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Witness History Episodes

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    Hurricane Katrina

    In August 2005 a massive hurricane hit the city of New Orleans in the USA.

  2. The Guinness Book of Records

    The first edition of one of the world's best-selling books was published in August 1955.

  3. The Destruction of Iraq's Marshes

    A look at the destruction of southern Iraq's great marshes, overseen by Saddam Hussein.

  4. Latinos Protest Against Vietnam

    How a Mexican-American march against the Vietnam War descended into chaos in 1970.

  5. The Assassination of Benigno Aquino

    On 21 Aug 1983, the opposition leader, Benigno Aquino, was shot dead in the Philippines

  6. Mass Executions in Iran

    In the summer of 1988 thousands of political prisoners were suddenly executed in Iran.

  7. A Bizarre Poisoning Plot in Oregon

    A clash between a religious commune and the locals leads to the mass poisoning of a town.

  8. Charles Rennie Mackintosh

    In August 1915 the Scottish architect was arrested on suspicion of spying.

  9. Bloods and Crips

    The truce in 1992 between the two main black street gangs in Los Angeles.

  10. The Assassination of Leon Trotsky

    Esteban Volkov recalls the murder of his grandfather, Leon Trotsky, in Mexico in Aug 1940

  11. The Dieppe Raid

    The disastrous raid by Allied forces on the German occupied French port of Dieppe in WW2.

  12. The Tolpuddle Martyrs

    How six English farmworkers defied the authorities to form a trade union in 1834.

  13. Korea Divided

    In August 1945 Korea is split along the 38th parallel.

  14. Child Prisoners of the Japanese

    The story of one young American girl held prisoner by the Japanese during WW2.

  15. The Inuit Children Experiment

    Helen Thiesen recalls being taken from her family in Greenland and sent to live in Denmark

  16. The Man Who Published Harry Potter

    In 1996 struggling author JK Rowling finds a publisher at last for wizard Harry Potter.

  17. Devil's Island

    A convict's experience of the notorious French penal colony in South America.

  18. The World's Most Valuable T-Rex

    Peter Larson tells us how his team discovered the most complete T-Rex fossil in the world

  19. The Great Iraqi Defection

    In 1995 two of the Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein's son-in-laws defected to Jordan.

  20. Singapore Independence

    Singapore leaves the Federation of Malaysia and becomes an independent sovereign state

  21. The Fall of Saigon

    In 1975 US troops airlifted hundreds of people out of Saigon as the Vietnam War ended.

  22. The Bombing of Hiroshima

    A Japanese schoolgirl tells her story of surviving the US nuclear attack on Hiroshima

  23. The Plot to Kill Iranian Writers

    In August 1996 in Iran, there was a plot to kill 21 writers on a bus jouney to Armenia

  24. First Cochlear Implant

    In August 1978 an Australian doctor successfully fitted a multi-channel cochlear implant.

  25. Afghanistan's First Coup

    In July 1973 military officers staged a coup which toppled the monarchy in Afghanistan

  26. Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho

    In August 1960 the controversial Oscar-nominated psychological thriller was released

  27. Eichmann in Argentina

    In 1960, leading Nazi Adolf Eichmann was abducted in Argentina and smuggled to Israel.

  28. First Inter-racial Kiss on TV

    In July 1964, a white actor and a black actress, kissed, live, on a British TV show

  29. Scouts in the Warsaw Uprising

    On 1 August 1944, the Warsaw Uprising against the Nazi occupation of Poland began

  30. Chilean Students Set on Fire

    Chilean soldiers attacked and burnt two students during protests in July 1986.

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