On This Day - October 18, A Shot of History

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1851 – Herman Melville's Moby-Dick is first published as The Whale.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_oil_crisis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moby-Dick#/media/File:Moby-Dick_FE_title_page.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moby-Dick#/media/File:Moby_Dick_p510_illustration.jpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BuSmUL4orY

1009 – The Church of the Holy Sepulchre, a Christian church in Jerusalem, is completely destroyed by the Fatimid caliph Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_the_Holy_Sepulchre
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26AFvH1K2Ok
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsbpU3fvf7Q

2007 – Karachi bombing: A suicide attack on a motorcade carrying former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto kills 139. Bhutto herself is uninjured.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Karachi_bombing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMccAgfA-mA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Crfr1R3XKyo

1960 – Jean-Claude Van Damme, Belgian martial artist and actor, is born.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Claude_Van_Damme
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NqJyDqQzaE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXeZGu1zWrU

Produced by Anne-Sophie Goninet