History told by the people who were there. For nine minutes every weekday, Witness History takes you back to moments which have shaped our world.
In 2016, the UK voted on whether to remain a member of, or leave, the European Union
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In 2015 five booksellers were detained for selling material critical of China’s leaders
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In 1975, a medical breakthrough led to the identification and naming of Lyme disease
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On 26 February 1974, Dr Jim Bowler discovered a 42,000-year-old skeleton in Australia
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In June 1987, hundreds of women took part in a peace march against the division of Cyprus
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A former schoolgirl remembers the demonstration that sparked the Soweto Uprising in 1976
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In 1993, separatist forces took Sukhumi, the capital of Abkhazia
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In 1970 King Hussein of Jordan escaped unharmed after gunmen opened fire on his motorcade
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In 1897, Paul Shishkoff lived next door to the Russian playwright Anton Chekhov.
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In 1937 some of the 20th Century's best known Surrealist artists are on holiday in France
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