Over 321,000 people attended Winston Churchill’s funeral to say goodbye.
It was the largest state funeral of its time.
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Varig Flight 967 disappeared thirty minutes after taking off from Tokyo.
Researchers identified the earliest known prehistoric ancestor of humans.
Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated.
The US embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, closed due to increasing security concerns.
White supremacist terrorists bombed Martin Luther King Jr's home.