On This Day - August 19, A Shot of History

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2003 – Canal Hotel bombing: A car-bomb attack on United Nations headquarters in Iraq kills the agency's top envoy Sérgio Vieira de Mello and 21 other employees.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canal_Hotel_bombing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojj4J8ZLLxE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eD0XEH3qVCk

1944 – Liberation of Paris: Paris, France rises against German occupation with the help of Allied troops.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberation_of_Paris
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTID1JIsCZk

1919 – Afghanistan gains full independence from the United Kingdom.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afghan_Independence_Day
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOHqwjGUXxY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzfUqoeRPik

1883 – Coco Chanel is born.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coco_Chanel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbTm1lfcQYE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LC5VbEJm6I

Produced by Anne-Sophie Goninet