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Cold War: Spain joins NATO.

The Cold War was a period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies, th...

Downeast Flight 46 crashes on approach to Knox County Regional Airport in Rockland, Maine, killing 17.

Downeast Airlines Flight 46 was a scheduled airline service in the United States from Boston's Logan International Airport to Ro...

European Space Agency is established.

The European Space Agency is an intergovernmental organisation of 22 member states dedicated to the exploration of space. Establ...

The Airbus A300 passenger aircraft first enters service.

The Airbus A300 is a wide-body airliner developed and manufactured by Airbus.In September 1967, aircraft manufacturers in the Un...

The Angry Brigade goes on trial over a series of 25 bombings throughout the United Kingdom.

The Angry Brigade was a far-left British terrorist group responsible for a series of bomb attacks in England between 1970 and 19...

In Ben Gurion Airport (at the time: Lod Airport), Israel, members of the Japanese Red Army carry out the Lod Airport massacre, killing 24 people and injuring 78 others.

Ben Gurion Airport, commonly known by its Hebrew acronym as Natbag (נתב״ג), is the main international airport of Israel and...

Mariner program: Mariner 9 is launched to map 70% of the surface, and to study temporal changes in the atmosphere and surface, of Mars.

The Mariner program was conducted by the American space agency NASA to explore other planets. Between 1962 and late 1973, NASA�...

Charles de Gaulle reappears publicly after his flight to Baden-Baden, Germany, and dissolves the French National Assembly by a radio appeal. Immediately after, less than one million of his supporters march on the Champs-Élysées in Paris. This is the turning point of May 1968 events in France.

Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle was a French army officer and statesman who led Free France against Nazi Germany in World ...

The Nigerian Eastern Region declares independence as the Republic of Biafra, sparking a civil war.

Nigeria, officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a country in West Africa. It is the most populous country in Africa. It ...

Former Congolese Prime Minister, Évariste Kimba, and several other politicians are publicly executed in Kinshasa on the orders of President Joseph Mobutu.

The Democratic Republic of the Congo, informally Congo-Kinshasa, DR Congo, the DRC, the DROC, or the Congo, and formerly and als...

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