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Witness History Episodes

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    Australia's Aboriginal Referendum

    In May 1967 campaigning began across Australia to consolidate Aboriginal rights

  2. The death of Hitler

    On April 30th 1945 Adolf Hitler killed himself in a bunker beneath Berlin.

  3. The Shooting of Rudi Dutschke

    In 1968 German students called for a revolution when their leader Rudi Dutschke was shot

  4. The Ballerina and the Coup

    In April 1959 Dame Margot Fonteyn was part of a bizarre plot against Panama's government.

  5. Muhammad Ali and the Draft

    How the boxing champion's refusal to go to Vietnam made him a hero to 1960s radicals

  6. The Hitler Diaries Hoax

    Thirty years ago newspapers spent millions on what they thought were Hitler's diaries

  7. Pau Casals

    The acclaimed musician who became a symbol of Catalan resistance to General Franco

  8. Haile Selassie in Jamaica

    Ethiopia's emperor visited Jamaica - the birthplace of the Rastafarian movement - in 1966

  9. The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

    Jewish fighters in the Polish capital rose up against the German army in 1943

  10. The Khmer Rouge take power

    In April 1975 the four-year rule of the brutal Khmer Rouge began in Cambodia.

  11. The funeral of Sir Winston Churchill

    In January 1965 Britain held a state funeral for the man who led it through World War Two.

  12. The discovery of LSD

    It is 70 years since a Swiss chemist stumbled on the controversial hallucinogenic drug.

  13. The First War in the Air

    The story of a young British pilot who survived the world's first war in the air

  14. Mickey Mouse goes to Europe

    When Disney opened a theme park in Europe, just outside Paris it was beset with problems.

  15. Lee Elder at The Masters

    How Lee Elder broke one of the last barriers in US sport in 1975

  16. The Guinea Pig Club

    How severely burnt Second World War airmen learnt to overcome their terrible injuries.

  17. The Great Famine in China

    When Mao Zedong tried to force an industrial revolution in China millions starved to death

  18. Matabeleland Massacres

    In the early 1980s, thousands of civilians were killed in Zimbabwe by the security forces.

  19. James Brown Concert at the Boston Garden

    Held 24 hours after the death of Martin Luther King, the gig went ahead peacefully

  20. Howard Hughes

    The reclusive American billionaire remembered by one of the few journalists to meet him.

  21. Operation Babylift

    As the Vietnam war ended the US tried to fly thousands of orphans out of the country.

  22. The real Peter Pan

    A family of real boys inspired JM Barrie to write the story of Peter Pan.

  23. Women and the law in Britain

    Over 175 years ago, Caroline Norton began to fight for the rights of married women.

  24. The killing of Archbishop Romero

    On 24 March 1980, Archbishop Oscar Romero was shot dead while saying mass in San Salvador.

  25. American prisoners in Vietnam

    After their release in 1973, former US prisoners of war began to talk about torture.

  26. Unearthing the Terracotta Army

    Discovered by chance by farmers digging a well, the secrets of the Qin Dynasty in China.

  27. Living in Ceausescu's Romania

    The communist dictator ran one of the most feared secret police forces in Eastern Europe.

  28. The Profumo Affair

    Fifty years ago, a sex scandal threatened to engulf the British government.

  29. Life in Ceausescu's Romania

    Nicolae Ceausescu controlled Romania through his feared secret police - the Securitate.

  30. Iraq: Ten years on - The capture of Saddam Hussein

    In December 2003 the former Iraqi leader was finally caught by American forces.

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