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Witness History Episodes

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    The Situation Room photograph

    The story behind the Situation Room photograph during the raid to kill Bin Laden in 2011

  2. Ice Bucket Challenge

    The ice bucket challenge became a worldwide phenomenon in 2014

  3. The 1965 Freedom Riders of Australia

    The students who challenged the discrimination of Australia's indigenous people

  4. Finding a home for Bulgaria's dancing bears

    In 1998, it became illegal to make bears dance in Bulgaria

  5. Yazidi genocide: A rescue mission on Mount Sinjar

    How Yazidis in Iraq fled to Mount Sinjar to escape genocide in August 2014

  6. The man who smuggled punk rock across the Berlin Wall

    How punk rock band Die Toten Hosen secretly played a concert in East Berlin.

  7. The first cold chain vaccination storage system

    In 1974, Ghana pioneered a new system, to help immunise against serious diseases

  8. Building the Moscow Metro

    How the Moscow Metro was built using more than 10,000 Russian workers.

  9. Olympics: Zamzam Farah at London 2012

    Somali sprinter Zamzam Farah at the London 2012 Olympics

  10. The first Olympic ‘mascot’

    The creation of Shuss for the 1968 Winter Games in Grenoble, France

  11. The 1924 Paris Olympics

    The last time Paris held the Olympic Games was 100 years ago in 1924

  12. How Ayia Napa became a clubbing capital

    In the 1990s, Ayia Napa, in Cyprus, went from quiet fishing village to party resort

  13. The missing people of Cyprus

    Between 1963 and 1974, more than 2,000 people in Cyprus went missing

  14. Cyprus 2003: Crossing the ceasefire line

    In April 2003, people in Cyprus crossed the ceasefire line for the first time in 29 years

  15. Cyprus 1974: The Final Landing

    In July 1974, Captain Adamos Marneros landed the last flight at Nicosia Airport in Cyprus

  16. Cyprus 1974: The Greek coup

    How a coup in Cyprus led to the division of the island’s communities

  17. Arrested for playing football in Brazil

    For nearly 40 years, women in Brazil were banned from playing football

  18. Italy's 'poison ships'

    In 1988, a ship carrying toxic waste arrived in Manfredonia, Italy

  19. The 1968 Mexico City massacre

    The massacre in Mexico City in October 1968, 10 days before the Olympics

  20. The day Celia Cruz returned to Cuba

    Cuban salsa singer Celia Cruz's only return to the island in 43 years of exile.

  21. How the air fryer was invented

    In 2006, Dutch inventor Fred van der Weij cooked up an idea for a new kitchen device

  22. Conservative wipe-out in Canada

    In Canada's 1993 election, the governing party was routed, ending up with just two seats

  23. Fight the Power: The song that became an anthem of protest

    In 1989, Public Enemy provided the soundtrack for Spike Lee's movie, Do The Right Thing

  24. Georgia’s political crisis

    In 1991, the newly independent country found itself on the verge of a civil war

  25. Executed in Stalin’s Great Terror in Georgia

    In the 1930s, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin executed hundreds of thousands without trial

  26. Subway Art: The graffiti bible

    In 1984, Henry Chalfant and Martha Cooper released an iconic photography book

  27. I designed Hello Kitty

    In 1974, a Japanese artist created a character who is now worth more than $80 billion

  28. The first CIA-backed coup in Latin America

    President Jacobo Arbenz of Guatemala was overthrown in a revolt sponsored by the US

  29. Dignitas: Founding an assisted dying society

    In 1998, Swiss lawyer Ludwig Minelli set up the controversial organisation Dignitas

  30. Sagrada Familia: Completing Gaudi’s vision

    How architects carried on building Barcelona's basilica after the death of designer Gaudi

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