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Witness History Episodes

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    When Asians were forced to leave Kenya

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

  2. Why Asians came to Uganda

    In the early 20th century many South Asians migrated to Uganda in search of a better life

  3. The Leaflet Bomber

    In 1971 communist Bob Newland goes on a secret mission to South Africa to fight Apartheid

  4. The Tangshan Earthquake

    A deadly earthquake hit the city of Tangshan killing hundreds of thousands of people.

  5. Inventing nicotine patches

    Nicotine patches became available in the 1990s but their origins go back to the 1980s.

  6. The Surkov leaks

    In 2016, Ukrainian hackers leaked the emails of Vladimir Putin's aide, Vladislav Surkov.

  7. Ukraine's Revolution on Granite

    In 1990, a hunger strike led by Ukrainian students brought down the Soviet regime in Kyiv

  8. Nigerian sitcom Papa Ajasco

    In 1996, Wale Adenuga’s sitcom Papa Ajasco first hit Nigerian TV screens.

  9. The Soviet James Bond

    The most successful TV spy series in the USSR went on air in 1973.

  10. Who shot JR?

    The world's reaction to leading man JR, being shot in the American TV series, Dallas.

  11. Madhur Jaffrey’s ‘Indian Cookery’

    A ground breaking Indian cookery programme broadcast on the BBC launched 40 years ago.

  12. The school for telenovela stars

    In 1987, in Mexico City, a TV station opened a school to train telenovela actors.

  13. Fighting for the pill in Japan

    The contraceptive pill was approved for use in the US in 1960, but in Japan it was 1999.

  14. The man who invented the Pill

    In 1951, Dr Carl Djerassi created the Pill's active ingredient from Mexican wild yams.

  15. When Tunisia led on women's rights

    Tunisia became the first country in the Muslim world to legalise divorce and abortion.

  16. Poland's strict abortion law

    In 1993 abortion laws were tightened up in Poland after the fall of Communism

  17. How abortion was legalised in Great Britain

    The campaign to allow abortion in Great Britain which resulted in a new law in 1967.

  18. The US’s first gay election candidate

    In 1961 the first openly gay person ran for public office in the United States.

  19. How the smear test was invented

    The discovery by Dr George Papanicolaou in 1928 which led to the smear test

  20. Escaping Nigeria’s Civil War

    One child's story of getting caught up in the Nigerian Civil War

  21. Japanese university student riots

    In 1968 and early 1969 Japanese students fought pitched battles with riot police

  22. The Higgs Boson: A scientific discovery that explains how the universe works

    The discovery of the Higgs Boson by scientists at CERN using the Large Hadron Collider

  23. Hong Kong: Abandoned children

    The Chinese babies left on the streets of 1960s Hong Kong in the hope they'd be adopted

  24. Hong Kong - Kowloon Walled City

    The end of a unique way of life in one of the most densely populated places in the world.

  25. Hong Kong: The 5-19 football riot in China

    The 5-19 football riot after Hong Kong won their World Cup qualifying match over China.

  26. Hong Kong: Democracy campaigner

    In 1997 Britain handed Hong Kong back to China but Emily Lau campaigned for democracy

  27. Hong Kong: The handover

    Chris Patten remembers the day Hong Kong was handed back to China from Britain

  28. The UK's first official gay Pride March

    The UK’s first official gay Pride march took place 50 years ago – on 1st July 1972.

  29. Egypt's first democratic presidential election

    In June 2012, Mohamed Morsi was elected in Egypt's first free presidential election.

  30. The killing of Vincent Chin

    In 1982 a Chinese-American man was murdered with a baseball bat by white men in Detroit

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