Witness History

New York housewife, Jean Nidetch, started by simply talking to her friends about how to lose weight.

In May 1972, the controversial American populist politician, George Wallace, was shot while running

In May 1981, documents surfaced that eventually led to the trial of the most senior French official

In May 1976, new unknown Californian wines beat top French wines in a blind wine tasting in Paris. T

In 1977 a US government body first warned Americans that the food they were eating represented as gr

In 1973, the most successful TV spy series ever to be broadcast in the USSR, went on air. The centra

In May 1980 China allowed capitalist activity for the first time since the Communist Revolution, in

Father and son, Arpad and Giorgio Fischer, were the Italian cosmetic surgeons who spent years develo

In May 1976 the German left-wing extremist Ulrike Meinhof killed herself in prison. She and Andreas

In the Spring of 1917, many French army units mutinied after enduring years of slaughter and appalli

In 1992, shortly after the collapse of the USSR, a civil war erupted in Tajikistan, a Central Asian

In May 1947, the legendary photographic co-operative Magnum Photos was set up by a group of famous p

In April 1977 a group of women in Argentina held the first ever public demonstration to demand the r

During the Bosnian war of the early 1990's, thousands of women were raped. Some were kept in concent

On April 26th 2005, Syrian forces finally pulled out of Lebanon, after being stationed there for alm

The man who changed the way people thought about mental illness. RD Laing became famous in the 1960s

In the 1980s, Bulgaria's communist regime launched a brutal policy of forced assimilation against th

In post-WW2 Japan, musician Shinichi Suzuki developed a new method of teaching the violin - which wo

In April 1990 the huge space telescope was launched into orbit above the earth. But when it began se

In April 1972 the famous silent movie star set foot in the USA for the first time in two decades. He