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Witness History Episodes

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    Miracle on the Hudson

    On 15 January 2009, US Airways Flight 1549 landed in the Hudson River in New York

  2. World’s first tidal power station

    French President Charles De Gaulle opened the power station in 1966.

  3. Galápagos Islands’ sea cucumber dispute

    A demand for sea cucumbers set off a confrontation between fishermen and conservationists

  4. Paul Robeson and the transatlantic phone line

    In 1957, Paul Robeson used a new undersea phone line to perform a transatlantic concert.

  5. Dutch North Sea flood

    In 1953, a storm combined with high tides breached sea defences in the Netherlands

  6. Plastics in oceans

    In 1971 Edward Carpenter discovered plastic floating about in the Atlantic Ocean

  7. Pussy Riot’s cathedral protest

    In 2012, a punk protest took place in one of Moscow's main cathedrals

  8. The man Pinochet wanted dead

    In 1973, Miguel Enriquez led resistance against the dictatorship in Chile

  9. When America banned silicone breast implants

    In 1992, the US Government suspended all procedures involving silicone breast implants

  10. Arctic African

    Tété-Michel Kpomassie, ran away from his village in Togo and went to live in Greenland.

  11. One team in Tallinn

    In 1996, Scotland played in a football match where the opposition hadn't turned up

  12. The birth of the Slow Food Movement

    In 1986, protests against McDonalds in Rome led to an anti-fast food revolution.

  13. Inventing instant noodles

    In 1958 Japanese entrepreneur, Momofuku Ando, invented instant noodles

  14. Malta's bread strike

    In February 1977 the bakers of Malta went on an unprecedented strike

  15. Inventing Chicken Manchurian

    Chef Nelson Wang created Chicken Manchurian in 1975

  16. Creating ciabatta bread

    In 1982, rally driver Arnaldo Cavallari created ciabatta bread in Adria, in Italy

  17. Chile mine rescue

    In 2010, 33 miners were trapped underground for 69 days in the San José mine in Chile

  18. Grozny siege

    In December 1994, Russian forces began the siege of Chechnya’s capital Grozny

  19. Colombia's 'false positives' killings

    When Colombia's military murdered thousands of innocent civilians

  20. The BBC broadcasting through the Iron Curtain

    Transmitting independent broadcasts through the Iron Curtain between 1947 and 1991

  21. Una Marson and the BBC Caribbean Service

    The BBC's first black producer, Una Marson, and the beginnings of the Caribbean Service

  22. Felix Baumgartner's huge leap

    In 2012, Felix Baumgartner skydived from the edge of space

  23. Soviet fashionista

    Slava Zaitsev was the first designer to design high fashion pieces in the Soviet Union

  24. Returning to District Six

    Zahra Nordien returned to District Six decades after being expelled during apartheid

  25. The Nazi occupation of Jersey

    A woman who risked her life to hide a Russian prisoner during World War Two

  26. Mongolian revolution

    In 1990, a peaceful revolution brought democracy to Mongolia

  27. Creating Teletubbies

    The story of the inspiration behind one of the most popular kids TV shows of all time

  28. 'The Dismissal' of Gough Whitlam

    In 1975, the Prime Minister was sacked in Australia's biggest constitutional crisis

  29. The Killing of Jean Charles de Menezes

    An unarmed Brazilian man is shot dead by anti-terrorism police in Stockwell, south London.

  30. Demolishing the Babri Masjid

    Hindu extremists demolished a mosque in the Indian city of Ayodhya

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