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The Royal New Zealand Navy adopted a unique white ensign, to distinguish its vessels from those of the Royal Navy
Led by Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr (pictured), the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party overthrew Iraqi president Abdul Rahman Arif in…
The first games of the Special Olympics (athletes pictured), for athletes with intellectual disabilities, were held at…
After coming second to Nguyễn Văn Thiệu in a rigged presidential election, Trương Đình Dzu was jailed by a South…
After coming second to Nguyễn Văn Thiệu in a rigged presidential election, Trương Đình Dzu was jailed by a South…
After coming second to Nguyễn Văn Thiệu in a rigged presidential election, Trương Đình Dzu was jailed by a South…
The U.S. Democratic Party's National Convention opened in Chicago, sparking four days of clashes (pictured) between…
The Beatles completed the recording of John Lennon's song "Happiness Is a Warm Gun", regarded by all the band members…
A squad of 120 North Korean Army commandos landed in boats along a 25-mile long section of the eastern coast of South…
Zakir Husain took office as the first elected Muslim President of India
Australians voted overwhelmingly to include Indigenous Australians in population counts for constitutional purposes and
Following Israel's initiation of Operation Focus with the goal to neutralise the Egyptian Air Force, Syrian Air Force, a
During a speech in Montreal, French president Charles de Gaulle (pictured) declared "Long live free Quebec!", a…
Paddy Roy Bates proclaimed HM Fort Roughs, a former World War II Maunsell Sea Fort in the North Sea off the coast of…
Marxist revolutionary and guerrilla leader Che Guevara was captured near La Higuera, Bolivia.
The Motherland Calls (depicted in coat of arms), a colossal statue in Volgograd, Russia, which commemorates the…
American Catholic priest Philip Berrigan led a protest against the Vietnam War by pouring blood over Selective Service…
Disapproving of General Tôn Thất Đính's handling of the Buddhist Uprising, South Vietnamese prime minister Nguyễn Cao Kỳ