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Witness History Episodes

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    Reagan assassination attempt

    The man who helped to save Reagan's life

  2. Bungee jumping

    On April Fool's Day 1979 - the first ever bungee jump was attempted.

  3. War in East Pakistan

    In 1971, war began between East and West Pakistan - leading to the creation of Bangladesh

  4. Posh and Becks - the wedding

    In July 1999 two members of British celebrity royalty tied the knot

  5. The BBC Russian service

    For 65 years the BBC World Service has broadcast in Russian, this weekend it stops

  6. Leonardo da Vinci v Michelangelo

    Over 500 years ago in Renaissance Italy, a battle was underway between two great painters.

  7. 22/03/2016

    History as told by the people who were there

  8. Tokaimura nuclear accident

    In September 1999 there was a nuclear accident at Tokaimura in Japan

  9. Isherwood in Berlin

    The English author Christopher Isherwood lived in Berlin throughout the 1930s.

  10. Ordination of Women Priests

    Angela Berners-Wilson on her experiences that day, and her long fight to become a priest

  11. Halabja

    In March 1988 Iraqi forces attacked the Kurdish town of Halabja with chemical weapons

  12. Three Mile Island

    In March 1979, the US suffered its worst nuclear accident

  13. Air strikes on Libya 1986

    It is almost 25 years since the US decided to take military action against Libya

  14. Madrid train bombings

    On 11 March 2004, bomb attacks in Madrid left 191 people dead

  15. Dunblane school shooting

    The lasting emotional impact of a gun attack at a small Scottish school in 1996

  16. Zeebrugge ferry disaster

    Survivors recall when a Belgian ferry capsized and killed more than 190 people

  17. Political Activist Rosa Luxemburg

    A revolutionary theorist and feminist icon, Lenin called her the Eagle of the Revolution

  18. Ivory Coast civil war

    How a brutal civil war broke out in Ivory Coast in 2002.

  19. Witness: Weathermen radicals in the USA

    The inside story of how three Weatherman revolutionaries died in New York in March 1970

  20. Rhodesian republic

    In 1970, the white minority thought they could rule Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe, for ever

  21. The Krakow Ghetto

    In March 1941 the Nazi authorities in Krakow moved the city's Jews into a ghetto

  22. Libya 1969 coup

    It is over 40 years since Colonel Gaddafi took power in Libya in a military coup

  23. Assassination of Malcolm X

    How black leader Malcolm X was assassinated in New York in February 1965.

  24. Nicaraguan elections

    It is 21 years since the left-wing Sandinista government in Nicaragua lost power

  25. Khrushchev's Secret Speech

    How Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev secretly denounced Stalin as a tyrant

  26. Apartheid in the 1950s

    The mood across South Africa in the 1950s as the Apartheid laws were being put in place

  27. People Power in the Philippines

    How people power brought down President Marcos of the Philippines in 1986.

  28. Algeria emergency

    How Algeria's experiement with democracy ended in civil war and a state of emergency.

  29. The Lindbergh kidnapping

    On 1 March 1932, the baby son of one of the most famous men in America went missing

  30. Dolly the Sheep

    What was the first cloned mammal like and why did she die young?

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