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8 years 8 months ago - 8 years 8 months ago #451 by Nikita
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January 27, 1945


At 3.00 PM, the Soviet forces of the 100th Division of General Krasavine liberates the nazi concentration and extermination camp of Auschwitz .


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February 4, 1976


In Loyada, Djibouti, during an operation against terrorists who kidnapped thirty-two children as hostages in a school bus, five snipers of the GIGN performs, for the first time, a killing shot using the technique called "simultaneous shot". As a result, five terrorists are killed in the same fraction of a second.

Unfortunately, a last sixth terrorist, who was not noticed so far, opens fire against the children inside the school bus before being shot down. Two children lose their life : Nadine Durand, deceased on the spot, and Valérie Geissbuhler, deceased several days after at the military hospital of Val-de-Grâce in Paris.




" For us, we had failed, I tell you sincerely. For us, to succeed was to bring the thirty-two children back to their families, and that was not the success we hoped. So, well, it was a bit... a bit hard. That's it. No one has measured the distress it has been for us not to succeed completely. That said, compared to the families, it's nothing at all. It's just us who drag our corpses. "

Christian Prouteau
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Commander of the GIGN (1973 - 1983)
Extract from : " GIGN, 40 ans d'assauts " ( 16:08 )
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February 27, 1933


The Reichstag fire




Isolated act by Marinus van der Lubbe or nazi complot, historians still have mixed views...
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March 31, 1889


After two years of work, the " three-hundred meters tower " is inaugurated in Paris, just some days before the Exposition Universelle of 1889.



At this period, the tower is, by far, the world's highest construction. The second one, the Washington Monument, is "only" 169 meters.

Planned to be destroyed after the event, the tower will finally remain and be used as a radio transmitter.

Since 1991, the Eiffel Tower is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Present days, the Iron Lady remains the most-visited paid monument in the world and should reach the mark of 300 million of visitors in 2017.



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April 3, 2007


Within the framework of the " Project V150 ", the French TGV 4402 beats the world speed record for a rail vehicle by reaching the speed of 574.8 km/h (357.18 mph) on the East European High Speed Line.



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