Witness: Witness Archive 2015

It is 60 years since the frog puppet first appeared on an American children's TV show. His creator Jim Henson became famous, and Kermit became the star of the Muppets franchise. Photo: Kermit the frog presenting a 1970s night on the BBC.

On 13 May 2005 hundreds of demonstrators were killed by soldiers in the Uzbek town of Andijan. Hear from Monica Whitlock who was the BBC correspondent in Uzbekistan at the time and who has spoken to a survivor. (Photo: Uzbek soldiers in downtown Andijan on May 13th 2005. Credit: Associated Press)

On May 10th 2002, one of the most dramatic sieges of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, at the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, finally came to an end. For almost six weeks, Palestinian gunmen and civilians had been holed up in the church, on the site where Christians believe Jesus Christ was born. Witness talks to Father Amjad Sabbara, a Franciscan friar who lived in the compound, and to Carolyn Cole, an American photojournalist who managed to get inside the church in the last days of the siege. Photo: an Israeli soldier keeps his rifle trained on the Church of the Nativity in the West Bank town of Bethlehem as the siege enters its second month (Credit: Getty Images)

On May 11th 2000 a baby girl born in Delhi was designated as India's billionth citizen. There was huge media attention following her birth - but what has life been like for Aastha Arora and her parents?

On 8 May 1945, hundreds of thousands of Londoners took to the streets to celebrate the end of World War II in Europe. BBC correspondents captured the scenes of joy across the city - from the East End to Piccadilly Circus. This special programme is a compilation of BBC reports from VE Day. PHOTO: Londoners dancing on VE Day (Getty Images)

In 1915, the passenger liner RMS Lusitania was sunk by a German submarine off the coast of Ireland with the loss of 1,200 lives. The liner had been travelling from New York to Liverpool. It was one of the most controversial incidents in WW1 and helped turn American opinion against Germany. (Photo: Illustration from The Graphic - A Crime That Has Staggered Humanity: The Torpedoing Of The Lusitania, 15 March 1915, drawn by Charles Dixon. Credit: Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

In the early 1960s, the British colony of Aden – today part of Yemen – was on the brink of a fierce struggle for independence. Witness hears from Assiya al Haj Yousef who was a schoolgirl at the time, helping to organise protests against British rule. (Photo: British troops capture a demonstrator in Aden in 1967. Credit: Jim Gray/Keystone/Getty Images)

In May 1953, British airman Ronald Maddison died after taking part in a nerve gas test at government research base Porton Down. His death would be covered up for nearly fifty years. Witness speaks to fellow test subject Michael Cox, who was in the gas chamber when Maddison collapsed. (Photo: Sergeant Gordon Beard of the RAF Regiment wearing protective clothing and using a residual vapour detector at Porton Down in Wiltshire, 3 June 1969. Credit: J. Wilds/Keystone/Getty Images)

In May 1980 British special forces stormed Iran's embassy in London to end a siege. The hostage-takers were an Iranian separatist group. Hear from some of the people they held captive for almost six days - and from one of the commandos sent in to free them. (Photo: The Embassy building as the commandos went in. BBC copyright)

The last remaining US forces pulled out of Vietnam on April 30th 1975 as communist North Vietnamese troops took control of the country. Hear from two US servicemen, Stu Herrington and Vern Jumper, who helped evacuate troops and Vietnamese civilians. They organised airlifts from the US embassy in Saigon to the USS Midway, an aircraft carrier waiting offshore. (Photo: Soldiers and civilians rush to board a Marine helicopter during the evacuation of the US Embassy, 29 April 1975. Credit: Neal Ulevich/AP)

In April 1961, Russian doctor Leonid Rogozov developed appendicitis while working in Antarctica. The only solution was to operate on himself. Witness speaks to his son, Vladislav Rogozov. (Photo: Leonid Rogozov during the operation. Credit: Vladislav Rogozov)

On 28th April 1969, the general who had dominated French politics for almost 30 years, Charles de Gaulle, resigned as president. With the help of de Gaulle's biographer, Jonathan Fenby, Witness looks back at the life and legacy of the man who twice saved France. (Photo: General Charles de Gaulle in 1940 at the BBC delivering his historic speech asking the French people to fight Germany. Credit: Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

In April 1982, film star Jane Fonda launched her first workout video - encouraging millions of women to "go for the burn". She spoke to the BBC in 2004. (Photo: Jane Fonda on the red carpet for the Annual Academy Awards 2013. Credit: Frederic J. Brown/AFP/Getty Images)

In April 1932, hundreds of walkers organised a mass trespass on a mountain in the English Peak District called Kinder Scout. The trespass was a major step in the fight for access to the British countryside. At the time, much wild land was privately owned and controlled by game-keepers. Witness hears from one of the last survivors of the Trespass. The programme also includes accounts of the protest in the BBC archive. (Photo: Kinder Scout. BBC copyright)

On 24 April 1980, the US launched Operation Eagle Claw - a daring but ultimately disastrous attempt to free dozens of hostages held captive in the US Embassy in Tehran. The rescue mission ended in tragedy almost as soon as it began. Witness speaks to Mike Vining, a member of the US special forces team. (Photo: Mike Vining (bottom right) returning from the failed mission. Credit: US Army)

In April 1991 United Nations weapons inspectors were allowed into Iraq to search for Saddam Hussein's WMDs. Swedish diplomat Rolf Ekeus was in charge of the team. Hear his story. (Photo: Rolf Ekeus in Baghdad in 1995. Credit: AFP/Getty Images)

In April 1999 Nato bombed the Serbian state TV station in Belgrade, killing 16 people. It was part of a military campaign to force Serbia to withdraw from Kosovo. Dragan Suchovic, a TV technician, was working at the station that night, and survived. Photo: The damage caused by the Nato bombing on the TV station in Belgrade (courtesy of Duco Tellegen, 2015)

The Nobel prize winning physicist and father of the theory of relativity, Albert Einstein, died on 18th April 1955. Witness talks to the son of one of Einstein's closest friends, Gustav Born, about the science and the humanity of the 20th-century's greatest scientific thinker. Photo: Albert Einstein in January 1950 (Credit: AFP/Getty Images)

In April 1945 one of the most successful musicals of all time premiered on Broadway. Carousel, by Rodgers and Hammerstein was a huge hit and Jean Darling was one of the original cast. Photo: The 1945 cast of Carousel on stage. Credit: Associated Press.

On April 19 1995 a huge truck bomb killed 168 people in a government building in the USA. There were 19 children among the dead. Dr David Tuggle was a paediatric surgeon who joined the rescue effort. Photo: The Alfred P Murrah building in Oklahoma City after the blast. Credit: Getty Images.