On This Day - October 3, A Shot of History

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2013 – More than 360 migrants are killed when their boat sinks near the Italian island of Lampedusa.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Lampedusa_migrant_shipwreck
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WMQYaiWPtc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CafLAnc_MQU

1990 – German reunification: The German Democratic Republic ceases to exist and its territory becomes part of the Federal Republic of Germany. East German citizens became part of the European Community, which later became the European Union. Now celebrated as German Unity Day.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_reunification
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ok-nd7ZL3hk

1995 – Former football player O. J. Simpson is acquitted of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O._J._Simpson_murder_case
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=infLrZjJpNc

1981 – Zlatan Ibrahimović, Swedish footballer, is born.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zlatan_Ibrahimovi%C4%87
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzvQCbdAIZQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xphs4uP4p3Y

Produced by Anne-Sophie Goninet