On This Day - October 23, A Shot of History

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1940 – Pelé, Brazilian footballer and actor, is born.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pel%C3%A9
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOlNRhRCJT4

1944 – World War II: Battle of Leyte Gulf: The largest naval battle in history begins in the Philippines.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Leyte_Gulf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yj5HxdXS7_Y
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJfYdIa-RMs

2002 – Moscow Theatre Siege begins: Chechen terrorists seize the House of Culture theater in Moscow and take approximately 700 theater-goers hostage.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_theater_hostage_crisis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8BNwE5jn94

1958 – The Smurfs, a fictional race of blue dwarves, appear for the first time in the story La flute à six schtroumpfs, a Johan and Peewit adventure by Peyo.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Smurfs
http://bit.ly/1QnAZaF
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUn4n-nGraM

Produced by Anne-Sophie Goninet