On This Day - August 2, A Shot of History

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1873 – The Clay Street Hill Railroad begins operating the first cable car in San Francisco's famous cable car system.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_cable_car_system
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Cable_Driving_Plant,_Designed_and_Constructed_by_Poole_and_Hunt,_Baltimore,_MD.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cable_car_%28railway%29#/media/File:Cablecar_tracks_in_San_Francisco,_1970.jpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZiYI8H-D9U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0S7Hr27bF0

1980 – Bologna massacre: a terrorist bombing of the Central Station at Bologna, Italy, kills 85 people.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bologna_massacre
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ylo74Uz28zs

1990 – Iraq invades Kuwait, eventually leading to the Gulf War.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_War
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsmFPY8AUaM

1932 – Peter O'Toole, British-Irish actor, is born.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_O%27Toole
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aARaYjgm_rA

Produced by Anne-Sophie Goninet