On This Day - April 7, A Shot of History

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1939 – Francis Ford Coppola is born.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Ford_Coppola
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reqDydPpu0Y
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoKzCff8Zbs

1906 – Mount Vesuvius' eruption devastates Naples.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Vesuvius
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vezuviy_1906_avant.jpg
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Vesuvio#/media/File:Napoli_Mount_Vesuvius_1858_engraving.jpg

1963 – Tito is named as the president for life of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josip_Broz_Tito
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEbX5FgxLWU

1969 – The Internet's symbolic date of birth: publication of RFC 1.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Request_for_Comments
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfMrVKnGzwg

Produced by Anne-Sophie Goninet