Witness History
Maelezo ya Kituo
Witness History
Vipindi vya Hivi Karibuni
9 vipindi
Srebrenica massacre
It's 30 years since a massacre of Bosnian Muslims during the war in the former Yugoslavia.
The Srebrenica massacre, recognised by the United Na...
The invention of the balloon-expandable stent
An estimated 2 million stents are implanted into people’s hearts around the world each year – making it one of the key treatments for heart disease....
Death of a priest
The 1977 murder of Father Rutilio Grande sent shockwaves through El Salvador. The 48-year-old Jesuit priest was an outspoken champion of the poor in t...
The man who invented the scratch card
In May 1974, scratch cards went on sale for the first time in the US State of Massachusetts.
Free giveaway and coupon games from stores had be...
The discovery that led to weight loss injections and treatments for diabetes
In the 1980s, scientists made a discovery that would eventually lead to the development of drugs now used worldwide to treat diabetes and to help peop...
The UK’s first black-owned music studio
Sonny Roberts, a Jamaican carpenter, arrived in Britain in the 1950s. It was a time of racial disharmony, including the Notting Hill riots and the mur...
Wangari Maathai: The first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize
In 2004, the Kenyan ecologist Wangari Maathai became the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize.
Wangari Maathai founded the Green Bel...
The strike that shook up India's tea industry
In September 2015, thousands of women tea pickers went on strike at one of India’s biggest tea producers.
They had picked more tea than ever tha...
The birth of the Excel spreadsheet
In September 1985, Microsoft introduced Excel, an electronic spreadsheet program that revolutionised the way we organise and analyse data.
With...