79 - Mt Vesuvius erupts, buries Roman Pompeii and Herculaneum, 15,000 die
1963 - 24th Venice Film Festival: "Hands Over the City" directed by Francesco Rosi wins Golden Lion
1968 - France becomes the world's fifth thermonuclear power with a detonation on Mururoa Atoll in the South Pacific
2008 - Summer Olympics in Beijing becomes the most watched event on TV ever - nearly 5 billion, 70% of world's population
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