On This Day - February 11, A Shot of History

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2012 – Singer Whitney Houston dies at 48.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitney_Houston
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NUQJvfDXrM

1975 – The British Conservative Party has chosen its first women leader, Margaret Thatcher.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Thatcher
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8YCd9-Xtc8

2013 – Pope Benedict XVI announces his resignation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resignation_of_Pope_Benedict_XVI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpDffQJjm9c

1990 – Nelson Mandela is released from Victor Verster Prison.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_Mandela
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpVxSexb3Lk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kh9bSroS_9Y

Produced by Anne-Sophie Goninet