark-infested waters

  26. The End of the Korean War

    On July 27 1953 the Korean War came to an end and thousands of prisoners were released

  27. Abducted by Joseph Kony

    The woman forced to bear the children of the leader of the Lord's Resistance Army

  28. Alcoholics Anonymous

    In the summer of 1935 Alcoholics Anonymous was founded in Akron, Ohio

  29. Black July

    In 1983 violence erupted between the Sinhala majority and the Tamil minority in Sri Lanka

  30. The Lillehammer Hit

    In July 1973 a Moroccan waiter was shot dead by an Israeli hit-squad in Norway

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