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Witness History Episodes

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    The Germanwings plane crash

    General David Galtier who led the search operation recalls the 2015 crash

  2. The visionary behind the European Space Agency

    In October 2012, a visionary letter about the European Space Agency was sent into space

  3. The historic handshake in space

    In July 1975, Russian cosmonauts and American astronauts met in space and shook hands

  4. In event of moon disaster: 'The speech that never was'

    Richard Nixon's contingency speech in case the moon landing astronauts never made it home

  5. First spacewalk

    On 18 March 1965, cosmonaut Alexei Leonov became the first person to spacewalk

  6. The rocket that revived Brazil’s space programme

    On 23 October 2004, Brazil launched its first rocket following a devastating accident

  7. Bardo Museum attack in Tunisia

    In March 2015, 22 people were killed when two gunmen stormed the building

  8. The Gambia’s ‘Queen of Recycling’

    In 1997, a Gambian woman started an environmental initiative

  9. The Capitol Crawl

    On 12 March 1990, hundreds of wheelchair users crawled up the steps of the US Capitol

  10. King Kong: South Africa's first all-black musical

    South Africa’s first musical with an all-black cast opened to critical acclaim in 1959

  11. The invention of GPS

    The Global Positioning System, also known as GPS, was created in the late 1970s

  12. How bloodshed in Selma led to the US Voting Rights Act 1965

    In 1965, the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was brought in to end racial discrimination

  13. The Great Toyota War

    In 1987, rugged pickup trucks provided a turning point in the decades-long war in Chad

  14. The US invasion of Panama

    In 1989, more than 20,000 US soldiers descended on the tiny Central American country

  15. The invention of the shopping trolley

    In 1937, American supermarket owner Sylvan Goldman wanted his customers to spend more.

  16. The Calais 'Jungle' migrant camp

    In 2015, thousands of migrants lived in a squalid camp in France known as the "Jungle"

  17. Africa’s stolen Metis children

    In 1953, Marie-José Loshi was forcibly taken from her family because of her skin colour

  18. Surviving Chile's tsunami

    In 2010, an earthquake struck the coast of Chile triggering a tsunami

  19. Denmark’s Inuit children experiment

    In 1951, 22 Inuit children from Greenland were sent to live with families in Denmark

  20. The Nellie massacre

    In 1983, an estimated 3,000 people were massacred in Assam, India

  21. Discovering the structure of haemoglobin

    Dr Max Perutz made one of the greatest scientific discoveries of the 20th century

  22. Assassination of Malcolm X

    In 1965, the controversial black leader, Malcolm X, was assassinated in New York

  23. Murder at the Berlin Wall

    In March 1974, Polish man Czesław Kukuczka was shot by a Stasi officer at the Berlin Wall

  24. Bolivia’s first indigenous president

    The election of Evo Morales in 2005 was a historic first for the South American country

  25. Bo: The death of a language

    In 2010, one of the oldest languages died after the death of its last remaining speaker

  26. The world's longest kiss

    In 2013, a Thai couple locked lips for 58 hours and 35 minutes in a world record attempt

  27. Eva Peron: Argentina’s Evita

    Eva Peron - or Evita - was an icon in 1940s Argentina, famous for her populist rhetoric

  28. Paul Keating's Redfern speech

    In 1992, Australia's prime minister addressed atrocities inflicted upon Indigenous people.

  29. Mary Fisher's 'A Whisper of Aids' speech

    In 1992, Mary Fisher set out to fight the prejudice faced by those with HIV and Aids

  30. Eisenhower's farewell address

    In 1961, the US President ended his time in the White House with a famous speech

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