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1957 – BBC's April Fool's Day hoax: a program about spaghetti crops in Switzerland. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaghetti-tree_hoax https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVo_wkxH9dU
1748 – The ruins of Pompeii are discovered. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pompeii https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwVjH1JTUmE https://www.flickr.com/photos/tylerbell/4099876194/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/stuckincustoms/200794311/
1979 – Referendum makes Iran an Islamic Republic. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iranian_Revolution https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uf8lg91Q18U
1948 – Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican singer and actor, is born. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Cliff https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGE4dnrPPZQ
