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2008 – Barack Obama is elected President of the United States. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_2008 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnvUUauFJ98
1979 – Iran hostage crisis: A mob of Iranians overruns the US embassy in Tehran and takes 90 hostages. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_hostage_crisis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvXDtKsrQgs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5N2zPpc_xAw
1995 – Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin is assassinated by an extremist Israeli. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yitzhak_Rabin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIX1jOt6_pI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znqqVu1dRN0
1922 – In Egypt, British archaeologist Howard Carter find the entrance to Pharaoh Tutankhamun's tomb in the Valley of the Kings. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tutankhamun https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkE3RI7tvf0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXk-NbSWDs8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odUsDr3MTzA