Get On This Day delivered free to your inbox: http://bit.ly/14agw7n <br />http://www.worldcrunch.com <br /> <br />1942 – Martin Scorsese is born. <br />https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Scorsese <br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idvCtOfu8eg <br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bn0Zw_K7lBM <br /> <br />1989 – Velvet Revolution begins: In Czechoslovakia, a student demonstration in Prague is quelled by riot police. <br />https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velvet_Revolution <br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_mpmrYZ2Tc <br /> <br />1997 – In Luxor, Egypt, 62 people are killed by six Islamic militants outside the Temple of Hatshepsut, known as Luxor massacre. <br />https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luxor_massacre <br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YELzn14Tg8 <br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bz0NewC3rEQ <br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyZnN6B4n8Y <br /> <br />1558 – Elizabethan era begins: Queen Mary I of England dies and is succeeded by her half-sister Elizabeth I of England. <br />https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabethan_era <br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uapvgwQpgM <br /> <br />Produced by Anne-Sophie Goninet
