On This Day - November 17, A Shot of History

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1942 – Martin Scorsese is born.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Scorsese
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idvCtOfu8eg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bn0Zw_K7lBM

1989 – Velvet Revolution begins: In Czechoslovakia, a student demonstration in Prague is quelled by riot police.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velvet_Revolution
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_mpmrYZ2Tc

1997 – In Luxor, Egypt, 62 people are killed by six Islamic militants outside the Temple of Hatshepsut, known as Luxor massacre.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luxor_massacre
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YELzn14Tg8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bz0NewC3rEQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyZnN6B4n8Y

1558 – Elizabethan era begins: Queen Mary I of England dies and is succeeded by her half-sister Elizabeth I of England.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabethan_era
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uapvgwQpgM

Produced by Anne-Sophie Goninet