On This Day - July 18, A Shot of History

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2013 – The Government of Detroit, with up to $20 billion in debt, files for the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detroit_bankruptcy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02x8EHXPfB0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AvWV6Mk374

1982 – Two hundred sixty-eight campesinos are slain in the Plan de Sánchez massacre in Ríos Montt's Guatemala.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_de_S%C3%A1nchez_massacre
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4TZ9ihunxw

1950 – Richard Branson, English businessman, founder of Virgin Group, is born.
https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Richard_Branson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7fbe-oV-X0

1976 – Nadia Comăneci becomes the first person in Olympic Games history to score a perfect 10 in gymnastics.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadia_Com%C4%83neci
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57U7g9o6GEg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3MWOO_HsZE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1JFQPzQszM

Produced by Anne-Sophie Goninet