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1878 – Umberto I becomes King of Italy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umberto_I_of_Italy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrS0iwPS-W8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=In3l6HgSjJs
1908 – Simone de Beauvoir, French author is born (d. 1986) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simone_de_Beauvoir https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X__8ktrcrD4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxEKiMTrHRc
1960 – President of Egypt Gamal Abdel Nasser opens construction on the Aswan Dam by detonating ten tons of dynamite to demolish twenty tons of granite on the east bank of the Nile. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aswan_Dam https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0_90KxYD0Q https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtLnH1e2jGo
2007 – Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveils the first iPhone. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPhone_%281st_generation%29 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGoM_wVrwng https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37fMdoU8kyY
