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Pope Paul VI is the first Roman Catholic pontiff to visit Africa.
3 Sept.
North Vietnamese president Ho Chi Minh dies at age seventy-nine.
17 Oct.
A subsidiary of the Gulf Oil Corporation, the Bolivia Gulf Company, is taken over by the Bolivian government.
31 Oct.
A U.S. Marine hijacks a jet from California to Rome in the first transatlantic hijacking.
3 Nov.
President Richard M. Nixon appeals to "the great silent majority of my fellow Americans" to support his policies on Vietnam and his social policies.
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