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Witness History Episodes

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    The creation of the state of Israel

    In 1948, the state of Israel was declared

  2. The ‘Catastrophe’ for Palestinians

    In 1948, tens of thousands of Palestinians were expelled from their homes

  3. Princess Diana at the Taj Mahal

    The story of a princess, an Indian palace and a photograph which gained worldwide fame

  4. How a billion Indians got a digital ID

    The 2009 attempt to give all Indian citizens a unique digital ID

  5. The pioneering eye surgery that led to Lasik

    In 1963, Dr Jose Barraquer Moner performed the first eye surgery to fix short-sightedness.

  6. East Germany's coffee from Vietnam

    A thirst for caffeine led to an unusual global collaboration in the 1980s

  7. Friends: The making of a smash hit

    Behind the scenes on one of the biggest TV comedies of all time

  8. The Channel Tunnel breakthrough

    In 1990, the Channel Tunnel between Britain and France was connected

  9. Ukraine's 'museum of corruption'

    Ordinary people saw inside the home of Ukraine’s ousted president in February 2014

  10. How to win friends and influence people

    In 1936, Dale Carnegie wrote the self help book - How to Win Friends and Influence People

  11. How the Milgram 'obedience' experiment shocked the world

    The study aimed to test whether 'ordinary' people were capable of committing evil acts

  12. Finding the victims of Stroessner's Paraguay

    One man has dedicated his life to finding the victims of Paraguay's dictatorship

  13. Oliver Tambo returns to South Africa from exile

    Oliver Tambo returned to South Africa in 1990 after 30 years in exile.

  14. Brenda Fassie: Madonna of the townships

    Brenda Fassie was a popular South African pop star, dubbed the 'Madonna of the townships'

  15. Sarah Baartman's 200-year journey back home

    The campaign to return Sarah Baartman to South Africa nearly 200 years after her death

  16. Soweto uprising: Children who marched against apartheid

    In 1976, an uprising was sparked when demonstrating children were gunned down

  17. South Africa's referendum on apartheid

    The last whites-only vote in South Africa was held in 1992

  18. Major Charity Adams and the Six-Triple-Eight

    The first African-American woman to lead a World War Two battalion

  19. Deadly Everest avalanche

    In 2014, an avalanche in the Khumbu Icefall killed 16 sherpas on Mount Everest

  20. West Africa's Ebola virus epidemic

    In 2014, Sierra Leone was devastated by Africa's biggest Ebola outbreak on record

  21. The friendship train: Connecting India and Bangladesh

    In 2008, India and Bangladesh were reconnected by train after 43 years

  22. Egypt and the ‘Cairo 52’

    In May 2001, 52 men were arrested in a gay nightclub floating on the River Nile

  23. Hiroo Onoda, Japan’s last WW2 soldier to surrender

    Hiroo Onoda spent 30 years fighting in the jungle, believing the war was still going on

  24. St Teresa of Avila's severed hand

    How General Franco kept the hand of St Teresa of Avila for spiritual guidance.

  25. The Scream: A stolen masterpiece

    In 1994, an undercover operation was launched to recover the Scream painting

  26. How Lake Karla in Greece was drained

    In 1962, Thessaly’s Lake Karla was drained by the Greek government

  27. The 2010 Kampala bombings

    Bombings in Uganda in 2010 killed 74. Many were football fans watching the World Cup

  28. Sweden's Cinnamon Bun Day

    In 1999, a delicious new tradition was born in Sweden's kitchens

  29. The Bluetooth story

    The story of how a Viking inspired wireless technology.

  30. Sweden's pioneering paternity leave

    Fifty years ago Sweden introduced gender neutral parental leave

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