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Witness History Episodes

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    The coronation of Queen Elizabeth II

    Two Maids of Honour at the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II recall their memories

  2. The car that charmed Brazil

    How the Fusca charmed Brazil

  3. The Candelaria child massacre

    The murder of eight homeless children outside the Candelaria church in Rio De Janeiro

  4. Building of Brasilia

    How Brazil opened a modernist capital city in 1960

  5. The murder that shocked Brazil

    In 2002 investigative journalist, Tim Lopes, was brutally killed by a Brazilian drug gang

  6. Doomed hero of Brazilian democracy

    The death of Brazil's president-elect Tancredo Neves.

  7. Mikhail Gorbachev: Release of Irina Ratushinskaya

    The imprisonment and release of dissident poet Irina Ratushinskaya

  8. Mikhail Gorbachev: Perestroika

    Reform in the Soviet Union, known as Perestroika, was launched in 1987

  9. Princess Diana dances with John Travolta

    Princess Diana dances at the White House with the star of Saturday Night Fever

  10. The 'Last Indian'

    The story of a Native American called Ishi who spent decades in hiding

  11. Marikana Massacre

    On 16 August 2012, police shot dead 34 striking miners at a platinum mine in South Africa

  12. India's onion election

    In 1980 Indira Gandhi came into power in India, it became known as the "onion election"

  13. The 'Nixon Shock' and the end of the Gold Standard

    In 1971, the US president, Richard Nixon, abandoned the gold standard.

  14. The Gay Games

    The first ever Gay Games were held 40 years ago

  15. Hundreds die in Darayya

    The siege of the Darayya, Syria, in which hundreds of people died

  16. Bulgaria's cash crisis

    How an American economist helped save Bulgaria from financial collapse.

  17. The Bard of Bengal

    Rabindranath Tagore was one of India's greatest poets. He died in August 1941

  18. The death of Jawaharlal Nehru

    The death of India's first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru

  19. The last Viceroy of India

    The daughter of the last British viceroy in India remembers the transfer of power in 1947

  20. India's Partition - Part Two

    Chandra Joashi was caught on the wrong side of the border during India's partition

  21. India's Partition - Part One

    Saleem was five when his family escaped to the new Muslim country of Pakistan in 1947

  22. The nightclub that changed Ibiza

    In June 1973, the nightclub Pacha opened in Ibiza and it changed the island forever

  23. Discovering Hale Bopp

    The Hale Bopp Comet was discovered in 1995 which resulted in advances in science

  24. Indonesia's forest fires

    Forest fires in Indonesia caused huge damage and a dense smog across South East Asia

  25. Sweden’s pronoun battle

    How campaigners fought to get ‘hen’ included in Swedish dictionaries.

  26. The resignation of President Nixon

    On 8 August 1974, Richard Nixon became the first US president in history to resign

  27. The return of Asians to Uganda

    When Yoweri Museveni came to power in 1986, he asked exiled Asians to return to Uganda.

  28. The city shaped by Ugandan Asians

    Some 10,000 Asians made Leicester their home after being expelled from Uganda in 1972.

  29. The exodus of Asians from Uganda

    In 1972, dictator Idi Amin announced that all Asians had just 90 days to leave Uganda.

  30. When Asians were forced to leave Kenya

    Many Asians migrated to Kenya in the early 20th century but were later forced to leave

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