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Source: BBC News "On This Day"

Roundup

5-16-06

17 May -- On This Day [multiple clips]

Video and audio from the BBC news archive, WWII and 1950-2004, include 1943: RAF raid smashes German dams; 1974: Dublin and Monaghan bomb kills 23; 1960: East-West summit in tatters after spy plane row; 1978: Charlie Chaplin's stolen body found; 2000: First Britons reach North Pole unaided; 1955: Eden takes to the airwaves.

Read entire article at BBC News "On This Day"