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Source: BBC News "On This Day"

Roundup

5-15-06

15 May -- On This Day [multiple clips]

Video and audio from the BBC news archive for WWII and 1950-2004 include 1957: Britain drops its first H-bomb; 1974: Teenagers die in Israeli school attack; 1993: French police rescue child hostages; 1954: Queen returns after lengthy voyage; 2001: UK supermarkets slash price of drugs.

Read entire article at BBC News "On This Day"