By 1962, Pol Pot had become leader of the Cambodian Communist Party
and was forced to flee into the jungle to escape the wrath of Prince Norodom
Sihanouk, leader of Cambodia. In the jungle, Pol Pot formed an armed resistance
movement that became known as the Khmer Rouge (Red Cambodians) and waged
a guerrilla war against Sihanouk's government
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First Test-Tube Baby - Louise Brown - 1 views
Ebola Outbreaks in Sudan and Zaire - 0 views
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On July 27, 1976, the very first person to contract the Ebola virus began to show symptoms. Ten days later he was dead. Over the course of the next few months, the first Ebola outbreaks in history occurred in Sud
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an and Zaire*, with a total of 602 reported cases and 431 deaths.
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Since no one in the medical field had ever seen this illness before, it took them awhile to realize that it was passed by close contact. By the time the outbreak had subsided in the Sudan, 284 people had become ill, 151 of whom had died. This new illness was a killer, causing fatality in 53% of its victims. This strain of the virus is now called Ebola-Sudan.
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The Munich Massacre was a terrorist attack during the 1972 Olympic Games. Eight Palestinian terrorists killed two members of the Israeli Olympic team and then took nine others hostage. The situation was ended by a huge gunfight that left five of the terrorists and all of the nine hostages dead. Following the massacre, the Israeli government organized a retaliation against Black September, called Operation Wrath of God.
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The XXth Olympic Games were held in Munich, Germany in 1972. Tensions were high at these Olympics, because they were the first Olympic Games held in Germany since the Nazis hosted the Games in 1936. The Israeli athletes and their trainers were especially nervous; many had family members who had been murdered during the Holocaust or were them
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selves Holocaust
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Tangshan - The Deadliest Earthquake - 1 views
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At 3:42 a.m. on July 28, 1976, a magnitude 7.8 earthquake hit the sleeping cit
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. The very large earthquake, striking an area where it was totally unexpected, obliterated the city of Tangshan and killed over 240,000 people - making it the deadliest earthquake of the twentieth century.
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of Tangshan, in northeastern Chin
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Kent State Shootings - 2 views
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On May 4, 1970, Ohio National Guardsmen were on the Kent State college campus to maintain order during a student protest against the Vietnam War.
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Protests by students at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio began on May 1, 1970. At noon, students held a protest rally on campus and later that night rioters built a bonfire and threw beer bottles at police off campus. The mayor declared a state of emergency and asked the governor for help. The governor sent in the Ohio National Guard.
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On May 2, 1970, during a protest near the ROTC building on campus, someone set fire to the abandoned building. The National Guard entered the campus and used tear gas to control the crowd.
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Nixon declares Vietnam War is ending - History.com This Day in History - 12/8/1969 - 1 views
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Nixon had announced at a conference in Midway in June that the United States would be following a new program he termed "Vietnamization."
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Under the provisions of this program, South Vietnamese forces would be built up so they could assume more responsibility for the war. As the South Vietnamese forces became more capable, U.S. forces would be withdrawn from combat and returned to the United States
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In April 1970, he expanded the war by ordering U.S. and South Vietnamese troops to attack communist sanctuaries in Cambodia.
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