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A truck bomb was detonated below the North Tower of the World Trade Center in New York City on February 26, 1993. The explosion killed six people and injured over a thousand. In March 1994, four men were convicted of carrying out the bombing, including charges of conspiracy and explosive destruction of property. In November 1997, two more men were convicted, including Ramzi Youself, who had masterminded the bombings. This video hears from several people who were in the World Trade Center on the day of the bombing as they speak about the moment the bomb was detonated.

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On February 12, 1994, two men broke into Norway’s National Gallery in Oslo and stole Edvard Munich’s painting The Scream. The painting had been moved to a second-story gallery as part of the festivities for the Winter Olympics, which had opened in Lillehammer, Norway, on the same day. The National Gallery refused to pay the one million dollar ransom asked of them, and instead worked with British police and the Getty Museum to set up a sting. The painting was recovered undamaged on May 7, 1994. In this video, art detective Charles Hill talks about going undercover to find and retrieve The Scream.

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The Scream Is Stolen appeared first on Witnify.

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Deep Blue was a computer created by IBM to play chess. On February 10, 1996, Deep Blue played the top chess player in the world at that time, grandmaster Garry Kasparov in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Deep Blue won the first game between the two, however Kasparov came back to win the match by winning three games and drawing two. In this video, IBM scientists discuss the difficulties in creating a computer that could play chess as well as, if not better than, a human.

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Building IBM Supercomputer Deep Blue appeared first on Witnify.

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John Starks was a guard in the National Basketball Association who spent most of his career with the New York Knicks in the 1990s. Starks faced Michael Jordan in more playoff games than almost any other player, with the exception of Isaiah Thomas. In this video, Starks talks about what it was like to play against Jordan: “You already know when you’re going into a game against Michael Jordan and a Michael Jordan team that you have to play your very best in order to beat him. At some point in that game you know that he’s going to take over the game and you have to be able to play him as hard as possible.”

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John Starks On Guarding Michael Jordan appeared first on Witnify.

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On February 4, 1999, four plain-clothed New York City police officers shot and killed 23-year old Amadou Diallo, an immigrant from Guinea. Diallo was standing outside of his apartment in The Bronx when the officers fired a total of 41 shots, striking Diallo 19 times. Diallo was unarmed at the time of the shooting, and protests and demonstrations erupted in outrage. In this video, both Amadou Diallo’s father and the Revered Al Sharpton speak at one of these demonstrations. The officers were charged with second-degree murder and acquitted following a trial in Albany, New York.

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Eileen Collins is a retired NASA astronaut and retired United States Air Force colonel who became the first female pilot and first female commander of a Space Shuttle. On February 3, 1995, Collins piloted the space shuttle Discovery from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida as part of mission STS-63. Collins later served as commander of mission STS-93 in July 1999 and mission STS-114 in July of 2005. In this video, Collins talks about her childhood dream of being a pilot and how she worked to achieve that dream, as well as what it meant to be the first female shuttle pilot.

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The Rwandan Genocide took place over approximately 100 days from April to July of 1994. Between 500,000 and 1,000,000 Rwandans were killed, constituting as much as 20% of the country’s total population. Tutsis and moderate Hutus were slain by the Hutu majority. In this video, a survivor of the genocide talks about life in post-genocide Rwanda. The video also shows a community group working to reconcile victims and perpetrators of the genocide.

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Survivor Of Genocide Speaks About Reconciliation appeared first on Witnify.

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Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev made a surprising and historic announcement on December 25, 1991. Effective immediately, he resigned as president and essentially dissolved the entire Soviet Union. The Christmas day speech is seen by many, along with the fall of the Berlin Wall, as the moment that the Cold War officially ended.

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After being turned down by other record companies, Shawn “Jay-Z” Carter founded Roc-A-Fella Records in 1996. Producer DJ Clark Kent, DJ Ski and others explain how they helped to found Roc-A-Fella and how influential the company became. In addition to the most popular Jay-Z albums, Roc-A-Fella’s discography includes the work of Kanye West, Beyonce, Young Gunz, and Jadakiss.

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In 1985, Terry Anderson, a journalist with the Associated Press, was taken hostage by Hezbollah militants in Lebanon. Anderson was held for six years and nine months, before finally being released on December 4, 1991. In this video, Anderson and his wife discuss his time in captivity. When asked if his years in captivity could be divided up by phases, Anderson says: “I guess you could say that. You could look at it that way. I mean, the first few months of shock and frustration and anger and bitterness and just trying to grapple with what had happened, and trying to devise ways to handle it. To get your mind around it. To deal with it. And then there was a long period of being with other hostages in which we used each other. We leaned on each other and used each other’s minds and began to… learn the techniques and the attitudes that were necessary to survive.”

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Terry Anderson On His Time In Captivity appeared first on Witnify.