On This Day - April 6, A Shot of History

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1896 – The first modern Olympic Games take place in Athens.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1896_Summer_Olympics
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Meyer_Albert_-_Olympic_Games,_1896;_preparation_for_the_100-meter_race_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Louis_entering_Kallimarmaron_at_the_1896_Athens_Olympics.jpg

1994 – The aircraft carrying Rwandan president Juvénal Habyarimana and Burundian president Cyprien Ntaryamira is shot down. The Rwandan Genocide begins.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rwandan_Genocide
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6M6TTsLtEA

1483 – Italian painter Raphael is born.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raphael
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raphael#mediaviewer/File:Raffaello_Sanzio.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raphael#mediaviewer/File:Raphael_Madonna_of_the_Pinks.jpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvYNlcLtR0w

1974 – ABBA wins the Eurovision Song Contest.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurovision_Song_Contest_1974
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FsVeMz1F5c

Produced by Anne-Sophie Goninet