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Source: BBC News "On This Day"

Roundup

5-12-06

12 May -- On This Day [multiple clips]

Video and audio from the BBC news archive, WWII and 1950-2004, include 1994: Labour leader John Smith dies at 55; 1981: Second IRA protester dies in jail; 1967: Stansted to become London's third airport; 2000: Ford quits Dagenham after 70 years; 1971: Row rocks Rolling Stone wedding.

Read entire article at BBC News "On This Day"