On This Day - July 8, A Shot of History

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http://www.worldcrunch.com

951 – Lutèce is renamed Paris.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Paris
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-4R72jTb74
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7VY6_ADAEw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4E6sEetFfg0

1970 – Beck, American singer-songwriter, is born.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beck
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFv3bn2O-iY

1994 – Kim Jong-il begins to assume supreme leadership of North Korea after the death of his father, Kim Il-sung.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Jong-il
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDOMyNOS4sc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBMU9CRFQo0

2014 – Brazil loses 1-7 to Germany in the 2014 FIFA World Cup semi-final.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mineirazo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIP_vdIzp_8

Produced by Anne-Sophie Goninet