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  1. Witness History

    The story of our times told by the people who were there.

  2. Witness History

    The story of our times told by the people who were there.

  3. Witness History

    The story of our times told by the people who were there.

  4. Norway's WW2 railway sabotage plot

    In 1942, Norwegian resistance fighters set out to blow up a railway used by the Nazis

  5. 04/05/2026 GMT

    The story of our times told by the people who were there.

  6. Witness History

    The story of our times told by the people who were there.

  7. Inside the Cuban thaw

    In 2014, secret negotiations aimed to improve relations between the US and Cuba

  8. Peter Singer’s Drowning Child thought experiment

    In 1972, Peter Singer published one of the most influential ideas in modern philosophy

  9. Car-free Sundays during the global oil crisis

    In October 1973, the Netherlands became the first country to introduce car-free Sundays

  10. The world's first perfume archive

    In 1990, L'Osmothèque opened in Versailles, France with a collection of 400 perfumes

  11. The Tabasco floods

    In 2007, the Mexican state of Tabasco experienced its worst flooding in 50 years

  12. The clean-up of Chernobyl

    The story of the clean-up at the world’s worst nuclear accident in Ukraine in April 1986

  13. The war in the woods

    In 1993, rainforest logging plans sparked Canada’s largest act of civil disobedience

  14. Europe’s long drought of 2011

    How months of no rain dried up the Danube River

  15. Mymba Kuera: the race to save wildlife at the Itaipu dam

    In 1982, waters rose behind the Itaipu Dam, flooding the homes of thousands of animals

  16. Discovering Hans Christian Andersen's 'lost fairytale'

    In October 2012, The Tallow Candle fairytale was discovered

  17. The introduction of Sharia law in Aceh, Indonesia

    On 24 June 2005, the first Sharia law public caning took place in Indonesia

  18. The assassination of Thomas Sankara

    In October 1987, African leader Thomas Sankara was gunned down in a coup

  19. Roddy Doyle: Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha

    In 1993, the Irish writer Roddy Doyle won the prestigious Booker Prize for Fiction

  20. The creation of My Little Pony

    In 1983, American toymaker Bonnie Zacharle's pony design hit the market

  21. The turtle freed after 41 years in captivity

    In 1984, Jorge became trapped and was moved to an aquarium in Argentina

  22. Khula Manch, the victory rally

    In 1970, people gathered in Kathmandu to celebrate multi-party democracy in Nepal

  23. Hitler's teeth

    In 1945 a search begins for Hitler's dentist to prove the Führer's corpse is genuine.

  24. Marcel Duchamp and the urinal that changed art

    In 1942, the French artist featured in New York's first major surrealist exhibition

  25. Straightening the Leaning Tower of Pisa

    In 2001, the Leaning Tower of Pisa reopened to the public after an 11-year closure.

  26. The first commercially successful electronic cigarette

    In May 2004, pharmacist Hon Lik's vape went on sale in China(R)

  27. Spain welcomes Picasso’s Guernica

    In 1981 the iconic painting, Guernica, was finally handed to Spain after a 44-year exile

  28. New Nordic cuisine

    In 2004, Danish food entrepreneur Claus Meyer launched a revolution in Nordic cooking

  29. The discovery of the Terra Nova shipwreck

    In 2012, a team of researchers discovered one of the most famous polar shipwrecks

  30. Echo and the elephants

    In 1972, the world’s longest-running study of wild elephants was first launched in Kenya

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