Jonestown massacre
1978 · Event
Over 900 members of the Peoples Temple die in a mass murder-suicide in Guyana, the largest such event in modern history.
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Around 1978
- The Troubles (1968)
- Chernobyl disaster (1986)
- Watergate scandal (1972)
- Yom Kippur War (1973)
- Iranian Revolution (1978)
- Apollo 11 moon landing (1969)
- Prague Spring (1968)
- Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody (1975)
- Night Fever (Bee Gees) (1978)
- Another Brick in the Wall (Part II) (Pink Floyd) (1979)