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Witness History Episodes

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    Hong Kong: The handover

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

  2. 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.

  3. Egypt's first democratic presidential election

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

  4. The killing of Vincent Chin

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

  5. Robot Surgeon

    In 1985 the first robot-assisted medical surgery took place in Vancouver, Canada

  6. India's surrogacy capital

    In 2003, fertility expert Dr Nayana Patel carried out her first surrogacy procedure.

  7. Cambodia war crimes

    In 2009 Rob Hamill came face-to-face with the man responsible for killing his brother

  8. James Joyce and Ulysses

    It's 100 years since one of the most influential novels of the 20th century was published

  9. New York's LGBT High School

    A school offering specialised education for LGBT students opened in the city in 1985

  10. Vietnam's 'Napalm Girl'

    It’s 50 years since Kim Phuc's village in Vietnam was bombed with napalm

  11. Holy Cross school dispute

    A violent sectarian dispute took place outside a school in Northern Ireland in 2001

  12. The Gulabi Gang

    Sampat Devi started a women's rights group in India which now has a national following.

  13. How Sri Lanka's president survived a suicide bombing

    A survivor of the 2006 suicide bombing attack shares their experience.

  14. Saving Gabon's rainforest

    How a network of national parks was set up to protect Gabon's forests in 2002

  15. The Diary of Anne Frank

    One of the most powerful accounts of the Holocaust was published in June 1947

  16. The assassination of Bobby Kennedy

    The killing of the US presidential candidate remembered by a friend who was also shot

  17. The Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II

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

  18. Sarin attack in Syria

    How UN inspectors investigated a devastating chemical weapons attack in Ghouta in 2013

  19. Life in the biggest Syrian refugee camp in the world

    A Syrian family living in Za'atari Refugee Camp for nine years share their experiences.

  20. Civil Rights activist Ida B Wells

    How a pioneering African-American journalist campaigned against lynching in the US

  21. The attack on Lod Airport

    A survivor on how gunmen opened fire at an Israeli airport in 1972, killing 26 people.

  22. Georgia O'Keeffe

    One of the world's most famous woman artists remembered by her assistant

  23. The World Festival of Black Arts

    A landmark event for African artists was held in newly-independent Senegal in 1966

  24. The museum of banned Russian art

    How Igor Savitsky saved thousands of works from Stalin's censors, and started a museum

  25. The last days of Frida Kahlo

    The great Mexican artist remembered by a friend who lived with her at the end of her life

  26. Meeting Picasso

    A British art historian on becoming a friend of the great Spanish artist in the 1950s

  27. Chasing the Marcos millions

    The lawyer who's spent decades tracking the fortune of the former Philippines president

  28. Shanghai at War

    A first-hand account of living through the Japanese occupation in the 1930s and 40s

  29. The first McDonald's in Moscow

    The American fast-food chain was a huge hit when it opened in the Soviet Union in 1990

  30. The murder of Kelso Cochrane

    How a street killing in 1950s London led to Britain's first race relations inquiry

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