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Source: BBC News "On This Day"

Roundup

5-9-06

9 May -- On This Day [video multiple]

Video and audio from the BBC news archive, WWII and 1950-2004, include 1956: Mystery of missing frogman deepens; 1972: Israeli commandos storm hijacked jet; 1979: El Salvador cathedral bloodbath; 1988: Syria threatens force in Beirut; 1999: Chinese anger at embassy bombing; 1955: West Germany accepted into Nato.

Read entire article at BBC News "On This Day"