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Witness History Episodes

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    Iran's secret Christian 'house churches'

    Between 2002 and 2005, Naghmeh Panahi set up a network of 'house churches' in Iran

  2. German naturists

    The naturist movement began in Germany at the end of the 19th Century

  3. Luana Mansilla: Changing gender aged six

    In 2013, the gender of a six-year-old from Argentina was legally changed

  4. India's capsule coal mine rescue

    In November 1989, 65 miners were rescued from the Mahabir Coal Mine, in India

  5. How Greece got rid of their king

    In a 1974 referendum, the Greek people voted two to one in favour of becoming a republic

  6. The Pakistan mountain massacre

    In 2013, 11 people were killed by members of a militant group at Nanga Parbat base camp

  7. The invention of the ‘Baby’ computer

    In 1948, the first stored-program computer the ‘Baby’ was invented

  8. The woman who saved 2,500 children from the Warsaw ghetto

    Polish aid worker Irena Sendler saved 2,500 Jewish children from the Warsaw ghetto in WW2

  9. The Shah of Iran's party

    In 1971, the Shah of Iran, celebrated 2,500 years of the Persian Empire

  10. In exile from Iran

    Former empress Farah Pahlavi and social scientist Rouhi Shafi speak about leaving Iran

  11. Iran hostage crisis

    In 1979, Barry Rosen was held hostage after the US embassy in Tehran was stormed

  12. Siegfried and Roy tiger attack

    In 2003, illusionist Roy Horn was attacked by a tiger live on stage.

  13. Brazil’s electronic voting

    In 1996, an electronic voting system in Brazil was used for the first time

  14. The Ken Burns Effect

    In 2002, the 'Ken Burns effect' was created.

  15. Jean Batten: New Zealand’s record breaking aviator

    Jean Batten was nicknamed the Queen of the Skies for her pioneering flights of the 1930s

  16. The creation of Greenwich Mean Time

    Experiments by John Flamsteed in the 17th Century led to the time zone being created

  17. My dad created Dungeons & Dragons

    In 1974, Gary Gygax created the fantasy roleplay game.

  18. Bonga Kwenda: Music banned in Angola and Portugal

    Outspoken supporter of Angolan independence, Bonga Kwenda was forced into exile in 1972

  19. Ethiopia's 1984 famine

    In 1984, a news report on a famine in Ethiopia led to a global fundraising campaign

  20. I found the first dinosaur remains in Antarctica

    In 1986, Argentinian geologist Eduardo Olivero discovered a new kind of Ankylosaurus

  21. The fight to stop skin lightening in India

    In 2013, Kavitha Emmanuel began campaigning to stop skin lightening in India

  22. Eight years trapped on the Suez Canal in Egypt

    After the Six Day War in 1967, 14 ships were stuck on the Great Bitter Lake

  23. Dyke and Dryden: Cosmetic kings

    In 1969, Dyke and Dryden started one the most successful black British businesses

  24. Fleeing Afghanistan alone as a child

    Dr Waheed Arian escaped poverty and war in Afghanistan to begin a new life in the UK

  25. The Rose Revolution in Georgia

    In 2003, demonstrators stormed the parliament building in Tbilisi, holding flowers

  26. The Sunflower Movement

    In 2014, more than 500,000 Taiwanese people protested against a new trade deal with China

  27. 'Robocops’ in the Democratic Republic of Congo

    Handmade robots were installed in DRC's capital city Kinshasa to direct traffic

  28. How the QR code was invented

    In 1994 Japanese engineer Masahiro Hara designed a square of data, now known as a QR code

  29. The world's first general purpose electronic computer

    In 1946, one of the world’s first electronic computers was unveiled in the USA.

  30. WABOT-1: The first humanoid robot

    Scientists at Waseda University in Japan built the world's first humanoid robot in 1973

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