Witness History Episodes Available now
The Omagh Bombing
In August 1998, 29 people died in a massive car bombing in Omagh, Northern Ireland.
The Battle of the Potato Beetle
In 1950, East Germany claimed American planes were dropping beetles over their fields.
Scientists Flee Nazi Germany
How the rise of Hitler forced great physicists such as Max Born out of 1930s Germany
Conflict in Congo
The Congolese student who saw war come to his small hometown of Uvira
The Opening of Euro Disney
Twenty-one years ago, Disney finally opened a park near Paris after years of negotiations.
Bombing of Nagasaki
Survivors remember the atomic explosion over the Japanese city in 1945
Burma's 1988 Protests
In August 1988 protests demanding an end to military rule in Burma were met with violence
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch
In 1997, a patch of plastic waste was discovered in the middle of the Pacific Ocean
Beverly Johnson - Vogue's First Black Covergirl
It wasn't until 1974 that American Vogue put a black model on its cover for the first time
Malaysian Hostage Crisis
In August 1975, Japanese Red Army militants took 53 people hostage in Kuala Lumpur
