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| 1961 |
| | | Rafael Trujillo, dictator of the Dominican Republic for the past 30 years, is killed by a machine-gun attack on his car | |
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| 1961 |
| | | The East German government erects the Berlin Wall to prevent an exodus of its citizens | |
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| 1963 |
| | | President Kennedy is shot in a motorcade driving through downtown Dallas, in Texas | |
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| 1963 |
| | | Chief suspect Lee Harvey Oswald is shot by night-club owner Jack Ruby just two days after the assassination of President Kennedy | |
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| 1963 |
| | | An invasion of Rwanda by Tutsi guerrillas prompts the first major Hutu massacre of Tutsis | |
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| 1965 |
| | | Black activist and convert to Islam Malcolm X is assassinated when giving a speech in the Audubon Ballroom in New York | |
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| 1966 |
| | | Communist leaders Liu Shaoqi and Deng Xiaoping are attacked in China's Cultural Revolution as the biggest and worst 'capitalist roaders' | |
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| 1968 |
| | | US civil rights leader Martin Luther King is assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, by escaped convict James Earl Ray | |
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| 1968 |
| | | Robert Kennedy is assassinated by Sirhan Sirhan, a Palestinian, in the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles | |
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| 1969 |
| | | The Provisional IRA reintroduces terrorism to northern Ireland after Protestants attack a civil rights march | |
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