On This Day - October 10, A Shot of History

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1999 – The Millennium Wheel, better known now as the London Eye, is erected between Waterloo station and Westminster Bridge
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Eye
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTvcYSjYrfk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTrjU3HY8Q4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qu03RaeSnHQ

1871 – The Great Chicago Fire ends. Chicago had burned for two days after a barn accident.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Chicago_Fire
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Chicago_Fire#/media/File:Chicago-fire1.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Chicago_Fire#/media/File:Chicago-fire2.jpeg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYrboZoTj7c

1970 – Fiji becomes independent.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiji
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CI5mu_g5Ttw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeO1z4R9Gz8

1963 – Édith Piaf, French singer-songwriter and actress, dies of liver cancer at 47 years old.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89dith_Piaf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDWzVLRSPSI

Produced by Anne-Sophie Goninet