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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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| 1970 |
| | A Quebec government minister, Pierre Laporte, is murdered by the Front de Libération du Québec | |
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| 1972 |
| | In an orgy of ethnic slaughter in Burundi, Tutsis klll some 100,000 Hutus | |
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| 1972 |
| | Eleven Israeli athletes are killed by Palestinian 'Black September' terrorists at the Munich Olympic Games | |
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