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Witness History Episodes

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    The death of President Tito

    President Tito of Yugoslavia was one of the great characters of post-war Europe

  2. Italian Bombing of Libya - 1911

    The letters of an Italian pilot reveal how he carried out the first air raid in history

  3. Ulrike Meinhof

    In May 1976 the German left-wing extremist Ulrike Meinhof killed herself in prison

  4. Victory in Europe Day

    On May 8 1945, Winston Churchill announced the end of the war in Europe.

  5. Four minute mile

    In 1954 a record was broken when a young British athlete ran a mile in under four minutes

  6. Festival of Britain

    It is 60 years since the opening of the Festival of Britain

  7. Al-Qaeda 1998 Embassy Bombings in Africa

    Following Osama Bin Laden's death, we recall al-Qaeda's attacks in Africa in 1998

  8. Fall of Berlin

    The experiences of one German woman after Berlin fell to the Red Army in 1945

  9. Ukraine Famine

    How famine devastated Ukraine in the 1930s

  10. Dennis Tito - The first space tourist

    Ten years ago an American businessman called Dennis Tito became the first space tourist

  11. Rock against Racism 1978

    How an anti-racism concert in London in 1978 influenced a generation

  12. The bombing of Guernica

    It was one of the worst atrocities of the Spanish Civil War.

  13. The Hitler diaries hoax

    In 1983 a German magazine believed it had found Hitler's wartime diary.

  14. Wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer

    Witness takes you back to the wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer

  15. Romanian family history

    One family's extraordinary story kept hidden for decades by the communist secret police

  16. Gandhi's Salt March protest

    How Gandhi's Salt March in 1930 showed the power of peaceful protest in India

  17. Waco siege

    How a man from northern England lost his entire family in the siege of Waco in 1993

  18. Bay of Pigs Invasion

    Cuban exiles, backed by the US government, tried to invade Cuba and overthrow Castro

  19. Grace Kelly and Prince Ranier

    She was a Hollywood superstar - he was Prince of a tiny European state

  20. The Hama massacre 1982

    In 1982 people in the Syrian city of Hama rose up against the Assad regime

  21. Windscale - Britain's worst nuclear accident

    In 1957 a nuclear reactor in the north of England caught fire

  22. Yuri Gagarin

    The first man in space became a hero and a poster boy for Soviet achievement

  23. Jackie Robinson

    Jackie Robinson was the first black Major League Baseball player

  24. Seretse Khama and Ruth Williams

    The African chief who gave up his throne for love.

  25. The Brixton Riots

    Violence between the black community and the Metropolitan police in South London in 1981

  26. The Rwandan genocide

    A plane crash on 6 April 1994, set off a wave of killing in Rwanda which lasted 100 days

  27. The death of Kurt Cobain

    Thirty years ago, the lead singer of the rock band Nirvana was found dead in his home

  28. The Gotti trial

    John Gotti was a mafia boss who had escaped jail for years.

  29. Edward and Mrs Simpson

    He was the new British King and she was an American divorcee

  30. Poll tax riots

    The anti-poll tax demonstration of March 1990 brought thousands onto the streets of London

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