On This Day - April 12, A Shot of History

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1947 – David Letterman is born.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Letterman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XD3Ow2jYUiQ

1961 – The Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first human to travel into outer space.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_Gagarin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qfz5B2uERcE

1945 – U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt dies while in office.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_D._Roosevelt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=411MrvRC2-0

1992 – Euro Disney opens near Paris.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disneyland_Paris
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grGOvaQrlEQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5B7nogpioM

Produced by Anne-Sophie Goninet