Munich Olympics massacre
September 5, 1972
Eight Palestinian Black September gunmen took eleven Israeli athletes hostage at the Munich Olympic Village. A botched German rescue attempt at a military airfield ended with every hostage dead, along with five terrorists and a policeman. ABC's Jim McKay told viewers: They're all gone. Terrorism had entered the age of live television.
In context
Also in 1972 (6 other events on record)
- Nixon goes to China · East Asia · Politics
- Watergate burglary · North America · Politics
- Bloody Sunday in Derry · Europe · Politics
- Pong arrives in bars · North America · Technology
- Uganda expels its Asians · Africa · Politics
- Managua earthquake · North America · Disaster
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Modern Era (1901–2000), one of 590 events from that era on Saeculum.
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