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2008 – Barack Obama is elected President of the United States.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_2008
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnvUUauFJ98

1979 – Iran hostage crisis: A mob of Iranians overruns the US embassy in Tehran and takes 90 hostages.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_hostage_crisis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvXDtKsrQgs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5N2zPpc_xAw

1995 – Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin is assassinated by an extremist Israeli.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yitzhak_Rabin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIX1jOt6_pI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znqqVu1dRN0

1922 – In Egypt, British archaeologist Howard Carter find the entrance to Pharaoh Tutankhamun's tomb in the Valley of the Kings.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tutankhamun
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkE3RI7tvf0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXk-NbSWDs8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odUsDr3MTzA

Produced by Anne-Sophie Goninet