On This Day - April 1, A Shot of History

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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

Produced by Anne-Sophie Goninet