History Today - November 4
Show notes
In 1922, the steps to the burial room for King Tutankhamun were uncovered by a team of Egyptian excavators led by British archaeologist Howard Carter.
In 1995, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated following a peace rally in Tel Aviv.
In 1979, the US Iranian Hostage Crisis began when 66 American men and women were taken hostage in Tehran.
In 1960, primatologist Jane Goodall witnessed a chimpanzee strip leaves from a straw stick and then insert it into a termite mound to extract the insects inside.
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