Entebbe raid
July 4, 1976
After hijackers forced an Air France jet to Idi Amin's Uganda and separated the Jewish passengers, Israeli commandos flew four planes twenty-five hundred miles, stormed the terminal, killed the hijackers, and flew the hostages home. One Israeli commander, Yonatan Netanyahu, died. Entebbe became the textbook hostage rescue of the twentieth century.
In context
Also in 1976 (4 other events on record)
- Tangshan Earthquake · East Asia · Disaster
- Mao dies · East Asia · Politics
- Soweto uprising · Africa · Politics
- Argentine junta takes power · South America · Politics
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Era
Modern Era (1901–2000), one of 590 events from that era on Saeculum.
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