On This Day - August 1, A Shot of History

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1936 – One of the most controversial Olympic games of modern times opens in Berlin, Germany with a ceremony presided over by Adolf Hitler.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1936_Summer_Olympics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_s_K3-FEwQA

1976 – Austrian Formula 1 racing driver Niki Lauda is seriously injured in a crash at the 1976 German Grand Prix at the Nürburgring.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niki_Lauda
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jATgKoVkows
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYgjRTWhWi8

2004 – A supermarket fire kills 396 people and injures 500 others in Asunción, Paraguay.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ycu%C3%A1_Bola%C3%B1os_supermarket_fire
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MFdtleFJ2c

1981 – MTV begins broadcasting in the United States.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MTV
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBf0yJVMSzI

Produced by Anne-Sophie Goninet