On This Day - January 9, A Shot Of History

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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

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