On This Day - February 2, A Shot of History

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1922 – Ulysses by James Joyce is published.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulysses_%28novel%29
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhW0TrzWGmI
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulysses_%28novel%29#mediaviewer/File:Manchester_John_Rylands_Library_James_Joyce_16-10-2009_13-55-16.JPG
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Joyce#mediaviewer/File:James_Joyce_by_Alex_Ehrenzweig,_1915_restored.jpg

1977 – Colombian singer Shakira is born.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakira
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeuWkM82BME

1989 – Soviet war in Afghanistan: The last Soviet army leaves Kabul.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_war_in_Afghanistan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Tkh4XUtA6U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3cSvp9pEw4

2014 – US Actor Phillip Seymour Hoffman dies after overdosing on drugs.
http://edition.cnn.com/2014/02/28/showbiz/philip-seymour-hoffman-autopsy/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwpVqRLsVSI

Produced by Anne-Sophie Goninet