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Births

Deaths

Events

January 1: Unix epoch begins at 00:00:00 UTC.
January 15 - After a 32-month fight for independance from Nigeria, Biafra surrenders.
February 11 - John Lennon pays £1,344 in fines for 96 people who had protested against the South African rugby team playing in Scotland.
February 11 - Japan becomes the fourth country to launch a satellite into orbit.
March 1 - Rhodesia severs its last tie with the British crown and declares itself a racially segregated republic.
May 1 - U.S. troops invade Cambodia.
May 4 Four students at Kent State University in Ohio are killed by National Guardsmen at a demonstration protesting incursion into Cambodia.
June 24 - The United States Senate repeals the Gulf of Tonkin resolution.

Sport

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 *[[September 3]] - [[Vince Lombardi]], [[American football]] coach
 *[[September 18]] - [[Jimi Hendrix]], [[rock music]]ian
+*[[September 28]] - [[Gamal Abdal Nasser]], first president of [[Egypt]].
 *[[October 4]] - [[Janis Joplin]], [[blues]] and [[rock and roll]] singer