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France test-detonates a nuclear device in the Pacific.
2 Aug.
Thirty-two members of the British Commonwealth begin a nine-day conference in Ottawa, Canada.
5 Aug.
Arab terrorists attack the airport in Athens, Greece, killing three and injuring fifty-five.
19 Aug.
George Papadopoulos is sworn in as the first president of Greece.
28 Aug.
Indian officials agree to repatriate ninety thousand Pakistani prisoners taken in the 1971 Indian-Pakistani War.
1 Sept.
Libya nationalizes 51 percent of all assets of oil companies located within the country.
5 Sept.
The fourth Conference of Nonaligned Nations meets in Algiers, Algeria.
11 Sept.
The Chilean government of Salvador Allende Gossens is overthrown by a military junta. Gossens is killed in the coup.
18 Sept.
The twenty-eighth meeting of the United Nations General Assembly votes to admit the Bahamas, East Germany, and West Germany as members.
23 Sept.
Juan Peron is elected president of Argentina.
29 Sept.
The Austrian government announces it will no longer permit the...
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