On This Day - September 26, A Shot of History

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2014 – Iguala mass kidnapping: 43 male students from the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers' College went missing in Iguala, Guerrero, Mexico.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Iguala_mass_kidnapping
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlxiyN3KL5c

1959 – Typhoon Vera, the strongest typhoon to hit Japan in recorded history, makes landfall, killing 4,580 people and leaving nearly 1.6 million others homeless.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typhoon_Vera
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWp8HbCa3RM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJ81S2s45No

1960 – In Chicago, the first televised debate takes place between presidential candidates Richard M. Nixon and John F. Kennedy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election_debates#1960_Kennedy.E2.80.93Nixon_debates
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbrcRKqLSRw

1948 – Olivia Newton-John, English-Australian singer-songwriter and actress, is born.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivia_Newton-John
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzmggUAqePY

Produced by Anne-Sophie Goninet