Arab – Israeli Wars
Series of wars and territorial conflicts between Israel and various Arab states in the Middle East since the founding of the state of Israel in May 1948. These include the war of 1948 – 1949, the 1956...
View ArticleApollo 13 (1970)
America’s third moon mission, Apollo 13, was launched on 11 April 1970. The crew of astronauts James Lovell, John Swigert and Fred Haise had ignored popular superstition and decided not to jump from...
View ArticleAltamont (1969)
On Saturday 6 December 1969, some 300,000 people turned up for a free Rolling Stones concert at a speedway track near San Francisco called Altamont. While Woodstock, four months earlier, had been the...
View ArticleAIDS
The disease that would eventually become known as AIDS began to surface in 1981, killing mostly gay men in large urban areas. For the time being, it was known in medical circles as GRID, or Gay...
View ArticleAfghanistan War
In December 1979, the Soviet Union expanded its Communist Empire by installing a pro-Soviet government in Afghanistan. The USSR had already infiltrated Afghanistan, supplying the government with arms...
View Article1968 Olympic Games (Mexico)
Controversy dogged the Mexico City Olympic Games from first to last. Even before the opening ceremony, a student riot in the city was brutally put down by the authorities, and the berets, black gloves...
View Article1966 World Cup
In 1966 England hosted the World Cup, in a climate of football fever generated in-part by the much-loved mascot World Cup Willie. The cartoon lion appeared on everything from beer to breakfast cereals....
View Article1960 Olympic Games (Rome)
Though the games were held at the height of the Mediterranean summer (against medical advice) they were a spectacular success. Memorable victories seen around the world – for these Games were the first...
View Article1964 Olympic Games (Tokyo)
The first-ever Olympic Games to be held in Asia took place in Tokyo in 1964, 24 years after the Japanese wartime government had forced their Olympic Committee to resign as hosts after they had last...
View Article1988 Olympic Games (Seoul)
The International Olympic Committee’s medical team got more exercise than most of the competitors during the 24th Games in Seoul. Rigorous drugs testing of all medal winners – plus another contender...
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