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Aberfan Disaster (1966): The Colliery Spoil Tip Collapse in Wales
144 people died, including 116 children at Pantglas Junior School; a tribunal blamed the National Coal Board and new laws on tip safety followed.
Era · 1945 – present
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From the Cold War and the Space Race to the fall of the Berlin Wall and the world we live in today.
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War of Attrition 1967-1970: Egypt and Israel on the Suez Canal
A US-brokered ceasefire took effect on 8 August 1970 with no change to the front line; Egypt immediately moved anti-aircraft missiles closer to the canal.
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Nigerian Civil War 1967-1970: The Biafra Secession and Famine
Biafra surrendered on 15 January 1970 and was reintegrated into Nigeria, after a war in which an estimated 500,000 to 2 million civilians died, mostly from famine.
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Six-Day War 1967: Israel, Egypt, Jordan and Syria at War
Israeli victory; Israel took control of the Sinai Peninsula, the Gaza Strip, the West Bank including East Jerusalem, and the Golan Heights.
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1967 Australian Referendum: Aboriginal Australians Counted
The amendment was approved by 90.77 per cent of voters and all six states, giving the Commonwealth power to legislate for Aboriginal people and ending their exclusion from population counts.
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Sexual Offences Act 1967: Partial Decriminalisation in England
Private homosexual acts between two consenting men aged 21 or over ceased to be crimes in England and Wales, though with strict limits.
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Summer of Love (1967): Haight-Ashbury and the Counterculture
An estimated 75,000 to 100,000 young people gathered in San Francisco, spreading hippie culture worldwide but leaving the Haight with crowding, drug and crime problems.
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Loving v. Virginia (1967): Ending Interracial Marriage Bans
The Supreme Court unanimously ruled that laws banning interracial marriage violated the Fourteenth Amendment, ending such bans in all US states.
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Discovery of Pulsars (1967): Jocelyn Bell Burnell's Signal
The first pulsar, now known as PSR B1919+21, was discovered and soon identified as a rapidly rotating neutron star.
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Apollo 1 Fire (1967): The Tragedy That Reshaped NASA
All three astronauts died; NASA redesigned the Apollo command module, and crewed Apollo flights resumed with Apollo 7 in October 1968.
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First Human Heart Transplant (1967): Christiaan Barnard
The transplanted heart worked, but Washkansky died of pneumonia 18 days later; the operation launched the era of clinical heart transplantation.
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Eradication of Smallpox (1967–1980): How a Disease Was Ended
Smallpox became the first human disease to be eradicated; the World Health Assembly declared the world free of it on 8 May 1980.