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Witness History Episodes

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    Pink Triangles: Gay men in Nazi concentration camps

    In 2009, Rudolf Brazda returned to the former concentration camp he was in for being gay

  2. Wounded Knee siege

    Fifty years ago, indigenous American activists staged a protest against the US authorities

  3. When the Queen 'jumped out of a helicopter'

    For the 2012 London Olympic Games the Queen appeared to jump out of a helicopter

  4. Families interned in WW2 China

    A first-hand account of being sent to a Japanese internment camp in Shanghai as a child

  5. The invention of Semtex

    In 1958, Stanislav Brebera invented Semtex, a malleable and odourless plastic explosive

  6. Seggae riots in Mauritius

    Mauritian musician Kaya, died in police custody on 21 February 1999, sparking rioting

  7. Battle for the capital: Bonn v Berlin

    In 1989, the Berlin Wall fell and Germany decided which city would be the new capital

  8. First winter ascent of Everest

    On 17 February 1980, the first people climbed Everest in winter

  9. Discovering Tutankhamun’s tomb

    In 1923 the sealed burial chamber of Tutankhamun was opened for the first time

  10. 'I developed Pokémon'

    In February 1996, gamers in Japan were first introduced to Pokémon

  11. First Danish queen for 600 years

    In 1972, Denmark crowned its first queen in 600 years

  12. 'Hot Autumn': When Italy’s workers revolted

    In 1969, Italy erupted as thousands of workers went on strike

  13. 'I told the world Pope Benedict XVI was resigning'

    The resignation of Pope Benedict XVI

  14. The Pope and Jews

    In April 1986, Pope John Paul II made a historic visit to a Rome synagogue

  15. Pope John Paul I’s sudden death

    Cardinal Albino Luciani became Pope John Paul I in 1978. He died 33 days later

  16. Reforming the Catholic Church with Vatican II

    In 1959, Pope John XXIII announced a council of all the world's bishops and cardinals

  17. How a Pope is chosen

    After the death of Pope John Paul II, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger became Pope Benedict XVI

  18. The assassination of Burundian President Melchior Ndadaye

    In 1993, Burundi’s first democratically elected President was murdered

  19. Columbia space shuttle disaster

    The US space shuttle Columbia broke up on its way back to Earth on 1 February 2003

  20. Czechoslovakia's 'Velvet Divorce'

    Two former Prime Ministers describe how they split Czechoslovakia in two in 1993

  21. Palestine Post bombing

    Mordechai Chertoff was the editor on the Palestine Post when it was bombed in 1948

  22. Invention of the MP3

    It took Karlheinz Brandenburg and his team more than a decade to perfect MP3 technology

  23. Albert Pierrepoint: Britain's executioner

    Using archive recordings, Alex Last tells the story of Britain's most famous hangman

  24. Smolensk air disaster

    In 2010, a plane carrying the Polish president, crashed and killed everyone on board

  25. Japanese death row guard

    Yoshikuni Noguchi was a prison guard in Japan and witnessed the hanging of a prisoner

  26. When Britain tried to censor the Troubles in Northern Ireland

    Paul McLoone recalls the time he was the voice of Martin McGuinness

  27. Swine flu vaccine and narcolepsy

    In 2009 a vaccine designed to stop swine flu appeared to trigger a sleep disorder

  28. France's nuclear tests in Algeria

    Between 1960 and 1966, France carried out 17 nuclear tests in the Algerian Sahara

  29. Kosovo’s house schools

    In the 1990s a generation of Albanians got their education crammed into private homes

  30. Europe's horse meat scandal

    In 2013, horse meat was discovered in beef products across Europe

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