BBC World Service - Witness History

Strictly Come Dancing

Television extravaganza Strictly Come Dancing debuted in 2004 in the UK

Dr Zureena Desai was arrested in South Africa for breaking the Immorality Act

In 1993, a new sport was born. Its founders called it the Ultimate Fighting Championship

It’s 70 years since William Golding’s acclaimed novel was published

In 1999, Macau was handed back to China after more than 400 years as a Portuguese colony

How the Syrian army turned one neighbourhood near Damascus into a bombed-out wasteland

Between 2002 and 2005, Naghmeh Panahi set up a network of 'house churches' in Iran

The naturist movement began in Germany at the end of the 19th Century

In 2013, the gender of a six-year-old from Argentina was legally changed

In November 1989, 65 miners were rescued from the Mahabir Coal Mine, in India