On This Day - August 23, A Shot of History

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1973 – A bank robbery gone wrong in Stockholm, Sweden, turns into a hostage crisis; over the next five days the hostages begin to sympathise with their captors, leading to the term "Stockholm syndrome".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norrmalmstorg_robbery
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Z7IHDIUW8o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TG9-j3eevL4

2011 – Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi is overthrown during the 2011 Libyan civil war.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muammar_Gaddafi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69wBG6ULNzQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obpc_xl88kY

1942 – World War II: Beginning of the Battle of Stalingrad.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Stalingrad
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1AC4wm6SwM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4zp8IXrki8

1978 – Kobe Bryant, American basketball player, is born.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kobe_Bryant
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tl-Ijq_MSkQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldbmLkXE0Ak

Produced by Anne-Sophie Goninet